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our planet in that way does not really have widespread seasonal changes. Our axis tilt is not as strong as your own. Our overall environment, in your terminology, is relatively similar from moment to moment, not usually ranging beyond what you would call an approximate span of about 13 to 15 of your degrees, one way or another.
The idea, however, on your world, of your season, your times of change, your autumn represents — as many of you already instinctively understand — a gathering together, a going within, a nurturing energy of introspection. The idea of harboring new understandings, new discoveries of yourself within yourself, surrounding the inner hearth of your being with all the ideas that you have discovered yourself to be during the active months of your year. And now coming into an assessment, a type of early hibernation — which in no way, shape, or form implies that you become inactive, but simply that your mentality, your consciousness, collectively and sometimes even individually, can begin to recognize that this particular timing in your world represents the idea of the opening and the exploration of many of the things you have gathered, many of the packages you have picked up along the way to this point — to review, and allow yourself to perceive what within those experiences, within those packages, represents the things that you prefer to carry through into your new year, and those things that you prefer to allow to assimilate within an old idea and, in that sense, to remain within the concept of the past.
It is now timing in your society, in general, for the opening of many spirit doors within you, many levels of consciousness — now not so much directly connected with physiological reality, but now the exploration of many states of dream reality, dream awareness, to begin to be able to allow more blending between the non-physical and the physical to occur. So that upon your birthing into a new year, you are stepping through that gate as a completely whole description of yourself — both physical and non-physical aspects of your consciousness in tandem, connected side by side, stepping through into that event of a new year with all the unfoldment of new growth, new perspectives, new discovery.
But now your autumn time, as you have all created mythologically, is recognized as the time of communion with spirit — in that sense, the spirit of yourself within yourself, and all aspects, in whatever way your consciousness, the spirit you are, can present itself to you, both positive and negative mirrors, for you to gaze into, to discover those things you desire within yourself to discover, those things you can integrate into the being you prefer to be.
On Atlantis and Hallowe’en
Now, in your civilization has been discussed many times a time past that you call the civilization of Atlantis. And we have reminded you, from time to time, those that are familiar with this, that what you call the destruction of the civilization on your world of Atlantis actually does have a commemoration time in your reality — though many of you no longer realize what these commemoration times represent.
The commemoration time is the three-day span you call All Hollows Eve, and, in some of your religious vernacular, the All Saints and All Souls Day of your November first — two days: All Hollows Eve, and November 1st, November 2nd of your timing represents symbolically the night before, the day of, and the day after the destruction, the sinking of Atlantis.
That is why the idea of All Hollow’s Eve represents many aspects of facing that which you fear most within you — the opening of the dimensions between the physical and the non-physical, the seeing of the spirit realm, the expansion of the awareness of being in touch with all levels of reality, and the creation of the reality you most strongly define with your strongest beliefs and/or fears. That is generally what it commemorates in that sense.
But in this way now — not in destructive ways, not in destructive terms — now it can represent the opening of a doorway to allow you to assimilate, to gather in all the understandings, all the definitions you have created yourself to be, and to become that introspective, meditative self that allows you to review and to choose the ideas that you prefer to be — the ideas and the realities you prefer to act upon, the ideas, realities, and perspectives you prefer to manifest in your lives as the physical experiences you have in a day-to-day nomenclature.
Your autumn — the falling of many of your leaves — pages in your books of life that you have written. The allowance of the strengthening, the feeling of the strength within you that burns bright in the hearth that you are — the hearth of spirit, the hearth of consciousness, the home each and every one of you have created yourselves to be, both on an individual basis and as a world, as a world home.
On the Relationship Between Our Worlds
Many new accelerations are beginning to take place within your society. Many new recognitions of consciousness. Now, our ability to have this conversation with you at all, in this way, indicates that much has changed on your planet within the last century of your accounting.
Do remember, however, in all of these interactions, that we are simply here as a mirror to reflect the brightness of the flame you are. Do not believe anything that I share with you just because I share it. That is not what any of this is about. It is about you kindling and rekindling and fanning the flame of your own integrity, your own inspiration, your own ecstasy and imagination, your own action — the flames of your own conviction to live the lives you prefer to live, because you can. Because we know you can.
For, as we have said more often than not, no matter what any of you choose to think of yourselves, we believe in you utterly. And we know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, what you are capable of creating if you truly desire it and act upon that conviction, act upon that desire. Nothing is beyond you. Nothing.
And this is not talk. We are not handing you philosophies. We are not handing you sugarcoated dreams. We are talking mechanics of creation, physics of reality of the physical world in which you live, because we know you have always created the reality you experience, because you are facets of the multi-dimensional creator. It is what you are. You must create. You can’t help yourself. But whether you choose to create negative or positive is utterly up to you. But you will always create — you might as well create what you prefer.
And so, in our interactions with you, we discuss the methodologies of how you have chosen to create, how you can use your own self-empowered reflection of the infinite to create the reality you desire. You are all awakening now. Paradoxically enough, in this your month of hibernation is when you go within and awaken in the strongest sense of the word.
We thank you for allowing us to experience with joy the awakening that you have created upon your planet, which allows us to interact with you now. We thank you for functioning as ambassadors of your world — that is what you are right now. We thank you for allowing us to function as ambassadors of our respective collective worlds that we refer to as the Association.
These interactions, bit by bit and day by day, make it more conducive for us — our worlds, your world — to be able, in very short order, to interact face to face, when you know you are equal to any other consciousness in creation. That will then be the timing, the day, the season.
At this time, in return for the gift of your willingness to share with us, I ask you now: how may I serve you?
Q&A: The Earthquake
Questioner: For sure — I would first like to ask any comments that you have about the timeliness of today’s moderate earthquake.
Bashar: Well, many of you love living on the edge. That’s why you are where you are, because there is a great deal of energy, and you are learning to use it, not fear it. You are now learning to direct it so that you can begin to realize that your reality utterly is the product of your beliefs, of your directions of yourself, attractions of yourself to particular places that represent different degrees of energy. And in attracting yourself to such a highly energetic area upon your planet, you give yourself the creative opportunity to know that you can flow that energy through you, that you can begin to identify with the power that actually is within you. For no magnitude of any quake that has ever occurred on your planet matches even infinitesimally the amount of power you have to create your reality.
So you are learning to direct your energy by feeling it, to some degree externally, in ways that show you how much power you have, so that you can get, as comfortably as you wish, at whatever rate is comfortable for you, more and more used to the idea of living with that much power, and of understanding what that much power is capable of doing, and in choosing to flow that power in a positive way rather than a negative way — allowing that power to destructurize, but not destroy.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: Well, thank you for all being so bold. It is simply a little bit of the part of the process of allowing yourselves to be shaken awake, to stir things up a little bit so it does not become quite so sedentary, or sedimentary.
Q&A: Binge Eating and Compulsive Addiction
Questioner: I’d like to say I’m glad to meet you — I’m from New York, this is my first channeling… The specific subject I wanted to ask you to talk about is very narrowly binge eating, really more broadly compulsive addictions and that sort of thing, and trying to understand why I have it and what will happen.
Bashar: Now I’m sure you understand. May I ask you a question?
Questioner: Yes, please.
Bashar: Are you sure?
Questioner: Yes, absolutely.
Bashar: Thank you. Now, honestly examine within yourself — let me simply ask you — do you believe that you might run out of things in life, that there might not be quite enough for everyone?
Questioner: Yes, probably. No. Maybe, maybe not.
Bashar: The idea, in general, for any sort of what you call a compulsive addiction, first of all, is the belief that has been ingrained in most of you since birth that the power is not within you, but is in the things around you. Therefore, when you think that the power is in the things around you, in order to feel more powerful you have to have more, more, more of what is around you, because you feel empty, devoid of that power, of that foundation, of that stability.
The idea first and foremost is, to some degree, an attempt exteriorly to replace what you have been taught to believe interiorly you don’t possess. But if you start allowing yourself to recognize that the placement of the power in the symbol outside is, in a sense, the removal of your own power from you — that you are still using your own power to do that — and you take that power back and cease to believe in all the belief systems that deny you your power as an aspect of the infinite, when you then bring your self-empowerment back to you and start taking responsibility for all the creations in your life, that does not mean blame; that means freedom of choice.
By the way, when you take responsibility for all the creations in your life, you will then begin to feel that energy within you. You will start to feel full of that energy, and in feeling fulfilled, you will not necessarily then assume that you have some sort of a void that is constantly empty, that you are constantly attempting to fill endlessly, endlessly, endlessly.
Now, the idea, to some degree, sometimes when it connects itself to an immediate rejection — what you call then a purging of the idea — will simply represent your overall consciousness’s awareness that the exterior is not what has the power. It is you. You bring it back to you by allowing you to understand you must always rely on yourself, not on the exterior ideas. But relying on yourself is not a matter of effort, is not a matter of stamina. This is one of the great misconceptions, if I may call it that, in your society — the idea that being able to maintain a view of yourself that you desire to maintain somehow requires stamina. It doesn’t. It doesn’t. All it requires is a definition — a clear definition of what it is you really believe yourself to be, or what you really believe you desire to be — and then a decision to be that person, to act like that person that you desire to be. That’s all it takes. Your decisions stick.
