Are you having a near life experience?

Opening Discussion: Near-Death Experiences vs. Near-Life Experiences

There is a growing number of reports of near-death experiences on your planet.

In most of these near-death experiences, the people seem to be markedly changed when they return to your physical reality.

They have been given perspectives, new insights, new understandings, and in returning with those new ideas, then they recognize their connection to all things.

They begin to live their life more fully. They understand there is nothing to fear about death, that it is just a transition to another state, and that you will always exist even if you change form. You are always still going to be you. And in realizing all these things, they have a renewed respect, a profound renewal of energy and insight, and active in their lives they become, and they begin to really serve all in the best possible way, which of course is the best way to serve yourself.

You don’t necessarily need anymore to have a near-death experience in order to have a fuller life, in order to act more fully on the things that excite you. And so, unless of course that is what you actually prefer to have, we offer you this night the idea of what might be called a master permission slip, so that you can utilize this to begin to infuse your life with the same energy that will allow you to live your life much more fully without necessarily having to kill yourself to do it again. If you want to do that we won’t stop you, but we are letting you know that there are other ways in which this can be done, so that if you prefer another path, that other path is available to you by acting on your highest joy.

What is a Permission Slip?

Many people have asked for different kinds of permission slips by which they can help accelerate their energy, uplift their energy, align their energy more to the vibration of their true core self, their higher mind.

We have delivered such permission slips.

A permission slip is any tool, any technique, any ritual, any object that you are attracted to with your present belief system that allows you to simply believe that you can give yourself more permission to be who you are. You’re the one doing it, you’re the one giving yourself permission.

But sometimes, because we understand that many of the definitions within you are in your unconscious mind, you may not be necessarily aware of what is holding you back. But you can always know when you are attracted to a particular ritual, technique, tool or object that seems to excite you more than any other path, and that is always an indication that at that moment that will be the permission slip that may work best for you.

When you use it you may become a different person afterwards, which means that you may then from that point forward be attracted to a very different permission slip because you are now different.

So if the attraction to different permission slips happens to change, that’s all right. You can go with the flow.

The Master Permission Slip

We called this a master permission slip because we have designed it specifically to key into the mass consensus archetypal symbols that are common for most of you, based on the collective agreement you all made together to participate in the Earth game.

You have created a large collective unconsciousness and consciousness through which to play this game, many of you are automatically, unknowingly tapping into that archetypal level, that collective level.

And so in designing this permission slip to take advantage of that connection, these ideas we present to you now may work for most of you.

it is really up to you to decide what works for you as a permission slip.

The Seven-Week Permission Slip

All right. Now before we go through the reading of this, you will be of course taking home a copy of this so that you can practice and have it before you and get used to it. We will also say that there is a very important part of this particular permission slip that is actually not written on the paper that will come at the end after the reading, and we will explain why it is not actually written down.

This is designed to be done for seven weeks.

At the end of that seven weeks, doing this every day with each new approach for each day Monday through Sunday, you will begin to experience changes in your frequency, changes in your vibration as you go along, so that by the end of the seven times seven, the 49 days, you will experience yourself having different thoughts in different ways, seeing different perspectives you may not have seen before, feeling vibration, sensing things you didn’t sense before, perceiving things that might have been heretofore invisible to you about yourself, and recognizing more strongly that you truly are at the end of this permission slip a different person than was there at the beginning. This is what it’s for, to help you shift very smoothly in this way through a transformation, through an awakening, through an opening of yourself, so that you can experience as a process the actual daily shifting of your energy and the actual different reflections that will result from the shifts that you are making in that energy in your consciousness.

Monday: Air

Monday is air. One deep breath in before each statement.

Looking at yourself in the mirror. Look right into your eyes when you do this. Do not waver. Understand you are making a connection to another aspect, another reflection of your inner being when you do this. So that as you take the breath and make each statement, you are looking into your eyes as best as you can during the entire statement.

The first statement: “I am a child of creation.” (breathe) “I am a child of creation.” (breathe) “I am unique.” (breathe) “I am unique.” (breathe) “I am worthy.” (breathe) “I am worthy.”

