The forest path the animal path and the elemental path

Conversation 9: Veganism, Harmony with Nature, and Raising Frequency

Question (Joe from Japan): I’m Joe from Osaka, Japan. I’d like to ask you about veganism.

I became a vegan about four months ago, and it’s been serving me pretty well. Ultimately it all comes down to this notion that people are expressions of nature, not just isolated individuals within it. I think that living in harmony with other animals is crucial for us to go to the next level. What’s your thought on veganism? Does it have to do with people’s Consciousness? I’m currently trying to spread the idea of veganism throughout Japan, which has become one of my passions.

Answer (Bashar): Living in harmony with anything is essential for you to continue to raise your frequency. Veganism can be a result of living on a certain frequency level where you simply lose the urge to eat certain things that have to do with animal product. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way for everyone right away. Don’t force yourself; let it be your natural biological urges that come and go.

If you are centered within yourself, you will know what you’re attracted to consume.

Sometimes a body on your planet may need certain amounts of meat protein, although most of you don’t need as much as you think. The idea, of course, is how it’s done, how the relationship is formed.

In many indigenous societies that hunt, they’re doing it in a way that is more in harmony with nature, culling the animals that are not necessarily the strongest. The animal itself, in its state of being, is choosing to be of service, as the human is choosing to be of service to the animals, in that particular kind of relationship.

As you raise your frequency, you may simply naturally find that you’re no longer gravitating to or have the urge to eat what might be referred to as denser matter, and you might go for lighter. But remember that vegetables also have a Consciousness. As you evolve, you may eventually come to the point where you simply absorb energy directly, as we do in our civilization, because we don’t eat anymore at all.

That doesn’t mean that we’re more spiritual or better than you are. We simply exist on a different vibrational level that doesn’t require those kinds of activities. The animal life on our planet is symbiotic; they’re not predatory. No animal is ever killed in an exchange of energy. But don’t in any way, shape, or form negatively judge yourselves for the state that you’re at, because that’ll only hold you back. Simply allow there to be a natural biological rhythm of what needs to go on, and do your best to make sure that any relationship you have with an animal is the most natural, organic expression it can be, no matter what that relationship may be.

That’s how you evolve: by letting what is be done in a more natural way and simply letting it change in its own natural timing.

Conversation 10: The Interstellar Alliance, Awakening, and Shifting Realities

Question: Have you observed other civilizations on other planets going through their awakening, and part of that process includes those beings waking up to the fact that their leaders don’t have their best interests in mind? And how does the Interstellar Alliance assist with those beings who are wanting to wake up and break free?

Answer (Bashar): Yes, we are interacting with other civilizations who are going through their own awakenings. There are relatively few that are in a position of their awakening where they are experiencing the idea of oppression in the way that you’re experiencing it on Earth. We find that that’s relatively uncommon, at least in our experience with other civilizations.

The Interstellar Alliance, just like some of the enhancing bodies in our own planetary civilization, simply work to enhance, expand, magnify, and amplify the idea of stability of peace.

In magnifying and amplifying this, synchronistically it radiates a vibration out through the galaxy that allows people another option to tap into. We remind them that that vibration is there for them.

The idea of “breaking free” is not exactly the definition to use because it implies that you are somehow not capable of shifting in the way that you prefer, that somebody can actually control you, that you are assuming you’re in the same reality just because you can see them.

We would suggest you don’t operate from that point of view, because that’s what gives oppressors their power—or creates the illusion that they have more power than they actually do. It is to simply convince you that they can control you, that they can determine what reality you experience when they can’t.

Start from a definition that says: just because I can see you, just because you are doing things that I don’t prefer, doesn’t mean I’m in the same reality.

It’s like there’s a glass wall between you.

Question: On those planets and civilizations, are there examples where other ET beings who are negative try to come in and take advantage and oppress those beings? Does the Interstellar Alliance assist in that way?

Answer (Bashar): What you’re describing is exceedingly rare.