Addiction is simply the lack of belief that you have that power, and therefore any power it is assumed must be in your life, from that viewpoint, must come from exterior ideas to fulfill the emptiness that you have been left with because of how your society has taught you to think of yourself as not being in control.
Understand so far?
Questioner: Uh, some, most of it, yes.
Bashar: All right. Is this assisting you at all?
Questioner: Yeah, you’re really speaking about creating your own reality, and everyone does.
Bashar: We are answering your question on a very foundational, fundamental level, so that all individuals may apply their particular perspective to what you have shared to be your specific situation. But it applies nonetheless. The idea of any type of what you may call an overindulgence in anything exterior is usually based on the assumption that you don’t have what you need to begin with, and that you have to binge because you do not believe there will be enough.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes. No. Maybe. Yeah, I understand. I guess the only other part — that’s on an intellectual level I can understand that.
Bashar: One moment. When you say that’s on an intellectual level, you are making a distinction that does not inherently exist. If you understand it, you can learn to assume that you actually do understand it on all levels, rather than just assuming that you only understand it on one. Just because you don’t necessarily feel it in a certain way doesn’t mean you don’t have the understanding you need. The idea that you can understand something just intellectually or just emotionally is one of the definitions your society has taught you to buy into, to make that segregation, that separation, that allows you now to have the experience you’re having right now with this information. You understand it on far more levels than you think.
However, the first step in transforming it is to first of all acknowledge the reason for why you would be doing it to begin with. Once you own that you are choosing to do it out of your freedom of choice, you place it squarely under your control. It is not something that’s happening to you. It’s happening through you, because nothing does happen to you. Nothing comes from the outside. Nothing is an uncontrollable addiction. Nothing is really a habit once you know you have it. If you know you have a habit, you don’t have it anymore, by definition, because a habit is something you do that you don’t know you’re doing. If you know you have it, you have to be outside of it, quote unquote, in order to see that you had it to begin with. So once you are aware of the fact of what you’re doing, that is really no longer you. And it is only an assumption, a belief, a definition that for some reason it is difficult to stop doing it that you keep doing it. It isn’t anything inherent in the circumstance itself, from that point forward, that makes it difficult to stop. It is only your assumption, the definition you have been fed in your reality, that makes it seem difficult to stop, because your definition of that idea is that it is difficult to stop, and it is only the definition that gives it that power. Nothing inherent within the circumstance itself.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes. Is this assisting you? Yes, very much.
Bashar: Is there some specific idea that you feel is not being touched that we might be able to clear up?
Questioner: I’m still groping a little bit for technique.
Bashar: All right, you are missing the point. Now, we can give you a thousand and one, a million and one techniques. Your imagination can supply you with whatever technique will work best for you. That’s what your imagination is for. That’s how it works best. So you are quite capable of creating whatever technique you desire, and even if we gave you a technique, your imagination would alter it to fit you anyway.
However, you are also under the assumption that you need a technique to make a change. The idea we have just outlined — if you are willing to understand the concept we are discussing — is, in and of itself, all the technique that really is fundamentally necessary. In other words, the realization of what your circumstance is, is in and of itself the transition of that circumstance. As we have said in simpler terms: if you’re aware of the habit, you don’t really have it anymore. All you have to do is understand you don’t have it, and stop acting or pretending like you do.
Now we do not mean pretending in the sense that we are calling out that you are doing something false. That is not what we mean. But the idea is that if you know you have a habit, you don’t have it anymore. All you have to do is see the you you would prefer to be. Do you see the you you would prefer to be? Do you have a picture of what that you would be like?
Questioner: I can’t create that in my mind.
Bashar: Yes. Go right ahead. Create it. Now, have you got it?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: All right. Now, however it looks, do you really believe that what you have in your visualization, in your imagination, is representative sufficiently of the you you really prefer to be? Yes or no?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: All right. Does it excite you when you then consider that that you, in your imagination, could be you?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: Does it really excite you?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: Can you feel what it would be like to be that you?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: Are you sure? Use all your senses. Get into it. Put it on. Wear it. Be that you in your imagination. Feel what it would be like to be that you. How does it feel? Describe it to me. What would it be like to be that you?
Questioner: It feels very adult.
Bashar: Very adult. All right. What else? Get excited about it and describe it to me, representative of the level of excitement you are about it. Use all your senses. How does it feel? How does your body feel? What things attract you? What things do you notice? What kind of things do you hear, smell, taste, see, feel? What is this body like? What is that new you like?
Questioner: Well, well, well… There’s an absence of the battle.
Bashar: All right, fair enough. However, I did not ask you what it is not. I asked you what it is.
Questioner: It feels free.
Bashar: Free in what way? What does that mean? Does it mean it feels like that body could get up and just run as far and fast as it really wanted to, and it would feel absolute ecstasy in doing so?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: All right, are you sure? Now, I don’t want to push you into this. Is it a body that laughs easily, that experiences great joy and depth of breath? Is it an expansive reality?
Questioner: Yes. Yes.
Bashar: All right, yes. Can you feel it?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: Then you are it right now. Believe it or not, you are it right now. Now, in the very next moment, you can decide. You can choose. You can define.
Questioner: Oh, that’s not me yet. Couldn’t be me yet. Everyone knows it will take some time before I could ever be that.
Bashar: Why? This is an illustration of what we were saying. If you know what you prefer, if you can really feel it and use your imagination to see it, you are it right now. Now, does that seem to indicate to you a little stronger understanding than just what you formally call the intellectual?
Questioner: Yes, I do understand.
Bashar: All right, then. It is up to you. However you define yourself at any given moment is what you will be. Plain and simple. If you have any situation or circumstance in your life and you are not sure, as the you you are now, how to handle it — this is what your imagination is for. Create the you you prefer to be. Invest it with life. Use all your senses. Get into it, as you say. Take the situation, hand it to the you you prefer to be, and watch what that you does with it. Do the same thing and you’ll get the same result. That’s what your imagination is for. It is the template, the blueprint. Follow it, mirror it, be it. Be that person. You will have the same kind of life.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes, I do. Does that work for you?
Questioner: I think so. Your enthusiasm is infectious.
Bashar: Yes. Now remember one other thing. What you see in me is a reflection of what I know you are. You are seeing you. Be that you if you prefer to be. I reflect what you can choose to be. It is up to you utterly.
Questioner: Thank you. Thank you very much.
Q&A: Individual and Collective Consciousness / Equality Between Worlds
Questioner: Earlier you had mentioned — I took it — being a consciousness or a world you’re part of, separate of a world we’re part of here, in a sense, on one level. Question I have is: individual consciousness and an entire, or full civilization, as-you-will consciousness. I get the feeling that you’re out individually, per se, channeling to we as individuals, in order for our world to touch your world as a collective. What do you feel will have to take place?
Bashar: You must consider yourselves to be absolutely equal to us. Then we can interact on all levels you desire, to any level at all, in any way, shape, or format. Once you know you are equals and cease to consider yourselves as less or more among yourselves.
Now the idea that sometimes makes the idea of equality seem aberrant to many of you is that you have created a mythology — I shall say an assumption — that equality, unity, on your planet means loss of individuality, and it couldn’t be more opposite. The strengthening of the individuals you are, and the granting of equality to all other diversity of individuals in your society, is what will create you to be a unified world, a collective. Many individuals, each unique, each with their own expression, and yet at the same time of a single mind, of a single heart, of a single thought. It is both.
So while I am an individual, by all means an individual, I am also the collective at the same time, at any time I choose to see myself that way. At any time it serves our interaction, simply for the purpose of reflecting to each and every one of you, individually and collectively, that at any time you sense my energy to be that of an individual and that of a collective, you will simply know, as a reflection back to you, that nothing that we have created ourselves to be is at the expense of either side.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes. Does that answer the question?
Bashar: No, all right. The feeling I get is that you’re waiting then for a collective.
Questioner: Not me. I’m not waiting. I am doing — I recognize that your world is moving into the idea of a collective, but I’m not waiting for it.
Questioner: I understand.
Bashar: But we do perceive that the world you call your earth, its energy, approximately within what you call the next 30 to 50 of your years at the outside, will be functioning very similarly to our civilization.
Questioner: Now you just answered my question. Thank you.
Q&A: Creation, Excitement, and Choosing a Career (the Writer)
Questioner: I have a question on creation and excitement.
Bashar: Creation and excitement. Then by all means, be bold, speak up and share, so that all may participate.
Questioner: Well, I know that your policy is…
Bashar: My policy — I write a new policy every second.
Questioner: Okay — that we should do things that excite us the most.
Bashar: Not that you should, but that if you do, you will have a life of ecstasy.
Questioner: Right. Okay. I was wondering about how that fits in with choosing and creating your own lifestyle. Specifically, an example that has come up for me recently: when I wanted to find a new job, I had a choice of one job that excited me greatly, and another choice of a job that excited me but not as much. And I ended up with the job that excited me not as much. So I thought about — was it by your own choosing, or by what you call circumstance? That’s what I was wondering about. My first thought was, well, it was by circumstance. And then I thought about it, which can be unconscious choice.
