The Art of Channeling

Darryl: Bashar has done two channeling classes before, but never like this. This is the first time that this has ever been done in such a concentrated fashion, so it’s going to be interesting to see what happens. Based on what I know happened in the 10-week channeling class, which is simply once a week, he’s going to obviously attempt to consolidate most of it into about a five or six hour process, so you’re going to be flying.

Uh, enjoy the ride. I’ll be doing some of it because there are things that are more germane for me to cover and take you through than Bashar, but then he’ll probably be doing a lot of it as well. The first part of this, before the first break, is probably mostly what I will cover, and we’ll just sort of start out and see how it goes.

So, is everyone ready? Does anyone need to do anything here or get settled a little bit before we start, or are we all set? Okay, all right.

The first thing very quickly that I would like to do is just as an example, sort of run over… oh, what what… okay, okay. There will be a time both in the part that I’m covering and the part that Bashar is doing for questions, when that time comes, like in a group session, it might be nice to have the remote mic so that we can get everything clearly on the tape, so that when everyone has the tape they can hear the entire conversation. So when the time comes for questions, then the mic will be passed around.

But before that, let’s just very briefly—I usually do this at a lot of the sessions—but I’m not exactly sure who’s familiar with a lot of my background, so I’m just very briefly by way of introduction going to recap how this all started actually for me, and use it as an example to lead into what’s going to happen here for all of you.

After I go over some points, then it’ll become a little bit more interactive because there’ll be some things I want to find out from you in order to facilitate this a little bit better for you, to make sure that you’re getting what you need and want out of this.

But first of all, my experience began, as many of you know, about 23 years ago. I had two UFO sightings over Los Angeles that spurred me toward doing a lot of research in the metaphysical field, and eventually I ran across channeling. I was introduced to a channel, I was invited by the entity in that channel along with other people to attend a channeling class, which I went into not thinking about becoming a channel, but just as a researcher.

What Channeling Is

The meditations, the exercises in that class were for the purpose of getting you in touch with just whatever level of information or energy you wanted to get in touch with, to use however you wanted to use it. And that’s much about what this class is today as well. None of you have to assume that you have to vocal channel like I do in order to get something out of this. This is all going to be for the purpose of applying this energy however you want to, and we’ll cover that in a moment as well.

But after my connection was made and I began to do some research with other channels to figure out how they all became channels, the process really is exceedingly varied and obviously as personal as there are—you know, as many ways to do it as there are people.

The channel that taught me was literally just walking down the street one day and blacked out and came to—fortunately he was with a friend—came to two hours later and had been told that he’d been talking for the last two hours and didn’t remember a thing. That’s how his started. Another channel simply started receiving information in dreams, one thing led to another, and eventually they realized that this was being offered to them and reminded them perhaps of an agreement that they had made to do this. Another channel intentionally went into it, went after it, wanted this to happen.

Again, a lot of times this is recognized at some point in the process—it’s remembered as an agreement that has been made. Now that doesn’t have to be the case. You can decide right here and right now that this is something that excites you and it’s something that you want to do. And I’m sure there are more than enough entities, if that’s the direction you want to go in, who are willing to work with you on this kind of thing. There’s no lack of entities around.

But again, I want to stress that channeling is really just letting more of whatever come through, and it can be more of your own creativity, more of yourself accessing your own higher consciousness, your own inner consciousness. It doesn’t have to involve another entity. But even when it does, or if it does, you still have to realize that what you’re actually accessing is your own energy, your own version of what you believe this connection represents.

You are mirroring, you are resonating at a certain frequency that allows you to match whatever this other idea or entity or place is representative of to you.

The Mechanism of Channeling

One of the first things I want to talk about is just literally, you know, what is the mechanism of channeling in general. No matter how you apply it, whether you’re talking about being a singer, being a painter, being an actor, getting lost in the part, getting lost in the song, getting out of your way and just flowing—which is a channeling state—or whether you are doing what I’m doing, or automatic writing, or psychic functioning, or however you want to use that state.

My understanding of it is, again, it is like a tuning fork. You are going toward an idea, you are pushing yourself toward being a certain frequency of energy, which is what everything is made out of—just energy. And whatever it is you want to achieve is simply represented by a certain bandwidth, a certain channel, a certain frequency of that energy, a certain vibrational rate of that energy.

So however you express it, what you have to really do is you have to strongly identify and start to resonate with that concept.

Hence, simply said: don’t do this if it’s not something you’re going to love doing. This should not be a struggle. And one of the strongest guidelines that you will have in exploring all of this is to determine for yourself what might be the best way for you, by feeling out what does excite you, what doesn’t excite you. You don’t have to force yourself to do any of this. It should not be that way; otherwise, in a sense, you’re really defeating the whole purpose of what channeling is all about.

Always, by all means, take a moment if you find that you’re having some difficulty going ahead with this kind of idea, however you want to express it. Always take a moment to make sure that you are not the one coloring it and making it seem as if it’s more difficult than it needs to be. But at the same time, always make an honest assessment that what it is you think you might need to do, or how it is you think you might need to express it, isn’t always necessarily the case.

Different Forms of Channeling and Symptoms

My own wife, in the beginning, thought that channeling in the way that I channel was something that she wanted to do. It did excite her, she did make some connections that did serve her, but ultimately she realized that that’s not the way she wanted to go for her at that time. Dancing was her channeling, and she realized that that’s really what her excitement was all about. But she was able to use the connections to the energy that she made for her dancing.

So don’t think that you have to force yourself in a certain direction in order to use this information or this energy in the way that best serves you.

One of the things that very often happens—I’m obviously going to be talking a lot about this whole process from my point of view in terms of my experience as an actual vocal channel. I do not in any way, shape, or form assume that what I am going to say was my experience will necessarily be the same experience for you, especially if you’re not going to vocal channel like I do.

However, I have noticed in talking with a lot of other channels that there are sometimes some general experiences that are similar. And sometimes, even if you’re not channeling in the same way, sometimes you will have generally similar experiences in your whole process of preparation and in acclimatizing to the idea of letting more energy through.

Before I go on with this, I want to diffuse the possibility here—this is sort of, not a disclaimer, but I just want to make sure you’re not keying into this in an inappropriate way. Anything I’m about to describe as a symptom or part of the process that I or anyone else has experienced, you should not necessarily assume that you have to experience this in order to have your channeling experience.

