The Ego

Asker: I just want to ask about my teacher a bit. Yeah. He says that the ego cannot understand the fifth dimension and beyond.

Bashar: Not really because the idea of what you typically call evil on your planet is simply the idea of negative energy expressing itself and negative energy is very separative and segregative and cannot comprehend the idea of that which is integrative and expansive. They can only understand the idea of the downward spiral in frequency, not the upward one. The ego is negative. Ego by itself is not negative. When ego is forced to do things that is not designed to do, it can in a sense create a feedback loop that allows it to become resistant and resentful of being given tasks it is not designed to do. And when it does that, it can then, shall we say, slip into the version you call the negative ego. The ego by itself in its neutral state is really just designed to keep you focused in your physical reality experience. That’s its only task. It is only designed to function as a perceiver of physical experience. It is not designed to control anything. It is not designed to conceive of anything. It is not designed really to know how anything is going to happen. It is only designed to perceive how things are happening. Only the higher mind is designed to conceive of how things can happen for you. Thus then the ego just needs to be quiet and experience the things that are happening.

Asker: It was designed to learn things. That’s what it was designed to absorb experience and feed that experience back into the total being that you are.

Bashar: Yes. Okay. But that’s all it’s designed to do.

CONVERSATION GROUP 11: The Teacher and the Apple

Asker: Another question about my teacher. He said at our 11-1ven conference, he said that if he could manifest an apple, he would choose not to. Yes. Even if he could do it right there. Yes. And I don’t understand. Is there subtle meaning there or what?

Bashar: There is both subtle and profound meanings there. And it is simply another version of what we’ve been talking about. When you realize that many times the experience of getting there is the point, then you will actually very often in wisdom choose not to have an instantaneous manifestation of a certain kind because you recognize that the thing that is most precious is the actual journey itself, the actual process of creation itself, not just the manifestation of an end result. Therefore, true wisdom, once it can accomplish that, often chooses not to because it knows where the true treasure lies in the experience of getting there. Because if you just simply instantaneously manifested the apple, that’s it. It’s done. Move on to something else.

Asker: Well, it can’t be that that boiled down that simple.

Bashar: Yes, it can. I have just done so. I’m not saying that’s always the case, but that’s the point of what your teacher was saying. That more often than not, you will find that once you understand that you can manifest and do manifest instantaneously, you relax your need to do so because you realize that the whole point is to actually experience the transition. That’s the goal itself. And any so-called end result is not anywhere near as important as the experience. The end result is nothing but a bookend to an experience.

Asker: I thought maybe the end result was created so that you could experience the end result. I mean, but there is no experience in getting to the end result.

Bashar: It’s all well and good to experience an end result for its own sake. But what I’m saying is once you’ve experienced one end result, you’ve experienced them all because there is no real experience of the thing that the end result represents. Because the thing that you’re manifesting as the end result is just a symbol of the experience it took to manifest it. And it’s the experience that contains the true treasure, not just the appearance of the symbol that represents the experience, which is all the end result is. It’s a symbol that represents an experience. There’s no experience in that thing itself.

Asker: I guess I’m confused because I know…

Bashar: I guess what is confusing to me is if we go through normal reality rules with the balloon for example here in normal reality you have to get permission from governments and this is assuming we deal with the way things are outside.

Asker: Now, I’m going to stop you right there because I’ve already told you that it is quite possible, even in your reality, for you, if you’re open to it, to attract circumstances and situations synchronistically where what you have just assumed to be true may not necessarily be required. And you have to relax your assumption. You see, in a sense, you’re the one that’s holding on to the rules you say you don’t prefer by assuming that those rules are so hard and fixed and that there’s no way around them that you’re not allowing yourself to be open to the possibility that there might be any other way to attract that experience. So you have to relax those kinds of statements and those kinds of definitions as if there’s no other way to do it but the way society says you have to have this and everyone knows you need a permit and everyone knows no one’s going to allow me to do X Y and Z. You’re only reinforcing the rules you say you don’t prefer by making those kinds of declarations.

Asker: I’m not necessarily reinforcing them.

