Physical and Non-Physical Reality

Straddling Physical and Non-Physical Reality

Questioner: Tah and Sean helped me to release an entity by the name of Jon who had been my husband in many lifetimes and did not want me to come into this life without him.

He may have tried to strangle me at birth, causing pain in my throat and my neck and my whole right side that always feels much colder than the other side and with less energy. I also am half in, half out of what you call physical and non-physical reality.

Bashar: You are in a sense straddling the line between physical life and non-physical life. It is our suggestion that one thing that can help you greatly is to understand you will always remain attached to the level of non-physical spirituality that you need, but we would suggest that you do something very strongly physiological that you enjoy to ground yourself in that way and to create an electromagnetic flow through you that will not cause what you call the paralysis, the numbing effect of the cold.

You are straddling the line between physical life and physical reality. In other words, your focus is half in physical life and half in non-physical reality. Your consciousness in that sense is split. You are in a sense—now I do not mean this derogatorily, please do not take it that way—you are dwelling on aspects metaphysically that you do not necessarily need to dwell on so heavily. You are separating yourself, you are cutting yourself in half, you are allowing a portion of your power to come from a disassociated place and time. The idea of another time—all your power is here now. The only reason it would seem not to be is that you have chosen to believe that it is not. You are splitting yourself in half by fixating and focusing on the idea to some degree a little bit heavily of the other lifetime.

It isn’t that we are not saying that other lifetime recognition does not serve you, but understand those other lifetimes and the experiences in them do not in any way, shape or form control you. You are one electromagnetic flow. Let’s use the feeling of cold to create a superconductivity within you.

Bashar: Close your eyes as you stand, take a deep breath, and in your imagination imagine the following: Right now that you are surrounded—your body is surrounded by a crystalline, transparent blue sphere of brilliant electromagnetic blue-white light. Do you see it? Feel the vibration of that energy. Feel that the sphere is full of energy, that it is interpenetrating every single cell of your body. Feel the coolness, the swiftness, the flow of electricity and electrons and electromagnetism going from head down to toe and up from toe to head, back and forth, up and down. Feel a white light pulsing through you up and down, up and down, in counterposition in conjunction with the coolness in the sphere. Feel that the pulse going through you is more of a white light, a white hot. Allow the white ring, the white sphere that goes through you from head to toe and back again like a yo-yo, to feel very warm and to warm you up, to center you and balance you and to clarify all systems and structures within your body.

Are you feeling it going up and down, up and down? Do you feel a little bit warm? Allow yourself to get to the level of warmth that you feel is comfortable, and then as soon as you find it is at a comfortable level, then maintain that particular frequency of the white light going up and down. Do not let it go any faster than that, just allow it to pulse at that rate. Generally speaking you may find that it is synchronized to what you would call your heartbeat. Just sit with that for a moment, just float with that for a moment. Keep your eyes closed. Imagine the blue sphere around you, the white light pulsing through you from head to toe at the beat of your heart. Hear the sound of your heart as the white light goes up and down. Feel it for a moment.

Now take in one large deep breath, and as you do so imagine the entire structure collapsing to go within you, to fit you like a second skin. And as you breathe out, understand that that second skin, that energy is now locked to you. It is your thermostatic control, it is your ability to regulate your environment through your thoughts, through your desires, through your preferences. It is a tool. It is there. Use it and allow yourself to let it focus you in the present. Feel grounded, feel your feet on the ground, feel that your spirituality is intact but also your physicality, your vibrancy, your earthiness.

Bashar: How do you feel? Warm? Do you feel like crying? Do you feel like laughing? Then do so. One release is as good as another. Now choosing the laughter shows that there is nothing negative in that sense to release. You knew what you were doing when you made compacts, contracts and agreements with other individuals, and that the actions of those other individuals in the past have spurred you to your present understanding of self and therefore fulfilled a positive function. Let it go. It has served you. You are standing on your own two feet. You’re your own individual. There is nothing blocking you. You are clear. So laugh and be merry and be happy. You have the ability to live the life you want regardless of anything else that has ever occurred.