A lot of things have changed over time. The first channels, the first modern channels—let’s just say classically most people would say it begins with Jane Roberts and the Seth material in terms of a modern channeling for our day and age, although obviously it’s as old as humanity.

But when we didn’t understand that much about what this was and what the process was all about, a lot of people experienced certain things in their attempt to know what was going on. As each successive generation of channels came about and learned from the last ones, it actually, I’ve noticed, has been getting easier and easier and easier. And some of the things the older channels went through, the newer channels don’t experience.

So if I might mention a certain kind of experience or a certain symptom, don’t assume you have to have it in order for you to channel as cleanly and perfectly as you want to. The mass consciousness’s ability to accept that this is now a reality to a greater degree makes it easier for anyone starting new in using this energy. So you may have a completely different story.

Physical Symptoms and Resistance

A real critical point that I think needs to be covered here is that very often when you allow any kind of new energy in—you’re talking about us having been, you know, in some senses trained and conditioned to think in certain ways—a lot of our training and conditioning causes relative to this new energy a kind of constriction within us. In other words, we’re simply not used to letting this kind of energy through, or sometimes this much energy through.

That constriction, that uncertainty about letting this flow—being uncertain you can handle it, being uncertain what it is—will sometimes allow you in those constrictions to feel the results of those constrictions or resistances. The result, many times not always, of those constrictions and resistances will be such things as physical pain, physical disease, and things like that that will probably be temporary if you keep going and you trust and learn that they are just symptoms of getting used to stretching and allowing more energy to come through.

One of the analogies I often use for what this feels like when Bashar comes through is: it’s like Hoover Dam trying to force its way through a garden hose. You have to learn to widen the conduit in order to let it through more easily. Otherwise, that hose is going to be under a lot of pressure, and in your body that pressure can translate sometimes as physical pain or tension or emotional flip-flops or upset or all sorts of manners of things that are going to turn your reality inside out and upside down and make you wonder if you’re all right and what’s going on.

So if you take the step in this direction and you’re really committed to going as far and fast as you can with this, just be aware that certain things all of a sudden might start happening, and you might all of a sudden go, “Oh my God, what’s wrong with me? There’s something wrong with me.” And you’ll start to learn very quickly that it is actually possibly a symptom of the restrictions and that you have to learn to let those go.

The Channeling Chakra

One of the most common ones we came across, especially for vocal channeling (although again, who knows, it can happen in other areas), is what ultimately has become referred to as the channeling chakra, which is at the back of the neck.

For some reason, when about two weeks before Bashar and his people first made contact in that way, literally I was sitting doing nothing, I was talking to someone in the same way that I’m talking to you now. I hadn’t moved, I hadn’t made any kind of a bizarre motion—my neck just locked and it was an extremely painful experience for about a week and a half, and then ultimately it just let go.

I’ve heard over and over again a lot of channels say they get it in the back of the neck. So if that starts to happen, you start getting fluish things like that, you start feeling like you’re getting sick when the energy starts coming through—a lot of that can be very normal. So just pay attention to it, make sure that it’s not something else, but don’t also be too worried about that. The more you do it, just like anything, with practice you’ll alleviate it, you’ll get used to it, you’ll work out the kinks, you’ll open up the resistances.

One of the reasons that I think we do this—and again, perhaps by telling you this, you may learn to let go of this more quickly than I did or any other channels that are of, let’s say, my particular “generation” did—is that we’ve been taught in this reality that pain is associated with change. You know, when we have such lines as “no pain, no gain” and all this kind of stuff.

Now obviously within certain contexts this is not necessarily a bad thing. Obviously you feel certain changes and sometimes they can be a little uncomfortable, but you know that you’re growing, you know that you’re stretching, and that’s all right. But the idea really that I think is going on here when it gets severe is we’ve really been taught that if we don’t create the pain, we don’t have proof that we’re changing.

Okay, that’s what we really need to let go of. We have to really start learning that we can change as strongly and abruptly as we want to without having to prove to ourselves that we’re changing by giving ourselves pain.

The idea behind this—in doing that, because generally we would never intentionally “give” ourselves pain, in that we are feeling the pain in going through the change, we can point to that and say, “Well look, I can’t be doing this, it must be real, it must be coming from outside myself. It’s proof that it’s not me, it’s not just my imagination, it’s not just something I’m dreaming up—it’s real because I would never have thought to give myself this pain.”

You can let that go. Okay, if you don’t, that’s fine. If it happens that way that you do feel discomfort in some of these transitions, then work with it. Again, the only way to let it transform is to own it and to work with it. But one of the reasons I think we do that is because we constantly think we need to prove that things are going the way we say they’re going, and pain is one of the ways we validate that because usually we don’t create that intentionally for ourselves, so we can point to an outside source, so to speak.

So:

• Because we think change is painful sometimes, that’s why we’ll experience it.
• Because we think it proves that something’s going on and we don’t just have to let people take our word for it, we can show that we’re having these aches and pains.
• And in some ways, an extension of that is that the pain for ourselves can validate to us that we’re changing. In other words, sometimes we don’t think we’ve earned it if we don’t actually somehow suffer through it, so that we can then say, “Hey, you know, I’ve had the School of Hard Knocks, I’ve been there, I’ve done that, I’ve taken my lumps, I have earned now the permission to change because I’ve suffered in getting where I’m getting.”

These and probably a dozen other reasons are sometimes why people will experience great pain especially when dealing with a lot of these other greater energies that are either their higher selves, future selves, or whatever their concept of that is, or in bringing through some other energy or some other entity.

So if you want, by all means remember that this might be one reason why we’re doing that—why we’re experiencing the pain. And if you can let that go, it’s not going to diminish your ability to know that you can make profound change and let this energy through. So I think that’s a very important point to remember.

The Nature of Entity Contact

We’ve talked about the idea technically in a sense of what channeling is. Many people nowadays still think when we’re talking about an entity coming through that this entity is actually inhabiting your body. I don’t believe that that can actually even physically happen, okay? To me, it’s a matter of identification of resonance. You are, as I said, changing your frequency to mirror them, to match them.

Nothing can really occupy you because there really in that sense is no space to occupy—you fill up your space, there’s nothing else that can get in there, there’s no place to get into. So the whole concept of something entering your body is really simply a physical reality euphemism for the idea that you are sort of setting your typical self aside and letting yourself represent a completely different identity.

But while that is in its own way real, you don’t ever have to worry about the idea of being possessed or taken over.