The reason it also is arranged in this order — air, water, food, etc. — is because it is arranged in the order of the things you cannot live without, starting from the one that would be most difficult to live without, because you can’t hold your breath that long. Water you can live without food for a while, but water comes first, and then food, etc. They are arranged in the order in which you actually need them for survival.

Tuesday: Water

Tuesday is water: one sip of water before each statement. So you have your little water glass on Tuesday and you look in the mirror right into your eyes. Swallow.

“I am happy.” (sip) “I am happy.” (sip) “I am grateful.” (sip) “I am grateful.” (sip) “I am refreshed.” (sip) “I am refreshed.”

Then you go on about your day. You are doing this in the morning, you are doing this before you go to bed every single day.

Wednesday: Food

Wednesday is food. One small bite and swallow before each statement, so you don’t choke. So have something small that you enjoy. Doesn’t matter what it is, something you really enjoy that’s not too much, and you take a bite and you chew and really relish it, even if it’s not actually relish, and swallow. And say while looking in your eyes in the mirror:

“I am abundant.” (bite) “I am abundant.” (bite) “I am nurtured.” (bite) “I am nurtured.” (bite) “I am fulfilled.” (bite) “I am fulfilled.”

Thursday: Love and Encouragement

Thursday is love and encouragement. One hug with each statement. And so you begin in the mirror like this to yourself and say:

“I am supported.” (hug yourself) “I am supported.” (switch) “I am guided.” (hug) “I am guided.” (switch) “I am loved.” (hug) “I am loved.”

Go on about your day or go to bed, whichever one it is, morning or evening.

Friday: Freedom

Friday is freedom. One spin, arms outstretched, for each statement. This you can do arms outstretched and one revolution around.

With each spin: “I am awake.” (spin) “I am awake.” (spin) “I am powerful.” (spin) “I am powerful.” (spin) “I am free.” (spin) “I am free.”

And that’s all right because this is all about altered states, so dizzy is good.

Saturday: Passion

Saturday is passion. Say your favorite word. Find a favorite word and look in the mirror and say it three times. The word is going to be different for everyone, everybody.

And the next is your favorite sound. So have something that generates a sound that you love and listen to it for three seconds.

And then finally, see your favorite image. You can have a picture posted on the mirror or you can see it in your mind, but again allow yourself to see it and just see it internally or see it externally again for three seconds.

Sunday: Dream and Connect

Sunday is dream and connect.

They have already on your planet done studies to show that you can dream and get very little sleep and you will be tired but you will be all right. But you can get all the sleep in the world and if you don’t dream you will go psychotic very quickly, because you are making a connection back to the higher mind, back to your natural state, and you are re-energizing, reconnecting, restabilizing the idea of your physical persona. Because your physical persona is just a projection, is just a dream, is just an illusion. And without that reconnection there really isn’t much there because it’s just smoke and mirrors.

Say each line with your eyes closed. The first one is “I am rested.” Say that three times. “I am rested. I am rested. I am rested.”

And next: “I am connected.” Say that three times. “I am connected. I am connected. I am connected.”

And finally: “My life is a dream come true.” “My life is a dream come true.” “My life is a dream come true.” “My life is a dream come true.”

Then again you go on about your day or you go to sleep, whichever it is, morning or evening.

The Unwritten Portion: The Test of Truth

And that’s the part that’s also very important, that which is not written. And it is this: as you go through this down the list with each statement every day, pay close attention to anything that you may say that suddenly brings up any kind of a feeling within you. And pay attention to that feeling to see if the feeling is representative of either a positive or a negative definition within you that you may not realize is there.

These can be read or seen or viewed in a sense like what you typically call affirmations. And affirmations are fine as permission slips, but understand that if you are saying “I am powerful” but while you’re saying it deep down in your unconscious mind you don’t believe it, then saying it will actually feel odd to you if you’re paying attention to your emotions, to your energy. And if it does, if there’s any even a minor bit of resistance in there, that is telling you that there is something there that needs to be discovered, needs to be explored, needs to be identified and brought to the surface consciously, so that you can let go of what doesn’t belong within you, what is not aligned with your true core being.