Bashar: One little suggestion for you tonight: when you are about to go to sleep, imagine your feminine side, your masculine side. See them blend together into one being. And then see that one being holding in its arms a baby, a child, which is also you. Rock the child, nurture the child, comfort the child, and unconditionally, warmly and happily love the child. And let the child feel that happiness and that warmth from you. Then go to sleep and see how you feel in the morning. Three nights in a row: 1, 2, 3, and that will be sufficient. You will have a whole new childhood all over again.

Question 8: Past Life with Daughter

Questioner: I would like to know if there are any specific past lives that my daughter and I had that has made this life a rocky one, and in what way I could make this life more compatible.

Bashar: It is our perception in this particular case that there was a life wherein—and I will not say who played what part—but one individual was expected by the other individual to be able to do a certain thing, and in not being able to do that certain thing, the other individual lost their life. The individual who was expected to be able to do the certain thing truly did not act outside of integrity. Truly could not in any way, shape or form have been expected to save that other individual. However, shall we simply say the belief systems of the individual that lost their life were such that they held it against the first individual—not getting to them in time, not reaching them in time, allowing them in that sense to perish. That instilled a type of momentum, a type of lack of trust.

However, it is understood that you are inseparable in that way. You have had many lifetimes together. That particular aspect does not necessarily play as big a role as you might think, even though it was brought in, in our perception, into this life. There are some other aspects, most of which are for the purpose of allowing you to break through this particular kind of barrier: ceasing to think that you must be responsible for other people’s realities. You can only be responsible to other individuals. You cannot be responsible for them. And constantly berating yourself for feeling that you should be responsible for what happens to another individual will only immerse you in the same mire, in the same rocky rapids that you were immersed in before, where the scenario was played that you ought to have been responsible for their life then, which you were not.

Bashar: One moment. May I engage you in a conversation that is primarily out of curiosity for a moment? If you were to use your imagination right now and you were to suppose—this does not mean it has to be this way—if you were to suppose that you would have another life after this one, what do you think you would like to do? What do you think you would like to be? Use your imagination.

Questioner: A pilot of a spaceship.

Bashar: Thank you. That’s where I know you from. Thank you for fulfilling my curiosity.

Question 9: Psychic Opening and Physical Symptoms

Questioner: I have decided that I just totally wish to surrender to my higher self and just be a pure channel in whichever way I am supposed to be to be of service to humanity on this planet.

Bashar: By doing what excites you the most.

Questioner: One of the things that has been coming up is some very strange physiological changes in my body—numbness and tingling throughout my whole arms, my fingertips, my face sometimes extending down into the ovaries. The only thing that was found medically was a pituitary and thyroid malfunction, a very slight one. They say it’s a hypothyroid condition created by a malfunctioning of the pituitary gland which was created from too much stress and fear over the past few years.

Bashar: Sometimes when you go through energy shifts, you may feel them electromagnetically in that way as you become more highly conductive. We do always suggest because of the way your society exists, the way your society is structured, that if there is anything happening with your physiological form that you are uncertain of, that you do always first avail yourself of the belief systems that already exist within you. In other words, if you believe in the idea of doctoring, you may wish to find out first whether or not they can perceive any reason for what you are experiencing. If you go through this process feeling that it might or might not be necessary, and then you still find that there is no explanation in terms of what your society can offer you, then usually more often than not it is representative simply of the energy changes you are going through.

Because many times when your civilization experiences shifts in its energy level, it will still translate them in physiological terms because you are so very physiologically oriented. The difference in energy will pass through you like electricity through, for lack of a better term, a resistor. And because there may still be some resistance within you due to what you have been taught to believe about change and the nature of change, then you may find that that resistance that occurs may manifest in the way that you call pain or aches or various physiological phenomena such as you are describing.

Identification is one of the things that may strongly begin to occur in individuals that allow themselves to become far more sensitized than they used to be. However, it is only your definitions—the definitions you are bringing with you from the old self—that allows you to have to feel the identification in a painful way. You do not have to necessarily take on the symptoms in order to identify with them. In a more detached sense, what you can begin to learn is a type of attached detachment, a kind of compassion, an overriding overall compassion that allows you to understand what they are going through without necessarily having to adopt it personally.