Safety and Protection

And this brings us to another point: a lot of people still ask this very common question—how do you know you’re not going to let something bad come through when you open yourself up to this kind of stuff?

Well, the way you know is that you choose to know that it’s really as simple as making a choice of knowing that there’s only one reason why you’d be doing this at all, and that’s for positive, constructive, creative, beneficial reasons, and therefore that’s the only thing you’re going to attract.

Now, some people say, “Well, you know, you can surround yourself with white light, you can do this, you can do that.” If that’s what works for you, use it. But do understand that fundamentally that’s still coming from your idea about what it is you think you need to do, and that’s simply part of the resonance you’re creating. So whatever tool works for you, by all means use it. Don’t shun them, don’t think you have to be more spiritual and that you don’t have to use these tools. Don’t force yourself to try and be what you think is more spiritual. Go with the flow of your beliefs and make your beliefs work for you in letting this stuff come through.

But by all means, realize that it’s simply a matter of like attracts like. And in most cases from what I’ve experienced, any so-called connection to negative entities is really in most cases nothing more than the channel’s own fears being voiced and personalized and manifested and labeled another entity because the channel is not willing to face the responsibility for those particular fears, and so they project it into the idea that it’s another entity taking over.

That is not an impossibility based on their level of vibration, but in my experience it is extremely unlikely. The whole idea of making a resonant connection in and of itself is an integrative act, which in a sense means it’s a mechanically positive act. Therefore, the whole idea of blending is in some senses just the opposite of even being capable of attracting something negative, which by definition is segregative and domineering.

So try to reconcile that idea within yourself that you don’t even really necessarily need to do anything in particular to make yourself feel safe. Whatever your intention is behind doing this is what’s going to determine what kind of things you’re going to contact or are even capable of contacting—because whatever you’re not the vibration of, you’re invisible to that reality and they’re invisible to you. You cannot interact unless you have an underlying belief that for some reason you need to attract that kind of drama in your life.

Some people do. Again, if you do attract that kind of drama, make it work for you, be creative with it, be imaginative with it, and make it work for you however you want to use this energy.

You will find, I think as I have and other channels have, that when you begin this process you will constantly test yourself. And that means you will constantly check to make sure that you really believe this is happening, you really still want to do this, you really still can do this. You’ll just find now and then that you’ll test yourself.

And one of the ways that I found that I and others have tested ourselves over and over again is because we were born here like anyone—we’ll get caught up sometimes in a little bit of an ego game. And that is: “Oh, look how far I’ve come, I know how to handle this, it’s going fine, I know everything there is to know about channeling.” As soon as I think that, I get smashed by a 10-ton mallet.

Okay, you will constantly test yourself, and you have to allow yourself—one of the greatest keys that I’ve discovered in making sure that you are always staying somewhat balanced in this is to drop any assumption or expectation about what the channeling is supposed to do.

Okay, bottom line, the simplest way to say it is people have an expectation about what this means to bring this kind of energy through, and they can get caught up in the idea of what it represents and what is supposed to happen in order for them to believe they’re functioning correctly.

One of the best things you can do for yourself and one of the ways you can treat yourself most kindly in this entire process—no matter what you may think you’re connecting to, no matter how omniscient or omnipotent it’s supposed to be—it’s okay for you to all of a sudden in the middle of any kind of channeling, it’s okay to realize you don’t know what you’re supposed to do, you don’t know what you’re supposed to say, you don’t know what the information is supposed to be. It’s okay that the entity doesn’t know. You have to let it be all right that you just don’t know.

And if that’s what happens at that moment, let it go. That is one time—sometimes one of the strongest tests you give yourself is because when you start thinking that there’s got to be something there or you’ll look like you don’t know what you’re doing, that’s when you really get into trouble and you’ll start bringing things through that are truly imbalanced and inaccurate.

So if all of a sudden there’s just nothing coming through—there’s just nothing coming through, and that’s all you have to do about it. So please don’t push yourselves faster than you really need to go with this.

Remember very, very importantly, especially if you begin a journey of this kind of channeling and especially if you decide to go public with it—again, there is no point in doing this at all, there’s no point in the idea of helping others, if you do not treat yourself with the same respect.

So don’t overtax yourself, don’t overwork, don’t think you have to perform, don’t think you have to do this for other people. Create your own schedule for this. If you don’t treat yourself well, if you don’t take time to be who you want to be aside from whatever service you think you may be providing in channeling, you’re not going to be of much service because you will wear yourself out.

And even though in time the energy can be energizing, at first it might be tiring because you may not be used to it. In time, it ought to be energizing. If over a long period of time it is not energizing, there’s something there you need to look at—there might be more resistance than you think, there might be more definitions getting in your way than you think.

But if it’s not something that gives you a chance to be yourself and take time for yourself and do the things that you want to do to know that you’re living a life here on Earth, then you’re going too far. Because as Bashar said, service is not servitude.

There was a time, about the second or third year of my channeling, when I was channeling almost every day. It was just too much. I was literally almost never here, I was not grounded in that sense, I felt burnt out because I was not living my life. In the channeling experience as I experience it, time is very collapsed. I only experience about half the amount of time that you do. So it was like I’d wake up in the morning, I’d shut my eyes, I’d open my eyes, it would be night—I’d have no day. I wasn’t living a life here.

So I learned to regulate, pull back, and say, “Okay, you know, once a week, twice a week, whatever—that’s what I’m comfortable with, that’s okay to do.” So if you go this particular route, please don’t push yourself in that sense. No one can demand that you help them in that way; otherwise, you’re not going to wind up being of much help.

Multiple Entities and Personality Fragments

One of the things that happens very often, especially in this kind of channeling, is that people will start channeling and all of a sudden they’re channeling this entity and that entity and this entity, and next week they’re channeling 27 different entities. It’s not that that cannot happen, but in my experience that’s exceedingly rare.

The idea is that that may happen now and then, but this is a symptom—it’s a good symptom, actually—but many people mistake it for something that it’s not. Again, discernment is important. You have to decide that this is what this really is.

But again, in my experience and looking at other channels, you’ll find quite commonly that when people just begin, they’re relatively new, and all of a sudden they’re channeling 50 million different entities and this Federation and that Federation, and everyone’s changing hats at the drop of a hat—you’ll usually find that what that is is all the different fragments of our own personality that we have been forced to have in our consciousness for our history, both personal and collective, are starting to come to the surface so they can reintegrate.

