Moving to the US

Doing the Work You’re Prepared For

Questioner: I have been experiencing things since I was very young that have prepared me for certain kind of work with children and people who are…

Bashar: Are you doing that work?

Questioner: No, I’m not. Because I don’t really know where to start.

Bashar: Where’s your imagination? Are you acting on your highest excitement every moment that you can to the best of your ability with no assumption of the outcome?

Questioner: Yeah, I think I’m doing pretty good. I’m training.

Bashar: Training for what? Understand that the best way to learn is by doing. Experience comes from actually doing. So why not let your imagination guide you and start doing what excites you in whatever way you can, even if it’s not the way you ultimately wind up doing it? It doesn’t matter. You will never do it the way you will ultimately do it if you don’t start doing some version of it now. So do the version you are capable of imagining that you can do. Take action on whatever you can that is at least the best representation of the idea you are capable of mustering up in your physical reality, and one thing will lead to another.

Moving to the US

Questioner: I have been drawn to the US since I was 10 years old and I lived here twice, but for some reason I’m hesitating to move here.

Bashar: Remember again, please: the thing that excites you the most isn’t necessarily the thing that needs to come to fruition. Sometimes the thing that excites you excites you because it just needs to get you to move in a direction, and then something else may excite you once you’re moving. So that’s why you need to drop all the insistence and assumption about something coming to fruition, because you don’t actually know that the thing at a given moment that excites you is actually the thing that needs to come to pass. It may just be the thing that gets you off your butt so that you can run into the thing that is actually going to come to fruition. So if you move in a direction, take action to the best of your ability in the direction of what’s exciting you, you will wind up where you need to wind up.

Questioner: I’ve heard you say it 30 times but still…

Bashar: Obviously, sometimes even though you may have heard something 30 times, when you finally get it, that means you actually finally heard it. Because you’ve made it your own. That’s why you get it. You finally understand how to make the concept your own and allow it to be true for you.

Remember that the things you know to be true, you just do. If I ask you to walk, you just walk. You don’t say, “Hmm, I wonder if I can walk over there. I think I believe I can walk over there. I don’t know, I’m not sure.” You don’t go through that. You just walk. Action and knowing are synonymous. The things you know are true are in your behavior. You just do them. And that’s the degree that you need to know the concepts that are being discussed. They just need to be in your behavior. They need to be your first nature, not second nature.

And then you will get the reflection of that knowledge, of that knowingness, because it will be who you actually are. And you will be demonstrating who you are in your behavior, and then creation can reflect that absolute knowingness and certainty back to you. Any hesitation, any self-doubt — that’s what gets reflected back: hesitation and doubt. And remember, of course doubt is not a lack of trust. Doubt is 100% trust in a definition you don’t prefer. So why not trust in what you do prefer instead of what you don’t? It’s the same mechanism. It’s going to work for you either way. Why not allow it to work for you in the positive side rather than the negative side, by trusting in what you prefer instead of trusting in what you don’t prefer?

Question 12: Connecting with Souls Who Have Passed

Questioner: As part of my mission or my contract, I work to connect with souls who’ve passed over. Sometimes I hear, sometimes I get an impression, sometimes there’s no sound, I just see like a little bit of a movie strip.

Bashar: It will come in many ways, whatever works best at that moment, or automatic writing.

Questioner: I have a family now that I’m working with in Los Angeles. There are 30… 3,400 to 3,500 people who go missing every year, and there are only four detectives who work to try and find them. The family I’m working with… if she’s found, of course will not be alive. They need to have closure so that the whole family can move on.

Bashar: Then you will give them closure.

Questioner: I have as far as I can, but until they find her body I don’t know that they will have closure.

Bashar: She can help them with that if they’re open to communicating with her in the dream state. Are they?

Questioner: I believe they are.

Bashar: Well then, why not ask the person? Why not have them ask? Because that’s the next stage. They can seek help through you and people like you who are capable of doing that, but the next stage is to allow them to know they can have contact directly. That’s empowering. And they will then know that the relationship still continues just in a different way.