Questioner: I’m learning from different people who are healers and psychics how they do that.

Bashar: Will become clear as glass, clear as crystal, transparent to the point where the energies that other individuals are emanating can pass through you, leaving the knowledge but not the symptoms. Become clear, absolutely non-resistent. The only way, as we have already said, you would actually pick up upon the symptomology itself is because you have resistance within you or fear within you about what you’re identifying with in them. No fear. Unconditional love and compassion will make you transparent enough to allow those emanations to pass through you harmlessly.

Bashar: Think in terms of what we have discussed already this evening to some degree: the idea that the electromagnetic medium in which you are all mentally immersed is usually symbolically represented by blue light. Imagine cool, soothing, flowing smoothly blue light, blue gel if you wish, a thick blue gel infusing those areas, filling your cellular structure, allowing them to adjust, to be buffered, to allow them to assimilate to the timing and the tempo of the rest of your body, allowing the rest of your body to assimilate to the timing and tempo that is now being given off by your glandular system.

Understand that it is your glandular system that controls the enzymatic and endocrine functions that biochemically speaking are linked to psychic functioning, to your connection to higher self. The glandular system is the last sensory physiological level before non-physicalness altogether. So that is why some of them have become a little bit activated, a little bit imbalanced. Rebalance them by homogenizing your entire system by filling it with a homogeneous blue gel of liquid light and allowing all your cellular structures to blend and balance in that system, by dissolving in that system until you are just the gel itself. Then with your consciousness, recrystallize your body out of that gel, knowing that at that point every single component in your body is far more balanced and perfectly represented and in synchronized harmony with all other components of your body.

Bashar: Nutritionally, perhaps to some degree what you may call vegetables high in water content would be of assistance in clearing you out a little bit right now. You may also help balance yourself by allowing a flow of healing electromagnetic energy through your hands towards other individuals by performing physiological healings and balancing them, allowing them to balance themselves.

Question 10: Imagination and Manifestation

Questioner: I see a lot of pictures in my mind of the way I would like or can see my life going. I want to understand better what the role is of those images in creating that reality.

Bashar: Step one: Identify what it is that does excite you and create the imaginary scenario. See yourself in that scenario doing the thing that really excites you the most.

Step two: Plug all of your emotions and all of your senses into that picture. In other words, feel what it would be like to be that individual. Feel the excitement you would have. Look at the attitude you would have. See, feel, taste, smell—identify with the scenario with all of your senses and all of your emotions. Plug into it.

Step three: Act it out physically. Create the props. Surround yourself with the symbolic representations. Set the stage. Train yourself, train your physical form into a new bodily habit of dealing with the props that you know you would be dealing with in that reality—the closest approximations of the settings and the props you can create. Surround yourself with them and physiologically act out anything you can in that scenario to the best of your ability, to lock it in physiologically and create the feedback habit patterns that will attract that reality to you.

Step one again: Identify what it is that excites you. Step two: Identify with it sensorially and emotionally. Step three: Physically act it out. That’s what the pictures are for—to copy them, to use them as a template all the way down the line in mental, emotional and thought pattern format, and physiologically to copy them so that you will get the result that you are seeing in the template, in the imagination scenario.

Questioner: Sometimes those images I have end up manifesting almost exactly the way I see them and sometimes they don’t.

Bashar: Correct. There will many times be a difference in your energy regarding any one of those particular images. Sometimes you simply look at an image and you know that’s who you are, and other times you are more ambiguous about it. Sometimes the vision that you’re seeing is symbolic, but the essence of it can manifest in another way. It does not always have to be taken literally. Take it for its essence, knowing that whatever it is that does happen will be the most perfect version of it that needs to happen at that moment to give you the opportunity to examine the things you need to examine so that you can create more preference in your life and more precision in your life next time.

Question 11: Symbolic Meaning of the Red Cardinal

Questioner: What’s the symbolic meaning of the red cardinal? I’ve now seen two visions of a red cardinal.