Bashar: What you call circumstance can be unconscious choice.
Questioner: Well, couldn’t I at the same time have chosen the thing that excited me the most?
Bashar: May I ask you a question?
Questioner: Sure. Thank you.
Bashar: Do you absolutely believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you were capable of doing that job?
Questioner: Um… why is there hesitation? Well, because if I believed it, then it would have happened.
Bashar: All right. But that does not mean you have to play twenty questions with yourself. Do you believe right now that you are actually, truly capable of doing that job that you say excited you more?
Questioner: Yes, I do.
Bashar: All right. Do you believe you deserve it?
Questioner: Yes, absolutely, yes.
Bashar: All right. Now, is there anything else that actually excites you more than having gotten that job?
Questioner: Not in terms of career positions.
Bashar: Oh, we’re making a distinction. Let’s let go of the distinction for just a moment, if we may. What is the most exciting thing you can think of to do in your life, regardless of whether you call it a career or not?
Questioner: Well, I like to write.
Bashar: Is that more exciting than the job?
Questioner: It is, but I’m writing at the same time. It is exciting when I do it.
Bashar: But you don’t believe you can be a writer now?
Questioner: No, I am a writer now.
Bashar: Oh, all right, you are a writer. Is that how you would prefer to make your living?
Questioner: That is what I expect to do eventually for a living.
Bashar: May I ask you another question? You know what’s coming up now? [Applause] Let’s drag out the little machine with the little dial — the threshold-of-believability meter. All right, are you enjoying this?
Questioner: Sure.
Bashar: All right, it’s fun. All right. Now, let’s explore together. Just, without thinking about it, in all the honesty you simply are aware of, answer rapidly, without thinking, all of the following questions. Now: you are a writer.
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: Yes. All right. Now you have created a little bit of a differentiation in the sense that you now recognize you are a writer, but we are assuming, because of how you have defined yourself, that you do not necessarily think of yourself as a successful writer — correct?
Questioner: Well, I haven’t sold a book yet.
Bashar: Is that how you would define success? For now, will that do as a sufficient representation of success — the fact that you would be making your living at being a writer? Is that what you want?
Questioner: Well, that’s how I look at it.
Bashar: Is that what you want to be? Is that what excites you the most — to be a writer, and make a living at being a writer?
Questioner: Sure, yes.
Bashar: All right, you’re clear on that?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: All right, now, we set up the machine. Test it out. All right, it’s working perfectly. [Laughter] Answer the following series of questions quickly, directly, honestly — yes or no. Okay. Within what you call a ten-year time span, do you believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that within ten years you will be a successful writer?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: Five years?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: Three years?
Questioner: More and more hesitation — maybe.
Bashar: All right. Now, not that that will not change — in fact, it probably already has changed just because we have examined it. But if you use this technique, you always give yourself the opportunity to understand whatever amount of time the beliefs you have within you will probably allow it to take. When you start to hesitate — wherever that time frame is that you start to fluctuate — that is probably a good idea of exactly how long you will allow it to take right now, to be the idea you say really excites you.
Now, once you know how long you have created it to take, then you can examine and explore. Now you have some material to work with. Now you can say: why would I need to believe it would take that long? What belief and definition do I have, or would I have to have within me, to allow me to believe it would have to take three [years]? Do I want it to take three years? Yes or no?
Questioner: Uh, no, I don’t.
Bashar: Oh, all right. Then allow yourself the self-exploratory journey of openness and honesty with yourself. Discover within yourself, in your meditations, all the definitions you would have for why you would believe it would have to take three years. Get in touch with those definitions. Rewrite the ones you no longer prefer, the ones you believe absolutely are easy to change, the ones you really recognize you no longer prefer. Replace them with definitions you do prefer. Then hook yourself up to the meter again and go through it again. Do I believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt — and I mean beyond a shadow of a doubt — that I will be this writer that I prefer to be in ten years? Ten years?
Questioner: A snap. No problem.
Bashar: Five years?
Questioner: Absolutely. How could it ever take that long?
Bashar: Three years?
Questioner: No problem.
Bashar: Two years?
Questioner: Absolutely.
Bashar: One year?
Questioner: Oh, well — one year.
Bashar: One year. Oh, I see. All right. Now I have brought the three-year threshold down to one. Go back and examine the definitions over again. Do this, and be honest about what you discover. Be clear about your definitions as to what these things you say you want represent to you. For many times, the only thing that seems to stop something from manifesting faster is because of your definition of what you think it is, or what you think you will have to take along with it that you don’t necessarily want as a part of your definition of the thing you say you prefer.
Be clear about your definition of the thing you desire. You can use this technique to clarify that, and bit by bit you can allow that timing to become very, very foreshortened. Then you will begin to feel it be more imminent. The more imminent you feel it, the more excited you will be. The more excited you will be, the more accelerated your energy. The more accelerated your energy, the more imminent it will be. And on and on and on. And — pop. There it is.
Now let me just drop a little hint — for almost any type of endeavor that you would consider in this light that you might want to be: rarely does it ever require more than three of your months for full manifestation. Usually most things can at least start to fall into place within three weeks, and almost every endeavor will at least give you a sign it is starting to move in that direction within three of your days — if you trust, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the thing you say excites you the most is really the thing that can support you by definition, the thing you can really do effortlessly.
And again, watch the definition. You may believe you’re a writer — yes, I define myself as a writer. But why don’t you define yourself now as a successful one? That is a definition in and of itself.
And you don’t have to wait for — [do] anymore about it — when, in fact, there might be many things you could be acting on that represent the thing you really want to do. You might be settling for less by acting on some of the other circumstances rather than truly having, I’ll say, exhausted all of the prime opportunities first before you then allow yourself to start acting on the secondary-level opportunities. Yes, as always, if you truly have no capability in any other way, shape, or form of acting upon the thing that really excites you the most, then do, by all means, act upon the thing that is the next most exciting thing.
However, allow yourself to be very clear about what those prime opportunities are, because very often many of you will not realize nor recognize a prime opportunity because it’s right in front of your face.
Questioner: Well, aren’t we creating these opportunities?
Bashar: Yes. What I am saying is you may be creating more opportunities than you think and not recognizing them as opportunities, simply because you have always created them and simply take them for granted and don’t recognize them as opportunities. In other words — as an example, I’m not saying this is specifically the case with you, although some of this may be applicable — some of you will say, “All right, all right, I’m waiting for an opportunity.” Well, where is it? “Well, I’m waiting. Where’s the horns and the trumpets and the bugles and the lightning, the banners? Where is it?”
However, not stopping to realize that you have always known, for years of your life, that right down the block is someone who works in a certain capacity that, if you were to simply go to them and share your idea, could actually assist you in getting what you want. But, “Oh, no, no, no, no, that’s too mundane.”
But yet it could be an opportunity. That is the opportunity that represents the path of least resistance. You see, that’s the key. The opportunities will always be there, but they will be the ones that represent the path of least resistance. And sometimes you surround yourself with so many opportunities and take them for granted that you may not simply recognize them, simply because they have always been there, all your life, and even though now — maybe the first time you could really use it — you simply don’t pay attention because you have always seen it. You just treat it like part of the landscape, and it doesn’t stand out anymore to you.
So the idea is to act on whatever you really are capable of acting on. And many of you have been brought up to believe that certain things you are not capable of doing, and so because you have been brought up to believe you cannot do them, you can’t approach them. “What’s wrong with you? You can’t go talk to them, are you crazy?” And so when you hear enough of that, you walk right by the building every day. “Where’s that opportunity I’m waiting for?” And all you have to do is walk through those doors, go up and talk to those people as an equal, and let them respond to you as an equal. Because the whole idea is that you exist in a physical reality with many other physical beings, and you’re all here to help each other.
So all we are saying is that many times these opportunities are not going to be delivered by flying horses. Sometimes they can be very obvious in that fashion, but more often than not, the opportunities will always be right under your nose, but you have been taught out of seeing them.
Questioner: Well, why would someone create something that doesn’t excite them the most?
Bashar: That is not what we are literally discussing. The idea, however — one moment — the idea, however, is that, as we have just been saying, there are many, many things you might be very excited about if it weren’t for the fact that your society teaches you to not be excited about them. You might not understand that you really could innately be far more excited about far more things than you are allowing yourself to be excited about.
The idea is to face your world with a childlike fascination. Then you will begin to discover that many more things you take for granted as being mundane are actually quite a bit more exciting than you thought, and you will then be able to act on them because you now see them for the excitement they are. Many of you have very thick skins by this time, and so things that could be exciting to you don’t have much of an effect on you. You may not even be able to recognize your own excitement because of the thickness of that shell.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes, I do.
Bashar: So start walking through it. Allow yourself to break through it by simply breaking through the conventions of your society, and that will allow the skin to become much thinner and allow the excitement to penetrate much more easily. Then it will be obvious in what direction it lies.
Questioner: Okay, thank you.
Q&A: Serving Loved Ones Through Unconditional Love
Questioner: I have some very wonderful friends who recently have shown their love for me in various ways, and I would like to be able to show mine for them a little bit better than I feel like I’ve been able to.
Bashar: In what way would you care to express your love?
