Question 17: Nutrition Business, Memory Blocks, and Astral Travel

Participant: I have spent the last seven years changing or transitioning into a different life or a vocation as well as vocation. How exciting. It has been exciting and I actually I’m working with people that are suffering through what he’s been suffering through. All right. Because I too was led there on a couple of different ways, but mine was my cognition. All right. Maybe the two of you need to have a conversation by yourselves.

Bashar: We might.

Participant: All right. So, my question I have two questions. As I’m building my new business, consulting people around nutrition, lifestyle choices. Yes. And such. Now I’ve been studying really hard and so… Well, because I feel… Does it hurt?

Participant: It does. It hurts tremendous.

Bashar: Can you be studying in a different way that’s more exciting for you?

Participant: Well, that’s not the thing. Maybe maybe we can… Maybe I’ll get to the point then you can say maybe I’m studying too hard. Well, all right. So, what happens, what’s been happening to me? One is that as I transition, my business feels like it’s really herky-jerky, slow to get really moving. And I keep thinking, well, I’ve manifested… I’ve been very aware of how I manifest for 25 years. And when I really want something, it just boom, it comes into my life.

Bashar: It’s not about what you want. It’s about what you need. Okay. And that’s where you’re getting confused.

Participant: Well, can I finish this real quick? And then you can… I suppose you can. Okay. Thank you. So I have one-to-one sessions with people and I talk about their health history and then I work with the information that comes to me and I determine or maybe they have a determination of what’s going on. But what ends up happening is at certain points I will absolutely not be able to draw upon words. I will… And it has really affected my confidence. Like words. I mean, I was talking to somebody about celiac disease and I couldn’t think of the word celiac. I couldn’t even think of the word gluten and I was like it just… I get in those moments just stunned like they’re going to think I’m an idiot. Like I shouldn’t even be here. And so my question isn’t so much… It’s one: is it that I have a block or I think I have a block? Or is it two: that I… Okay, I’ve got to back up just a little bit more for one thing. I’ve had three head injuries when I was younger and I’ve also had about four or five spinal injuries from being pretty rough. How exciting. It was exciting. But the thing is I’m wondering am I having physical things that are starting to present themselves?

Bashar: Hello. I’m listening. Okay. I’m fascinated. Okay. So, tell me about your fascination about what’s going on for me.

Participant: Oh, now you want me to answer you?

Bashar: Please. Do you realize I already gave you the answer?

Participant: I knew you were going to say that, but I just had to hear you say it.

Bashar: All right. You’re studying incorrectly for you. And that’s why you’re not knowing what you need to know when you need to know it. So when you find a way to learn what you need to learn in a way that is more enjoyable and exciting for you, you will know everything you need to know when you need to know it. You’re pushing yourself in a way that simply doesn’t work for you. So stop doing it the way someone else would do it and start learning what you need to learn the way that you really would prefer to do it. Use your imagination and find or create more imaginative, creative, and exciting ways to learn what it is that you actually need to learn. And then because you’re making different kinds of associations in your brain through having a different experience of learning those things, in a sense they will stick. You’ll know what you need to know because you’ll have different associations to the information than the associations you’re making now which don’t work for the way in which you actually best absorb information based on the ways you’re changing in life.

Participant: So, are you saying I mean in these moments when I’m completely drawing a blank on words that I know that I’ve been over, you’re saying those two are correlated?

Bashar: Yes. Because when you force yourself to learn things in a way that doesn’t work for you, one of the side effects is forgetting what you already know. That’s what happens. You are not using the right technique and therefore the whole thing is starting to go blank to illustrate to you that you’re not using the technique that’s correct for you. So it will erase more and more and more until you actually start using the technique that is actually more exciting for you to absorb what you need. Then you’ll know what you need to know.

Participant: So in what way are you doing now? What way are you studying now?