It is rare that when beings have the capability of traveling to other planets with other civilizations, they will usually already have surpassed any need to oppress others in another star system.

They will have understood that the only way they can actually get there is to have a completely different understanding of their relationship to existence, and there would be no need to oppress anything because there is more than enough for everyone. The idea of control in an oppressive sense usually vanishes in most civilizations with the understanding of how to travel to the stars, because you start really experiencing the abundance of existence.

Question: You mentioned that our old systems would be crumbling, and the new systems are waiting ready to come up and replace the old ones.

Answer (Bashar): No no. That’s a very old-fashioned way of looking at it.

They’re not waiting in the wings. The idea of new systems must be created actively by people in the here and now.

They’re not waiting in the wings. Yes, there are some things that have been done that can be revived and applied, but it’s not the idea that they’re just waiting in the wings.

It requires the activity of people moving in those directions and taking those actions for those new systems to be applied and implemented.

Question: What examples of those new systems here on Earth would be like Starlink, cryptocurrency, and Elon Musk? Would those be examples of some aspects of those things?

Answer (Bashar): Yes. Other aspects of them, not necessarily. Some of them may be temporary, as links and bridges to get you to something else.

Question: We’re definitely transitioning and moving into that golden era?

Answer (Bashar): Some of you are, and some of you aren’t.

Everyone has the free will to choose. Remember, you don’t change the world you’re on. You’re shifting yourself to other versions of Earth that are already reflective, that already exist, that are more reflective of the change you’ve made within yourself. It doesn’t really matter whether everyone on your planet chooses the same thing. You will experience as if some of them have, by shifting to another world, another version of Earth, where there are already versions of them that are more in harmony with that version of Earth.

Conversation 11: Gender Identity and the Soul’s Expression

Question (Chad from Toronto): Hello Bashar, my name is Chad and I’m from Toronto, Canada. My question is: what advice would you have for someone who is struggling with their gender identity? For example, why would a soul choose to incarnate as a male only to want to transition into a female later in life?

Answer (Bashar): Because on your planet there is a great deal of denial of all the energies within a soul, within a spirit. The idea of many people who are going through those kinds of transitions and identity shifts is to act as a reflection and a reminder to all beings that you contain nothing and everything, and that it is important for you to be who you truly are.

Conversation 12: Music, Channeling, and Communication Across Dimensions

Question (French music composer): Hi dearest Bashar, good day. Thank you for being a bright light in my life. I’m a French music composer, playing violin and living in Provence. My questions are about music. When we compose music, are we creating something of our own, or are we channeling music from higher dimensions? Is everything we compose kindly sent to us by some higher beings, or is it a new music creation?

Answer (Bashar): Both. Remember, it’s this and that, not this or that. You are a specific channel that receives higher energy vibrations not only from other dimensions, other levels of consciousness, but including your own higher mind. In receiving those vibrations, you, as the unique personality that you are with the free will you have to express yourself in any way you so desire, are translating those vibrations into a unique new creation through you that is different than what anyone else would create.

Question: So I’m receiving vibrations, but I’m not receiving like melodies or chord progressions?

Answer (Bashar): You might receive patterns sometimes, but remember it’s a step-down process. At the very beginning from the highest source, they’re just vibrational frequencies and patterns of energy. As they step down through the different levels, by the time they arrive in your higher mind, your higher mind might start recognizing what kind of harmonics might be more relevant for the personality that you are and might suggest a difference in the patterns or an arrangement of the patterns that you will translate as actual musical harmonics in your unique way.

Question: So it’s a collaboration?

Answer (Bashar): Absolutely. Always. That’s beautiful.

Question: On planet Earth, music is the movement of the earth, it makes patterns in the air. In a universe where there’s no air, how would music manifest?

Answer (Bashar): It can go through what is called electromagnetic energy or even gravitational waves. There are different kinds of electron fields and other kinds of underlying template fields that some of you know nothing about. There is always some form of medium for vibrational patterns to move in, even though they may be invisible or inaudible to you.