Questioner: In a way that they would appreciate their own lives better, that I might be able to help them.
Bashar: Then be the fullest living example of unconditional love and ecstasy of living that you can be. And they can then see reflected in you a way they can choose to be, if they want to — but they don’t have to choose it. That is how you serve anyone, and it is the only way you can serve anyone. Be the fullest example of the idea that gives you the most joy. Reflect it to them. Share it with them, but not because they have to take it — simply because you are an opportunity they can choose if they want to. That is really all you can do.
Be of service in whatever way it moves you to be of service, and by example it can, as you say, rub off — but not for the purpose of getting them to change, just because that’s the way it gives you joy to be. Then they will see that joy. “Look at him. Look how happy he is. How do you do it?” “I do it because I choose to be of service, to be of joy, because I know I choose my reality. Therefore, I choose what I prefer. That’s how I do it.” You can, if you wish. You don’t have to, but you can if you wish.
Now remember that one of the easiest things to do is that if you do find someone in your reality that is living the way you want to live, copy them. Do what they do, and you’ll live that way too. So if you are the fullest living example you can be, then you give them the best opportunity to have something to copy.
Understand?
Questioner: Oh, yes. Does that answer the question sufficiently for you?
Questioner: Very well. Well, thank you very much for your…
The “Diplo Matt / Ambassador” Exchange
Bashar: Hello, Mr. Diplo Matt.
Questioner: Hello, Mr. Ambassador. [Laughter] Thank you, Bashar. Howdy — you know, I don’t really have a lot to say, I just wanted to say hi.
Bashar: Hi. Thank you. Next. Almost, almost. All right, you’ll come up with something more.
Questioner: Well, yeah — in the last few sharings I have addressed you as Mr. Ambassador, and you have addressed me as Mr. Diplo Matt.
Bashar: Yes.
Questioner: And I had the feeling that there was a specific reason that you used “Diplo Matt.”
Bashar: Yes.
Questioner: Since there is a distinction — a subtle distinction between ambassador and diplomat.
Bashar: Yes.
Questioner: Care to share why you chose that term?
Bashar: Thank you. Diplo — welcome, Matt. Understand?
Questioner: I understand what that means, but I don’t think that’s the real meaning behind your choice of that term.
Bashar: Oh, all right. Then you invent one.
Questioner: It’s the meaning I mean right now.
Bashar: Okay. Well, let’s create a past here for a moment.
Questioner: No, all right — and tell me the meaning that you meant when you’ve used it in the past, since you chose to use it.
Bashar: Oh, thank you. Diplo Matt, the idea, many times, of what you perceive to be the fluctuations and inflections of how our thoughts translate into your language are not necessarily indicative of any particular meaning we wish to ascribe to the word, but are indicative of the way we are playing the energy, so that it will reach you on other levels. The fluctuations that you hear audibly, many times, are simply an overlaying, as you would say, on a surface of some of the fluctuations that are going on in the depths. The energy that is going on in the depths, much the same way that the waves on top of an ocean — up-and-down fluctuations and patterns that you see on the surface — to some degree reveal the actions of what is going on below, but do not necessarily tell the whole story. So when you hear such fluctuations, many times it is simply an indicator on the surface that there are other levels of communication going on below the surface, and that is simply how the surface, the word, responds to what is going on below it.
Questioner: I understand — I have understood that before. Now why don’t you share with me some of those underlying interactions? What do you feel them to have been?
Bashar: Well, regardless of the way you chose to, or the way the energy translated in the tonalities…
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: I felt that you chose that because you perceived something about me — past or future, as I’m creating it from present time.
Questioner: All right, perhaps, which related to diplomacy.
Bashar: Oh, you see, an ambassador can be a lousy diplomat, quote unquote, and a diplomat doesn’t necessarily have to be an ambassador.
Questioner: Nice. So you chose the word diplomat, and I thought perhaps I felt that you were perceiving something.
Bashar: Well, the word diplomat, to some degree, is far more representative of the older terminology we used for you, which is simply “switcher,” since it is an exchange of energy through a central medium.
Questioner: Ah, I see that connection. Thanks. Okay — anything else you’d like to share about that?
Bashar: Thank you. One other thing — simply the recognition that even though we may have, quote unquote, chosen that particular modulation at that time with a particular intent, it was on your behalf the choice to make a mystery out of it.
Questioner: Well, but we blind you? No, not to contradict you — I really didn’t make a mystery out of it.
Bashar: No, I understand on that level. All we are saying is that you were the one with the question: “What did you mean by that, Bashar?”
Questioner: I didn’t — it really didn’t come across as mystery.
Bashar: Yes, I do not mean it in the fullest sense of the word.
Questioner: Okay, good.
Bashar: I am, once again, playing with you.
Questioner: Okay, I will accept that. Thank you very much, Mr. Ambassador.
Bashar: Door — you may open it and leave. And, of course, as always, enter a new experience.
Questioner: Thank you very much.
Q&A: Rutilated Quartz Crystal and Sensitivity
Questioner: I recently was invited to somebody’s home, and they had a great deal of crystals in their room.
Bashar: A great deal of crystals. Yes, yes, a lot of crystal power.
Questioner: All right, and I picked up a small piece of rutilated quartz crystal, and I started to pass out, and I had to leave the room, and for the rest of the evening, when we did some group meditations, I felt very close to fainting.
Bashar: Oh, all right.
Questioner: So about a week later, I bought a small piece of rutilated quartz, and I find whenever I hold it directly that I start to get nauseous.
Bashar: All right.
Questioner: And I’m wondering why the titanium has this effect on me, and what it means.
Bashar: To some degree it is simply indicative of the highly sensitized, directional conductor that you are now allowing yourself to become. You are now tapping into a live current. You simply have some remnant beliefs within you that allow you to feel a little bit overloaded by what you are now beginning to understand to be a very large flow of energy that you have access to, always have had actually, and always have used — but now you’re becoming aware of it. So there is less resistance, fewer resistors to block the overall effect from you.
Understand? The quartz simply reflects — the rutilation reflects your hyper-sensitivity as an antenna.
Questioner: Now, understand, does that mean that I should work with the stone, or should I avoid it because it’s too powerful?
Bashar: Oh, you can work with it if you wish. It can aid and assist you. Remember, any crystals in that sense, even though they are representative of energy and power in that way on their own right, are only triggers and catalysts for the power you are. They are reflective facets of what it is you are creating yourself to be at any given moment. So by all means you can work with it. Start small if you wish. Enlarge it when you believe your capacity to flow that energy through you is enlarged, if you wish. But remember, you are your own crystal, and you have your own conductive filaments in that sense, and you are simply now becoming more sensitized to the antenna of directive energy that you are — my little flashlight.
Understand?
Questioner: Uh, yeah. Are there any other stones that would be as conducive to this?
Bashar: Perhaps what can assist you, to some degree, since you are dealing with these symbols to begin with, might be a small quantity of what you call hematite, to magnetically flatten or ground you to some degree. And also, in and of itself, now and then you might wish to simply handle the pure quartz form without the rutilation, to create what you simply might call a bit of a blank for a moment, to allow what you choose to perceive as the energy to be able to sort of diffuse without being so highly directed in a laser-like fashion.
Understand?
Questioner: Yeah.
Bashar: But trust your own imagination and trust what you attract to you. All of these things are simply reflective symbols of the idea you are awakening to find yourself to be. So enjoy.
Questioner: Can I ask you one quick thing related to it? I asked you a few weeks ago about alternate energy that would be non-polluting. Would the titanium relate to this?
Bashar: Yes, to some degree it does.
Questioner: Thank you very much. Oh, thank you very much for opening up your treasure chest.
Q&A: Sensing Connections, Prediction, and a Strange Dream Experience
Questioner: You had discussed a connection that I have with another individual, and how our interaction may best progress to serve ourselves and humanity. Thanks. Now, I know that I have the ability to choose the path I’m going to take, and to go ahead with agreements I’ve made or change them.
Bashar: Yes.
Questioner: I also know that — well, what I want to ask you is: how can you see the future, in a sense? I know time is an illusion, but if you can kind of pick up on connections that two people have…
Bashar: Some things now and then will flow into formation and be representative of a highly momentum-fulfilled state. Those stand out. So it’s the vibration of energy you’re picking up on — overlapping vibrations that reinforce each other are sometimes easier to perceive. But the idea of any sort of prediction is always a fluctuating idea at best, because there is no solid future, and the ones that are perceived are simply the ideas, the probable realities that have the highest degree of momentum, the highest degree of reinforced energy behind them at any given moment — but only at the time the prediction is made, because the prediction is simply a sensing of the energy that is the most likely to manifest at the time the prediction is made. That can change in the very next second. You can perceive things that seem unlikely to divert, and those are the ones that usually come to pass.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes, I knew that, then. All right, I have one other quick question. The last two weeks I’ve been dreaming and remembering my dreams, and a lot of simultaneous lives that I’ve been dreaming about. And last week I went to sleep and I literally don’t remember the entire evening — other than I woke up and the nightgown I usually sleep in was tossed across the room, and my bed looked like a war zone. And I had a sensing of extraterrestrial presence, to some degree.
Bashar: Yes. Would you like to add anything?
