Negative Beliefs and Wasting Time

Asker: I was at one of these last events in San Francisco, I realized after the fact I had an expectation that I was going to get to talk, to ask a question in person, and then I didn’t realize that until after the fact. And now coming here this time, I like all right, I’m just going to be here, just have fun, yes, fly up here, just have a good time—and then bang, what do you know? I’m here. So this was a wonderful surprise. Thank you for containing surprise in your story—it’s one of the most important story elements.

So yeah, this is a great idea using stories. I know it feels like I don’t know how, but somehow seems like this could be used—at least for me—to follow my excitement. At least something that I would like to follow really.

Bashar: It seems that way to you, doesn’t it? All right. How so?

Asker: Um, well, I mean, I know it feels like initially before I can move to do that, I got to—

Bashar: Before you can move, you’re always moving.

Asker: Well, at least my story right now is I’ve discovered some negative beliefs that I kind of, I guess, forgot about or put on the back burner. They just came up.

Bashar: But that’s the challenging part of the story—it’s exciting.

Asker: And so what are they? What’s one of them at least?

Asker: That by following my excitement, it seems like almost this task that has been given—

Bashar: Task—yeah, are you using that in a negative context?

Asker: No.

Bashar: It sounds like an amazing—

Asker: All right, but I asked you for one of the negative beliefs that you refer to.

Asker: Negative beliefs—uh, that I would be wasting my time, it wasn’t really true.

Bashar: Wasting your time. Yeah, wasting your time—you know, if I fall this excitement, it turns out, oh well, the thing that I was excited about—this idea that it would just be, you know, I would be going down a goose chase to nowhere.

Bashar: So and so I’m afraid you would find a goose—at least. Beast. Yeah, and do you not refer to the goose that laid the golden egg in your stories? True.

So the idea is that if you look at that as part of the positive experience, don’t you believe you’ll find the golden egg in that path as well? Because isn’t the golden egg finding out something that is not you, so that you more clearly know what is? Very much so. It’s part of your story—it’s not a waste.

True. Again, when you understand story structure, you would automatically know that that’s part of the story and not a waste of time. You need to understand story structure.

What you call red herrings and other animals that you use in your stories often provide the idea of seemingly going in a direction you don’t prefer to but wind up surprising you by giving you information you didn’t expect that you need for the rest of the story that represents the direction you do prefer.

Asker: That seems to be happening—that’s what’s been happening to me the last couple months.

Bashar: Look at it as a detective story.

Asker: That’s what it seems like—I keep getting little bits more information, like what is this? You know, like even though it may not necessarily represent the path ultimately that you prefer, you’re still going to find a clue at the end of that path, and it’s going to help you down the road later on if you use it that way. If you just think it’s a waste of time, if you just label it in your story as a waste of time, you will come up empty.

Asker: Yeah, my heart knows it’s not a waste of time.

Bashar: It’s then why don’t you listen to your heart in your story?

Asker: I think, like I said, it’s—at least I’ve allowed it to be this negative belief of wasting time.

Bashar: But you’re not doing that now. Yes. You’re not going to do that from this point forward? Yes, I don’t wish to. Well then you’re not going to. Yes. Or if you do, it’s going to be all right that you did, and you can go, “Oh well, I did that again—so what?” And move on. Yes. Isn’t that the kind of story you would prefer to have? Yes or no? It’s up to you, you can say no.

Very much making a positive experience out of it—well, because you can make a positive experience out of everything, yes. That’s because that’s what I would prefer. Well then do that. Yes. Is that the story you would rather tell yourself? Yeah. Then that’s the story you will tell yourself. Yes.

Asker: I mean, there’s some hesitation, but what—that’s what I prefer.

Bashar: All right, so you can say, “I will tell myself this story even though sometimes I may hesitate—that is the story I will tell myself, even with the hesitation.” And the hesitation will only help me tell that story even more strongly, because I know that the hesitation is part of my story and not an interruption in my story. I’ll use the hesitation as part of my challenge, as part of my story.

What other stories have you got?

Asker: I, I guess with this specific—

Bashar: You guess? You guess? You guess? No more guessing.