Question: Is there some universe where all communication is made through music?

Answer (Bashar): Yes. In a sense, we have actually described some civilizations where their language, so to speak, would sound like percussion instruments to you or various forms of instrumentation. You even have a movie on your planet that depicts this, called Close Encounters. So yes, of course music can easily be a language, and in a sense language is a type of music.

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Conversation 13: Overcoming the Illusion of Continuity and Changing Memories

Question: Hello dear Bashar, could you please share with us some ideas that would aid us in overcoming the illusion of continuity?

Answer (Bashar): There are many different ways and permission slips that you can utilize. This is one of the reasons why we often use the film strip analogy. On a film strip, there is no continuity between one frame and another until you run them through the projector and project the illusion of movement and change in a continuous form. If you understand that all of these frames on the film strip exist simultaneously, you can start realizing, “Well, I could show frame one, I don’t have to show frame two next. I could go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and it might seem like a continuity, but it would be a continuity made up of discontinuous frames that are more in alignment with what I prefer to experience.” Start thinking of it as individual frames that don’t have to follow in what you have been taught to think of as a logical order, and you can start rearranging the frames in a way that you prefer to experience them.

Question (different speaker): Thank you for all your wisdom. My first question is regarding what you said: that the past is created in the present, everything is here and now. I’m having a lot of trouble getting my head around this. If that’s the case, then couldn’t we just change our memories really easily, especially the ones we don’t like?

Answer (Bashar): Now, you have to be aware of how you’re saying that. When you say “we don’t like them,” the idea may be that you’re putting too much emphasis on them, which makes them stick around. You can’t invalidate what you don’t prefer. You have to come from a neutral place that what you don’t prefer is equally valid to what you do prefer. That’s what gives you the power to choose what you prefer, because then you are unlocked from what you don’t prefer. You’re not anchored to it by putting undue focus or energy on the idea that you don’t like it.

Yes, in that sense, allow yourself to simply be who you prefer to be. Even if you still create the so-called memories in the present, that’s usually an indication that you believe you still have something to learn from them. But if you learn the lessons and apply the lessons and become someone different enough, it’s quite probable that not only will you no longer have the memories, you will never remember that you ever had them.

Question: So we don’t necessarily have to work at our limiting beliefs and go through a process?

Answer (Bashar): For the most part, most of you do, because very few of you have a belief system that will allow you to make the transition instantaneously. The whole idea of having a physical reality is to experience a particular process. Those processes can be streamlined, they can be shortened. We have given you a technique we call the Threshold of Believability Test so that you can shorten them as much as possible. When you have shortened it down to the absolute minimum, whatever is left is what’s necessary for you to go through in order to discover yourself from a new point of view. That’s the point of having the physical experience.

Question: Do the Sassani experience grief and mourning like we do?

Answer (Bashar): No, because we’re never out of touch. We can communicate with what you call spirit very easily, very readily. Therefore, we’re never out of touch. They’ve just entered a different room, they’ve just taken on a different state. To us, it’s really no different than somebody simply moving to another house. It’s not like we can’t get in touch with them. So what is there to mourn?

Question: What about when we go through a transition, we mourn because of losing who we were. You don’t experience that?

Answer (Bashar): Well, that’s because you have negative definitions about the change. You can’t have an emotional feeling without a belief first. The only reason you would experience sadness is you’re defining it as a loss instead of a gain.

This is one of the great transitions that’s happening on your planet at this time, one of the great awakenings: the idea that death is not what you think it is. It’s not an end. It’s just an expansion back into something that’s more your natural self, as a greater being.

If you keep defining the idea of someone’s passing in a negative way, every time they attempt to make a connection to contact you, if you hold on to the negative definition, you will only go into sadness and you won’t be able to receive the message they’re attempting to give you. If you understand it as, “Oh, hi, nice to see you, I feel you,” then you’ll be able to strengthen the connection and your ability to perceive that the connection has not been lost.