Questioner: No.
Bashar: Okay. It will come out in the fullness of time. Many times this can be a general clue for all of you. Many times, when you awaken from your typical sleep state truly feeling like you have been out and not really carrying back with you any particular memory at all, is usually an indication of simply a very strong and direct and straight communication with another level of consciousness that your mentality simply, at this time, hasn’t yet assimilated in terms it can understand, to be able to present to you symbols that make sense. But it will play out in the things you do. The information and the energy is there and is representative of the agreements you are making in doing the things that excite you the most. This information will come out in the actions you perform in life, and, bit by bit, through many different methodologies — some of which you may call déjà vu, some of which may simply be instantaneous revelation of awareness, some of it simply the synchronicity of the interactions that go on, the coincidences in your life. All of these, and many more, are different ways that this information plays itself out, to bring back to you, through your reality and awareness, all that you have created and agreed to.
So, bit by bit, it will come out. Now you can begin, even in your dream realities, to ask for more assistance in unfolding it and in remembering it, but do not insist upon it. Continue with your life. It will all flow out if you keep flowing. Don’t stop and try to analyze it — you block the flow. Keep flowing, keep doing, keep being, and it will come out, because that’s what it’s for — to be put into active service.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes. My remembering all these other dreams — I know that I’m blending more and integrating. What is the service of them?
Bashar: It can be absolutely individual from dream to dream. They can be representative of many different types of interactions or self-aware revelations. Get in touch with each and every one, and examine every idea that you remember in the dream, and remember that it’s a part of you. So talk to it, dialogue with it. Ask yourself: “This is me. I am this portion of the dream. I am this thing in my dream. I am this emotion in my dream. What do I want to say to me?” Listen. You’ll get an answer.
Questioner: Okay. Just relax and let it flow?
Bashar: All right, all right. Thank you very much. Pleasant dreams.
Q&A: The Impending “Axis Shift” and Fear vs. Positive Transformation
Questioner: I read in a book this afternoon that there’s an impending axis shift…
Bashar: All right, all right, all right. Did you notice the reaction?
Questioner: Yeah, I did.
Bashar: It’s the first time I’ve heard of this? Yes — the energy wave hit long before your mouth opened.
Questioner: Obviously.
Bashar: All right. Changes of electromagnetic energy there are. But again, the idea, the overall fundamental idea, is that any transformation can be experienced in a positive or a negative way. It’s up to you. Whatever vibration you buy into most strongly will be the way you experience the shifts going on in your electromagnetic field. Individuals that have a great deal of fear about the shift will lure themselves into places of destruction. Individuals that simply understand they can use the energy to enlighten themselves and elevate and accelerate themselves in a positive way will simply know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, they do not have to give themselves the idea of a trial by fire, and they will lure themselves to places on your planet where they will experience the energy as a destructurization rather than destruction.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: The more individuals on your planet that recognize you can use this energy in a positive way, rather than simply fearing it or believing it has to happen in a negative way, then can change the energy of the entire planet, so that the majority of the planet need not experience any transformation, any shift, in a negative way at all.
So the idea is that yes, there are shifts in your energy taking place both in you and what you call your planet, since, in a sense, you are one and the same thing here and there, as you have experienced this day of your time. You may see pockets of adjustment in your land mass, but it does not have to be as devastatingly overwhelming as many of you used to fear it had to be. You have already done much to change a lot of that energy. You have already changed it in a positive way to a great degree just by being willing to understand that you do not really have to truly shake yourselves completely awake — that if you’re willing to wake up now, you do not have to suffer and struggle and go through all sorts of negative trials in order to simply wind up with the understanding you could have now, that you deserve happiness, and that you can create your reality to be whatever you prefer it to be.
A lot of the idea of someone experiencing a transformation in a negative way is simply because they are holding on so tight to an old belief and will not allow themselves to let it go and trust their natural flow, that it takes that degree of violence to make them break their grip. Sometimes individuals will actually even take themselves out of physical reality in order to allow themselves to start afresh, but they do not really die. Nothing ever really does. It is all eternal and infinite. However, you don’t have to struggle, and you don’t have to suffer.
Anytime you are made aware of an idea, and it is presented in what you may call a potentially negative format, take it not as an absolute prediction chiseled in steel — or neutronium, or whatever you think is most difficult to change — but the idea is simply presented as an opportunity. Look: it says you can vibrate in synchronous accord with the negative energy of this idea, the fear, and attract yourself to it and attract it to you, or vibrate in accord with the positive energy — the opportunity, the exploration, the excitement, not the anxiety and the fear and the limitation and the segregation. Whatever vibration you choose will be the reality you get.
Remember, no circumstance has built-in meaning. All situations are fundamentally neutral, blank, empty, zero. You give them the meaning because of what you have been taught to believe these things mean. The meaning you give it is the effect you get. Positive meaning in, positive effect out; negative meaning in, negative effect out. Simple physics, simple mechanics. You experience the reality you are the vibration of. You cannot experience the reality you are not the vibration of.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes, I do. Thanks.
Bashar: We thank you very much. And at this timing, you may all enjoy a short break. We will resume contact in approximately 10 to 15 of your minutes.
[Applause — break]
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Resuming: On Validation and Purpose
First and foremost, that the main purpose of this interaction is not for the validation of my existence. It is for the validation of yours.
However, no matter what the methodology, no matter what the reason for what is taking place, simply the idea is that we will co-create and get out of the interaction whatever either of us put into it. So proceed in whatever manner you desire to. I will enjoy the interaction whether I exist in your mind or not.
Q&A: The “Indian” Vision and Contact Experience
Questioner: Okay, this is my first time here.
Bashar: Yes. Well, mine too, right now. Every time is the first time.
Questioner: My therapist invited me to one of these meetings, because I’d never heard about these meetings before… The question that I have is — she has done body work and energy work with me — and I had this experience that is still very difficult for me to comprehend.
Bashar: All right. Can you describe?
Questioner: Yeah, the experience was…
Bashar: One moment, one moment — can you all hear this individual adequately? Can you speak up a little bit for the sharing of all? Have you heard what I’ve said before?
Questioner: Oh, okay. The experience was… I started — okay, I’m a very, I guess you’d say, conservative, not hysterical person.
Bashar: All right, okay.
Questioner: But in this particular experience, I started shaking, and screaming.
Bashar: Oh, how exciting.
Questioner: And I had this vision of — I thought, “Oh my god, I’m going crazy.”
Bashar: Oh, all right.
Questioner: This vision of an Indian.
Bashar: Yes.
Questioner: With his hands coming and reaching out to me, and kind of asking me to come towards him.
Bashar: And what did you do?
Questioner: I just freaked out.
Bashar: Did you go toward the vision, or stand there? Go away?
Questioner: No, it just — it seemed like it was a vision, and it was a lot of sadness. At the time, I thought it meant going to a — I went to South America, a very mystical place which a lot of tourists go to now, Machu Picchu — as I thought that that’s what it meant.
Bashar: Although, in a sense, it is only your society that has made it mystical — it is quite a natural representation of the energies of the transformation going on on your planet now. Quite natural. But we understand what you mean. Continue.
Questioner: Okay, I want — I’m scared to contact — I don’t know if I’m contacting this spirit or whatever.
Bashar: Oh, all right.
Questioner: Is of benefit now in my life.
Bashar: Oh, all right. Now, may I ask you a question?
Questioner: Mhm.
Bashar: Are you sure?
Questioner: Yeah.
Bashar: All right — don’t want to ask it if you don’t want me to.
Questioner: No, go ahead.
Bashar: All right, thank you very much. Do you believe in the idea that is called timing?
Questioner: Timing.
Bashar: Oh, let me put it this way. Do you believe that everything and every event has a place in existence?
Questioner: In other words — I’m not sure.
Bashar: All right, do you believe there could be such a thing as a creation that doesn’t belong in creation? Could you perceive that there could be such a thing as an extraneous creation — something that didn’t belong in existence? Or do you understand that everything that exists, by definition, must fit, or it couldn’t exist? Which do you prefer to believe?
Questioner: I want to believe that there are other dimensions that…
Bashar: Oh, yes, there are. But that has nothing to do with being extraneous. When we say extraneous, we simply mean: could there be, in your mind, something that you could perceive that somehow doesn’t belong in the universe? Could something exist that didn’t belong in creation?
Questioner: No.
Bashar: All right — step one. Very good. Now you can use that understanding and apply it, to some degree, at first, to your circumstance. If the circumstance happened, then on some level, somehow, it belongs in creation. You follow me so far?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: All right. Now everything in creation fits, therefore, by definition, with everything else. Perfect placement, perfect timing. In other words, a thing cannot happen if it doesn’t belong in that moment. It can’t happen in that moment. It can only happen in the moment in which it belongs, because space and time must both be considered when you are talking about the idea of whether something fits into creation or not. If it fits, it has to not only just fit in space, it has to fit in time as well, because that’s the definition of your physical universe. So if a thing did happen, then the where of it, and the when of it, must be by definition representative of the absolutely perfect timing and need and reason for that event’s existence to begin with.
Understand me so far?
Questioner: Are you saying that getting, going, or contacting this entity, or the spirit, is not necessary right now in my life?