Okay, so many times what may seem to be, you know, “Akbar from Dimension 12” and all of a sudden then “Blue Lady from the Lagoon” over here and then this and that—not to discount anyone—are portions of our own personality that we need to recognize archetypally and symbolically as things we need to integrate into our own understanding of who we are.

Once that starts to happen, you will usually find as part of the natural process that it’ll become less and less and less and less entities, and you will usually—if you’re dealing with another entity—you’ll find yourself starting to settle more down to three, or two, or one, or something along that line, with maybe a visit now and then.

But realize that that’s a very typical symptom, and that’s really mostly all it is. Usually again, there may always be exceptions, but I’m talking in generalities—it’s usually all the fragments of yourself coming back together, making themselves known, reclaiming their autonomous position within you. Because you’ve been fragmented, a lot of these have been suppressed, never expressed for a long time. They’re claiming their right to be announced as real within you—which doesn’t mean they’re not real—but mostly it has to do with who you are as an entity yourself and a consciousness.

And once that begins to integrate, you’ll either find that one of them will become predominant, or something else altogether different once you’ve made the integration will announce itself and come in.

On the issue of announcement: when I first received the connection, there was a word there—the word was Bashar. As I’ve said, it’s not his name, it’s an Arabic word. That’s partly my background, which is part of the reason why it might have been chosen. I don’t speak Arabic, I have no idea what the word meant—it means “messenger,” I’ve been told.

That doesn’t always happen. Sometimes there are reasons for getting a name, sometimes there are reasons for not getting a name. So if again you have the expectation or the assumption that you’re moving in this direction, you get some kind of what feels like a contact, you can ask: “Should there be a name? Do you want a name?” Or if it’s not there automatically, then you can ask.

If no name comes, please don’t think you have to have a name in order for it to be valid. Again, as I always say at the beginning of these things, the information is what’s valid. It doesn’t always really matter where it’s coming from because you already go in knowing that you’re doing this for a positive intention, you know you’re going to bring through stuff that’s going to be of service somehow.

So you don’t have to worry that, “Well, if I don’t have a name, then who knows what this is—maybe it’s just me, and then maybe that means it’s no good.” Please don’t worry about the idea of having to have a name. If you make that kind of a connection, that isn’t always important and sometimes can actually be counterproductive in certain circumstances.

Assumptions and Expectations

Along that line also, please remember—back to the assumption of, you know, it should be this, it should be that, it should come through this way. If somebody asks a question, I should be able to get the information for them, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Sometimes you have to realize that the whole concept of channeling in that way and being of service in that way means that you will give the person intuitively, instinctively—you will let the information come through that really actually serves what that person needs or wants to hear.

Sometimes, many times, a person—like going to a healer (healing is a form of channeling energy)—they will go to a healer only for the purpose of proving to someone or themselves they cannot be healed. So the healer who does not affect a change in them or allow them to affect a change in themselves may all of a sudden erroneously think, “Oh, you know, I’m a failure, I failed, I couldn’t heal them.” But that may be exactly what that person wanted because they have pride in not being able to be healed for some reason.

In that sense, they attracted themselves to someone with whom they could work where they could show, “Look, I’m beyond help,” and they have actually walked away with what it is they came to get—which is proof that they cannot be healed. So in that sense, you have served them.

So don’t assume that you always have to be everything to everyone and always have the assumption in your head that it’s got to go this way or that. That’s not always the case, and that’s just one example of how that can go.

Why Are You Here? (Group Interaction)

Okay, we’ll get into other kinds of labels and things later. Right now I think it’s important to sort of begin a little bit of interactivity. Now I’m not going to ask each and every one of you all these questions—it would take too long—but I will ask you really one question, and I would like an answer from each and every one of you. Not because I need to hear it, but because you need to hear yourselves say it. And this is an important step.

I want to know why you’re here. Why do you want to be in a channeling class? How do you want to channel? Why do you want to do that? Okay, why are you here?

Participant 1: I was in channeling before and it helped me a lot, and I would like to become a vocal channel to help other people.

Participant 2: I’d like to have my channel open so that I can be receptive to whatever energies.

Participant 3: I think the core idea for me is to facilitate change here. I’ll most likely use it in writing and some voice.

Participant 4: I want to expand my channeling capacity. I’ve done it on paper mostly for about 10 or 15 years, and I have received such tremendous value and help in my growth from it that I want to be able to offer it to others either as a service in one form or another, or as a teacher. And of course to transform the world, help a little bit change the world.

Participant 5: I’m just utterly fascinated by the experience of channeling. It’s just really excites me.

Participant 6: The reason for me, having channeled before knowingly and unknowingly in providing hypnosis therapy—I feel this will be a valuable tool to be of service. And whether I take this to the next step and go public or not depends upon the results I receive.

Participant 7: I really don’t have any expectations right now, but I do know that I’ve always had a passion for it and that I’d love to use it in the healing field.

Participant 8: I’m just wanting for expanding. I know I channel at night for some reason—I don’t really remember it—but I want to just find out what it opens up to me.

Participant 9: I don’t know, it just sounded really fun and exciting, and also for whatever my highest good will be in whatever manner—no idea.

Participant 10: I was very drawn to be here today, and I just feel it would be for my highest good, which I feel would be for other people’s highest good in that sense.

Participant 11: I guess it just really excites me.

Participant 12: I’m interested in developing my creative capacity. I’ve worked as a musician and experienced altered states of consciousness while playing music—drugs don’t count, don’t even need them—and I’m working on sculpting now.

Participant 13: I recently had a very strong energy merge with the energy that I’m working with, so I think that this will help me just bring it on through.

Participant 14: I wanted to learn about it so I could access information for me or others who need it. I don’t know if I would want to be a vocal channel, but we’ll see.

Participant 15: I’ve been channeling in a lot of different ways since I was a child that I never really understood, and I always felt like there were beings or entities or something that were always trying to communicate with me. So I just like to be better at that and to be able to open up my channels more.

Participant 16: I’ve always been interested in anything metaphysical, almost drawn that way. But I would read books on channeling and I’d almost envy people in California because they’d always have those groups to go to, and there weren’t any in Las Vegas. So I was just so excited to be a part of this that I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I just am really glad to be here to start the first group in Vegas.

Participant 17: I’m here just to better myself—that’s about it. I have no other expectation.

Participant 18: It’s always been very exciting to me, and I do a lot of healing work. I think it would help me to expand my energy to give me more focus and be more creative.