Question: With trauma and PTSD, which is very prevalent, is that also a matter of limiting beliefs and definitions?

Answer (Bashar): Yes. It doesn’t invalidate the idea of an experience. But the only reason you experience anything in physical reality is because of your belief system and definitional relationship to it, because nothing is actually coming from the past. You’re recreating it in the moment, every moment. You have to decide: what reason am I recreating this experience? Am I learning something from doing so? Is there something I can take from it that will allow me to move on? Then allow yourself to actually use it and apply it in a way that does give you the freedom to create something different.

If you change yourself in the present, you not only change your future, you change your past, because from a linear perspective, you have to have a different past to have become the person you are now that’s different. Whoever you are now has to have a past that is relevant for who you are now. So if you change who you are now, you’re changing who you were as well as who you can be.

How do you know that five minutes ago you didn’t have a completely different history? You’ll never remember that necessarily, or you might, but most people don’t because it’s irrelevant for them to do so.

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Conversation 14: Perceiving Portals, Lights, and Expanding Consciousness

Question (Jordan): Hi Bashar, my name is Jordan and I am kind of newly awakening—only about a year into this. As intuition grows and we start getting better at trusting ourselves, lately in my meditations or before bed I’ve been seeing a lot of lights, portals, auras, energetic energy in my home. Sometimes I get a satellite Morse code sound in my ear. Can you give me any insight on what that is and what I can do to make sure I’m fully utilizing it?

Answer (Bashar): It’s a natural result of starting to perceive things that used to be invisible, in terms of energies and patterns and different dimensional expressions, as you expand your Consciousness. This is the natural result; your senses become more sensitive. You become a more sensitive receiver, or antenna, or perceiver of energies that were invisible to you before. That’s just the natural result of the expansion of consciousness and the exploration of your true nature.

You can reasonably assume that you will continue to experience that as long as you continue to expand your Consciousness and explore yourself more deeply. This is one of the reasons why we give you the formula of acting on your passion to the best you can, with no assumption, no insistence on the outcome, and remaining in a positive state no matter what happens. Just by following that formula as an instruction manual, you will continue to expand your senses by raising your vibration, because that’s what it’s designed to do. So get used to it.

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Conversation 15: Elemental Genetics, Animal Senses, and The Lost Magic of Childhood

Question (Tannania, asking viewer questions): The first question is about the genetics of elementals. Do they have genetics that are comparable to ours, and could a human be hybridized with them?

Answer (Bashar): No. You must understand that elementals, for the most part, present themselves, solidify, crystallize themselves at a moment’s notice out of what might be poetically referred to as the clay of the collective Consciousness. They can reabsorb themselves into the collective Consciousness field and then crystallize or project themselves through that field made out of that Consciousness energy field, electromagnetic energy, when they focus themselves that way to present themselves in any kind of form or shape.

While they are crystallized, they may take on a kind of representation of DNA to hold that shape, but it’s not the same as the DNA that you experience in your physical form exactly. In order for any kind of DNA or genetic material to be taken from an elemental when they are in what appears to be solid form, they would actually have to be slightly densified even further. Then it’s possible that DNA can be taken, but it is relatively ephemeral, fluctuating in a way that if not vibrationally compatible with a physical being, could actually wind up being very detrimental to the physical being. The elemental sample of DNA would still be fluctuating in a way that may cause the physical DNA chains to break apart. So it is not recommended.

Question: This question is about dogs and how they get lost in smelling things outdoors. Are they actually connecting with elementals when they’re doing that?

Answer (Bashar): Not all the time, no. They can sometimes, just like several animals on your planet can sense the idea of elemental Consciousness and focus on it. But generally speaking, you would have to take it on a moment-to-moment, case-by-case basis.

Question: And cats also can connect with elementals?

