The One

THE NATURE OF THE OVERSOUL

Participant: I’d like to start with a question about the oversoul. I’ve been listening to talk about that concept a little bit, and I was wondering if you can clarify a little bit and talk a bit more to us about just the concept of the oversoul and how it connects to the individual souls, how different oversouls kind of interact or connect to each other, and more specifically for me, I’m interested in knowing something about the state of each oversoul—what it’s made of, where it exists, if there’s a physical place where it exists.

Bashar: The oversoul is a level at which consciousness exists wherein it can, from that level, split itself into many different individual souls, each of which can then determine what kind of experience it would like to have individually and independently, even to the point of creating a physical life by manifesting its consciousness through a physical modality—what you would call a body.

The oversoul is similar to the idea of the hand in that it has extensions that you call fingers. So the oversoul would be the whole hand, and the individual souls and physical lives would be like the fingers. The oversoul can experience many, many lives all at once as information from every single individual soul is always feeding back into the oversoul.

So you can look at it as a vibrational level of consciousness—a vibrational level of energy that allows a much more expanded and aware expression of consciousness to exist, that can then individuate itself into different levels of consciousness from that point by lowering its frequency, lowering the frequency of its extensions, so to speak, to whatever point it wishes to, even unto the idea of lowering that frequency of the extension into physical materialization.

But it’s like a probe, you might say. The oversoul is a collective consciousness that can send out extensions or probes into a variety of dimensions, a variety of experiences, and receives along those linkages all the experience, all the information that those probes, that those extensions are plugging into.

Bashar: Oversouls can connect in a similar fashion to other oversouls on the same level. What it takes is simply a certain adjustment of frequency to do so, because remember, frequency is the only thing that differentiates the one consciousness out of which everything is made. So when the oversoul itself—a particular signature vibration—adjusts its vibration to be that which is inclusive of the vibration of another oversoul, automatic communication and communion and linkage is made.

Physical Manifestation of Oversouls

Participant: One could say, correct me if I’m wrong, that at the highest level the oversoul is consciousness itself—the one. Now as you come down from there and it splits off into different levels, do those oversouls only exist in the form of frequency or is there some physical manifestation at those levels as well? And to what extent are they aware of themselves as individual oversouls?

Bashar: It will depend, and what it mostly depends upon is whether or not an environment can be created that can actually handle the physicalization of the oversoul. For example, dolphins are individualized souls; whales are multiple dolphin oversouls. A whale is an oversoul in physical form. It is the oversoul of a multitude of dolphins. It can physicalize because the environment of the ocean allows for the ability to support a physical mass that is representative of the size of the oversoul.

Whereas on land, it is unlikely that your oversoul can manifest because the environment cannot support a physical manifestation of something that large in a single body as it can in the ocean. But the oversoul can take on certain characteristics that are close to physicalization, and in that sense it is what would be called the collective consciousness of your planet—what might be referred to as the Buddha nature, the Christ Consciousness, the Krishna Spirit.

The idea of that collective consciousness of all your people is the oversoul of your world, and in that sense it is connected to the physicality of the Earth itself. The Earth is somewhat representative of the oversoul of your collective consciousness, but it is not exactly a manifestation of the specific oversoul. The specific oversoul does take on a kind of physicalization that you would call electromagnetic energy. So the electromagnetic energy of the planet is as close as possible to physical manifestation as the oversoul, the collective consciousness of the planet, can get.

Hierarchy of Oversouls

Participant: Is it fair to say that there is one oversoul, if you go enough levels up, that all of the physical beings on Earth ultimately connect to or flow into?

Bashar: Yes, and above that exactly. There is one oversoul that connects all physical beings within a certain grouping, and above that an oversoul that connects all physical and non-physical beings above a certain grouping, and on and on all the way up to the one that is everything.

PURPOSE AND GROWTH OF THE OVERSOUL

Participant: Why does the oversoul do that? Why does the oversoul split itself?

Bashar: Because the oversoul can. That’s its nature. Any purpose to it? Well, yes—to learn, to grow, to be, to experience. Remember, that which is does not need a reason to be—it already is. So it just does what it does because it can. Why do you do what you do?

In other words, what any level of being or consciousness does, it does simply because the thing that it does ideally is a representation of its true self. It is simply an expression of what it is—a representation, if you will, of its passion, of its truth, of its light. It is simply being itself.

Participant: How does this oversoul grow by this experience?

Bashar: It becomes more aware of more of all that is. That’s what growth is—remembering more and more and more of what you are on every level. Growth is always, on every level, more of remembering more of who and what you are as all that is.