Bashar: How’s your love life? To some degree it is a messenger of physiological and emotional relationships and interconnectedness. It is delivering certain symbolic reflections and messages from yourself to yourself. They are to some degree like love letters in that sense. It is not our jurisdiction to go into this further. You already have all the assistance you need in your dream state with your own guides.

Question 12: Climate Change and Earth Transformation

Questioner: I’ve read a book that explains to my satisfaction the changes going on with the Earth and our climate. I want to get a comment from you as to the accuracy of this theory.

Bashar: Always, always, always our primary opinion with regard to any of the physiological changes that may be taking place upon your planet is the following: There are many probable ways to experience it, both positive and negative. Whatever vibration you are will determine the way you go through the transformations. Changes there will be, but they can be experienced in a positive and/or a negative way. The way you experience it is completely up to the vibration you choose to be and what you choose to buy into as being necessary for your transformation.

Trial by fire—some people will think is the only way they can change. Others will understand that ecstasy is their birthright and they will allow the transformation to take place around them in a way that does not harm them personally.

Questioner: Since we’ve been taking carbon dioxide measurements since 1940 in Hawaii, the carbon dioxide level has skyrocketed from about 4% to somewhere around 22 to 25%.

Bashar: There are many factors being left out. It is not so much that particular idea. No, that is a small factor but not a major one. Most of it has to do with the transformation of certain particles in what you call your upper atmosphere—transformation of certain particles as they take place within. Now the idea of what you would call vegetation that is not necessarily allowing them to put out the abundance of oxygen that they formerly would have—it is not so much that they lack the minerals in the ground. There are certain radiations that are now coming through your atmosphere that do not allow them to process the minerals adequately. That is the major factor.

Questioner: How can you suggest that we can turn this around?

Bashar: First of all, once again by allowing yourself, if you wish, the strongest way to turn it around is to understand that all of the energy that you need is available in the electromagnetic field of your planet and to cease using the types of technology that you use—fossil fuels.

Questioner: How’s that going to coincide with our phase shifting and expanding in consciousness?

Bashar: The Earth, as a conscious entity just like anything else, is going through the shift with you. In a sense it is sending ripples of energy through itself to allow itself to transform into the type of world that it really needs to be to function on its highest level. Individuals that are aligned with that will flow with it. Individuals that are resistant to that will create the resistance and the destruction in their reality. Whatever vibration you are will determine the type of Earth that you experience.

Understand that when you see the Earth change around you, it is because you have changed your vibration and, shall we say colloquially, transported yourself to one of the infinitely variable Earths that exist that is more aligned with the vibration you choose to be. Understand an infinite number of Earths already exist. If you know that there is a version that you prefer, be a person from that Earth and live that way, and you will start seeing the changes occur around you. But of course that means you have to do your part as well. But it is still, in your terms, quote unquote reversible because you can simply take yourself to the Earth wherein those conditions do not exist.

Miracles—what you call miracles—remember are not the exception to the rule. They are the natural order of things. Moving mountains, absolutely. They are only in your mind anyway. You are sustained in that sense. The physiological representation of what you call your planet, your planet mass, in a sense is the product of the combination of your mass consciousness. Your physical reality is utterly the product of what you believe it to be. Sweeten it with your own thoughts and it shall be so. Sweeten it with your own direct intentions and actions and it will change. But primarily what you actually will see is that you have changed, and you will get the echo and the reflection of the change within you reflected in the physiological environment around you.

After all, it’s your planet.

Question 13: Making a Living Doing What Excites You

Questioner: Let’s say that the things that excite me are playing—being childlike with frisbee or tennis or swimming, things like that. But they don’t necessarily pay the rent.

Bashar: Why not? What limitations in your belief system says that those things, if they really are the things that really excite you more than anything else, what is the limitation within your belief system that says that those things cannot pay your rent?

Questioner: The fact that they haven’t so far.

Bashar: So what? What has the past got to do with who you want to be now? You have had the kind of past you have had to determine for yourself whether you prefer that kind of a reality or not. Now that you know you don’t prefer it, why assume that anything that happened then has anything to do with who you are now?

Questioner: I can make money by doing the things that I like to do.