Bashar: You are reinforcing them by making the declaration. Okay. Okay. That’s what I’m saying. It may not be your intent to reinforce them. We understand it’s not your intention to do so, but what we’re telling you is that you are reinforcing them by making those kinds of declarations because you don’t have to believe that that’s true.

Asker: Yes.

Bashar: Therefore, don’t believe that that’s true. And when you allow yourself to know that that doesn’t have to be true, and only only when you allow yourself to know that that doesn’t have to be true, will you be in the appropriate vibration to be capable of actually attracting an opportunity that will allow you to do it some other way. Remember, you cannot perceive what you’re not the vibration of. So if you hold on to the idea that it has to be true that you must follow these rules, you will not be capable of seeing any opportunity otherwise. If you know it doesn’t have to be true, then you’ll be able to see the opportunity that comes to you that will allow you to do it in some other way. That’s what we’re saying.

Asker: I guess I don’t see the other way.

Bashar: You don’t need You see, this is again what I’m telling you. You’re so focused on thinking that your physical mind needs to know every detail. It needs to know almost nothing. The point is is you have to let the higher mind make those things come to you. Your physical mind is not designed to know how something’s going to happen. It does know, but it doesn’t know. It knows. It does not. It thinks it does.

Asker: It thinks it does. I know it does.

Bashar: But would you validate the other point that it knows that I could instantly manifest it? It knows that option too.

Asker: It knows two options at least.

Bashar: Nope. No. Nope. Okay. The point is your physical mind is not designed to know these things in that way. It is designed to allow the higher mind to know these things. The physical mind does not have the capacity you think it does. It’s an illusion.

Asker: With all the bodies merged, isn’t it all supposed to come together at some point in part?

Bashar: It is supposed to work in balance. And the point of working in balance is to allow the physical mind to do what it was designed to do and allow the higher mind to do what it was designed to do. And stop thinking that the physical mind needs to do the work and the job of the higher mind by having to know this and having to know that. It doesn’t need to know anything.

Asker: I know that it just needs to experience what the higher mind brings it. That’s it.

Bashar: That’s it. That’s the only thing the physical mind is actually designed to do. That’s it. It’s designed to have the experience so that that experience can feed back up the ladder to more of your consciousness. But it’s not really designed to think about the idea of knowing how this is going to lead to that or focus on this detail as necessary for that to happen. It just isn’t.

Asker: I would have found it really nice to use my physical mind and have instant manifestation. I mean, that’s what I wanted when I started this thing.

Bashar: I mean, you must use your physical mind in the way it was designed to be used.

Asker: Can it be changed later?

Bashar: changed into what?

Asker: I guess when I asked that I asked about recreating my plan because I had a plan.

Bashar: I mean why do you need such a big plan? Why do you not trust that the plan comes from a higher level? Why does the physical mind need to focus on so many details?

Asker: Oh, it doesn’t. But it likes the control and I don’t mind it.

Bashar: So you have just said everything in a nutshell. It likes the control. But the point is is it isn’t in control. So what it’s liking is nothing but an illusion. Yes. Of control. It’s just an illusion. The physical mind has no control over the things you think it does. Okay? It has only been taught to believe that it does, but it doesn’t. So of course it likes what it thinks it isn’t in control of but it’s not in control of anything. So stop insisting that it must be. You keep making contradictory statements and you keep expecting a certain outcome to happen from those contradictory statements which is not possible. The mind cannot be in control and at the same time you manifest what you say your heart desires. Can’t happen. Two contradictory ideas completely. Control means you have shut the door to the idea of manifestation in the way you say you prefer to experience it. So you have to give up the idea that the mind needs so many details and so many plans. You have to trust that your life will unfold in the way that it needs to by simply acting on the things that give you joy without having to have so much focus on the details of what you think is going to happen next and how you think that’s going to occur and what steps you think are necessary. Let your higher mind show you what steps are necessary. Don’t let your physical mind tell you what it thinks the steps are. Let the higher mind show you what the steps are because the higher mind will actually give you fewer steps than your physical mind is insisting upon.

Asker: Yeah.