Participant: Well right now my wife and I have put together… We’re putting together a program. So a modular program over the using the internet and we’re basically creating it as we go. So it’s like I… What are you basically… We talk to each other. What are you going to be talking about? I tell her, my wife, what I’m going to be talking about, and she says, “Okay, then what we need to write about this, uh, whatever this is,” and then I just go in and I start free flowing with my writing of how I understand it. And then we hand it back and forth. Yes. And revise it with each other. And then, may I ask you a question?

Bashar: You just did. Thank you. You actually learned something. [Applause] There is hope for you yet. Is that the way you actually would prefer to go about doing it? Is that the most exciting way you could be doing it for you?

Participant: Okay, so that’s one of the way. The other way I learn is that I’ve been in a deep dive with some major teachers and their way is completely different. They present, I listen, and I listen again and I listen again and I listen again. But the way we’re actually doing it does help me because it makes me think and draw upon.

Bashar: All right, good start. Is it enough? Is there some other thing you would like to add? Some other way you would like to go about it that would make it even more exciting, maybe more interactive, more associative.

Participant: What really excites me is when I talk in front of… I went and I gave a couple presentations at a local high school and that really excited me and I want to be more speaking. I like…

Bashar: All right. All right. So your intuition may be guiding you. So here’s another question. When you speak that way, do you forget things?

Participant: No. My passion takes over and it just comes out.

Bashar: Then you have your answer. Okay. When you come from that energy, you don’t forget. You know what you need to know. That’s the energy to come from in all of the ways in which you transmit that information.

Participant: I knew that.

Bashar: Did you?

Participant: No, I did, but I wanted to hear you say.

Bashar: All right. Well, I knew you knew that, and I knew you wanted to hear me say it. So, now we have both accomplished exactly what we each set out to do. Congratulations to both of us.

Participant: Thank you. Can I ask you one more thing after this? After that?

Bashar: Okay. So, one of the passions that I’ve been kind of kindling or putting on the back burner and wanting to pursue is astral travel. And I’m just wanting to know as far as do you have any suggestions in terms of really… I mean I’ve got books that I’m reading and such, but do you have any right now for right now?

Bashar: I would suggest you keep your feet on the ground. You get more used to using the energy that you use in all areas of your life that you use when you speak and we’ll see what happens.

Question 18: DNA, Death, and Near-Death Experiences

Participant: Hello, Tado. Nania. We have a little more time before the Ustream questions unless…

Bashar: Are you sure? It depends on what you say. What does it say on your clock?

Participant: 3:25.

Bashar: I see. And how many Ustream questions do you have?

Participant: Well, there’s always a lot, but we select, you know, some of the ones that most are most relevant, I suppose.

Bashar: Would you like to answer some now? Let’s see what you have found.

Participant: Okay. The first is, is DNA an interface between the soul level and the physical level?

Bashar: Yes.

Participant: Okay. Any… Would you like to expand on that?

Bashar: Physically speaking, DNA is what you actually are as a physical being. DNA has simply surrounded itself with a vehicle so it can move around.

Participant: I guess I could kind of almost visually see that idea of every person looks like three strands of DNA.

Bashar: Well, two at least. Yeah. Three if you are going through the transformation process to a certain point. Yes, eventually. But yes, that’s the idea. You can think of yourselves physiologically as a little strand of DNA that has stretched out and is wearing a suit to move around in.

Participant: Do you see us as strands of DNA?

Bashar: I do.

Participant: What do we look like?

Bashar: Cocoon. Twisted. Okay, next question.

Participant: That’s really good. That’s cool. How long after death does it take for the body and the soul connection to separate after death? Well, in other words, you know how one minute there’s a body and it’s ingested with life and then all of a sudden it’s like dead.

Bashar: Well, that would be the moment then, wouldn’t it? By definition, you think that in some way, shape, or form the soul lingers in the dead body? Otherwise, then if that happened, the body wouldn’t be dead, would it?