So this is not just a series of nice sayings, it’s not just a series of affirmations. It is a test of truth — your own truth within yourself — about how deeply you know each of these things to be true or not true about you. They are all true, but you may have definitions and beliefs that in some way, shape or form are whispering in your ear saying, “I’m not sure if this is really true about me.” And if that comes up, even one speck, pay attention to it. Work with it. Find that definition, identify it, and when you do, let it go, for it does not serve you.

Use it this way every day of the week for seven weeks. Longer if you wish, shorter if you wish. It’s up to you to make the adjustments according to your imagination and attraction. But we will strongly encourage you to do it for the 49 days, because we guarantee that when you do, if you use it in the way we have just described — not only the written but the unwritten portion as well — you will not be the same. And you will know more and more clearly who you truly are, or at the very least who you truly prefer to be. And you will know a lot more about those definitions that exist within your personality structure.

And it will all come down to the two words, the two very powerful words that have been in your society forever as the true secret of empowerment: know thyself.

This is a permission slip and an exercise that is an x-ray on your consciousness, and will again, if you’re paying attention, allow you to very deeply investigate and reveal who you are. And that’s why you are looking in the mirror, because every day you do this, you’re going to recognize the next day and the next day and the next week and the next week that the person you’ve been looking at at the end is not the same person who was there at the beginning.

Tomorrow Night’s Preview: The Black Box

The Black Box is where we will be investigating and exploring the tools and the tricks that negative belief uses to trick you into holding yourself back from being who you are. So this can aid and assist you in moving through those tricks in a variety of ways, as well as the other neutralizers we will share with you tomorrow night of your time. You can use these together very powerfully to extract yourself from the tools and tricks of negative beliefs and see them for the smoke and the mirrors that they truly are.

Our transmission on Sunday is 2015 to 2016 — the years of expansion and contraction. During the Holographic Meditation, we are going to do something very different. We have never done before.

Question 1: Adam and Eve and the Bible

Questioner: My first question is, expand more on the idea of Adam and Eve. Were a lot of the stories in the Bible just kind of made up stories?

Bashar: They are allegorical for the most part, although there are parts of them that are somewhat literal. But overall they are used as metaphors to describe things that there was really no understanding or language for on one level, but the concepts were understood and framed in story-like ways, in parable ways, that could be understood by the people of the time more clearly.

The idea for example of Adam and Eve is simply the recognition of the beginning of what you would call the human race by the genetic manipulation of an extraterrestrial race using the natural hominid species that evolved on your planet that you refer to as either Homo Habilis or Homo Erectus, that were genetically altered to contain some of the extraterrestrial genetics and create what you now refer to as yourselves as Homo Sapiens. The idea in an ancient language is that Adam, or Adama, simply means man.

Question 2: Dream About Alabama

Questioner: I’ve been following your teachings for about a month now. Last Tuesday I had a dream and it told me to go back to Alabama. It was very clear and very distinct. It said go back to Alabama and then I woke up. I came to California to… what does Alabama mean to you in terms of an energy state?

Bashar: Not necessarily the physical state.

Questioner: It’s a low energy for me.

Bashar: A low energy. And so that is not an energy state you wish to go back to, correct? So you were given an opportunity to decide for yourself in that dream whether that was a state you preferred or not. And now you have clarity about the fact, even more so than before, that that is not an energy state you wish to experience.

Questioner: In the dream it basically said go back to Alabama. I looked at it as an opportunity to either start a business because it’s cheaper down there. But is that what excites you?

Bashar: That’s what I’ve been trying to work on.

Bashar: If there is any hesitation at all in your answer of yes when asked if something excites you, then the hesitation is an indication that that’s not what excites you. Any hesitation. So you don’t have to try and work on it. All you have to do is ask the same question you were asked in the dream, the same kinds of questions. That’s why you were given the question, because it shows you, it demonstrates to you, how you can easily understand what the direction of your true self is by asking a question and finding out how quickly you answer that question positively or negatively, yes or no. Because that tells you exactly what is true for you, or at least gives you an opportunity to find out why you’re answering the way you’re answering.