Bashar: Oh, that’s not what I’m saying at all. What I am saying is that because, obviously, as you have just suggested, contact has already taken place, then, by definition, it obviously belongs, or it couldn’t have happened.
Now, for what reason it belongs, that is up to you to determine. Now you can say, “All right, I am co-creating this event so that I can determine whether or not I choose to continue such events in my life, whether it serves me in one way or another.” It does serve you. How you wish it to serve you is up to you, how you wish to use it is up to you, but it serves you by presenting you with a perfect representation of exactly the type of interaction you agreed to have at that moment. Nothing can happen in your life that you haven’t agreed to experience. If you haven’t agreed to experience it, you can’t perceive it.
That’s what other dimensions are. What you have colloquially referred to as other realms of reality that you may not immediately perceive are simply realms of reality that are no less real, but you simply haven’t, at this timing, got, as a part of your definitional agreement, a reason to perceive it yet. But whatever you do perceive, therefore, by definition, must be a part of your agreed-upon timing, your agreed-upon interaction, and what it is you really want to do, want to see, want to have an interaction with — or you wouldn’t have had the interaction.
Therefore, are you following me so far?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: If you can understand it from that point of view, if you choose to understand it in that way, then you can recognize that you agreed to meet it halfway. You have to create a similar vibration. You have to be of the similar vibration of anything you perceive in order to perceive it. You can’t perceive what you are not the vibration of. That is simple physics.
Understand the analogy?
Questioner: Yes. No.
Bashar: All right, let’s use the radio analogy. You have on your planet a device you call a radio.
Questioner: Yes. Yes.
Bashar: Now, you only hear, at any given moment, the program your dial is tuned to.
Questioner: Yes. Yes.
Bashar: An expression of your intention to pick up a certain frequency.
Questioner: Yes. Yes.
Bashar: Does that mean all the other frequencies aren’t there at the same time?
Questioner: No.
Bashar: They are all there. Similarly, all realities, all types of interactions, all levels of consciousness, all dimensions exist now. They are all coming to you, quote unquote, at the same time — loosely meant. However, the only thing you can perceive at any given moment, out of all of it, are the things that are most reflective of whatever frequency you’re on at that moment.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: Therefore, the interaction you had obviously had to be, by definition, representative of the frequency you were on at the moment. And therefore, since you were on that frequency, somewhere within you, whether it was consciously or unconsciously, you had to be the one to turn your dial to that program. So that was your part in the agreement. In turning your dial, you could receive a message from that guide, from that spirit consciousness.
Now, the only reason, in a sense, you feared it to some degree is simply because of the habit patterns, the definitions, the belief systems that most of your society has been brought up with — that this is the physical world, and there isn’t anything else, and if you see anything else, you’re crazy. But understand what crazy is. What you call insane people are simply people with their dials tuned to other frequencies. They are seeing other realities, other aspects of the total whole that are no less real than the ones you may collectively agree to call real.
But the ones that do not know how to communicate what they are perceiving, in a way that allows them to apply it back into the consensus reality, then usually lock themselves into a self-perpetuating cycle where they focus on that other world they know is real, and do not allow themselves the capability of communicating, through them, the information that might be able to be applied into the world they have already locked themselves into. What you call a genius — as you all already recognize, the fine line, as you always say, between genius and insanity — is for this reason. A genius is somebody who simply sees the other reality, knows it is real in a sense, and knows a way to communicate it in a way that makes sense to the rest of your reality, in a way that allows it to fit, to be applied to the rest of your consensus reality.
The insane, or individuals you call insane or crazy, are simply individuals who have never been taught that what they’re perceiving, A, is real, just as real as anything, and B, they have never been taught to be able to let the information come through them in a way that makes it all right to apply what they’re seeing into the consensus reality. If the consensus reality says, “No, no, no, what you are seeing is not real, we refuse to accept it, you are nuts,” then they, knowing what they are perceiving is real, will lock themselves away in their own little world and be very difficult to reach from that point forward. That is why usually it takes a great deal of the idea you call therapy to bring them back out again fully.
Now, not meaning to allow this to be an absolute figure, for it is always fluctuating, but just to give you a representational idea, as an analogy, roughly what you would call 85% of all individuals in what you call your institutions for the insane are simply seeing other realities and don’t know how to communicate that, because your society hasn’t taught that art, hasn’t taught that all levels of perception are representative of real realities that can fit, or at least somehow be accounted for, whether it is immediately applicable to this reality or not.
So back to your issue: the idea is that you have made many associations, in many lives, with many different levels of consciousness, and you have made certain agreements with yourself to open up and explore and be of service on your planet now, in certain ways. When those timings, those signposts, those self-created destiny points crop up, when you are on a sufficient level to perceive it, certain individuals who have agreed with you to function as reflective guides will pop into your life to remind you: now is the timing to explore this idea of yourself. Now is the timing to realize you have the ability to see beyond the definitions your society has taught you up to this point. And this is one of the things this life is all about: knowing “I am real. I am here to reflect to you other aspects of your consciousness so that you may discover them and apply them to yourself, as you care to understand.” Yes, but it’s up to you to discover those specific ideas, those specific connections, and it’s up to you, utterly, to decide how you wish to apply it.
There is nothing inherently fear-causing in this situation. Only your belief system, only your definition that you have to fear something like that, is what causes you to feel the way you’re feeling. Because all feelings — pay attention, definition coming up — all feelings are reactions to something you already believe to be true. You don’t just have a feeling for no reason. All feelings are reactions to something you have been taught to believe is true. When you change the definition of the belief, automatically you can no longer have feelings other than those that are representative of the new belief you have, the new definition you have of the reality you have co-created with any other consciousness.
Understand?
Questioner: Most of it.
Bashar: All right — you understand it all, you have gotten it all on every level. More and more of this information, if you are now willing, can come out in your dream realities. They can become far more active and vivid along this line if you are willing to simply open up and trust that you made this agreement, that you have attracted this occurrence because of what it is you need to do, what you need to discover about yourself, to be of service in the way you want to, to live the life that is really exciting to you. Then let it in. Trust it. And you will find, when you let the information be delivered from that guide, you will find that there is nothing in that information that’s inherently negative. Only your definition of it would be the idea that would create it to feel negative at any point. Trust it and let it in. But it’s up to you — you don’t have to.
But such things cannot be an indication of something outside of your control. And that guide will only approach you to whatever point the guide feels you are ready to handle the information. They’re not going to push you. They’re going to let you be who you are, and they’re going to let you determine the absolute precision of the time. As soon as you know you’re ready, they are ready, because that’s their job.
Your job was what you chose in being born on your planet. Now the discovery of yourself, the living of the excitement of yourself, and the expression of that excitement — that is the service to everyone else, by being fully who you are. It is simply that you all have assistance to remind you, from time to time, of when you set up for yourself in this life a timing, a signpost that you wanted to look at, to remember more of who you are. In a sense, that vision is only you looking into a mirror and seeing another higher aspect of yourself reflected to you from a friend.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: Now, you don’t have to understand all this empirically, or analytically, or terminologically, or semantically. All right. Now your timing is flawless. Relax. Everything comes out in perfect timing. Now does this serve you?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: All right. Now, may I ask you another question? This is simply out of curiosity, and in no way, shape, or form is it meant to reflect, once again, that it really matters one way or another whether you choose to believe I am who I say I am. That is not the point. But simply this: do you believe it is possible to experience what you call telepathy?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: Do you believe that other forms of life exist in the universe, on other planets?
Questioner: I don’t know.
Bashar: Do you believe it is highly likely?
Questioner: I think it’s very possible.
Bashar: All right. Then there is nothing so strange in the putting of those two things together. And that’s what you’re getting here. Someone like you, in many ways, who lives on a world like yours, in many ways, who believes in telepathy and practices it, and has made an agreement with a certain individual — the channel sitting before you — to practice it in the following way, to be of service in the way we are being of service. Now, it is really no more complicated than that in terms of describing the mechanism of what is going on.
But once again, our main purpose is for the sharing of the information itself. Though we love you all, and would enjoy ecstatically direct interaction in time with you all, it matters not whether you really choose, in that sense, to prefer to interact with us or not. What you are doing in your lives now is the most important thing you need to be doing. That is all we care about right now.
And do remember one other thing, and this is absolutely not a chastisement, but simply the definition of what you call skepticism is not usually what most people think, in terms of having an open mind. An open mind is an open mind. Skepticism, even though the original root may have meant “to know,” usually in your society now means already having a preconceived bias towards a particular idea.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: We thank you, lovingly, for your sharing. We thank you for being of service to all these individuals, for allowing them to see through you different ways they could apply the information you have discovered about yourself to their own lives, so they may grow. We thank you.
Questioner: Thank you. Pleasant dreams.
Q&A: Dependency, Money, and Guilt
Questioner: I want to tell you that my interactions with you, and just your being here, is a tremendous contribution to my life, and I thank you.
Bashar: Thank you. Thank you for contributing to ours.
Questioner: The question I have tonight has to do with a series of situations I’ve had in my life that are related to each other, that I’m not excited about having in my life.
Bashar: Oh, all right.