Asker: Uh, with this specific, I know with this task and these beliefs that are that I’m holding on to out of fear—um, it just seemed, I know, it almost like there’s “too good to be true” element to it.

Bashar: Too good to be true. Too amazing. Too fantastic to be true.

Asker: Well, that’s a story. Do you want to live that story—that something is too good to be true?

Asker: Yeah, you do want to live that story? I mean, I mean this—that something is too good to be true? No, not too good to be true, but that the story I wish to tell, yes.

Bashar: Regard—ever had anything in your story happen to you that you felt was very, very, very good?

Asker: Yes, more and more so lately.

Bashar: Well, if it happened once, why should it not be capable of happening again and again and again? If it happened once, why wasn’t that too good to be true? Why didn’t you tell yourself the negative story then? Why did you allow such a good thing to be happening in your story if you didn’t believe that good things can happen?

Asker: That’s a good question.

Bashar: So you see, it’s all about understanding story structure so that you understand how to ask yourself questions about your own story.

Your own story contains things that you did not believe were too good to be true, so you allow them to be experienced. But if you did it, then what’s the difference between that and any other thing?

Maybe it would be more helpful for you, instead of talking about whether something is too good to be true or not, to simply allow your story to understand what is most relevant to your story, because there may be things that are not relevant to your story experience, but you don’t have to label them as being too good or not good enough.

Asker: I remember you mentioned that to somebody at the San Francisco event, and then I was pondering this—like, well, it seems really, really relevant.

Bashar: If it’s true, then—the idea that you can begin to understand in redefining these things is that if something seems really, really relevant, that’s another way of saying that it is true, or it wouldn’t feel relevant.

Relevance is truth. Relevance is the vibration that is aligned with your truth—that’s why it feels relevant. Otherwise it wouldn’t feel relevant. It wouldn’t be your truth.

But if it feels relevant, that’s synonymous with it aligns with your truth, or it wouldn’t feel relevant.

So if it feels really, really, really relevant, then it’s really, really, really reflective of the true you.

For you, it may not be true for someone else, but if it feels relevant for you, it’s true for you—it’s a synonymous definition. If you allow it to be, instead of separating it and saying, “Well, it feels really relevant, but is it true for me?"—you’re contradicting the idea, the very definition of relevance.

That’s why again it’s so important to be clear about your definitions and be aware of what definitions you’re already giving something. Pick it apart, examine it in your story, find out how you are labeling things, because when you understand the labels you’re giving to things, you’ll understand why you may be confused about things—because you’re applying confusing labels that don’t allow you to extract what you need from every situation.

As you have just given us this perfect example in your story by supplying a different label to relevance other than the label that it represents—the true you—you’ve created a separation, you’ve created a confusion. But by consolidating and integrating it back together and going, “Wait a minute, how can it possibly be relevant to me? How can it possibly feel relevant if it isn’t true?"—by understanding the underlying nature of existence, which is the same thing as underlying story structure, you’ll be able to see right through these illusions that you create and understand the labels that you’re applying to things and thus change them when you see that they don’t work for you.

Does this help very much? You have a different story now then?

Asker: Yes. Have you chatted with Dave, by any chance lately?

Bashar: Define Dave.

Asker: He just described himself as a consciousness that I’ve been verbally channeling, just mostly for myself. I don’t know if you’ve had any chats with him lately.

Bashar: I’m having one right now, aren’t I? Because Dave is an aspect of your own consciousness. So is there something Dave wants to tell you?

Asker: He’s been telling me to actually act on it.

Bashar: So why aren’t you listening to Dave? You don’t trust Dave, do you?

Asker: Not totally, no.

Bashar: Why not? You think Dave is out to deceive you?

Asker: No, he’s been very loving, helpful, bringing me amazing information.

Bashar: And then why don’t you trust what Dave is saying?

Asker: I think because it might be too good to be true, or that I’d be wasting my time if I actually followed it.

Bashar: So if things were too good to be true, why would you even consider the idea or construct the idea of talking to someone named Dave?

Asker: I didn’t even try to do it—it just—

Bashar: But you accepted it. Yeah. Why wasn’t that too good to be true?

Asker: It’s been fun.