Question 13: Listening to Meditations While Sleeping

Questioner: Does listening to meditations or recordings while you’re sleeping have any effect?

Bashar: It’s a permission slip like anything else. If you are attracted to that permission slip, then you will know in your imagination in what way to organize it and arrange it so that it will be beneficial in the way that you prefer it to be. But if you have definitions within you that it will be disturbing, then guess what? It will be disturbing. You’re the one in charge. You get to decide what it will do for you as a permission slip, because remember, you’re the one giving yourself permission. You’re just using this idea as a reflection to make it seem easier to do.

It’s a huge cosmic joke. You have used your self-empowerment to make it seem as if you’re powerless. You’re using 100% of your brain to make it seem as if you’re only using 10%. You’re going to find out how funny when you talk to that member of our society that doesn’t have an incarnation in your society.

Question 14: UFO Demonstrations Over Missile Sites

Questioner: In the early 80s, you said that our government had been given a demonstration that we would not be able to annihilate ourselves nuclearly. After the 30 years secrecy was lifted in 1997, I saw a show: two colonels at Minuteman sites had had the same experience — UFOs over the front gates, panicking, calling into the colonels, and both had 20 minuteman missiles go up ready, which is not possible. Was that one of your demonstrations?

Bashar: All those demonstrations over missile sites have either scrambled the codes or electromagnetically shut off the codes or tampered with the firing mechanisms in a variety of ways to demonstrate that nuclear annihilation would not be allowed because it affects more than just your world. If you want to have an isolated nuclear incident, you can have that. We can’t stop you there because it’s part and parcel of your learning curve. But the idea of total global thermonuclear war — you have on a collective consciousness level already decided that you’re not going to do that anyway.

Question 15: TV Show and Multiverse

Questioner: I am trying to get a new TV show off the ground. The excitement is there, but I have a concern. Is the timing about right?

Bashar: I can’t tell you that. The timing was perfect until you asked if the timing was right. Then it wasn’t.

Questioner: My concern is that if you and Darryl were to do a spot on this show, it would bring worldwide attention to you both.

Bashar: That is none of your concern. You can put out whatever invitation you want. If the synchronicity is representative of the best of all concerned, then what needs to happen will happen. But we can’t predict that yet because there are things in motion. And we cannot give you definitives that will lock you into a certain path that hasn’t been decided by you yet. You cannot rely on the idea of needing certain things in order to know that whatever your vision is will be successful in its own terms, whatever that looks like. You’re putting the cart before the horse.

Questioner: I’ve always thought of the universe as being All-That-Is, but you said there can be multi-universes.

Bashar: It’s a multiverse. But that can also from one level be seen as one thing too.

Questioner: Is that multi-dimensional?

Bashar: Same thing.

Question 16: Earth’s Magnetic Field and Pole Flips

Questioner: What generates the Earth’s magnetic field and why do the poles drift and eventually flip?

Bashar: The molten core, the spinning of the Earth around the molten core around the solid core, generates an electromagnetic field. But there are fluctuations in the field, there are cycles and perturbations of resonance within the field that have natural cycles of moving around.

Questioner: What’s the time span of the natural cycle?

Bashar: It depends on certain things. Give or take, you will find that it can be several hundred thousand years.

Questioner: What is the duration of the actual flipping of the poles?

Bashar: It’s not an absolute. It can vary depending upon many other factors. It has been from time to time as quick as 24 hours. Sometimes it has taken what you would call months, even years.

Questioner: When that does happen in a time span of 24 hours, what happens to the Earth itself?

Bashar: It depends upon what exists upon the Earth at that time, because there can be certain effects that will happen to what you would call plant life, animal life, human life, so on and so forth, depending upon the level of your technology that may also be affected. The idea of interference patterns within the shifting electromagnetic field can cause shifts within the electromagnetic fields of living organisms and also electronic equipment.

Question 17: Reincarnation

Questioner: I need some clarification on reincarnation.