Participant 19: I think what I’d like to do is just be able to access positive and good information for myself mostly, and then I would really love to be a writer and have some really positive energy come through in writing.

Participant 20: I just wanted to find more clarity in answers that I have and in the messages that I receive kind of on a monthly basis, and just try to open my understanding of those.

Participant 21: I’m also following my excitement, and I’ve been pursuing the healing arts and I wanted to expand with the channeling perhaps help other people and myself with that.

Participant 22: I’d like to be able to control things that do happen already along these lines.

Participant 23: My very first experience was learning about Edgar Cayce, and when I read much about Cayce I always was infatuated with how did he do this. Over a period of 25 years I guess I looked here and there, and when this came up I just said, “Okay, now I’ll meet my guide.”

Participant 24: I’m just kind of excited about the idea of channeling—it seems to be like a natural progression of maybe in the last 15, 20 years studying some of these metaphysical ideas. This channeling seems to be exciting, seems like it’d be fun, natural progression. Also in playing a game that I’ve played over the years, I’ve sensed the idea—especially when I was more intense, more hours per day at it—I’ve definitely had the altered state experience. Didn’t have a label for it back then. Understand from what I’ve learned in the last several years especially that this would be a form of channeling, and was excited by that at the time.

Participant 25: I would like my channel to be open and clear that I may better enhance my life and those that I interact with.

Participant 26: I’ve been a clear audience for about four years and it’s revolutionized my life. It’s completely reversed the spiral that was headed in one direction or another into one that has been so fulfilling and so enriching that I’ve come almost committed to the idea that any way we can expand this naturally innate gift that all of us possess so that more of us use what’s natural to us in a coherent way—any way we can do that, any kind of format that we can create to encourage it, I’m 1,000% behind it. Your work has always really resonated with me, I’ve always felt very trusting of it, and to have you do more of this in Las Vegas is really the primary goal in my end of things—is to see you do more work in a larger way yourself.

I’m going to ask a series of general questions that you need to answer just within yourselves and have these discussions within yourself in your own time. We’re not going to go around and do this, but these are just things that you need to think of and to consider. And I’m sure that this is nowhere near the list of all the questions that need to be asked, but we’re going to do some of these.

Questions for Self-Reflection

Ask yourself this—this is in and of itself sometimes an interesting exercise, so you may want to play with this one and the answers that you’ve just given. In that you have some degree of certainty about the direction that you think you’re going in:

1. How do you know that? How do you know that that’s the direction you want to go in? This will help push you deeper into where these pieces of information, where these feelings come from. And that’s part of the first level of exploring what’s going on here and opening up the conduit—is to actually make a self-referential question. Now that you’ve made a statement and you’ve heard yourself make it—“This is what I’m here for, this is what I want to do”—ask yourself, how do you know that?

2. What do you expect to happen? Knowing that there’s a negative expectation and also just the positive idea of what do you want—what do you want to have happen with this? As your idealized vision or picture of what you think this is for.

3. Are you all right with feeling silly about the way this might come through? Because sometimes these things come through in really unexpected ways, and sometimes you may feel very silly—but you’re going to realize you got to let it out.

4. On that same note: Are you okay with feeling different? And I mean in this sense, different from what most people typically think of as being “normal.” In many of these cases, not that every form of channeling stands out as being that different obviously, but in some cases you don’t know how far or fast you’re going to go with some of this. You may have to get used to the idea that people are going to look at you differently, and you have to be okay with that if you want to let this continue.

5. Are you aware of, to the best of your knowledge, and ready for whatever you deem to be the responsibility that goes with channeling? Whatever that means to you. And again, it doesn’t mean burden, doesn’t mean blame—but the responsibility because there’s a responsibility in the consequence to everything that you do.

6. Are you willing to travel or even relocate if that’s the direction your channeling excites you to go? Obviously when you do find something that’s exciting to you, usually you don’t have a problem following it. But sometimes it may surprise you as to what your excitement is, and you may hesitate and you may wonder that you really want to do this or not. You may find yourself questioning it at that point. So be ready to realize that it may make profound changes not only in just your personal behavior but in your entire environment and where it is you need to wind up in order to do whatever it is you really need to do. Some people will find that they can only do the thing they want to do in certain places, and that means maybe you have to go there, trusting that that will work if you do.

7. Are you willing to do the channeling for its own sake without needing others to accept the information or even believe in channeling at all? Are you doing it just because this is who you are? There should be no other reason.

8. And in some senses, last and maybe most importantly because this is the whole process itself: Are you willing to change?

Practical Considerations

Now I’m going to cover just a few questions that are more business than personal. And again, some of this most of this has to do with the idea of going into vocal channeling, but again you never know.

Are you first of all interested and willing to do this professionally? Because that could come up—whatever it is, whatever form it takes.

Are you comfortable charging for your service? Why or why not?

You know, one of the typical old arguments that you hear—maybe you don’t hear so much anymore but that used to come up—is someone would hear a channeling and they would come up and they would very angrily say, “Why are you charging for this? This information should be free. Everyone should have it.” Well, that’s true—the information is free, get it yourself. Okay, they are not paying for the information; they are paying for the fact that they are not allowing themselves to get it and want you to provide the service of getting it for them.

So please don’t be confused by that idea that the information is supposed to be free and that means that you’re not supposed to charge for providing a service. Okay, it’s a little weird catch-22.

What is your understanding of copyright law with regard to the information that you might bring through for people?

Since 1978, copyright law clearly states: anything that is fixed in form as soon as it is originated is automatically copyrighted and owned solely by the person who originated it. So anything that all of a sudden is on tape, written down—any form that is fixed—you will own the copyright. That’s it. You want all the rights—you have to in writing license them specifically away.

Every single right is its own legal right. In other words, if I make a tape, as soon as it’s on the tape it’s copyrighted, I own it. If you come along and say “I want to publish your stuff,” okay, I can license that right to you—it has to be done in writing. I have to sign it, you have to sign it. However, if I do not also license the right for you to distribute it, you can only publish it, you can’t distribute it. One thing does not automatically lead to the next. Copyright law has very specific statements about every single process of the dissemination of information, and every single part has to be licensed completely separately in writing. Verbal does not count. There is no such thing as the granting of a verbal copyright—it doesn’t exist.

Are any of these questions either uncomfortable, or are they bringing up any issues or fears within you? That’s something also to look at.