Because sometimes you can certainly disguise your excitement and make it seem to not be your excitement. Conversely, you can also take something that is really not your excitement and pretend that it is, so that you don’t face or have to face the fears that come up when you actually move in the direction of your true excitement.

Questioner: I think I’m disguising it. That’s what I feel. I’m disguising my excitement.

Bashar: All right. But the idea is that you can decide for yourself what is really preferable, because the idea of acting on your highest excitement means that all the components of it have to really be in alignment with your excitement: what it is you’re doing, how it is you’re doing it, where it is you’re doing it, with whom you’re doing it, so on and so forth. Have to all line up, or it’s not really a full expression of your excitement.

So by asking yourself or telling yourself from another level to go back to Alabama and finding out what your reaction to that is, you get an opportunity to decide whether that actually is in your best interests by looking deep within yourself to see if you are making it seem not exciting when it could be, or whether it’s truly not representative of what would really excite you in life. And if you find that it is really not representative of what would excite you in life, then any other factor you need to consider doesn’t really need to be considered to the detail that you are considering it. For example, as you said, “Well maybe I need to move my business there because it’s cheaper.” But if that’s not really a place that’s representative of your excitement, then the success of your business doesn’t have to require a state where it’s cheaper. That means you will attract what you need to do it where you are more excited to do it. You understand?

Questioner: Why would I have the dream? It was so vivid and then I woke up. I feel like it was my spirit guide, because a week before I asked the spirit guide to show me something.

Bashar: I didn’t ask for anything specific, but the spirit guide knows what you need to hear. And telling you to go back to Alabama doesn’t mean you have to go back to Alabama. It’s telling you: look at your response or reaction to the statement, and that will guide you.

In other words, let me give you a simplified version of this. Sometimes people on your planet find they have a difficult time making a decision between this or that. And sometimes you say, “Well, flip a coin.” Well sometimes that’s actually not a bad idea, because when you flip the coin, whatever it comes up, you’ll see if you feel “Yes, that’s what I wanted” or “Darn, I wish it was the other side.” And that may give you an immediate answer, because then you can realize, well, you don’t have to do it just because it came up tails, because you now realize that you actually preferred heads.

So it’s another way, another permission slip, of making your decision more definitive by really paying attention to the energy of your response to a statement. So the sentence “Go back to Alabama” is as definitive a statement as the flipping of a coin, heads or tails. So don’t take the dream literally. Take it for the literalness of the energy you experienced within yourself in response to the statement.

Because the things that excite you don’t necessarily have to come to fruition in the way that you think. So never pay attention to what something appears to be on the surface. Even that sentence, there is an underlying reason why the sentence is there, and you will understand the underlying reason when you pay attention to your response to it, not to the sentence itself. The sentence is just a mechanism to get you in touch with how you really feel about that reality and to point out to you that if you really, really understand that being in Alabama is not in alignment with your true vibration of excitement, then you don’t have to worry about the details like “Well maybe it needs to be in a place that’s cheaper,” because excitement is a whole kit. It’s a holistic idea. And if you know any one part of it, then all you have to do is simply look for the other things that have equal excitement and not get in your own way by making negative assumptions that don’t have to be made, because you don’t need to work out all the details. It’s already worked out. All you need to do is know what the excitement is, take whatever action you can on it to the best of your ability, and have absolutely zero insistence or assumption as to what the outcome ought to be, knowing that whatever the outcome is, it will be the perfect outcome. And you will attract with synchronicity everything you need to allow it to be what it needs to be as an expanded representation of your excitement.

Questioner: I’m just trying to wrap my head around why would the spirit guide give me something that was so unclear?

Bashar: It’s not unclear. It’s very clear. When you were given the sentence “Go back to Alabama,” what was the first reaction you felt?

Questioner: I didn’t want to go.