Bashar: So if you really want to shorten the time frame, stop making so many plans. Because when you make these kinds of elaborate plans, then you’re creating more details. And when you create more details, you have to create more time in which those details have to exist. So stop creating so many details, you’ll stop creating so much time. It’s that simple. When anytime you create an extra detail, you have to create more time for that detail to express itself. Don’t create the detail, you don’t create the time.

Asker: I was seeing that my check and balance program sometimes talks about the future to people. Is that not helping too? Is it something that has to go?

Bashar: If it is doing so in some kind of a rigid way, it doesn’t necessarily assist you.

Asker: No, not rigid.

Bashar: No. In what sense then? Because you keep using the term the future when you know there are an infinite array of probable futures.

Asker: Yeah. It does express that. It just talks about some of the futures.

Bashar: No, right. As long as they are left in the arena of being simply options and different parallel realities that all simultaneously coexist and people understand that they have the option to shift to whatever one they prefer, then that’s fine. Then that’s a true understanding of the nature of the structure of existence. But that’s a very simple concept. It doesn’t have to get more complicated than that. is at least a one line sentence. I would say that’s it.

Asker: Is there anything you wish to share with me or my higher self?

Bashar: Nope. I’ve already told you the things that you need to hear.

CONVERSATION GROUP 12: Bondage, Domination, Entities

Asker: Do you have information about like the bondage, domination, entities, those kind of things?

Bashar: Why would you focus on such things?

Asker: I still like those things.

Bashar: You like them sort of. In what context?

Asker: I don’t know some sort of energy was shown to me that was kind of it was about bondage and it was about almost acts of rape if you want.

Bashar: Why would you gravitate toward such things?

Asker: I think they gravitated towards me.

Bashar: No. Why would you choose things that are representative in that context of lack of freedom? of lack of choice.

Asker: I could only guess past lives otherwise I don’t know what they’re doing in my life.

Bashar: All things exist simultaneously. This is what we’re talking about. You have belief systems within you unconsciously that you’re out of touch with that you need to get in touch with to find out why you are attracted to these kinds of vibrations. So that you can find out that these belief systems have nothing to do with who you actually prefer to be. And you can let them go because they’re only representative of in a sense you holding yourself back, you bonding yourself to something that you say you don’t prefer.

Asker: Yeah.

Bashar: You’re restricting your own freedom. And these kinds of attractions are showing you that you are containing belief systems that are actually restricting your own ability to fully express yourself.

Asker: But I’m actually consciously saying I’m okay with them. That I understand it’s okay.

Bashar: I’m not saying you invalidate them. You can recognize that they’re okay as valid choices, but what I’m saying is they may not necessarily be the choices that are representative of who you actually prefer to be.

Asker: I’m sure.

Bashar: So being okay that they’re there is a good first step, but you must find out why you’re attracted to these things because it may not be serving you to be attracted to them in the way that you’re attracted. So, I’m not saying they’re not valid.

Asker: I guess I wanted to explore what was shown to me, and I don’t even know how to rectify that.

Bashar: And remember that sometimes something that is shown to you is simply for the purpose of allowing you to recognize more clearly who you are by being given an example of who you are not. That may be sufficient.

Asker: What if it is what I am? I mean, that’s what I’m saying. I consciously wanted to try those things and try them.

Bashar: And if you feel like you need what? To experience them, then perhaps the experience will give you more clarity on whether they’re actually for you or not. So go ahead and experience the idea as long as what you are choosing to experience does not in any way, shape, or form violate someone else’s freedom to choose what they prefer.

Asker: That’s what it was about. Yes.

Bashar: But you see, you have to find someone who is mutually agreeable. For if you do it against the wishes and against the agreement of someone else, then you are generating negative energy and segregation within yourself in such a fashion that that would be very very very strongly indicative that you are harboring belief systems that are so out of alignment with your true core that you can’t even recognize the difference between something that is done by mutual agreement and something that is done against someone else’s wishes.

Asker: But it’s all mutual agreement, not consciously.

Bashar: Yes. Just because someone is unconscious enough to play a victim doesn’t justify you playing the perpetrator because it’s your duty to be strong enough within your self-awareness to refuse the call of the victim. Because that then only disempowers you both.

Asker: I mean I guess I hope to rectify this from a higher place.