Bashar: It appears to be that you have reincarnation from the linear perspective. It’s real as an experience from the linear perspective. But as a description of the mechanism, it’s not accurate, because everything exists all at once. So the structure: all lives, all experiences exist right now. But you can see them, you can view them, you can experience them as if they happened one after another. So if they do happen one after another as we see, you can make it seem as if they do, but they don’t actually. That’s just an experience of the structure from a certain perspective.

The structure is that everything exists now. Therefore what you’re experiencing is in your present life you are making energetic and informational connections to other lives that exist right now. But you interpret those connections as a memory because you’re looking at those connections from a linear space-time perspective. But that’s an illusion. But it’s real as an experience, but it’s not real as a description of the mechanism.

It’s similar to the idea of your film strip. When you view a movie, you can shine the projector light through the different frames to create the illusion of time and change and movement and things happening one after another on the movie screen. But the projectionist knows that all the frames exist on the film strip at the same time and can look at several of them at once by holding the film strip up. And can even, if the projectionist wishes, shine the light through those frames in a completely different order that has nothing at all to do with before and now and after.

But what happens to the lives that have not yet been lived? You’re not getting it. They all exist now. They just don’t seem to because you haven’t gotten to that part in the movie yet from your linear perspective. But they exist right now. Just like the film strip exists even though you might not have watched the movie yet. Just like when you’re watching your television and you’re watching one program, you know at the same time you’re watching that program there are dozens and dozens of other programs playing at the same time, all at once. You just don’t see them because you haven’t changed that channel yet. Same thing. They all exist at once.

To put it more clearly, perhaps you never actually become those people. They exist as their own people. You’re not them, they’re not you. And you never will be, and they’ll never be you. You are you, they are they. But you can make connections to all the beings that exist, and you make those connections from a linear time frame in such a way as to make it seem as if somebody existed long ago, somebody has yet to exist. That’s just an illusionary perspective. They all exist now.

Question 18: Cat’s Behavioral Change

Questioner: I tend to rescue things, mostly cats. One of the cats seemed to change very dramatically very quickly. She all of a sudden changed against the other cats. Nothing in the environment changed.

Bashar: Are you sure?

Questioner: Not that I know of.

Bashar: Is the other person living in the house going through some sort of an emotional process? Who’s the cat closer to? Are you about to embark on a different level of an adventure?

Questioner: I’d say so. We’re transitioning from traditional jobs into having our own business.

Bashar: It doesn’t matter if the cat changed before that. You understand the cats can see farther ahead than you can. So the cat may be acting as a barometer of changes to come, but reflecting them in a way that’s not yet settled. Is there something within you that’s a little unsettled about the changes that are being made?

Questioner: Oh yes, definitely.

Bashar: What is it you are unsettled about?

Questioner: It’s jumping off into the unknown.

Bashar: What’s so scary about the unknown in your definitions?

Questioner: It’s untested, unproven, no track record.

Bashar: That doesn’t explain why it has to be scary. Many people would find that concept quite thrilling and exciting — that something is new and unproven, unattested. Why isn’t that exciting for you? Why is it the cause for trepidation? Don’t you trust yourself?

Questioner: I guess not. I don’t know what’s going to happen.

Bashar: You’re holding on to the idea that if you go into the unknown, you can be surrounded by things that might not go well, that might press upon you, that might attack you, that might put you through negative experiences. The cat is simply reflecting your uncertainty, but not just uncertainty — fear in the uncertainty.

The only thing I guarantee you will ever find in the unknown is more of yourself, because that’s all there is. That’s all there is in your reality — just you, different expressions of you, different reflections of you. It’s the only thing that can possibly exist in the unknown. So don’t be afraid of yourself. Don’t be afraid of your environment. Don’t be afraid of the change. Change is all just going to point you in the direction of discovering more of who you are. That’s what the process of life is all about. It’s exciting to not know. That’s how you discover something new.

If it weren’t for the idea that you would forget who you are, you couldn’t rediscover yourself from a new perspective. Things that exist in a timeless state never change, never find anything new, never experience anything new ever. That’s why you create the experience of linear time, so that you can discover something new from a new perspective about yourself, which is ultimately an unchanging being.