Answer (Bashar): I would imagine in many cases, cats can see them almost anytime they wish. It depends on what they’re focused on, but yes, cats’ senses are a little bit more attuned to the idea of the elemental vibration. It’s within their range of senses on more occasions than not.

Question: Children, when they are young, are really into fairy houses and elves, and they will even wait to see fairies. But as they get older, they stop and aren’t interested anymore because they think they’re not real. What’s the cause of that in our society?

Answer (Bashar): You have actually said it yourself: they are taught out of believing that those things are real, and therefore they shut down that portion of their ability to sense it. It can sometimes be important for them to not necessarily pay attention to that level of reality so much anymore, to allow themselves to focus on the themes they chose to explore as physical beings. But in this time of opening the senses and remembering who you are, you can now begin to reconnect while not necessarily losing focus on the theme that you chose to experience in physical reality, because now many of those themes contain the concept of seeing beyond the physical realm.

Question: Does Willow have any human ancestors on Earth now?

Answer (Bashar): Yes. Not going to name names, if that’s what you’re asking.

Question: Do all beings go through a type of life review when they die?

Answer (Bashar): For the most part, yes. It’s quite common because the whole idea is to utilize the experience that you gained by having a physical reality experience, adding it to your knowledge of self and expansion of self, so that you can decide what to choose next. There are a few exceptions, but they’re rare.

Question: When a Sassani being goes through a life review, how would that be different from a human life review?

Answer (Bashar): It would only be different in kind; it wouldn’t be different in structure necessarily. The idea again being that like you, we focus on our experiences, the consequences of choices made, the effects that it may have had on a variety of different people, places, things, and so on. We learn from a different perspective.

Question: As humans, when we go through life review, we actually experience any pain and suffering we’ve inflicted upon other people as if it’s happening to us. Is that correct?

Answer (Bashar): Intentionally applied, yes. Unintentionally, not necessarily.

Question: Do animals, when they’re coming to the end of their physical existence, get to choose when they leave, like humans do?

Answer (Bashar): In a sense, it’s a choice from a higher level. Although animals, because of their connection to nature and their willingness to allow synchronicity to occur in the way that it naturally does, will not necessarily have to make a choice beyond the choice they made before incarnation. They will simply trust the timing of the idea of their experience of physical reality and be open to many different pathways by which they may leave.

Question: In general, since so often many of them are eaten, do they come in with a deeper commitment to being of service in that sense, a more willingness to participate as opposed to human attitudes?

Answer (Bashar): To some degree, yes. Although to put it in the framework of “willingness” is a little bit different because that’s a human perspective. It’s more of a deep understanding of how things work on the particular level that they are experiencing. They simply go with the flow of the reality, knowing that in whatever way, shape, or form it unfolds, it serves the best of all concerned.

Question: When we go into the forest, what is a good way to connect with nature spirits?

Answer (Bashar): Willow has begun to give you certain kinds of ideas and exercises to be able to begin to enhance your senses in that way. That’s what the cryptic meditations and the cryptic process are all about. By following the formula and focusing especially now on this latest chapter of the cryptic meditation where you begin to connect with animals, that will prepare you more strongly, more energetically, for the next phase: connecting to the elemental path, which shall happen in the fall.

By connecting with animals, you’re going to pick up many of the attributes that they already contain, which gives them the ability to commune with those elementals.

Question: How can we learn to communicate telepathically with animals?

Answer (Bashar): It is mostly through the concept of deep feeling and imagery that you can create in your mind to project to them. Think in pictures, not in words. See the idea happening in your mind with deep feeling attached to it, deep emotion. Be truly in love with the animals that you connect with. Truly feel this deeply in your heart, in your soul, in your spirit, and in your mind—like family. Then add pictures to that of the idea that you wish to see in the communion as it can take place. While you’re doing that, be very aware of any belief systems you may have that are fear-based, so that you can let them go.

Question: Do elementals act as guardians for certain locations, in some sense?