Questions

Now okay, now before we go to the first exercise—which I myself will conduct—it will take just a few minutes. Now just to see, are there any specific questions that any of you have for me in terms of exploring the whole concept of channeling? Anything that right now you’re a little uncertain about or want to talk about briefly or feel you need to ask in order to go ahead?

Participant: Basically, when we are in these exercises and meditations for Bashar to perhaps like, if there are a certain amount of us or even just me in particular that is maybe not doing it to the best of our ability or didn’t get the instructions or understand… well, I’m hoping that he would be able to plug in to what we are doing.

Darryl: Yes, he will and help make changes. He will. I mean, remember that one of the primary things that’s going on in the channeling—especially this kind of channeling as he does it—is not only are you hearing the translation of words, you’re actually receiving energy. Match that frequency is what you’re being asked to do. The feeling you get of him is the energy you need to match to become like what you imagine he is. If you will match that state, you will get everything you need to get and exactly the way you need to get it.

That doesn’t still yet mean that you may not walk out of here with a little bit of confusion, but the idea is that it will be planted within you. As long as you’re doing the best you can, everything will be retained and will come out when it needs to. That’s another thing you don’t need to worry about. You’re here—it is assumed that if you’re in any way, shape, or form paying attention, you will get what you need. And if you need to get the rest of it later, you will. You have the tape, you can play it again, you can just go over it in your mind, you can just practice. And again, it’s like playing the piano—you’ll get better as you go along and you’ll know that you’ve got everything.

Participant: When you go into the altered state and then come out of it, how do you absorb the information?

Darryl: I receive the information as direct telepathic understanding of a concept—not the specifics of necessarily the words. For me it’s like a daydream. In the same way that if you are focused on some kind of a daydream, you’re having a picture. Sometimes I will get abstract or concrete pictures of what’s being talked about that represent the symbology. And if you were focused so strongly on the experience of the daydream that somebody walks in the room and goes, “Hello,” and you just don’t hear it—for me it’s like that. I get the essence of the concept.

A good example of this is as follows: one time Bashar talked to someone about three different subjects that took in time half an hour. I only had one picture for the entire half hour, and that was the image—the archetypal image of Ben Franklin’s kite with the key and the electricity. The three subjects were the idea of the freedom of the spirit, the whole concept of electricity, and the concept of knowledge which is represented by the key. That one symbol made me understand telepathically all the principles underlying those three conversations that took a half hour. But in one split second, that symbol said it all to me and I understood it and didn’t have to pay attention to the conversation.

So that’s how I experience that idea. So 14 years of the wisdom he imparts becomes your wisdom in his own way—yes, to whatever degree my life needs to extract or access it.

But I can miss it. A ridiculous example of how easy it is to miss an obvious outlet is his idea of if you’re following your excitement, you take advantage of every single opportunity that exists in your reality and take some action on it that’s representative of that. Some time ago we were attempting to advertise an idea or a project and let people know that such a thing existed. We did everything we could think of to get the information out there. A friend walks up and says, “Did you put an ad in the paper?” No. Stupidly simple and obvious—so simple we didn’t pay attention to it. But that is what got a response and was the only thing we did that got the response. So yeah, I can miss it.

Participant: In taking responsibility—if maybe I give an example so you’ll catch my drift. At times I’ve worked with detainees, and it would become like a three-way conversation, and after I was finished I wouldn’t know how it worked. Meaning that while I’m with the person that’s under hypnosis, I’m getting information that they’re supposed to know, that actually they’re supposed to be telling me. So is that a form of channeling?

Darryl: Yes, it is. And in the issue of responsibility, you always have to make sure that you are not taking responsibility for them in terms of giving them what you think they should know, but really watching for signs that allow it to be all right or to know that you’ve been given permission to give them certain things. I mean, it’s always fine to help, but many times you can actually hinder by giving someone something that you may think is helpful because you think from some lofty ideal that, “Well, they’re supposed to know this and I’m supposed to tell them,” and that’s not always the case.

You have to have real discernment about when you’re taking responsibility for someone as opposed to when you’re being responsible to them in terms of delivering that information. Now in some senses, that’s some of what Bashar does when he explains that when he has these conversations with us, he imposes a block on himself so that he will automatically not even have to think about stepping on our toes. If there’s something that he is not supposed to tell us that would be an interference or “spill the beans” in some way that we don’t want him to, he doesn’t know the information—he blocks it intentionally so he won’t even slip and let it know what it is. He’s always checking to make sure you have given him permission—real permission—to say some things to you that may be seen as taking responsibility for your duty to find those things out yourself.

So that’s a very—no pun intended—gray area that you have to be very conscientious of at every given moment. But yes, you can experience that as a form of channeling.

Participant: I had a lot of problems with that then. The only way that I decided to break even, if you will, is to trust in that information and see that’s all I could do.

Darryl: Sometimes it can be that way. I mean, sometimes you are given information specifically for the purpose of delivering it to the person, or at least suggesting that it’s something that they might want to think about or consider—“Did you look at it this way? Did you think about or consider this?” You can also go from the premise that if you are having difficulty with that discernment, then make the statement: “I will get no information—like Bashar does—I will get no information that is not appropriate to at least say that I’ve gotten.” And therefore you can impose the same kind of block on yourself that Bashar does, and that way if you get something, then you know it’s okay to at least mention, as long as you don’t put the expectation into it that they’re supposed to pay attention.

That’s also the idea of taking responsibility for someone—that they’ve got to listen to you. So you can say, “Okay, from now on I know that if I get something, that means if I get it, it’s okay to say, ‘Hey, you know, this was coming through my mind—what do you think?’” And if you leave it at that and then leave it up to them to decide what of that information they want to incorporate, then you have taken responsibility for yourself and been completely responsible to them without taking responsibility for them.

Participant: Funny part about that scenario—there is a lot of times when I would do it after the night is over and everything, on the way home my wife would say, “Where in the hell did you get all that stuff?”

Darryl: Sure. I don’t. I mean, remember—we all already channel. We all already channel. This class is for the purpose of simply adding some perspective, some focus. In many ways, even like you said, letting you know that you may already be doing it. And in many cases I find that all people have to do is be reminded of moments in their lives when they have done it, and really all you have to do is go back to that state. And everything that I’m going to tell you here today and everything that Bashar is going to give you as an exercise is actually all for that purpose: letting yourself be okay with remembering when you have done it, going back to that state, recognizing that that’s your natural state, and that that’s really all you have to do—and you will do whatever needs to come through perfectly.