So you have to fall into the idea that change has to be a constant, and that it’s okay for things to change, and it will only ever reveal to you more of what it is you actually want to discover about yourself that you don’t know yet. So anything that is unfamiliar to you now will become familiar, and then you’ll go toward another unfamiliarity, and another and another, because that’s the process of discovery, because change is the only constant.

This is a call to adventure. Look at it that way. And share that with the cat so the cat can go on the adventure with you and you can both have some fun. And then you won’t feel surrounded by the terrifying creatures that are drawn on the map — “Here be dragons.” You understand? You’re creating it to be something to be scared of. It’s nothing to be scared of. It’s just another version of you.

Question 19: Alien Contact Experiences

Questioner: I have had four alien contacts — three in my dream, one was not a dream. They weren’t all pleasant.

Bashar: Weren’t they exciting? I didn’t say they had to be pleasant, I said they were exciting. Remember that your own fears are being reflected back to you by the way you are engaging in the encounter.

Questioner: I’m not afraid of them at all.

Bashar: I didn’t say you were afraid of them. I said there were fears within you that are coming up, which is what makes them unpleasant.

Questioner: Some were creepy and disgusting.

Bashar: If you say so. But you don’t need a value judgment on that, because that’s what’s keeping you in that state of unpleasantness.

Questioner: You’re talking about having contact in the future. Are you saying they’re all benevolent? Because that was not my take on the four species.

Bashar: I am not saying that there are not the existence of beings in creation that are less than benevolent. What I am saying is the individuals you are interacting with are, but they may not necessarily appear to be because some of them don’t relate emotionally in the same way that humans do, and thus they may seem to behave in ways that you feel are very disconnected. But it’s not because they’re intentionally malicious. It’s because you’re simply alien to one another in a way that you find disturbing.

We’re in a universe of duality. That means you’re in a Trinity — there’s always a balance point between the two polarities. For every good there is a bad, there is a negative and a positive. Can we all be benevolent? There is no malevolent species in this universe? No. There may be universes in which there are none, but in the totality of existence there always must be polarity, otherwise it’s not complete.

Again, remember that polarity is not a value judgment. It’s just a recognition of positive and negative, mechanically speaking. Positive is that which is integrative, connective, expansive. Negative is that which is segregative, disconnective, contractive. That’s all. Now there are beings who will exemplify these things in ways that may be more emotional, maybe more personal. But fundamentally, the idea is that there will always be positive and negative energy. That doesn’t mean that someone has to behave in a negative way just because negative energy and negative ideas will always exist. They have the ability to choose.

But the idea is when you know it’s a Trinity, when you know there’s a balance point in the center, and when positive and negative are equal choices, equally valid choices, then you can choose what you prefer to experience regardless of anyone else’s intention toward you. But if you give your power over, then you will experience what they may suggest that you experience based on the idea that you don’t believe you’re powerful enough to experience the reality that you prefer.

Questioner: I’m very adamant about not giving my power away.

Bashar: And yet you’re experiencing some things in what you would call an unpleasant and disgusting way, which means you’re defining things from a negative point of view, and that’s giving your power away.

Questioner: My last contact was a reptilian. With all the contacts that I’ve had, they do not want to have… in fact they were surprised that I’m able to see them. And the other ones were surprised with it too. It was not something they wanted me to be aware of.

Bashar: That’s not true. You’re proceeding from a falsehood. They may have been surprised that you could perceive them. That doesn’t mean that they didn’t want you to see them. It simply means that they were not aware that you were at a place where you suddenly could. It’s a very different thing from not wanting you to.

Questioner: But then they abruptly left. So I thought maybe they did not want to continue with the contact.

Bashar: They recognized that you had made a big step and didn’t want to give you more at that moment than you believed you could handle. Now isn’t that a relatively benevolent thing to do?

Questioner: There was one I had to run away from. They chased after me. They pointed a gun — something that looked like one. When I said I don’t want to go with you, they did not take no for an answer.

Bashar: You did not take no for an answer. If you had stood your ground, they would have respected that. You didn’t need to run. Running invites chasing. Do you understand? Standing your ground and stating your case in a balanced way is something they can respond to as well. But if you run, then they’re going to think you want to be chased, because that’s what you’re demonstrating.