FREE WILL AND EXTENSIONS

Participant: As the oversoul extends itself and has its purpose, how does it extend its purpose to extensions, and what is the role of free will within the extensions?

Bashar: The idea is that every oversoul has a particular signature frequency. There is always a little bit of that same signature vibration in every extension, and it is through that similar vibration that there is always a line of communication and connection from the individualization back to the oversoul and vice versa.

Once the oversoul’s extension makes up its own mind, shall we say, based on what represents it as itself, based on what makes it unique, it then can manifest the concept of free will by making choices. But the free will will also always be in alignment with what is best serving the highest good of the whole connection back to the oversoul and all that is as well.

You may have brought into this life a particular kind of destiny—a theme that you will explore, that you’ve agreed to explore—a theme of vibration and energy that will connect directly back to the oversoul, that will enhance the oversoul’s ability to know itself more. But how you explore that theme is left up to the free will of the individual you have created yourself to be.

So you have free will working in concert with the idea of a predestined theme. Remember that in other lives you’re already simultaneously exploring other themes, but your life is unique and uniquely exploring a unique theme. It is left up to the free will of that person to go about figuring out how it wants to choose to experience that theme in this reality, because all of that information is going to feed the oversoul’s ability to know itself more anyway. So it doesn’t care how you choose to explore the theme—only that you do.

Participant: Every decision that we make as an individuated soul is in the service of that theme? There are no decisions that are going against the service of that theme?

Bashar: You can have the experience of making decisions and choices that go against the theme, but really that’s one way to explore the theme. You are making decisions relative to that theme and not another one.

CONNECTION TO OVERSOUL AT HIGHER LEVELS

Participant: At your level of consciousness, can you easily connect to your oversoul?

Bashar: We are never unaware of communion with our oversouls.

Participant: At some level, your community and the humans have one oversoul, or reach to some on some level?

Bashar: Yes.

THE NATURE OF TIME

Time as Creation

Participant: I have some trouble understanding the dimension of time.

Bashar: Well, you’re not alone. What is it you feel you don’t understand about the idea? You do understand that time is your creation?

Participant: No, maybe not.

Bashar: Space-time is a vibration in consciousness that gives you a frame of reference for having what you call a physical experience. Without the vibrational frame of reference called space-time, you could not have an experience that you would call physical. So it’s created by a level of your consciousness and imposed on your consciousness—kind of like a structure or a filter through which you will experience yourself as a physical being.

Space-time is created for the purpose of actually experiencing process in creation, because without space-time, everything is created instantaneously. So that you can experience the concept of process, you have to have a framework self-imposed upon your consciousness called space-time.

Time is an arbitrary illusion created by your consciousness in order to see yourself in a certain way, in order to experience yourself in a certain way. That certain way mostly involves the idea of the ability to experience process—that things are in the act of being created as opposed to simply instantaneously being, which is what it is on higher levels.

Time in Higher Consciousness

Participant: How does time work in your level of consciousness, and how is it different?

Bashar: It is not so structured. We have the understanding now in our experience that time for us does not have to be created in such a structured way. We use it as a tool when it is necessary. For instance, when we are speaking with a civilization like your own, we understand that we must lock into your time frequency, your sense of time, in order to communicate with you in a timely fashion.

But in our own reality, we hardly ever really experience it that way. Sometimes we don’t experience it linearly at all. Our consciousness shifts up and down what you would call the timeline very frequently, very freely, very fluidly, so that we can be not only where we wish to but when we wish to in our focus, in our consciousness.

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun

Bashar: I will give you an example that you have all experienced on your planet. You have a saying on your planet that time flies when you’re having fun. When you’re doing something you love to do, you recognize that you don’t really experience as much passage of time. You might look up and say, “Well, it feels like I’ve been doing that for half an hour,” but then you look up and say, “Well, maybe actually five hours has passed.”

It’s not that time went anywhere. It’s not that you ignored the passage of time. It’s that when you experience that kind of focus and actually only feel like half an hour has passed, you have actually only aged half an hour. The rest of the world may have aged five hours, and you may plug back into their time frame so you can keep up with them at the five-hour mark so you won’t be out of step with anyone.

If you really only viscerally and physically experience half an hour during that moment, that’s all the time you actually created in your reality—half an hour—and that’s all you’ve aged. That’s how fluid and flexible time is, and that’s why it’s important to always live in the moment, live in the present, and do what you love to do, because when you do that you don’t create as much time, and when you don’t create as much time, you age less.