The Walk Through the Forest Exercise

So that’s to go through this because it involves visualization, imagination, and again please don’t worry if you “can’t” visualize—you all will get the information however you need to. I’ve had people, and Bashar has had people say, “Oh, you know, I can’t visualize,” and within moments Bashar can prove to them that it’s a very easy thing—then they always do it. So you know, don’t worry about how it comes to you. How you get it is how you need to get it. If that needs to change, it will. So just follow along and get involved in the actual exercise.

Does everyone here—is there someone in the bathroom or do you know? Oh, okay. Tap still going.

All right. Now some of you may or may not even be familiar with this. This is an exercise that actually was created here on Earth in psychology. But even if you’ve been through it before, it’s different every time because we change. So if you’re somewhat familiar with this, treat it as if you’ve never done it before because many things may be different.

What I’m going to do is I’m going to take you through a series of visualizations of things that you will imagine, and I will not explain in any way, shape, or form at first what it is you’re seeing or what it is you should see. I’m just going to give you the most general suggestion about what it is that you need to look at. After we’re through, I will go back and I will explain the general symbology of everything that we talked about. The explanation will give you—ideally—some concept of how you function, how you see things, how you operate, so that this can give you some insight into how you interpret the concepts of reality and definitions, which will help you open up to the idea of receiving or making connections with potentially different interpretations of reality, or using and acknowledging the way you go about things in a stronger, clearer way that may help you bring things through more easily.

Because sometimes we can be confused about how we actually do things in life. We may not know how we see things. We may think we see things in one way. This exercise may show you that you actually see things in a different way and actually prefer to do it differently than you may have been taught to think you do.

So everyone, get comfortable, close your eyes or whatever you want to do. This is called “A Walk Through the Forest.”

The Forest

The first thing I would like you to imagine is simply a forest of any kind whatsoever. Make it your forest, your favorite forest of any kind. Once you have somehow in your mind a picture of this forest that you’re standing at the edge of or in the middle of or wherever you are, I want you to see what time of day or night it is that you prefer it to be.

I want you to imagine what the weather is, what the temperature is—is it hot, is it cold, is it dry, is it wet, is it foggy? What is it? What feels best to you in this exercise?

The Path

Once you have created the environment—now in general you have the forest, you have time of day, you have the type of climate—I want you to see in some way, shape, or form some kind of a route or path that you will take through this forest. However you want to interpret that, it’s simply the concept of how will you be able to get to walk through this forest or go through this forest. Is there a path? What does it look like?

When you decide whatever this path is, begin to move along it. However it is you are moving along it—by whatever means you decide is best for you—move along this path or start moving through the forest.

As you are now moving through this forest, also let any changes that seem natural adjust themselves. Let the changes occur naturally. Don’t try to hold on or fixate that it has to be one way or the other—just let it be natural.

The Wall

As you move through this environment, the first thing you come to in the forest is some kind of a wall. What does this wall look like, and what do you do?

The Bear

If you have decided some way to continue through the forest—if you have—don’t force yourself to if you haven’t. But if you have, the next thing you come across in the forest is a bear. What kind of bear? What does it look like? And when you come across this bear, what happens and what do you do?

The Key

Let yourself experience this. Assuming now that you can continue, you next in your journey through your forest come upon some type of key—either on the ground or wherever it may be. What does this key look like and what do you do?

The Book

The next thing in your journey that you encounter in the forest somewhere, somehow, however that seems best for you, is a book. What does this book look like? What do you do?

The Coin

As you continue your journey, if you do, the next thing you discover is a coin. What does this coin look like and what do you do?

The Box

As you continue along, if you do, the next thing you discover is some kind of a box or container. Some kind. What does this box or container look like? What do you do, and what happens when you do it?

The Cup

As your journey continues to unfold, you next come upon some kind of a cup or drinking utensil. What does this cup or drinking utensil look like, and what do you do with it—if anything at all?

The Water

Proceeding further, you next discover some type of water—a body of water of some type, some form. What does it look like, and what do you do when you come upon it?

The Structure

If you have gone this far and if you continue, you finally then come to some kind of a structure or dwelling in the forest. What kind of a structure is it? If it is even a dwelling, what kind of a dwelling is it? What does it look like? What do you do?

If and only if you decided to go inside—if that is even possible—what does the inside look like? How do you feel about it? What do you do if you decided to do that at all?

Interpretation of the Walk Through the Forest

I get to tell you how psychologically twisted you all are.

Okay, now here is generally what these things represent. Obviously there will be different degrees of specificity based on your own personal specifics, but in general:

The Forest

The forest itself simply represents how you view your journey in this life—what you think of basically being here on the Earth in physical reality. So the kind of forest that it is, the density of the forest, the spareness of the trees or the thickness of the trees, the kind of foliage, how green, how dry, whether lush, whether sparse—you know, all these things in general have to do with your particular attitude about physical reality, how you see it, potentially how you see it in your life, how you experience the idea of being here, what it means to you as an experience.

Day or Night

The day or the night—in some senses again, and this please again remember does not necessarily exclude the opposite—but whether you chose it to be day or whether you chose it to be night in general means you may be having a proclivity toward the expression of either a more masculine (day) or feminine (night) energy. Either more assertive, more receptive, more expression, more intuition, more physicality, more non-physicality—that kind of idea as to whether it is day or night in your approach to life energetically.

Temperature

The temperature again has to do with the idea mostly of the emotional temperament that you experience or feel that life represents to you—the idea of hot dry, hot wet, cold dry, cold wet. Was it foggy? Ambiguous, confusing? Was it relatively normal, comfortable, easy to get through? That kind of idea in general—the emotional temperament that you believe life contains or you experience life to hold for you.

The Path

The path in general again is sort of representative of the most natural way that you actually want to make your way through life. Now some people when they hear this—“Okay, you know, pick a path”—you’ll find some people will not actually see any kind of a particular path, or they may see a dirt path, or they just be natural and they can just sort of get through the trees. Some people have just said, “Yeah, super highway—I’m in a car, boom.” Right? That’s my way through the forest. You can see that is how they are in life—they’re just straight through, get out of my way—that’s how they treat life.

On the other hand, conversely, you can also have a person that says, “Well, you know, I’m really in a hurry, I want to get there, I want to get there”—but when they pick their path, they pick a nice meandering, wandering path. That is showing you the way you would more naturally want to go through life. So whatever path you have chosen can be representative of either what you are doing, or what you rather would do, or what might be best for you. You have to decide here based on your own reflection and retrospection about this exercise as to which one of these it means for you—because there’s polarity all through this—but these are the general ideas of how to look at these symbols.