Questioner: That’s not how I experienced it.

Bashar: I know that’s not how you experienced it, but I’m telling you why you experienced it the way you did — because of how you’re looking at what happens. You’re defining it in a negative way that allows you to think that the choice you should make is to run, and that means you’re looking at it from a negative perspective, which is why you feel that it’s a negative thing. So I’m explaining to you why you’re having the feelings you’re having, whereas if you simply come from a positive place and stand your ground and state your case, you’ll have a completely different experience with them, because they’re not malevolent.

They are, however, very, very deeply connected to the parts of your psyche that have to do with survival instinct. So when you let your reptilian brain react in a negative way, you’re going to get the reflection from them, because they’re also acting primarily on instinct, and they’re reflecting to you the instincts you’re giving off from your reptilian brain.

Questioner: I wasn’t scared until they said “You must come with us.”

Bashar: Why must I do anything? Because they’re telling you what you’ve agreed to do. You’re just not remembering. And if you had stood your ground and had a conversation and said, “Oh, I must come with you? Please explain,” they would have explained why the sentence was translated that way. Because you’re the one insisting on having the interaction too. So all they’re doing is reflecting the absolute certainty of the agreement that you have made. “You must come with us” is just the reflection of the agreement that you’ve made.

Questioner: Can we rescind these agreements if we choose?

Bashar: There is no reason for you to want to if you understand them from the positive point of view. But yes. But recognize that if you rescind them from the negative point of view, all you’re doing again is running away, and you will never, ever escape your own fear.

Questioner: I would rescind them because I don’t know them and I don’t like to have contracts with people I don’t know for reasons I don’t know.

Bashar: You made the contracts, and on that level when you made the contract you knew what you were doing. So all you’re saying is as a physical persona, you’re not trusting the agreements that your higher self has made, and that means you’re not working with yourself completely either.

Questioner: Can I be 100% sure?

Bashar: You can, by saying you are 100% sure, by taking control of your power, by knowing that the only way that you would make such an agreement is if it actually positively served you. And when you know that and when you behave like you know that, you will experience that you know that. But until you behave like you know that, you’ll experience the opposite.

These things in a sense are tests to see how strong you are, to see how willing you are to be in concert with yourself and the agreements that you have made, instead of separating and segregating your physical mind so strongly from your higher mind and not allowing yourself to realize that you’re in control of this.

Questioner: How can we be sure other than what you’re saying?

Bashar: There is no other way. There is no other way other than to simply decide to be sure. Because what you say in your reality is what sticks. So if you just decide that you’re sure you did this for a positive reason, then you will only experience positive and beneficial effects. And if you don’t, then that means you’re locking back into the negative definitions. Don’t do that. And if you don’t do that, that’s how you can be sure — by stopping yourself from locking into negative definitions. You will be sure because then you will only experience everything in a neutral way that you can give positive meaning to, and when you give it positive meaning, you can only get a positive effect regardless of anyone else’s intention.

Questioner: I believe that.

Bashar: If you believe that, then understand you can’t experience anything you don’t agree to experience.

I guarantee you will come to a different conclusion the further you investigate this. But for now, wherever you want to be is perfect for you. We’re not trying to change your mind, we’re just exploring the dynamics of the energy patterns we see within you.

One of the things that I am allowed to spill the beans on is to remind you that in many of the encounters, in fact most of the encounters all of you have with different forms of beings, one of those beings is almost always another version of you in another reality.

Question 20: Estranged Father in Japan

Questioner: I don’t see my father for 14 years. He’s in Japan. We just stopped talking.

Bashar: Why did you stop talking?

Questioner: When I get him so upset so easy.

Bashar: He chooses to be upset. You have no power to upset him that he doesn’t agree to abide by. So why does he choose to be upset? About very small things. You understand that when people get upset about small things, they’re actually upset about something deeper and bigger. They’re just not willing to admit it, and they’re using the small things as distractions to keep them from looking at the reason they are actually upset deep down.