Bashar: Oh, fun! It has been fun. So you’ll allow it to be true if it’s fun? Yes.

Asker: No—what will you allow things to be true if they’re fun? Yes or no?

Yes.

Science, Sustenance, and Tapping Energy

Asker: My story is that I’m very much bound to my fellow beings, and bound to your fellow beings, yes. Very much so.

Bashar: And so what does that mean in your definition, in your story?

Asker: Well, I choose to exist in the um, Earth that the collective consciousness exists in.

Bashar: Well, to some degree, yes. Obviously, or we wouldn’t be having this conversation in this way.

Asker: And so, and I’m very much interested in bringing information mostly through science. All right. Um, I also have certain knowings, yes. And I was wondering if you would be able to help me tell my story by getting a little information on what—and what I would like to know is—

Bashar: One moment. Do you understand story structure at all?

Asker: I would like to say yes.

Bashar: What archetype at this moment in your question to me, thus then, do I represent to you?

Asker: I have no idea.

Bashar: I’ll give you a hint. Okay. A mentor. Right. All right, more than a hint though—wasn’t it? Gave it all away. Gave the whole story away. All right. Well, all right, not all of it. Ooh, some mystery still exists, because a good story needs a little mystery, doesn’t it? Yes.

So do continue.

Asker: Okay. Um, what is it that you wish some assistance with, now that you have sought out and questioned the mentor archetype?

Asker: Okay, um, I know that we don’t need to eat—

Bashar: Well, yes you do. Do food? Yes, you do. Okay. Most of you do. Okay.

Asker: Well, I have this knowing that it may be possible, that it may be probable, that some of you may change yourselves so as to not require that kind of sustenance.

Bashar: Yes, that’s possible. How probable it is depends upon the path you have chosen to explore. Sometimes those kinds of things, even though they may seem to be desirable, simply aren’t relevant for the theme that you chose to explore in this life. You have to determine that for yourself by the synchronicity that shows up in your life.

Asker: Right. Well, for me it’s prevalent, and one of the things that is the information I’d like to know is how I’m able to tap into the energy source to sustain myself—not at this point, but more so as you know, I grow.

Bashar: Well, number one, living in the moment, because all the energy you will ever tap exists only in the now. So the less fragmented you are in that context, the more you focus yourself in the present, the more you’ll be capable of tapping that energy, because you’ll be existing on a higher level frequency. And when you allow yourself to vibrate on a higher level frequency, you become a more receptive antenna to higher level frequencies of energies on different planes of existence that can then sustain you, and you will automatically not feel so much need for other forms of sustenance.

Okay. So the more you live in the moment, the less in a sense you experience the idea of time and space in that way, the more you will tap into higher frequency energies that will provide enough sustenance for you.

The Vortex and Process

Asker: My story is—my journey to be in this workshop—my story has been answered, my questions have been answered. You talked about the vortex and Lancaster.

Bashar: Why would you want to get that information from me when you can simply be in the vortex and get your own information? Why would you need a secondhand experience instead of a firsthand one?

Asker: Does it have any central location or was it all over, or is it where I—

Bashar: There are nodal points within the overall vortex that resonate at different frequencies.

If you simply follow your own instincts, you’ll find yourself guided to the nodal point that resonates at your frequency, and that will be the correct spot for you.

Asker: Well, okay, that makes sense. Yes. I know. Where I live is one of them. Is one of them? Well, there you go. Okay. What a coincidence that you should choose to live there. It was exactly—it was, but not an accident. Yes, not at all. My higher self was already there—I just raised my vibration to get there.

Bashar: So you had even already answered this question. I sure did.

Asker: Yes. Um, just checking your story facts.

Bashar: Oh, are you confirmation? When I come talk to you, it’s all about confirmation. All right. Um, you are confirmed. Thank you. A confirmed storyteller. I am. All right.

Um, from yesterday—the I got from yesterday—that the process is really a permission slip of manifestation, just like the process is its own event, and all experiences and events are permission slips. Yes.

So once we no longer—once we are in the process of like building a house and we have built the house, gone through that process, then we no longer need that process if we choose to let it go, and that’s how the house appears. Yes. Okay. Because you know the house is already built.