The Wall

The wall represents in general how you treat obstacles in life. Some people will see just a small crumbling little wall that they have no problem getting over at all. Sometimes they’ll see it as being sort of interesting like a ruin and they may want to explore for a little while. This may be representative of your attitude for how you handle the idea of what you perceive to be some kind of an obstacle—are you fascinated with it? Is it no problem, can you jump over it? Or is it a huge steel Wall of China that’s insurmountable, you can’t get around it, there’s just nothing you can do? Some people actually have seen themselves dissolve through the wall, no matter how impenetrable it is.

So again, the idea of the wall is in general it represents what your usual first response or reaction is to what you perceive to be a challenge or an obstacle—how you deal with that, your method of dealing with that idea.

And remember that in doing this, you can refine any of these things and change them to be more like what you would rather have as a response by using these symbols and changing them. You can actually change your approach to these things and find that you can actually change how they affect you in life.

The Bear

The bear represents in general how you deal with fears in your life and the unexpected and the unknown—how it comes up on you. Again, some people will see little cuddly baby bears, some people will see huge giant grizzlies that are about to devour them—anything in between. This usually represents again your first response or first reaction to the idea of in general what you as a being are capable of and potentially can use to relate to the idea of fears, or how you do relate already to the idea of the unexpected and what you are afraid of.

The Key

The key in general represents how you treat the concept or how you view the concept of knowledge in your life. What’s it worth to you? The key represents knowledge in general. Is it a golden key? Is it an old rusted key? Was it in the dirt? Was it hanging from a tree? All these add to the symbology in general of how you treat the value or not of the concept of knowledge, or how accessible you believe the idea of knowledge is to you.

The Book

The next object was the book. The book generally represents the concept of self-revelation or self-communication, or communication in general. How you treat the idea of how easy it is to get ideas and information across—either to yourself or to others. How you value or not the idea of information.

And again, when I say “or not,” that doesn’t necessarily mean a negative. Sometimes information doesn’t necessarily mean that much to you—in other words, you can say whatever you need to say, it’s not that critical that you have to say it exactly this way or that way, you could be efficient about it. That could represent itself as a very streamlined little pocketbook or something like that, as opposed to seeing a big leatherbound volume encrusted in jewels, which can represent the idea of the valuing of information. Or on the negative, it can represent the idea of spending too much time thinking that maybe you need to be ornate in describing things or you won’t be understood.

Again, you have to look at the symbol for what it may mean to you, but the book in general is self-revelation or communication.

The Coin

The coin is generally representative of self-worth. What you believe your connection to the whole concept of your self-worth is—do you feel you are able to exchange yourself in this reality for value? And also the polarity of heads and tails—how you view that whole idea.

The Box

The box or the container is generally representative of the idea of how you feel about gifts in life. Do you feel that life contains gifts for you? Is there something there or not? Is it a treasure chest? Is it just a small container? Is it empty? Is it full? What do you do with it? Do you open it? Do you leave it there?

This is your representation of the idea of receiving—receiving the gifts of the infinite. Are there surprises in your life in this way? Do you feel you receive gifts in this way, packages, presents? This is all representative of the idea of packages and presents—either the idea of being thrilled or surprised in a positive way, or disappointed, let down in a negative way with regard to your ability to receive from the infinite.

The Cup

This is always a big one. The cup represents how you view love in your life.

Now again, there are positive and negatives even to the positive and negative images. Somebody might think, “Oh well, you know, I saw this beautiful jewel-encrusted chalice, so I must hold love in high regard.” Yes, that can be so. At the same time, that kind of a representation of love could also mean it’s not grounded, it’s too fantastic, it’s too fantasy-oriented, it’s not real. So you have to really understand that even a chalice can have positive and negative connotations, and even a small tin cup can have positive and negative connotations.

But it’s how you view the idea and how you treat the idea of love in your life—your relationship to it, relationships with others, love in all its forms, your relationship to it. Yes, of course relationships, but also just the whole concept of what do you think about the whole process and concept of love and your ability to receive and give.

The Water

The body of water—pond, stream, river, ocean, lake, whatever it is—generally represents your sexuality or sensuality in life. So the idea of whether you just walked around it, whether you stuck your toes in it, whether you dove in, whether you didn’t want to come out—has to do with basically your relationship to the concept of how you feel about yourself as a sensual or sexual being. Are you comfortable or uncomfortable with these ideas of your sexuality, sensuality, and that portion of your relationship to yourself and to others?

The Structure

The structure represents your basic view of what you consider the process of death to be, or the end of your life—where you think you’re going to wind up, where you think you’re going to go ultimately, transcendence in that sense, another realm, another reality. It represents the concept of death.

If you went inside the structure, if you did, then that in and of itself is actually the concept of the afterlife—what you view the afterlife to be. The structure itself is actually the transition of death. The interior is how you view or relate to or define in general the afterlife, of what you assume it’s going to be like, or whether you’re even ready to experience that now.

Sometimes people will actually not enter the structure—they’ll just look at it. And that can either mean again positive or negative: they may be afraid to go in, or they just may simply know, “It’s not my house, I don’t live there.” So that means in some senses they know they’re still living their life, they’re not ready to enter that phase, they’re not even looking at it—it’s not something that they have to look at. It can be for again a positive or negative reason.

Some people say, “Oh yeah, that’s my house.” Some people say, “Hey, this is really familiar.” To other people, it’s totally unfamiliar. So this has to do with your concept of how you relate to death, how you relate to the afterlife.

Okay, these again are generalities, but it gives you some idea of how you are composed as a personality. This is specifically about the personality view of life. It doesn’t really have that much to do with your essential spirit per se, except what you infuse into your personality from that. But this is more telling about the definitions, the components that you have been brought up with—how you look at these life symbols, how you relate to them—and to decide whether or not you like the way you relate to these things, or whether you’d really need to work on this and make some changes in these areas.

So that’s a Walk Through the Forest. And in dealing with this, it’ll help refine the tool that you are, so that the more work you do in adjusting these symbols or getting in touch with why you picked the symbol that you did and learning to relate to it or to change it as you want, will help you become a clearer instrument for any kind of new energy. Because then you will be aligned with the symbols of yourself—how you see yourself in all these aspects of your life—and it’ll be much easier for other energy to come and fit into who you’ve created yourself to be in a much clearer state.