Bashar: How clear is that? All I’m saying is give yourself a moment to figure out whether your response is actually indicative of a true reflection of your excitement or whether you’re coloring it to make it seem unexciting when it might be. But as soon as you figure out that it might actually be representative of your true excitement, if that’s what you figure out, you have your clear answer: don’t go there, because it’s not representative of your excitement. How much clearer does it need to be?

Questioner: You know, why do you keep saying it’s not clear?

Bashar: We understand why. Thank you. Your spirit guide is actually helping. You have an assumptive definition in your mind, the way you think guides are supposed to talk to you. That is incorrect.

Questioner: So how are they supposed to talk?

Bashar: The way that they gave it to you invokes a process. Life is about the process you go through in discovering what you’re truly all about. They don’t just hand you answers on a platter. That’s not living. That’s having someone live your life for you, like you are a puppet on a string — go here, go there, do this, now go to sleep, wake up, brush your teeth.

So the idea is that a guide does their job best when they allow you to be your own best guide, because that’s what they’re training you to do. That’s why they are a guide, not a do-it-all-for-you person. So they will always give you the information in a way that invokes a process. And the process actually was a very simple one: all you had to do was pay attention to your reaction to the statement, and you had your answer. Very simple. But that’s what they’re training you to do — pay attention to your response to statements so that you know how to guide yourself, because you know how you feel when you’re given a proposal, when you’re given a statement. You know how you feel about it. The only thing you have to do is make sure you’re not coloring it to make it seem something other than what it is. But when you are clear about the idea that your response is a genuine, authentic response, your answer is clear. But you had to go through a process in order to get it, because it’s not going to be done for you.

Questioner: Do you have a name for my guide so that when I talk to it I won’t just make up a name?

Bashar: The guide says you may use Phillip.

Question 3: Contract with Grace and Tinnitus

Questioner: My first question is: do I have a contract with the Grace?

Bashar: Yes.

Questioner: Which kind of contract?

Bashar: A contract to allow certain genetic patterns within you to form templates upon which hybrid beings can be created.

Questioner: I had experiences during AASA sessions that the being… first I was thinking it was an attack, but…

Bashar: It’s not an attack. It is simply an opportunity to explore your own fears and let them go. If you want to call those options, then by all means you can. You always have the option to explore a fear, know that you are safe in doing so, and let it go because it no longer serves you as an idea, thus allowing you to become more and more expressive of who you truly are.

Questioner: Do I have a responsibility to them?

Bashar: You have responsibility to everyone, but you’re never responsible for anyone. You have the responsibility to them to be yourself as best as you possibly can, because that’s what this is all about.

Questioner: I tend to… I beg your pardon?

Bashar: You tend or you choose? One implies you are empowered, one implies you are not. “I tend” — it’s out of my control, I don’t know what I’m doing. Or “I choose” — even if it’s negative, “I choose” gives you power to deal with it. “I tend” removes the power from your hands because it sounds like it’s something you can’t help. And once you know you have a habit, you don’t have it anymore. A habit is something you do you don’t know you’re doing. If you know you’re doing it, it’s gone.

Questioner: I have tinnitus since more than 30 years and it’s becoming over the years stronger and stronger.

Bashar: Leave your email with the people that run this organization and information will be sent to you.

Question 4: Fractal Universe

Questioner: Does the universe have a fractal structure?

Bashar: Yes. Your universe does. Not all of them do, but yours does, and many do.

Questioner: So I can find a whole new universe in one aspect of this?

Bashar: Yes, fractal. And that is usually the way it is laid out when fractals are involved. But there are other ways in which universes can express themselves.

Question 5: Medical Journalist and Finding Excitement

Questioner: I’m a medical journalist and I do research. My highest excitement is to find out what my highest excitement is.

Bashar: Good luck with that. You’ll be looking for a long time. When we talk about the idea of acting on your highest excitement, we don’t mean it has to come in the form of a career or a project long term. We simply mean at any given moment you have a number of options available to you of things that you can take action on in your life, and all you need to do is act on the one at any given moment that has more excitement than any other. And you’ll be doing the same thing. If it ultimately turns into something that you could call a career or a job or a project, that’s fine, because one expression of excitement is connected to all other expressions of excitement. That’s part of the kit. But you don’t have to start that way. You can start with baby steps and just keep acting on what’s most exciting that’s right in front of your face.