Answer (Bashar): In some sense, yes. They will create a vibrational bubble that will interact with anyone entering that particular field in a way that allows the person to either feel that they can go forward or should go back.

Question: One person was experiencing elementals requesting an offering be made to the forest. Can you elaborate on why that might be?

Answer (Bashar): Because to give is to receive. In any kind of a relationship or communication, there does need to be some expression of willingness of exchange. The offering of a gift shows your willingness to have a commitment, your willingness to have a relationship, for you are also asking to receive something.

Question: Can you elaborate on why Willow has two hearts?

Answer (Bashar): The hybridization that occurred in certain genetic lineages led to a more efficient system of storing oxygen in the body for the purpose of accessing higher frequency domains and information. The oxygenation of the body is of paramount importance in speeding up the vibrational resonance of the physical form. Having more chambers in the heart than you have (which makes it function as if it’s doubled) allows for a more efficient distribution of oxygen throughout the system and a greater amount of oxygen, which increases the probability of raising the frequency to the exact pitch required for easier connection to higher frequency realms of Consciousness.

Question: Is there a way that you can support elementals in this time of planetary transition, since they seem to have an important role in keeping the Earth in balance?

Answer (Bashar): The idea of taking on the role from your side of keeping the Earth in balance, doing the things that will help stabilize the environment in positive ways, increasing the natural world, and making those connections from your side will allow them more opportunity to do so from their side. It has to be a relationship. It has to be a 50/50 proposition.

Question: One person had an experience where they were with a grove of trees and suddenly shifted to a parallel reality where they realized that the forest is inhabited with tree people—that the people of the forest are the trees, a community that has very strong bonds and is also very welcoming of human consciousness.

Answer (Bashar): That’s why we say that the trees are, in a sense, the ambassadors between humans and the natural world. They’re connected to the idea of physical humans, they’re connected to the idea of the elementals. They act as the go-between, the brokers between the two different civilizations of human and elemental. That’s the common bond, the common frequency, the common interface: the trees.

Question: Trees seem to have a very generous spirit in general. And their genetics are actually more complex than ours.

Answer (Bashar): Yes. The very idea that they are apparently immobile to you requires the extra genetics and the extra abilities because they can’t move away from things like humans can. Therefore, they have to have more adaptability to a variety of situations, hence a more complex genetic structure.

Question: One person has a boa constrictor and wants to know how to communicate with that being and if it’s possible to create a relationship and an emotional connection between a reptilian being and a human.

Answer (Bashar): Of course it is. The idea of the deep emotional bond, the idea of using imagery instead of words. The reptile will also assist you in understanding exactly how to frame those images, how to frame those emotions, in its context, in its language. Be the snake, and then you will know how to talk to the snake. The snake will help you if it really senses a deep willingness and a deep bond in your Consciousness that wishes to do so.

Question (clarification on Precursors vs. Preparers): We wanted to give you an opportunity to clarify the idea of whether precursors were actually born here on the planet or whether they are actually extraterrestrial.

Answer (Bashar): Precursor, by definition, is something that comes before something else. Since you’re already on the planet, you can’t be precursors because you’re not coming to the planet; you’re on the planet. But you can be preparers. The preparers can exhibit some of the same vibrational frequencies as the precursors, but precursors are born off the planet. They are hybrids from off the planet, not born on Earth. Those who are born on Earth are preparers. We apologize for any confusion in translation.

Question: Do stories and fictional universes actually exist in their own right? Are we tapping into their energy when we read or think about them?

Answer (Bashar): They can. That doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily all experienced in the same kind of physical way that you experience your reality, but that doesn’t mean that they’re any less real. They’re all real in one way, shape, or form, which may include a multitude of dimensions, including the spirit realm. You are tapping into a real reality on some level of Consciousness.

Question: Is there an actual inner earth culture or inner earth reality?