Participant: Well, what about people like that are, you know, like aren’t really dead, but you think they’re dead. Didn’t that happen like in the olden days?

Bashar: Well, thinking they’re dead and being dead are two different things. But, you know, like what is this? You are not seeing the signs of life doesn’t mean there isn’t life, right? But it also means they’re not dead, right? So, when they are dead, then they are dead. So like brain dead or…

Participant: Yes.

Bashar: Now that doesn’t mean… Now all right, you understand I’m speaking very colloquially, very linearly here. Okay, because as we have said, in reality the soul is not in the body. The body is more accurately in the soul or in the consciousness. Nevertheless, from your point of view, the soul can appear to leave the body. The body can be, quote-unquote, clinically dead, brain dead. The soul can come back up to a certain point, reanimate the body, can also perhaps even change the body to reanimate it. Can also of course shift into a parallel reality and animate a similar body thinking that it’s still in the same reality, but it’s not. You understand?

Participant: Yes.

Bashar: So there are many ways to look at this idea but fundamentally to answer the question you asked in the way that it was asked, the idea is that in your terms the soul separates instantly and that is what death is. So like we know when animals are eaten by other animals. Yes. When… What happens there is… Does nature provide an experience that doesn’t necessarily have to be very painful even though it looks painful? More often than not, yes. The idea of what you call the consciousness or the soul has already detached and what you’re experiencing is a reaction of the body consciousness, the remnant of the consciousness that has formed what you would call energy patterns within the body that will still react as if it’s fully conscious, but it’s not. It’s like an echo of consciousness.

Participant: That is comforting, you know, to some degree, although it seems like in some cases the consciousness is still present.

Bashar: I said more often than not. Not. Yeah, there might always be a reason why it might happen otherwise, but again, like anything, you have to examine it on a case-by-case basis to see why that might have happened that way. So that like ties into near-death experiences are the ones where people are dead like for 20 minutes and then they reanimate into the body.

Participant: Yes. I was just thinking they probably come back and rearrange their DNA sometimes.

Bashar: Yes. Sometimes it’s not necessary. But isn’t it that every time we have a thought that rearranges your DNA?

Participant: It rearranges certain things. It doesn’t always rearrange everything. But when you say rearrange, we are still literally talking about the idea that it’s a completely new set of DNA, right? But it might still look like the same pattern that was there before. Yeah. So you may not notice a rearrangement, right? Because for the longest time it seemed they thought that DNA was fixed and then they started to realize that…

Bashar: No, it’s not at all. It’s not. No. And that your thoughts and your beliefs are representing your DNA or they… Well, in some ways, but again you still have the personality construct and remember what’s being rewired and rearranged more frequently are the neural pathways in the body more than the DNA itself because again the DNA, being physically you, may have this so-called environmental suit around it that you call the body and the neurological pathways can change to give the DNA a different experience of the idea of physical reality. But the DNA itself doesn’t necessarily have to rearrange to know that it is a different DNA because it’s enough that it knows it’s a different DNA in a different parallel reality to experience the effect of difference without necessarily having to actually create a physical observable rearrangement of the molecules.

Participant: So like when you observe us, does our DNA appear to be stable or does it appear to be changing?

Bashar: It appears to have continuity and be stable unless there is a reason for it to actually physiologically change its form. Here’s what we’re saying. You know, we’ve already talked about the idea that billions of times a second you’re shifting from one parallel reality to another. Yes. Right. That means there’s a different frequency for each parallel reality. Yes. Right. So sometimes it’s enough of a difference that the same arrangement of DNA is now processing a different frequency of reality for there to be a different effect. The DNA itself doesn’t necessarily have to take a different configuration to create a different effect because it’s already working with a different frequency of reality. Does that make sense?

Participant: Yes.