The idea of choosing to build a house is simply your choice to experience the event called building a house. But whether you choose that or not, the event of the house already exists. Exactly. And whatever methodology your belief system believes it needs to get you to change into the vibration where you align with the event—with the reality where the house already exists—is fine.

Some of you, simply because of your idea of belonging to a consensus reality, have belief systems that make you believe that you need to go through the event experience the event called building the house before you will allow yourself to change into the frequency where the house already exists. But you don’t have to do that.

No. So once you have the process, you can let that go. Once you understand what it’s for, once you allow that experience of what you call the process of that event to help you change your belief systems in certain ways, then yes, you can let the need for experiencing that event go. Okay.

To whatever degree—thus process event still remains—may the degree to which you wish to hold on to it for a variety of other reasons that actually do serve you and other people. But yes, it is potentially possible to not experience that particular event called process at all. But some of you want to because you learn things from it. But you can reduce it. Yes. Or you can reduce it in some instances, like you can eliminate it in some instances, you can reduce it in some instances, you can keep it in some instances—you just have to determine what it is you actually are getting out of having that event experience. But just don’t see it as a means to an end—see it as its own event experience.

Building the house has nothing to do with the experience of having the house. There are two separate realities. But sometimes you may need to experience the event called building the house in order to allow your belief systems to change your vibration into the event called having the house. But no, you don’t need to do that empirically—it’s not mechanically required necessarily. It just depends upon the theme you’ve chosen to explore that determines how much of that event you need to experience.

Asker: So it’s like if you can’t drive and you learn how to drive, once you know how to drive, you just don’t think about the process of everything that goes into it, you just drive.

Bashar: In fact, your automobile is a very good analogy for the idea of the story structure issue and belief system issue, because you know that in your automobiles you have the idea of shifting—whether it is manual or automatic doesn’t matter at the moment—and you have the idea of your accelerator and you have the idea of your brake.

Well, anytime you align with the idea belief systems that are in alignment with your truth, you’re pressing on the accelerator. Anytime you are believing in things that are out of alignment, you’re pressing on the brake. The idea is that you’re always shifting gears, going from one reality to another. You used to do this manually—you used to have to really think about it. But when you invented the idea of automatic transmissions, that was an archetypal symbol that you were allowing the idea of shifting to become more automatic in your consciousness. So now it’s just a matter of choosing whether to step on the accelerator or step on the brake as befits the kind of belief systems you’re buying into, because you are your vehicle.

Or press cruise control. Cruise control! I like cruise control. Right, yes. That is now a choice that is available to you, because once your technology invents something, it’s because your consciousness has already understood that concept, and thus you now have a reflective symbol—an archetypal symbol—in your physical reality to represent the new concept in your consciousness.

So if cruise control is that which allows you to truly allow yourself to know you’re functioning on automatic and you’ll arrive at the right place at the right time and you don’t even have to worry about stepping on the gas or stepping on the brake—that the car will move ahead, that your vehicle, you, will move ahead in perfect timing on cruise control—then you have allowed yourself to use that archetype in a very beautiful analogous way.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Asker: Now the storytelling—it’s synonymous to me. The thing that I like about the Bible is the fact of the stories, and I was never drawn into—well I was, but as I was growing out of the limitations of it, the stories is what carried me, because I knew that I also had a story, and those stories were just to lead me and to understand that I had a story.

Bashar: Yes, because you’re going to hear a story and you’re going to interpret the story according to your own story beliefs. Exactly. And that’s why people can hear the same story and have many different interpretations. Just pick the one that works best for you. Many of the stories in that sense thus are holographic in nature. That’s also the beauty of story structure—the template is holographic in nature. So what archetypal elements you choose to add in the story can be interpreted by anyone according to their story.

Yes, yes, yes. So and so, you being a storyteller for the um—well, that’s the planet—the people are Sani, for the Sani people. So the stories that you’re getting from us, you’re translating to them. So it’s like we’re living Bibles, kind of thing.

All truths are true. That’s what the truth is. All truths are true. Your truth is true for you. Other people’s truths are true for them. And together, all truths make up the truth. And that’s the truth.