Questioner: I do that.

Bashar: Well then you don’t have to go looking for what your excitement is, because you’re doing what is your highest excitement every moment by simply making those choices.

Question 6: Young Being from Another Civilization (Preview)

Questioner: I find your expression so funny.

Bashar: We think many of you are quite hilarious too, in fact. Since you bring it up, I will now let you in on a little preview of something to come in your year of 2015. In one of our transmissions, we will bring in a young being from our society who has absolutely no idea what your society is like, and you’re going to get the opportunity to explain some concepts to him. It’ll be a lot of fun, I guarantee.

In a transmission like this, we will facilitate the training that he has had sufficiently to communicate with you. But understand that when we as first contact specialists contact a civilization, we have already had at least one incarnation in that civilization so that we understand the civilization, so we have a frame of reference so that we’re not too alien. But this being, while being trained as a first contact specialist, does not yet have an incarnation in your civilization. And therefore you’re going to really get to see the difference in the concepts you think are very obvious as compared to what one of our natural people actually perceives you to be.

Questioner: Is this going to be like a little alien baby?

Bashar: It’s not a baby. It’s a young being on our planet in physical form, a physical being, but will channel through just as I am channeling through right now. And you will get a chance to speak with him and he will get a chance to speak with you.

Question 7: Following Excitement with Zero Insistence

Questioner: Follow your excitement to the best of your ability with zero insistence on the outcome. Many of you forget that third part quite conveniently. That’s the whole formula. That’s the formula that opens excitement up as the complete kit, no resistance.

Questioner: What if you feel like you have to do something? I find many things excite me.

Bashar: That’s all right. There can be many different expressions of your excitement. That’s why you just need to follow the thread. The thread of what excites you at any given moment that you have the greatest ability to take action on is the thing to do at that moment, knowing that it’s all connected and would lead you to any other expression of your excitement that needs to be expressed in your life.

Questioner: I find it so easy to get off that thread.

Bashar: If you’re following the thread, how can you be off it?

Questioner: Let’s say I’m with a group of people, family or something, and I really want to do something totally different.

Bashar: If it is actually truly representative of your excitement, then that’s the thing to do. However, we also remind you that many people on your planet confuse anxiety with excitement. And that’s why we initially said you have to first be honest about whether or not what you say you’re actually excited about is actually a definition of excitement, because it may not be. You may be in denial about things and wanting to go this way and go that way because there’s something else you don’t want to look at within yourself, and then calling it excitement so you have an excuse to go do something else and not pay attention to what you really need to process.

You have to decide whether that’s what’s happening or whether it is truly representative of your highest excitement. And also ask yourself: why, if you have a real definition of excitement, a true definition of excitement, which by the way in the complete kit is also the organizing principle of your life — remember that — as one of the tools in the kit, the organizing principle that allows synchronicity to bring you what you need exactly when you need it in the order you need it. Why would you create a definition of excitement that piled those things on top of each other so quickly that you couldn’t finish one or two of them? That may not be a definition of excitement if you don’t actually have time to enjoy what you’re excited about.

So pay attention to the fact that you may be creating a definition that is not actually purely a definition of excitement, with certain assumptions that you have to go hither, thither and yon in order to be expressing excitement, running around with your hair on fire, which isn’t always necessarily an indication of excitement. So the best solution to that is just be as present as you can be. Because remember, there are many expressions of excitement, and sometimes even being in a balanced state of meditative peace can be a complete expression of excitement. So there’s no rush.

Questioner: I easily get frustrated.

Bashar: That’s the clue right there. When you say “I easily get frustrated,” it’s because you have a definition that creates the feeling of frustration. If you understand that all feelings exist only because of something you believe to be true first, you can’t have an emotional response to something that you don’t believe in. So if you have a certain emotional response, that’s an indication, that’s your first clue, that that response has to be intimately connected with a definition that is generating that response. So if that’s the case, you take a moment, you take a breath, you take a pause, and you allow to ask the questions from one direction or another.