Bashar: Now, in some cases, it might be necessary for the DNA to say, “All right, I’m working with a frequency of reality here that would be more efficiently processed if I actually did make a rearrangement of my molecular structure.” And in those cases, yes, it will change its structure. But that’s not always necessary is all we’re saying because it’s already dealing with a different vibrational reality and therefore the effect will be different even if the molecular arrangement is the same.

Participant: Yes. So now I see there are multiple aspects to the idea of the DNA’s expression here based on your belief system because remember the DNA is experiencing more directly the multi-dimensional nature of your existence.

Bashar: Okay. So thank you. Yay.

Question 19: Expectation vs. Insistence in Manifestation

Participant: So the next question is, if you’re focusing on manifesting something in particular, isn’t that already an expectation? Yes. How do you separate this?

Bashar: Not insisting on it. You can use it, as we have said, like visualization as a symbol that represents an outcome that has the appropriate energy state. But insisting on the configuration of the symbol is what blocks what really might need to be there. If it’s going to be that symbol, then it’s going to be that symbol anyway. So why need to insist on it? Just be open to it being a symbol. And if it needs to actually look like that, it will. But if it actually needs to look like something else, let it because the something else is going to be more representative of what you need.

Participant: I was thinking how sometimes if you get fixated on a particular expression or a goal. Yes. And you keep in your mind repeat, “Oh, I want this to happen. I want this to happen. I want,” you know, you’re refocusing on it over and over and over. And then there’s another technique where people think of what they would like it to look like and then let it go. Just let it go and then just follow your excitement at that point. So obviously the second way of doing it is going to be more effective than the one that you’re repeating it over and over again as if the universe hasn’t heard you the first time.

Bashar: Correct. And remember that just as you did automatically when people do that, they’re doing exactly what you said. “I want. I want. I want.” Not “I need.” “I want.” Which only creates a state of wanting which is not the same as having.

Participant: Yeah. And probably, you know, probably the universe gets a little annoyed at hearing it over and over.

Bashar: No, no. It just creates a repetitive reverberation, in a sense. It creates a reinforcing echo. Look like that. It creates a reinforcing echo of wanting which only amplifies the state of wanting, not being, not having. But yet, if that’s your permission slip that says it’s okay to have a repetitive state where you envision the goal and you see it that way, but you’re not, I guess, married to it or you’re not, it’s possible it can be a permission slip in that structure for some people, but based on the general consensus reality that most of you have agreed to, it doesn’t usually work that way for most of you. That’s just an observation. It’s not a rule. It’s just a statistic.

Participant: Okay. And then this one says, while imagining and manifesting something, will it accelerate the manifestation by telling yourself this imagined scenario is real?

Bashar: Depends. Depends on so many different things. The belief systems of the person, all sorts of factors, who else it might infect, who else might be involved in that situation. It depends on many, many factors. So if you’re coming from an ego state, you’re instantly believing that the situation is real, right? The ego’s job is to allow you to say the situation that you’re experiencing is real, not necessarily that something you’re not experiencing yet is real. And then there’s a way of introducing to that scenario the thought that “this is not real.” You do that by remembering that you’re reinforcing something that’s not real by telling yourself it is. That’s the paradox. And if you start believing that things are not real, will you eventually like go crazy or something? Again, it depends. Again, it depends. But the idea is it’s not about taking it so far that you start saying everything is not real in a way that’s not practical for you because you’re obviously saying that you’re really experiencing this reality but then you refuse to acknowledge that you’re the one making it real. So everything becomes unreal and then, as you say, you are looked at as crazy. It’s a balancing act that allows you to use the understanding and use the knowledge that you’re the one that’s making it real to make it unreal enough to allow it to change in a way that is more in alignment with what you prefer to be real without insistence.

Participant: That’s brilliant.