Answer (Bashar): Yes, but it’s not actually physically in your Earth. It’s in another dimension. Many people mistake the idea that it’s inside your Earth physically because of how they may arrive there by going through different portals that sometimes can be underground or in caves. Without knowing it, they may have actually literally shifted into a different dimensional reality and still assume that they’re on the earth or in the earth that they were originally on, which they’re not.

Question: Can you tell us anything about what it’s like there?

Answer (Bashar): There are many different kinds of places. There isn’t just one place. There are shells within shells within shells of dimensions within dimensions within dimensions. It just depends on what frequency you entered the portal in as to where you wind up, and also what’s relevant to your life theme.

Question (on Atlantis): This individual is very excited about Atlantis and wanted to know some hot spots to go to to tap into Atlantean energy.

Answer (Bashar): Certainly the Bahamas, the areas you know as Cuba, the Yucatan, and even across the sea, the area you know as Crete, some areas in Spain, some areas in North Africa and ancient Egypt do still have some Atlantean remnants of survivors that went there. Any of those places can be energy centers.

The true architecture of Atlantis is more the idea of Mayan or Aztec, and it’s quite rural in the sense of the society itself. The cities were quite open; there was quite a lot of rural countryside that surrounded them.

Question (on different versions of a person): Does each version of a person represent a different distinct soul that you’re looking at?

Answer (Bashar): If you’re talking about the idea of one single body, then no, it doesn’t represent different souls. It represents different aspects of the same soul.

Question: When people are a different version because they’re in my reality that I prefer, does that different version depend on me, or is there something that they do?

Answer (Bashar): Very often, changing your frequency, coming from a different place, will allow you to manufacture a different version of them because you’ve shifted to another reality where there already is a different version of them. You will actually hear of somebody having a negative interaction with someone, then going into a meditative state, communicating with that person on a higher level, balancing their own energy, and then going back and reconnecting with the physical person and finding that their behavior has also changed. But the truth is their behavior hasn’t changed because the person they’re dealing with is actually a different person.

Question: When people die at the same time, like in a plane crash, do they have an awareness of the other people who are transitioning at the same time?

Answer (Bashar): Sometimes, not always. It depends upon their vibrational path.

It’s not really any more mysterious than all the people getting on the plane because they happen to be going to the same city. It’s just that they’re going to a city they didn’t necessarily realize they were going to. The orchestration of getting a certain amount of people on a certain vehicle to go to a certain city is an orchestration. This is no different. The people may not be aware that they’ve chosen that, but at some level they’ve taken the exit, for whatever their specific purpose was. Those that haven’t will find themselves not getting on that plane for one reason or another, synchronistically.

Question: Is there anything we can do to consciously choose the way we die, instead of it just randomly happening when the time is right?

Answer (Bashar): Yes, of course there is. There are several ways. But the only way it’s most likely you will know if you need to know is by following the formula. Any kind of information that is truly relevant for you to know on your journey will come to you when you follow the formula, because the formula leaves nothing relevant out.

Question (example of Steve Irwin): He was definitely following his passion when he was swimming with that stingray, and yet that turned out to be the way he was going to exit the planet.

Answer (Bashar): Many people will choose to do that while they’re doing something they love. They’re dying happy.

Question: Energetically and mechanically speaking, what does it mean to be grounded or ungrounded?

Answer (Bashar): In true alignment with yourself is grounding. Misalignment, being out of alignment with yourself, is ungrounding.

Question: On a shamanic path, do you need to keep a foot in both worlds?

Answer (Bashar): As long as you find that it is not your time to transition, then automatically yes. Any shaman or anyone in balance acts like a link or a bridge between the physical and non-physical realities. So yes, one foot in each realm is exactly what needs to happen.

Question (the highest-asked question): What is driving or causing the splitting of parallel realities, and why is it happening now?

Answer (Bashar): What is driving it is the freedom to choose and the recognition that your reality and that you are bigger than you thought. You’re coming to the realization that you occupy more space than just your physical bodies. Therefore, your urging or yearning to be more of yourself is making you more aware of the things you are connected to, the other realities that you’re actually participating in creating with your Consciousness. This splitting is a natural result.