“What would I have to believe is true about myself in this situation in order to feel the way I do?” That’s one way to ask the question. Another way to ask the question, because we understand that many of the definitions you may be holding on to might be fear-based, is to actually use the fear to your advantage and ask the question from the reverse angle, which is: “If I really allowed myself to be who I truly prefer to be, what am I most terrified will actually happen?”

One way or another, when you ask the question from one direction or another, if you’re willing to hear the answer, then in some way, shape or form, the answer will be presented to you — whether in your life when you’re awake, when you’re dreaming, synchronicity — one way or another, the answer will come if you’re willing to hear the answer.

So anytime you have a feeling that you feel uncomfortable with, stop and ask the question: “What would I have to believe is true about myself in order to feel this way in this circumstance?” And then listen. You’ll get the answer if you’re willing to hear it. But the only thing that would keep you from being willing to hear the answer is if you have another belief that says if you find out that answer, it’s going to be horrible and you’re going to find out that your worst nightmare is actually going to come true. This is what we’ll be talking about tomorrow night about one of the tricks of negative beliefs.

As we said in a session called Angels and Demons, negative beliefs are the father of lies. You understand that biblical phrase? That’s actually what the biblical phrase means. It’s referring to the idea of the negative beliefs that have the sole duty and the structure of convincing you that there is no other possible belief. So they will say anything to get you to stay in that state because that’s their job, that’s what they’re designed to do. You have to know differently. And that’s what will be discussed tomorrow night of your time — how to do that.

Question 8: Prayer

Questioner: When it comes to prayer, from what I understand, it’s about faith and believing it already exists. It’s about receiving, knowing it exists, knowing it’s already here, and being in a state of gratitude that it already exists.

Bashar: You have to pray as if it’s already a done deal, not for something you want, because then that keeps it out there in the wanting state. But if you know it’s already a done deal, then you know that it will manifest at exactly the perfect moment, not a second before the perfect moment when it serves you best, but not a second later than the perfect moment. So once you are in that state of gratitude for what you already have — that may simply be invisible to you at the moment — just go on about your life and let it manifest when it serves you best.

Question 9: Face-to-Face Contact Timeline

Questioner: I am very interested in the phenomenon of contact. I mean a step further, to have actual communication… face to face.

Bashar: That will happen eventually when you’re really ready, because you’re not ready yet. Trust me. That’s why I’m not experiencing that?

Questioner: Because not ready.

Bashar: You’re not ready. And it’s not ready for many people on your planet. When it will start to happen will be the timing that will benefit everyone the most. As the energy exists on your planet now, the highest degree of probability for the window of the beginning of face-to-face contact between your world and other worlds will be between 2025 and 2033. That’s the highest probability window of when it will begin. But there’s no rush. We’ve done this many times with many different civilizations. We know what we’re doing. We know that this dispensation of information is the first step in the idea of moving toward contact, depending upon how the information we deliver is received and applied. Because we use the way in which you handle the information we already deliver to determine whether or not you’re actually ready for more information.

Questioner: Last night I had a dream of a ship that was very beautiful. It was round like a ball of silver, and around it were spinning several rings like Saturn. I wonder if they came as an answer to my wanting to have more contact?

Bashar: Yes. And do you know who they are?

Questioner: I do.

Bashar: Who are they?

Questioner: I’m not telling.

Bashar: But I will tell you this, as we have said to many of you before: almost all of you have already actually had face-to-face contact. You just don’t remember it, because you are made to forget by agreement, because the rate at which you remember you’ve had contact — whether in awaking state or in dreams or what have you — the rate at which you remember you’ve already had contact is used as a barometer to determine when you’re actually ready for more.

Questioner: Would it be possible for us to have a real photograph of you eventually?

Bashar: That’s also when we’re ready. You already have real photographs of our ships. Eventually you will have real photographs of us.