Bashar: But rectifying it from a higher place is recognizing what we have just said. The idea is that we recognize that there are many people on your planet that are very out of alignment with their truth. And by being very out of alignment with their true core being, they may play the victim and they may attract to themselves people who perpetrate things on them. But just because they chose it from an unconscious place does not mean that that’s what their true core desire is. And the idea is that it’s up to every single individual to recognize the difference between what is truly beneficial and truly recognized as the idea of growth for an individual and what is simply playing into someone’s lack of selfworth which only reinforces your lack of selfworth. So why be the victim’s victim? You see, because in that context, the perpetrator is also a victim by being so weak in their understanding of their true integrity and their true core that they also fall prey to the lure of the victim who attracts the perpetrator to punish them for their belief in their lack of selfworth and thus reinforces the perpetrator’s belief in their lack of selfworth. If you don’t understand these concepts, you truly truly don’t understand who you really prefer to be.

Asker: I kind of understand those concepts and at the same time I wanted to experiment.

Bashar: And it’s just like what I’m simply telling you is that if you give in to the idea of perpetrating something on someone else against their conscious wishes, just because they’ve created an attraction unconsciously doesn’t mean that you don’t have the capacity to recognize that it may be against their conscious wishes for you to perpetrate something against them. And if you are so weak within yourself that you can’t recognize the difference between their unconscious creation and their conscious wishes and don’t respect their conscious wishes, then you’re disrespecting yourself simultaneously. Yeah. Because you have to have the ability to have the discernment to be able to tell the difference between the two and recognize with compassion when someone is acting out of unconscious manifestation of their fears and their lack of selfworth. And you have to recognize that strongly enough to have the integrity for them to point out what they’re doing to themselves by attracting perpetrators to support their sense and belief in their own victimization.

Asker: Is there a way to rebuild it?

Bashar: Do it. Rebuild what?

Asker: Well, I guess I was imagining the holiday for a second, but then I realized that since everything’s consciousness, even if you did it in a real holiday, it’s still the same thing.

Bashar: Is it? It is. Because intention is energy.

Asker: What about a way to hold your energy where you’re not affected and you don’t do it to yourself? Is there any solution or is it just…

Bashar: Well, referring to the idea of the holodeck, meaning that if you in a sense simulate a notion simply within your own self-manifested energy and don’t involve another actual individual in that, then there is nothing negative in that sense about that because you’re not perpetrating something against someone else’s conscious wishes. And it would be the same as real life. You can play out the idea of any fantasy, positive or negative, as long as you’re not actually perpetrating that against another real individual and against their conscious wishes, then there is no harm except the idea of your own exploration of delving into the idea of more segregation and separation. But if you use that in a positive way for yourself and do it in a way that doesn’t harm someone else, then it can simply yield positive benefit for you. It would be like I’m saying I see a state where you’re a whole and complete person and you like reality is you come down and you play a part temporarily. Understood? And then nevertheless, the point is is that even though that happens among all the individuals on your planet, it is still up to you to rise above and see the bigger picture and have compassion for what it is that people are creating for themselves and not play into that game to the degree where it also devalues you.

Asker: I guess I thought that was an easy answer, but you make it sound.

Bashar: It is an easy answer when you understand it from the correct perspective. But you are confusing yourself because again, you’re doing what you’ve done throughout this entire conversation, and that is you are attempting to put together contradictory belief systems as if they had any business overlapping. And they don’t.

Asker: I thought they could.

Bashar: They cannot.

Asker: Oh, I guess I thought anything was possible.

Bashar: Anything is possible, but as I said, it may not be relevant to your reality.

Asker: So, changing realities is a solution.

Bashar: You will not change physical reality to the degree where you can have the overlap that you’re talking about because that’s not germane to the definition of physical reality in linear spacetime. When you rise to the level where such things are capable of being experienced all at once in one reality, you’re no longer physical. And when you’re no longer physical, the paradox then is that you have no further need to experience the things that are representative of the things that overlap. You just simply understand from that level what it is you need to understand and don’t need to have the experience on that level. But when you create the idea on the level of physical reality, on the level of experience, because you’re creating experience within the framework of linear space time, then those things can simply not overlap. One thing is one thing, another thing is another thing. And even though you can create a reality that may contain elements of both, it’s still its own distinct reality. It still doesn’t mean that the belief systems are actually overlapping. It’s just that you’re defining your reality experience as if they did, but they don’t actually do so. And thus then whatever reality you define, whatever experience you define, thus then will also contain whatever consequences are germane to that definition.