Bashar: Well, I had nothing to do with it. It’s just the way things are structured. God, it’s really interesting because there’s such a grounded way of working with the concept that it’s not real. Yes. That isn’t like airy-fairy kind of oh woo-woo thinking, you know. It’s more grounded in the sense that you realize the mechanisms. If you’re going to choose to have a physical experience, then all of the higher level knowledge and information, in order to truly be experienced in the most profound way, has to be, by definition, grounded. And that’s definitely one of the things we so appreciate about the information you share is that it is so grounded. Yes. And it does because that gives you something to work with in your own terms of physicalness. We translate these concepts into literal tools into the instruction manual so that all you need to do is follow the instructions. You all know how to do that. It’s that simple. The one belief system that gets in the way for most of you is not understanding that what we’re saying is literal. That you think it’s not that simple. Therefore, you compound the resistance with all sorts of other belief systems that say it’s got to be more complicated than that. There must be something else he’s leaving out. Nope. The instruction manual is the instruction manual. It covers everything. It’s complete. It’s that simple. But you have to be precise in your understanding of how you use it because the smallest difference will make the biggest difference in how you experience it.

Participant: Yes. Yes. Because it’s always a fine-tuning process and you just become a more and more refined being. Yes. As you let go of negative belief after negative, letting go of negative beliefs and then letting go of things that are no longer relevant for you until you streamline yourself down to have a vibrational frequency that is your true vibrational frequency which is most aligned with the vibrational frequency of the reflection of existence that you are. And then you’re one-on-one with existence.

Participant: Yes. Yes. So when we’re connecting with the gamma level, which you are coming from in a well… And epsilon for us, right? So you’re gamma plus, right?

Bashar: We are gamma plus.

Participant: So one of the things we’re learning how to do is integrate being in the ego state while simultaneously enjoying the connection to our gamma level. Yes. Is that well… Yes, accurate in a sense of what’s happening with what you’re sharing with us?

Bashar: Yes, that’s at least one way to express it because on the gamma level, you know that it’s not real. And yet on the ego level, you know that you believe that it is real. Yes. But you’re making that mechanism transparent for yourself so that you can use it in a conscious way. It’s not about giving up the idea that nothing is real. It’s about realizing that you’re creating the reality and therefore you can make it real or unreal according to the vibration that represents your blended, balanced state. It’s a conscious use. It’s a conscious way to use the mechanism of manifestation.

Guided Meditation: Integrating the First Belief

Bashar: Relax. Allow yourselves now to know that you are altering, altering in a way that will allow for more awareness, more consciousness in your manifestation mechanism, manifestation space, the first belief, the collective consciousness and unconsciousness, the consensus reality. And as you become more aware of that first belief that says “this is real, this is real, this is real,” that will become more conscious within you. And as it does, you will remember and remember and remember that because you need to say “this is real,” that that means it’s not.

So you will allow yourselves, as this energy flows within you fluidly, not only through your neurological net but through your very arteries, veins, cellular structure, all the things that make up the projection of a body in physical reality, of a body in physical reality, and the physical mind with its beliefs and its emotions, its thoughts and behaviors. As you allow all this to sink in, to flow along those arteries, veins, nerves, conduits that carry the vibration, the vibration of the life force within you. Allow yourself to become more aware of that echo. “This is real. This is real. This is real.” And with every echo you are reminded: “It is not. It is not. It is not.”

Thus beginning to form the balancing act, the balanced state of being where you allow yourself to flicker back and forth at whatever rate is appropriate for you, at whatever rate of frequency allows this to work for you. It will happen automatically. Just allow it. You don’t have to make it. Just allow it. As it flickers back and forth. “This is real. It is not. This is real. It is not. This is real. It is not.”

You begin to achieve that quasi-physical state in your consciousness where you both know that it is real as an experience while simultaneously also knowing it is your projection. It is your creation and thus not real unto itself. “This is real. It is not. This is real. It is not. This is real. It is not.” The first belief reflects that “this is real.” Reinforces that “this is real.” Amplifies and magnifies that “this is real.” The higher mind tells you “it is not. It is not. It is not.”