Questioner: And I’m anxious to learn the lessons I’ve created them for, and move on.
Bashar: Anxious?
Questioner: Yes. Excited — excited to learn these lessons and move on.
Bashar: Oh, all right, go ahead.
Questioner: They have to do with the people that I’m close to in my life — along the path, one after another, seemingly, um, inevitably — my little piece of neutronium there.
Bashar: That’s right — inevitably.
Questioner: Yes, I said “seemingly inevitably.” I know it’s not inevitable, but…
Bashar: Yes, just lightening things up a bit.
Questioner: Thank you. Comes about that — the people that I’m close to come to a place where they feel they can’t make their own living, and want to, or do, become dependent on me.
Bashar: Oh, I see. All right.
Questioner: I don’t like the situation.
Bashar: Well, all right — then why do you support them?
Questioner: Well, I stopped doing that, and what I have now is a lot of people I’m close to that are angry at me.
Bashar: Oh — or maybe they’re angry at themselves.
Questioner: Maybe they are. At any rate, I don’t feel resolved about handling this, because it keeps coming up.
Bashar: All right. So can you express to them the idea that you will help them all you can, as long as it does not represent the idea of taking responsibility for them, because you can’t. You can be responsible to them. You can give them assistance, as long as it, in your terminology, does not violate the integrity of what you prefer to be.
Questioner: What I found is that when originally, when I first started having more money than the people I’m around, and they first started coming to me needing money, I thought it was a great joy to be able to give it. I felt it, in that sense.
Bashar: Now, yes, but remember also there are, again, fine-line definitions, especially within your society, connected to the idea of money — where a sharing can be a sharing, and then sometimes, because of the shifting in integrity, the shifting in definitions, the shifting in levels of consciousness, it can allow itself to drop over into the idea of dependency.
Questioner: And that seems to be what I create in these situations.
Bashar: Well, all right, then, perhaps for you the lesson is, in that sense, in allowing yourself, perhaps, to teach other individuals how to match your vibration, to be abundant for themselves.
Questioner: Yes, that’s what I want to do.
Bashar: And sharing, in that sense, and allowing them to learn to be equal, in that sense. Now, again, there can be — or could have been — some assistance given in the way you have given it. But if you can use the assistance you give on one level to help them on many other levels, to get them to equalize your vibration that enabled you to assist them to begin with — rather than simply allow them to assume that because you’re assisting them, they don’t have to match your vibration — then you can equalize the idea out. You can use the idea of giving them some support to allow them to grow in their own self-support.
Questioner: Understand — I do, and I don’t know how to do that. That doesn’t seem to happen when I support people. They seem to grow in dependency, and as far as I can see, everybody that I’ve assisted financially has continued to not be competent in that area.
Bashar: Then shift the definition of how you assist them. Assist them with knowledge of how to match your abundance.
Questioner: I think I have a conflict in myself, Bashar, because I feel guilty.
Bashar: Guilty.
Questioner: Yeah, I feel upset when my best friend tells me she doesn’t have money again to pay her rent, and horror stories, and she really needs a place to live, and would like to live in my place rent-free.
Bashar: Let’s use an analogy that perhaps may put it a little bit into perspective. Now, are you telling me that you are going to feel guilty if, instead of giving your friend a slice of bread — which you can do, and have done — that you teach them how to bake their own, so that they can always eat whenever they want to, rather than having to come to you for a slice now and then?
Questioner: You know, these people — they really don’t ask for a lesson, and or the way that I give it is resented.
Bashar: But that’s their choice of reaction, not yours. And it is not cause for the idea of the guilt you are accepting into your life. Why am I creating all of these people that are not [what]… to give you the opportunity to stop feeling guilty about being the abundant person you are?
Questioner: Well, yeah, and that’s — I understand that, and what I have left — I don’t understand that.
Bashar: Yes, you do. I said, well, if you understand it, then put it into action. Put your understanding into application. If you are a friend, then go with your friend and say, “Let us discuss the idea of how you can match this vibration. I can still be willing to utilize some of my abundance and direct it in a way, where and when necessary, to assist you in learning how to be equally abundant.”
However, if you find that they generate within themselves a reaction that is outside of integrity, that’s not your choice. That’s not your reality. That’s their reaction, not yours. You feeling guilty about their choosing to accuse you means you are simply willing to buy into their expression of lack of abundance, rather than standing firm in your understanding of your own abundance of who you are. Why would you want to buy into the idea of their offering of lack of abundance?
Questioner: It hurts me.
Bashar: Why? Remember what they said about reaction.
Questioner: They don’t have any money to eat. It hurts me.
Bashar: I understand what you are saying, but the idea, once again, is that you are not really serving them unless you teach them how to serve themselves.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes, I do. Could you point me in the direction of being a better teacher, other than displaying what I do, sharing with them how I have accumulated abundance, sharing with them the way that I do that?
Bashar: Can I point you in a better direction than being a living example of what you believe in?
Questioner: Well, it’s just not working for my friends. I’m still creating…
Bashar: What you do may not work for them, but that in no way, shape, or form determines the effect it has on your life. If you know you are being of service, then derive the joy out of that that you deserve to derive. If they do not choose to find joy in it, if they do not choose to create it to work, that’s not your responsibility. You cannot do it for them. So why take the responsibility when they choose to ignore the information?
Understand?
Questioner: I do. And what is it that I do that makes people give up their responsibility around me?
Bashar: You feel guilty about your abundance. You buy in too easily to the idea of guilt. So you attract individuals who give you a sparkling opportunity to discover how guilty you feel for what you have, and they reflect it right back to you.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: Plain and simple, that’s it. Remember that if you say you have all this love, then you won’t choose guilt, because guilt, once again, is the true opposite of love, not hate. Guilt: the complete lack of belief in your worthiness.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes. Does that assist you?
Questioner: Yes. I have a little more — can I continue briefly? Okay. What I see you saying is: given a specific situation where I’ve offered my friend the tools, and she remains in the same situation and is angry…
Bashar: Yes.
Questioner: …you get on with your life?
Bashar: I get on with my life. That’s what you do, because, again, only by a living example can you give them the opportunity to have anything to look at that they can mimic and change into.
Questioner: And once I start just moving on with my life, I will then attract people that are abundant, and I can share that?
Bashar: In other words, let me put it this way: if you know you have been doing your best, if you know you’ve been acting out of integrity, if you know you’ve been acting out of love, if you know you’ve been being of service, then why would you believe it when someone tells you you haven’t been?
Questioner: It just happens a lot.
Bashar: It doesn’t just happen — you choose it. So if you don’t prefer it, why choose it? And if someone tells you, “Oh, you’re cold and uncaring,” you say, “I know I am not.” Beyond the shadow of a doubt, I know I am not. If that is your perception, I love you unconditionally enough to let you have that perception. But it doesn’t change that I know my life is full of joy.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes, I do. Thank you very much, Bashar. All my love to you.
Q&A: The “Clear Cat” — Mental Imagery and Not Needing to Fit a Mold
Questioner: Back in 1970, I went to a lecture in Scientology, and they had a demonstration where everybody mocked up a picture of a cat and had it run off, demonstrating how the mind worked. But the thing was, out of a group of about 13 people, there was two in there that didn’t have mental image pictures. So I spent 14 years wanting to get my mental image picture back. I wonder why is it that I can see pictures in a dream, and I can sense what something looks like — impression — but I have no mental image picture. I can’t make a mental image picture.
Bashar: Well, there may be, to some degree, a slight clarification necessary in what it is you think you ought to be doing, as opposed to what you actually are doing. You may be doing what you need to do, but you may be carrying with you an assumption that it, quote unquote, should be a certain way, when that is not necessarily so.
And let me ask you this, out of curiosity: if you are not capable of having the idea you call a mental image picture, then how do you know you’re not doing it?
Questioner: Well, like some people — they have very vivid colors in their pictures and stuff. Like I can right now mock up a picture of a cat in front of me, but it’s an invisible cat.
Bashar: An invisible cat. May I ask you a question?
Questioner: Yeah.
Bashar: What color is this invisible cat?
Questioner: I can see right through it.
Bashar: All right, then it is a clear cat. Is that not color enough?
Questioner: No, but I can’t give it a color either.
Bashar: Do you want to? Do you need to?
Questioner: I would like to have good mental image pictures.
Bashar: But that’s not the question. One moment, one moment — listen to what you are saying. You may be getting the image that you need. May I ask you this question: if the image you are getting serves your purpose cleanly and clearly, would you want to complicate it with more detail that doesn’t need to be there?
Questioner: No.
Bashar: Why not relax with what you get, the way you get it, and allow anything else that needs to be there to simply spontaneously occur, rather than trying to get a detail, a complexity, an additional symbol that you don’t necessarily need to accomplish what you need to accomplish. If the animal is already clear, maybe that’s the way it needs to be. Who knows? Maybe one day you might have a discussion with a group of people that have been, as you say, mentally imaging, and you’ll sit there listening to them: “Well, I had a cat, it was red.” “I had a cat, it was black.” “I had a cat, it was green with purple polka dots.” And you’ll be sitting there going, “Gee, all I get is a clear cat.” And they all turn to you and look at you: “You get a clear cat? We’ve been trying to get a clear cat for years! All we get are all the cats that are confused in all sorts of different shades of color. We’ve been trying to get the color out so the cat could be clear.” And you can do this naturally.