CONVERSATION GROUP 13: Downloading Experiences from the Akashic Records

Asker: I also don’t understand the downloading of the experience because I thought that you could also just download experiences from the Akashic Records and in that way you kind of understand them.

Bashar: You can download knowledge. It’s not the same thing as experience because you don’t yet understand the definition of experience. Okay. Do you have an object such as a pen on you?

Asker: Yeah.

Bashar: Put the pen on the floor. Now you know you can pick the pen up. You have the knowledge that you can pick the pen up. It’s not the same thing as actually picking the pen up, is it?

Asker: No.

Bashar: Pick the pen up. That’s the difference between knowledge and experience. Just knowing you can pick the pen up is not the same thing. Experience brings its own kind of vibration with it. It has a different effect than just sitting there knowing you can pick the pen up. No matter how many times you may know what it’s like to pick the pen up, no matter how many times you may imagine that you can pick the pen up, it’s not the same thing as actually picking the pen up.

Asker: So, are you saying that the knowledge experienced in the Akashic Records is that if I were to download it, would I find it pleasing if I wanted to look into those aspects?

Bashar: You may. It just depends on how you allow yourself to interact with those ideas. But again, you may find that you will get what you need from that if you want to do it that way. You may not need the experience of certain things that you may assume you need experience in. and vice versa. You may need experience in certain things you may assume you don’t need experience in. Again, you have to be able to tell the difference in terms of what’s relevant to the idea of what it is you’re exploring as a physical being. Some things you can just allow yourself to know. Some things it’s important to experience. You have to be able to tell the difference.

CONVERSATION GROUP 14: Closing Discussion - YouTube Videos and Business

Bashar: There will be a relatively brief amount of time remaining for this transmission. Is there anything else you wish to discuss in the time that remains?

Asker: I guess I wanted to ask about my teacher and a thing going on between me and him which is what about YouTube about videos of him on YouTube.

Bashar: What about it?

Asker: It’s creating a resistance.

Bashar: Can you be more specific?

Asker: He’s asked me to take them down.

Bashar: So, take them down.

Asker: I don’t want to.

Bashar: Because you don’t respect him.

Asker: Is that what it is?

Bashar: Yes. Can’t you tell?

Asker: No.

Bashar: Why not? That’s the question. Why can’t you tell that it’s disrespectful? That’s the question. You see, you think that they need to be up there for a certain reason.

Asker: I guess I thought I know what the answer is. I thought in the unconditional love vibration that things like this don’t matter. That’s what I thought.

Bashar: Unconditional love does not mean you disrespect other people. Unconditional love does not mean you can do anything you quote unquote damn well please. That’s not what unconditional love means. Unconditional love means that you trust that when you make an agreement with someone, when you have an understanding with someone, that whatever that understanding is will not prevent what really needs to happen from happening and you don’t necessarily need to take the course you thought you needed to take. So if you have explored with someone the idea and say well I have a desire to put these here and the person that has in a sense the wherewithal because it’s about them to say I would prefer and ask you that you don’t. The point is, instead of insisting that that’s the only way for you to achieve the state you believe you need to achieve is by going against that person’s wishes, then you have a very, very, very weak faith in what you believe to be true. Because if you’re saying that’s the only way it’s going to happen, then you don’t believe there’s any other way it could happen.

Asker: I got lost about how that relates to the videos.

Bashar: What I’m saying is you put them up there because you believe that there’s a reason to put them up there. What’s that reason?

Asker: In appreciation.

Bashar: In appreciation. But the point is is that person has told you that they don’t appreciate it. That they don’t appreciate it. Therefore, the idea is is that that’s not the way to go about showing your appreciation. Find another way.