Are you simply saying then that you find that you are vibrationally incompatible with your father at this moment and don’t necessarily need to experience that negative energy in your life, and that’s why you’re not talking?

Questioner: Yes.

Bashar: So then you’ve made a decision to recognize that you may not necessarily be vibrationally compatible right now. Now if you are excited to communicate with him regardless of whether he wishes to communicate with you, there are certainly many other ways you can do it — you can send letters and emails and so on and so forth, and you can allow yourself to experience the joy of doing that even if he chooses not to respond. If that’s something that you prefer to do, you can do it. If you don’t, then that’s fine.

But if you have decided that it is really your preference, your highest excitement, not to necessarily communicate with someone who chooses to be negative all the time, then that’s your right to do so. And you are then demonstrating to him the consequences of the choices that he is making. Because if he is choosing to be vibrationally incompatible with you, then communication doesn’t occur between you, and that’s the consequence of the choice that he’s making. You have to show people what the consequences are of the choices that they make relative to you, so that you can be authentic with them, so they will know who they’re actually in a relationship with. Because if you’re just pretending to be who you’re not, then they’re not in a relationship with you anyway.

Question 21: Dentist’s Cruise Control (Permission Slip in Action)

Questioner: I’m a dentist. My mom has this one unit where the rheostat — that thing you press with your foot — when you would turn it on, it would not shut off. 400,000 RPM thing running amok. It would make me very anxious and even a bit angry. Then I thought, nothing has any intrinsic meaning, so I could choose to think of this any which way I want. So I stopped and said, “You know, this rheostat has cruise control.” So I just pressed it and put my foot to the side. I felt this rush of energy that was no longer fearful — it was much more joyful.

Bashar: Congratulations. You are now in alignment and no longer experiencing that you’ve bitten off more than you can chew. (Thank you for the pun.)

Questioner: I have a really strong affinity about being a contact specialist.

Bashar: Wait a minute… (That did not get the groan it really deserved. Come on — bitten off more than you can chew!)

Questioner: I’m wondering if you have some more stories like with Thuc and the Inside Out Universe that you can share.

Bashar: Not at this timing. It’s not appropriate for this moment. But there are others we will share upcoming.

Question 22: Pre-Birth Planning and Anxiety

Questioner: My latest excitement is a book called The Soul’s Plan, about pre-birth planning. I’m fascinated with this idea, but it also causes me a lot of…

Bashar: I beg your pardon. Would you like to rephrase that?

Questioner: I’m excited about this idea, and sometimes I choose to buy into negative definitions that generate anxiety within me.

Bashar: It doesn’t cause anything. You choose to be anxious. Thank you for your honesty. Now that you are willing to be responsible for what you are experiencing, you are empowered to do something about it, because you can’t change what you’re not willing to own.

Questioner: I get anxious about whether I have the ability to create certain things or whether my higher self has already chosen them before I’ve…

Bashar: Who cares? Every single appointment that has already been made will play out in the proper timing that it needs to. Why do you have to know when that might be? As long as you trust that it will happen when it needs to, you can’t miss the appointments that have been made, except if you spend your time and energy worrying if you will miss the appointments. That’s the only way to miss the appointments. If you don’t worry, you’ll miss them? You can’t miss them.

Questioner: I think about this in terms of my clients that I help. I’m trying to empower them to realize that they have the ability to heal themselves.

Bashar: And you also have this power for yourself. All you need to do is give off the vibration of your intention to help and give off the vibration that you believe best represents their healed state. But they still have to match the frequency in order to experience the healing, don’t they? And what if someone comes in with an absolute belief that they cannot be healed? Won’t you allow them to have that manifestation of not being healed as what they wished to have? Being the compassionate healer that you wish to be, will you not allow them their choices, or will you insist that they must be healed?

Questioner: I will allow them their choice.

Bashar: Then what’s your worry? Because you know that you are doing the best you can to provide an atmosphere and an environment that they can choose to match that will be representative of the healed state. And simultaneously, the energy you’re giving off is so unconditionally supportive and loving that you will even allow them to choose not to be healed. That’s how much loving support you are giving off. Therefore you will have done everything you could possibly do. So if you’re doing all you can do, what is there to be anxious about?