Bashar: It doesn’t matter what I think. It matters what you think. Let’s be creative. Let’s use your imagination. Can you give me one reason why you can’t make a living doing what excites you?

Questioner: Because I’m not really contributing energy to society. I’m just doing what feels good for myself.

Bashar: Where did you learn that definition? Where did you pick that up on the way somewhere along the line? Does it have to be true? Can you imagine a scenario where you are doing the thing that excites you the most and it is being of benefit to someone aside from yourself? Can you in any way shape or form concoct such a scenario?

Questioner: I’m playing with other people, and we’re all excited, and I’m making money doing it because I’m helping these people to do the things that they like to do and to help them get in better health and happier.

Bashar: So you are saying that you are capable of imagining that there are other people in existence who feel that what you have to offer will be something worth supporting in order to get the benefits of it that they really want, and that you can realize that what you have to share is truly equal to what it is they want to get out of it—that you don’t have to think anything less of it. Is that what you’re saying?

Questioner: Yes. But along with the fact that I have some talents that can help people get healthy…

Bashar: Are you aware of even one other person on your planet that plays and gets paid for it?

Questioner: Mick Jagger. Photographers. There’s a lot of people that do things they like to do and get paid for it.

Bashar: So you are saying that for some reason you believe that the thing that really motivates you, the thing you’re all about, somehow doesn’t count, doesn’t fit in the universe? That you have been supplied by Creation with something that excites you that is of no benefit to anyone? Why would the universe do something so pointless?

Questioner: They just haven’t paid me for it.

Bashar: That’s because you don’t believe you’re worthy of getting paid for it. You don’t believe it’s a worthy calling. Do you?

Questioner: Well I do, but they…

Bashar: When you say “well I do, but they”—it’s the same echo. It’s one event. If you believe it’s worthy, it’s worthy. It’s going to be worthy to whoever else needs it. Isn’t it? Then why do you care if certain individuals don’t find it worthy? If they’re not the ones who need it, all the individuals that you care about are the ones that want it. They’re the only ones that have to find it worthy. Let more of them into your life by assuming that there are enough of them out there. By assuming that whatever it is that motivates you belongs in the world—otherwise it wouldn’t exist.

For every individual that has a desire to express a certain thing above and beyond anything else, there is always, always, always an audience large enough to support them. Otherwise it would be a pointless creation that is one-sided, and they don’t exist. All you have to do is allow your audience to find you by ceasing to downgrade what it is you have to offer. By knowing it can support you, otherwise you wouldn’t have the talent. The fact that you have the talent, the fact that it is the most exciting thing for you, is all the signal you need to know that the audience is there to support you.

And remember, abundance is the ability to do what you want to do when you want to do it. It doesn’t always have to be in the form of money. It can be, and that is one very valid way. But as long as you have the ability to do what you want to do when you want to do it on whatever expanded level you really want to do it, allow abundance to come to you in whatever way is the path of least resistance. Then you will have it all.

Question 14: Magnetic Sleep System and Relationship

Questioner: About 5 months ago I purchased a magnetic sleep system. It excited me very much. Upon bringing it home, I found that my boyfriend, whom I love and respect very much, had a very negative attitude toward it. So much so that he wouldn’t even discuss it, much less sleep in the same bed that it was on.

Bashar: I can see that your relationship never runs out of things to discuss. So what do you want to do about that?

Questioner: I would like to be able to sleep on it and I would like him to like that too.

Bashar: Is it something that you must sleep on all the time?

Questioner: I’m using it temporarily right now for meditation. However, it’s best used when it is slept on all the time.

Bashar: Have you initiated a conversation in any way, shape or form as to why the other individual finds this so apprehensive?

Questioner: He said because his energy patterns are such that the magnetism gives him negative feelings. When I even just have the pillow on the bed, when in the few times that we’ve tried that, he gets a headache from it.

Bashar: Why not make it a project for the two of you to figure out a configuration to this magnetic equipment that would work for both of you?

Questioner: He doesn’t even want to discuss it.

Bashar: Is he willing to discuss why he believes it creates a negative effect within him?