And thus as you achieve this balance between the first belief and the higher mind, it allows you to function with more consciousness, more awareness, more intention in a way that will allow you to begin to experience the fluidity of the physical reality, the fluidity of the physical reality, the malleability, the flexibility. It will flow like the blood flows through your veins, like the life force flows through your cells, like electricity flows through your nerves. It will flow and your energy field and your physical body will begin to break down the barrier between the two. So that you begin to sense that the physical is energy and that energy can be solid. And you begin to allow your consciousness in this manifestation space to experience the realm your physicists call the quantum. Where you have both particle and wave, energy and matter, real and not, real and not, real and not.

The first belief and the higher mind in an orchestration, in a ballet, back and forth, back and forth, spinning around each other with a common center of gravity. “This is real. It is not. This is real. It is not. This is real. It is not.”

Allow yourselves to absorb this now through light and sound in whatever language will work for you and your neurological net so that your brain, your neurology, may be rewired to be a more efficient conduit and conductor of this understanding, of this concept, of this principle of the first belief. And allow more awareness that every single time the first belief tells you that physical reality is real, you become aware that the fact that it has to tell you that means that it’s not. And you achieve the balance point of understanding that you chose this experience, that you chose this experience at this time to begin to soften the concept of what is real and what is physical and what is not. What is energy? What is particle? What is wave and what is not.

And more and more you find yourself in this balance point, this balance point of awareness, this balance point of consciousness. You become the crucible in which you can melt down all your ideas and preconceived notions of physical reality and let it recrystallize in new ways, new arrangements, new reflections, new experiences. But you will experience them with a higher level of consciousness knowing it is real and it is not. “It is real and it is not. It is real and it is not. It is real and it is not.”

Let the realities pass through you and by you and around you and over you and under you and through you. For it is real as an experience, but as a thing it is not, no more substantial than the reflection of light from a mirror. It may take many forms and reflect many things that may seem very solid and very real. But this is simply the first belief. But this is simply the first belief. “It is real and it is not. It is illusion that gives you an opportunity for a real experience. So you may learn, so you may grow, so you may expand and become more self-aware. For self-awareness is consciousness. Consciousness is self-awareness. For there is no awareness of the self without awareness of the reflection of the other that gives rise to the difference between the other and the self. It is real and it is not. It is real and it is not. It is real and it is not.”

[Music] You are manifesting yourself constantly every moment. You are a manifestation of your consciousness. Your physical body is a manifestation of your consciousness, your self-awareness, your identity, your perspective of all that is. As all that is, experiencing itself as a part of all that is. And that is real and it is not. And that is real and it is not. And that is real and it is not.

Float now freely in the in-between, in the neutral space between the polarities. Allow yourself now the opportunity to integrate the balance of these concepts within you so that the first belief and the higher mind may work in concert, in a dance with their gravitational centers spinning around one another to give you the opportunity to more consciously recognize the manifestation that you are and the manifestation you can become. When you know, when you are aware that physical reality is real and it is not, it is real and it is not. It is real and it is not. It is real and it is not. Just drink it in. Float freely, easily, calmly, effortlessly, beautifully, gracefully, creatively, lovingly, energetically, vibrantly, peacefully. Float freely in the dream.

Take a deep breath in and let it out. Take a deep breath in and let it out. Take a deep breath in and hold it and hold it and hold it and blow it out. And that wind is the wind of change. The wind that flows through the manifestation space that reflects back to the first belief. Allow yourselves to drift in the dream. Allow yourselves to be who you truly are. Continue to just breathe deeply, gently, effortlessly. Let go of that which is not you, of that which weighs you down, of that which creates resistance to your natural self. Let it go. It may seem real, but it is not. It is real as an experience only, but not as a thing unto itself. It is real as long as you believe that it is. And when you realize that, then it is not.

As your lights dim and your music softens, continue to float, continue to float in a gentle void, in a gentle dream. “It is real and it is not. It is real and it is not. It is real and it is not.” Sweet dreams.