Questioner: There’s another new energy healing modality called The Emotion Code. It helps remove sort of trapped emotions that people have in the body.

Bashar: There’s really no such thing as trapped emotions. But there are definitions that may make it appear so. Understand the profound difference between those two statements. There is no such thing as trapped emotions, but there are definitions that may make it appear so. That statement right there is freeing, because you know there are no such things as true trapped emotions. So you’re already starting ahead of the game by knowing that the only way someone could experience it as if there are trapped emotions is if they have a definition that makes it appear so. And then you know exactly what to work with — that definition that makes it appear so. Because once they find that definition and identify it and let it go, they will no longer feel emotionally trapped. That’s how it works. You have discovered the mechanism itself that needs to be dealt with that will allow for a change in experience.

The correct definition is a description of the actual mechanism you need to work with.

Questioner: There’s a specific thing called a heart wall.

Bashar: (Laughing) By the way, yes, if you’re going to buy into the definition and concept of such a heart wall, I just showed you how to dissolve it.

Questioner: How?

Bashar: Laughter. Get them to laugh. It’ll dissolve and it will show itself for the smoke and mirrors that it is.

Question 23: Mirror Work and Seeing Changes

Questioner: I’ve been doing the mirror work — staring into my eyes. Sometimes my vision gets real dark, and after it gets dark, my appearance changes. Some parts of my face become highlighted, and sometimes my eyes…

Bashar: I’ll give you a little bit more background on why this technique is designed the way it is. Remember that when we’re talking about permission slips, there are many different forms. One of the strongest ones that many of you gravitate to are what are called tarot cards or other things that have imagery on them that you can learn to read. Remember that you’re a multi-dimensional being. When you stare into the mirror, you’re starting to create your image in the form of a tarot card of you, and all the multi-dimensional aspects of your greater being. So from time to time, just as people who read tarot cards say when they look at a picture, sometimes one thing will stand out that tells them what to say, and when they look at the same card another time, another thing will stand out from the very same card that will tell them what to say. Sometimes things stand out that they actually swear they never saw before on that card, and it will tell them what to say.

You’re turning your own image into a tarot card in this technique and are more capable of seeing all the different dimensions of the different people that may be part of the same oversoul that you are an extension from, tapping into the greater being that you are. And so of course it’s natural that from time to time you might see your shape change to take on the qualities of other aspects of the greater being of which you are a part.

So it’s giving you a little tiny bit of an ability to have a little tiny glimpse of what the oversoul sees when it sees all of its projections at once, but it’s being given to you in a way you can handle within your linear space-time frame of reference — a little bit here and a little bit there. Don’t be, as you say, freaked out if suddenly you actually begin to see more than one face at a time. That might be a natural extension of how you might use this permission slip. It doesn’t mean it has to happen for everyone that way. You’ll all have your own unique way of expressing the idea of a reflection of more of you.

Questioner: I feel impatient.

Bashar: Impatient means you’re not living in the present. You’re not enjoying what is in front of you. You’re in a rush to get somewhere else. You don’t actually need patience if you’re living in the moment. And if you don’t need patience, you will never be impatient, by enjoying everything that happens because you know whatever is happening needs to be happening, and extract the most from it that you can. Then you won’t need to be patient, and if you don’t need to be patient you won’t experience impatience.

Impatience is trying to be somewhere you’re not. You can’t be somewhere you’re not. You can pretend to be somewhere you’re not, but you can’t actually be somewhere you’re not. So the sooner you realize there’s nowhere else you can be but here and now, and the sooner you realize that everything that happens here now has a purpose to serve you and extract from it what that purpose is, what that reflection is about, then when you use that moment up for what it is, that’s when the moment can present something new to you. But the paradox is that the longer you refuse to exist in the moment, the longer it takes to experience the next moment. You’re the ones slowing it down and creating the need for patience, which then generates impatience by not living in the moment and being okay with whatever is going on in the moment — which is another way of saying you don’t trust the way your life unfolds.

So when you look in the mirror next time, look with your new eyes.