Questioner: No.

Bashar: Anything an individual refuses to do, refuses to face, is usually an indication that that’s exactly what they ought to be talking about. But if you really love that individual unconditionally, you will allow that individual their own good timing. If you are doing what you are doing out of your own integrity—you’re not just doing it out of spite or out of stubbornness—then it would be simply our suggestion that you continue to do so and allow the other individual to decide for themselves which idea, which reality they prefer more. And if they can allow the reality they prefer to override the reality that they don’t understand.

Bashar: One moment. Do they have a particular affinity for any particular type of flower? Perhaps roses. Ask the individual if there is any particular type of what you would call aromatic combination of herbs and/or flowers that they particularly like. If not, perhaps have them find one. If you take that aroma, perhaps in the form of what you call a sachet, and you fill what you call a pure cotton lining, stitch it up, sew it up in a quilt fashion—this sachet within a quilt of pure cotton or some other natural fiber—and then lying on top of that may be able to filter and rebalance the energy in such a way that they will find it a little bit more tolerable. The aroma in and of itself may also be sufficient, even if it is not sewn into a quilt. It may help balance them out, it may put them into a state of mind where they are more willing to discuss the ideas they’re not willing to discuss now.

Question 15: Predictions and the End of the Century

Questioner: I like to talk about the end of our century—1999. There have been many predictions made that we’re going to have a hard time.

Bashar: Were you paying attention when we were talking about that a moment ago? We talked about the idea that yes, there are many changes taking place upon your planet. The way you experience them—the way your vibration is—will determine whether you experience them smoothly or catastrophically. There are opportunities to experience it either way. When those predictions were made, the predictors at that time because of the patterns and the habits that your society had created itself to be could imagine no other way for such transformational changes to occur except by occurring through disastrous and cataclysmic ways. They couldn’t imagine a new world being built unless the old one completely destroyed itself. That is why those predictions were voiced in the manner they were voiced in.

Now you are a little more mature as a society, as a species, and you now understand that you are beginning to control your reality. You know that it is your creation. So now you can take those predictions with what you call a grain or a pound of salt if you want to, and you can understand that they are simply an offering, an opportunity to decide for yourself whether you wish to buy into the fear that goes along with transformation or whether you wish to buy into the joy that goes along with it.

No matter what occurs on your planet, if you are of a vibration that knows you do not need to shake yourself awake, and if you are willing to wake up now, then you will not be in any way, shape or form in any location that experiences the transformation negatively.

Bashar: Let me tell you something about prediction: There is no such thing as a prediction of the future. There are sensings of the energy that exists at the time the prediction is made. All predictions are predictions of sensings of the energy in the present when the prediction is made. If that energy doesn’t change, the prediction comes to pass. If it does, the prediction is obsolete. If you hear a prediction and you don’t particularly prefer the way the prediction has been interpreted, then your lack of willingness to accept the interpretation will in and of itself have a profound effect on changing the way that the shift itself will be felt.

The prediction in that sense senses that a shift will probably occur. In all likelihood that shift will occur because there is a great deal of momentum and a great deal of timing within it, and it is unlikely that you will not experience a profound and impactful shift even as you are starting to now upon your planet. However, always, always, always, the methodologies by which you experience such profound transformation can be positive or negative.

When the original predictions were made back in what you call Nostradamus’s time, Edgar Cayce’s time, the mindset of the world was very negative. It isn’t as negative now as it used to be. So your energy—the willingness to know, to believe that the transformation can be experienced in a positive way rather than a negative way—that willingness to know has already made a difference, and it will not necessarily need to be experienced as negatively as it would have been had it been experienced 50 or 100 of your years ago.

Bashar: Remember, the reading you are doing regardless of the method you use—astrology or any other tool—the reading you are doing is being made now. You are not making a reading in 1999. You are making a reading now, and the energy of now will always color the idea of the probable future. If you change the energy in the present, you will get another reading. You will interpret it in a different way. It will all of a sudden make itself obvious to you, quote unquote, how you missed this inflection before, how you interpreted that other idea differently before. You will see it in a new way.