Because you’ve been given the parameter by the person themselves as to what represents appreciation to them. It’s not about what you think appreciation is. It’s about what others believe appreciation is when you’re attempting to show appreciation to them because it’s about them, not you. If you’re appreciating them, then you have to appreciate who they are and what they say is important to them. Not what you think they should be saying to you, not who you think they should be. That’s your idea of them, which means you’re not appreciating them as much as you’re appreciating your idea of them.

Asker: I also had a confusion about that because it was your version of his energy. That was one thing I said to him. I said, I can’t remember how the conversation went, but if he’s my version of my energy, why can’t I just appreciate?

Bashar: Then you are giving yourself and attracting into your reality a reflection of someone who is telling you that that’s not a representation of appreciation. It still works the same way. The idea is that it’s to be of service. Not to simply do something that is to appreciate your idea of the way things should be, but to appreciate who it is you’re attempting to honor for who they are and thus then allow them to also have a say in what form that appreciation is representative of them. Okay? Otherwise, you’re not appreciating them for who they are. You’re only appreciating what you think they should be. Thus, when you appreciate them for who they are, things might change. But you can’t do it backwards.

Asker: I guess I was just going to ask about the business venture I’m in if it’s the right thing, which is what?

Bashar: It’s like a pot business or I don’t know something kind of a co-creation that I don’t know what it is. You don’t know what it is. Then how can we talk about it if you don’t know what it is?

Asker: It’s a pot business simply.

Bashar: Oh, And so why are you in that business?

Asker: I’m not excited about it, but I don’t know what to do with myself. I really don’t.

Bashar: I feel like then you don’t understand the whole idea of acting on your excitement if you don’t know what to do with yourself.

Asker: I do act on my excitement sometimes.

Bashar: Then act on your excitement. If that is truly not your excitement, don’t act on it.

Asker: It’s not totally representative.

Bashar: Then act on what is in an integral way.

Asker: I don’t know what happened to my excitement. It’s like it’s masked. It’s hard.

Bashar: All you need to do to regain clarity about your excitement is act on the highest thing that contains the highest excitement at any given moment out of all the options available to you at that moment. Doesn’t have to be a big thing. Just keep acting on the things that contain the highest excitement, but act out of integrity on it. Act in a balanced way on it with no expectation whatsoever of exactly what must come to fruition. If you keep doing that moment to moment, you’ll lead yourself back to larger expressions of excitement. It’s that simple. Excitement is the thread. But you have to look at whatever opportunities are available to you in any given moment, no matter how simple they may seem, and just pick the one that actually contains the most excitement that you have the greatest degree of ability to act on with zero expectation and act on it.

Asker: There was some excitement there, but it just it’s not like it’s much. It’s not like it’s a whole business or as I said…

Bashar: Look at the opportunities available to you at every given moment, no matter what they are. Maybe the most exciting thing at any given moment might just be taking a walk on the beach. If that’s the most exciting thing that you can imagine doing out of all the options available to you at that particular moment, do it with no expectation of where it will lead you or why you’re doing it and no plan. If it contains the most excitement out of all the things you’re actually capable of acting on, act on it with zero expectation. And then when you’ve taken that as far as you can, look for the next most exciting thing to present itself to you. Whatever it is, no matter how simple it is, even if it seems completely unconnected to what you just did, act on the thing that has the highest excitement that you have the greatest degree of ability to act on with zero expectation. If you keep doing that, your excitement will build back up into a very clear form. But you have to take those steps.

Asker: So it’s not masked in my case.

Bashar: It’s not masked at all except by your definitions that mask it. But if you will allow yourself to simply clear all the clutter out of your mind and just do what we’re suggesting a step at a time, you will lead yourself back to clarity with regard to bigger things that excite you.

Asker: I get it more like it’s a roll and a flow cuz it’s worked that way from before.

Bashar: That’s how it always works. So if you try to do it in any other way, it won’t work. That’s how it works. That’s the nature and the structure of existence. That’s how it’s designed to work. So use the structure that’s there. You don’t have to reinvent it. You don’t have to make it work. Just have to allow it to work and act on it. That’s all. Just act on the mechanism that it’s designed into that’s built into existence. Follow your highest excitement at every given moment with zero expectation to the best of your ability. It’s all you have to do. Period. Everything else will unfold automatically if you let it and don’t over analyze and don’t overthink it.