Questioner: Well, my, my, my.
Bashar: The whole point simply being: let it happen the way it needs to, knowing that the way it does happen is the way that will work best for you. Anything else you need will automatically, spontaneously be there if you really need it. Do not necessarily back yourself into a corner with a definition you think ought to represent what you should and should not be doing.
Questioner: Okay, I see that. The more you relax, the more spontaneous the image will be able to be.
Bashar: And the way it comes is the way that serves you best. And when you let the way it comes be the way it needs to come, the paradox occurs, the irony occurs — that’s when you start seeing the entire spectrum, because when you allow what is to be what needs to be, you then allow all that is to be in any way that it can be, and you allow it all to be perceived by you. Don’t be too insistent. Open up your definition and allow it in.
Understand?
Questioner: I understand. Well, thank you very much.
Bashar: Okay. Give our regards to your cat.
Q&A: Allowing and Flowing Positively / The “Now” Technique
Questioner: Can you assist me in understanding how to allow and flow more positively with situations presented to me, especially in the last few months, and they are affecting me physically and emotionally?
Bashar: No. All right, one moment, one moment. Remember, apply everything we have discussed this evening, and remember that they don’t affect you. You choose to be affected.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: Now, you understand that you attract these ideas in your life. You choose them.
Questioner: Yes, I’m understanding that more fully, especially when I…
Bashar: Very good. The idea is not so much that you necessarily make a conscious choice for that specific circumstance. It’s that whatever beliefs you buy into most strongly attract the most likely circumstance to represent those beliefs. So, in having attracted that circumstance by the attraction, you are given the best opportunity to see, in no uncertain terms, what strongest beliefs you have, because that’s the reality you’re getting, so that you can determine if you want to keep those beliefs. The circumstances that occur in your life don’t occur to show you you’re stuck, or to show you that you’re a failure. They occur to show you that this is the belief you have, and if you don’t like it, change it, and the physical reality will change along with it.
Also remember: don’t automatically assign a negative meaning to a circumstance just because you have always been taught that that’s what it means.
Understand?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: Now, do you have a particular specific idea you can share with regard to one of these circumstances that you say have affected you?
Questioner: More understanding on how to maybe change or work with the subconscious, where I feel that maybe conditionings are affecting me negatively.
Bashar: All right, all right, all right. But let’s start right at the absolute fundamental belief, which you are obviously already in touch with. Bravo — the fundamental belief is: “I believe I have subconscious conditioning that may affect me negatively.” Why choose to believe it? That’s your fundamental belief right there. Why choose to believe that? Do you prefer to believe you have subconscious conditioning that might affect you negatively? Do you prefer to believe that?
Questioner: No.
Bashar: Then why believe it?
Questioner: Because I am not flowing. I’m not allowing things that are happening.
Bashar: You are talking about the past. You have not been — but what’s that got to do with now? What’s that got to do with this point forward, now that you recognize that what happened then was the product of the fact that you chose to believe you had these subconscious beliefs?
Questioner: Cuz whatever it is is affecting me still now. So I haven’t maybe let go.
Bashar: Or how long do you think it will take for your realization of this belief to allow a change to occur in your physical reality? Do you believe it can happen instantaneously?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: Are you being honest?
Questioner: Yeah.
Bashar: Are you sure?
Questioner: Yeah.
Bashar: All right. You absolutely believe, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that if you allow yourself to change your fundamental belief right now, that your physical reality will change?
Questioner: I just need to understand how…
Bashar: Then you don’t believe it is instantaneous, because you already understand how, and yet now you have just denied that you understand it. Knowledge itself of what you prefer to be, if believed in more strongly than what you have believed in before, will automatically replace what you have been. Now, at the outside, you can give it 72 of your hours. That can be, for some of you, representative of instantaneousness — three days, maximum.
Describe what you call the physical affectation.
Questioner: There’s a tremendous energy within me that’s just constantly — almost like the earthquake today.
Bashar: All right, constantly. Are you saying this is negative?
Questioner: I don’t know what it is.
Bashar: You don’t know what it is? Do you prefer that it is positive?
Questioner: You don’t know? I don’t feel wonderful about it.
Bashar: That’s not the question.
Questioner: I don’t know, I really don’t know.
Bashar: Do you prefer it is for a positive reason?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: All right, then start to believe that it is. Do you not recognize that all the transformations that are taking place upon your planet now all have to do with the fact that all of you are awakening into more of the energy that you are as a being? That what you have thought of as your limited physical reality is no longer the border of your definitions, and that all that you are feeling now is an acceleration of energy within you that is representative of the higher, accelerated energy you actually are, now discovering yourself to be. Do you not understand that?
Questioner: I’m trying to understand that.
Bashar: All right. What do you imagine prevents you from understanding it in that format? Are you not familiar with the idea of the semantics of consciousness and energy? Do you know that you are made of energy?
Questioner: Yes, I know that.
Bashar: All right, that is an absolute for you, then.
Questioner: Yes. Yes.
Bashar: All right. Then what you are feeling is more of your own energy. And by the old definition of yourself, you’re simply not used to that much you yet. You are used to less you. Now you are awakening. Now you are exploring. And as you explore, as you open up in what you call your spiritual quest, you allow more of you to be apparent within you. You begin to feel more of the energy you are. That’s all you’re feeling. You’re feeling more of the actual level of vibratory energy on which you can be existing.
If you are hesitant about what it is because you don’t have a clear definition of it, then simply, first and foremost, assume that it is positive, that it’s there for a positive reason. Your assumption, your approach, your direction in this manner will allow you, in short order, to derive a positive benefit, a positive understanding from it. It is only your classification of it that makes it seem [like] any negativity you are feeling.
Understand? It is because of your definition of uncertainty. Be certain. Be certain in the direction you prefer to be certain in. That’s all it takes. It’s called trust and faith.
Questioner: I don’t know what this feeling is, but because I know I am a positive person, because I have chosen to know I am a positive person, it must be a part of the positive unfolding of who I am. Oh joy, oh joy, since I know nothing in my life is an interruption in my life — I only know that everything I experience I have chosen. Everything I experience I have attracted, and therefore everything I experience is a part of the unfoldment of the path I chose to be. Then whatever this is must be a part of it, and that means that now that I’m experiencing this, I am now unfolding at a faster rate. I’m accelerating. Otherwise I wouldn’t be experiencing what this energy is. I wouldn’t be discovering something new if I weren’t changing in directions I want to change in. Oh ecstasy, oh ecstasy, I am overjoyed.
Bashar: As soon as you become that happy about what’s happened to you, your level of energy will rise to match the vibration you’re feeling, and it will feel like it smooths out, so you don’t notice the difference anymore. The energy is there to show you what level you can match at any given moment. When you match it by trusting it and getting excited and getting into it, then it will seem to dissipate or disperse, but it is simply that you have matched that level.
Understand? That’s what it’s for. Is this making any sense to you?
Questioner: Yes.
Bashar: Are you willing to trust it? Are you willing to trust your own ecstasy? Are you willing to believe it is that easy to change?
Questioner: Well, still not sure — there seems to be the questioning of how to open.
Bashar: I told you how. I just told you how.
Questioner: Then what is it within us that blocks that — that is there for us to believe or have faith?
Bashar: As simple as this: your assumption that there is some mysterious “how” that needs to be known before you will simply act in the manner you want to. In other words: laugh, be happy, because you want to. As soon as you do, you’ll match that frequency. There is no mysterious how. None that has to be there.
And if you really want a bottom-line definition, then live now. That’s how. Anytime you live in the now, utterly in the moment, any energy that comes along, any difference that you feel, you will match instantly, because you are living fully in the now, accepting it all. Open to it all. Absolute vulnerability — not weakness. Openness. Strength. Self-empowerment. That’s how. Live in the now with it. Assume that what is happening belongs in your life. Accept it. Acknowledge it. Integrate it. Live through it. Get into it. Explore it. Examine it. Get excited, because you know it’s there for your reasons — whether you’re conscious of them or not, it’s there for your reason.
The more you act like you know it’s there for your reason, whether you’re conscious of what the reason is or not, the sooner you will become conscious of the reason. And very often, the only reason you will discover, after you accept the energy and accelerate, is simply that it was there for you to accept the energy and accelerate. And by the time you accelerate, you have used it for the reason it was there, and there’s no other reason to discover. That’s it. It may come in the disguise of seeming to be some particular specific reason you need to discover, but by the time you actually use it, you discover that simply the using of it was reason enough. And that’s it. And you go on to the next thing, and the next, forever. Always enjoy and ecstasy.
Bashar: It’s that simple. It’s that easy. It is that easy. Nothing — nothing is too good to be true. Too easy to be true. Too simple to be true. Cause and effect are the same event. You don’t have to wait for a reason to be happy in order to know you prefer to be happy. Be happy. Create the effect of being happy, and you will attract into your life all of the causes to support the happiness you have created. Just because you want to, and just because you say so. There doesn’t need to be any other why or how, because you are the creator of your reality. And that’s it.
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