And remember, many times the things that you call afflictions in your present state of awareness are not necessarily going to ultimately be called an affliction later on down the line after the change has been made.

Question 16: Harmonizing Energy

Questioner: I’m in need of an aid in which I can harmonize my bodies—a way of being able to harmonize when my vibration speeds up or slows down.

Bashar: I think one way that we gave you was at the very, very beginning of this interaction. What did you feel when you allowed yourself to sigh? Did you feel a little more balanced? Is it sufficient?

Questioner: I need more. I have much more energy than what I feel that I can balance at times.

Bashar: Why do you believe you are given something that is more than you are capable of handling at any given moment? Why would you believe that the universe is that, shall we say, cockeyed?

Questioner: I don’t believe that I was given something that I can’t handle, but I do believe I’ve forgotten how.

Bashar: What has your imagination already come up with as a methodology for handling it?

Questioner: I know that inner peace and all the steps that I need to find that are also the same things that will balance and harmonize.

Bashar: What do you think of the ocean?

Questioner: Vast, nurturing.

Bashar: Do you like to swim? Do you like standing in the ocean water up to your neck? Then do so, and perhaps that will be one of the things that balances you out very nicely—that type of physiological grounding rather than being quite so professorial about the idea of balancing energy. Might I simply suggest that you get yourself a little bit more dirty, that you roll around in the ground a little bit, that you splash into the ocean and grab great clumps of earth and sand in your hands and fling them around. And see if that does something to balance the energy.

Bashar: Take a nice big thick piece of wood and a big strong sturdy nail and a big heavy hammer, and pound that nail all the way through the wood. Most pleasurable? Very pleasurable. You can do that. It will have certain benefits for grounding you. Know that while you’re doing it, with every hammer stroke, with every centimeter that the nail goes into the wood, and with every resonant vibration that the wood gives you, you are truly building a stable foundation.

Question 17: Fear of Parents Dying

Questioner: I have a problem. I’ve had a fear for my whole lifetime of my parents dying. Because of that, I haven’t been able to move far away until this year. I was 26 and still living at home. I was wondering whether or not that had to do with a past life.

Bashar: It has to do with abandonment.

Questioner: I still fear it very much. I’m afraid on one hand that when they die I’m not going to be able to function, and on the other hand something tells me that I won’t be able to function until they die. So I’m very confused.

Bashar: I will consolidate this conversation to some degree by doing something that we rarely do, and this is a recommendation for an actual reading material upon your planet. It is our suggestion that you avail yourself of a particular book that exists in your society. It is called “We Don’t Die.” And then see what you think.

Now do you know that individuals always exist?

Questioner: I know they will exist on the spiritual plane, but not on a physical one. I miss physical things very badly.

Bashar: Do you have a pet? Why had you to leave your dog for your career?

Questioner: Because I knew she’d be happier there with more room to run around.

Bashar: Reverse situation. Parker is you. You are your parents. They knew upon death that if you remained, that is simply where you would be happier. You in a sense have died as far as Parker is concerned. Do you not know that Parker would be happier there? Why not?

The analogy: let us pretend that Parker is now you and that you are your parents. You have left Parker. For all Parker knows, you’re dead. But you know Parker is happy there. That is what you said. If the animal consciousness knows that physical reality is not a boundary, and Parker knows that Parker is still in touch with you, why should Parker miss you? Why should Parker miss you if Parker really believes that Parker is still in touch with you—because you are still in Parker’s reality? Why should Parker miss you if you’re still in Parker’s reality?

Questioner: I see what you’re saying.

Bashar: Well, how does it make you feel? A little better? But you don’t want to feel better?

Questioner: I do want to feel better.

Bashar: You are missing yourself, and all you’re doing is seeing a reflection from the dog whose job it is to be a guide, to reflect the things that are actually going on within you.

The dog knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are always going to be in its reality, but it will act like it misses you to show you that you are the one that feels like something is missing. Now how do you feel?

Questioner: Ridiculous.

Bashar: Congratulations! Congratulations! Expand your definition of life. Nothing ever exists outside of you, and there’s your answer. Straight from the dog’s mouth.