The expansion of your awareness of your Consciousness already existing in more levels is what’s driving it at this time. You’re now at the end of the cycle of forgetting and beginning the cycle of remembering more of who you are. This is the natural timing you have created for the overall collective theme going through the different cycles of change on the Earth.

Question (on the COVID vaccine and subconscious issues): There are some people who really want to have the vaccine, but they feel like their Consciousness has been sedated or they’re fearful that they’re harboring beliefs that’ll make it harmful to them. Is there a permission slip they can use to eliminate any subconscious issues?

Answer (Bashar): This is a process of getting in touch with your belief systems, finding the ones that might be negative or fear-based, and letting them go so that you give yourself clearer discernment through synchronicity as to what kind of choice is actually more in alignment with who you truly are. That’s all we can say at this time.

Question (on human and primate DNA): When we look to the past, why is primate and human DNA so similar?

Answer (Bashar): That’s not really a mystery. As we have said, the Anunnaki chose an evolved hominid on your planet from the evolution of the primates up to a certain period, such as Homo erectus, to then inject their own genetic material into to create Homo sapiens. Why should it be a mystery if you know that the original material used to create Homo sapiens (with the addition of the Anunnaki extraterrestrial genetics) came from a pool of primates?

Question: Were they surprised when the beings they created had such a high propensity for violence?

Answer (Bashar): Some of them a little bit, yes. They didn’t necessarily expect that. The reason why that group of Anunnaki were recalled was because they had acted out of hubris.

Question (on pain in childbirth): Why do we experience pain in childbirth since it’s a natural process, and it seems like other species don’t experience the degree that we do?

Answer (Bashar): It’s not a natural process anymore, ever since you were hybridized. You were given certain features that were not there originally. You’re giving birth to an alien that has a bigger head than you otherwise would have had as Homo erectus. Certain things in your genetic makeup changed, but certain things didn’t, like the birth canal. Since the enlargement of the cranium was one of the genetic alterations, yes, human childbirth is not natural.

Question (on paradox): Name the main, most basic of all large paradoxes that we as humans need to be in conscious recognition of in order to experience life holistically.

Answer (Bashar): The largest paradox is your ability to even perceive that paradoxes exist. The idea of your focus in physical reality can be so limiting that you don’t necessarily often perceive the concept that something contradictory can also simultaneously exist with what you expect to exist. And yet it does. So you have developed the ability to perceive that two seemingly contradictory things can coexist side by side, which helps drive you back toward the center, the balance point. The biggest paradox is that you can perceive paradox at all.

Question: If you reach a plateau, what’s the simplest way to raise your vibration?

Answer (Bashar): First, know that you haven’t reached the ultimate plateau. Knowing there is a higher plateau is the first step. But you have to allow for pause to happen in the natural order of things. Sometimes synchronicity will say, “Don’t go any further right now. Stay here, ruminate, learn from what you have already experienced.” Stay here for a while and rest, absorb. Then when it is time for you to continue to climb and raise your frequency, continue to follow the formula, and a new plateau will be provided through synchronicity.

Question (on childhood trauma): Individuals who have experienced trauma in childhood and continue to recreate the experience in the present moment because they still identify themselves as actually being that child (which they’re not, because they are a different person now). How do we work with that?

Answer (Bashar): You can now play with continuity in a way that will allow you to make whatever connections to that experience you feel you still need to, if you believe you need to learn something from it. But at the same time, know that that child isn’t you. As you become a new person, you create not only what appears to be a new present and a new future, but also a new past, and therefore a new childhood.

You can start informing yourself from your future self instead of your past self. Realize that you are the future self of that child, if you wish to be. Therefore, send waves of energy, compassion, and love to that child. That creates a bootstrapping loop where you bring yourself up to the present being that you choose to be now, by having sent from the present being you are now energy back to that child to give them the opportunity to go through a process of becoming the being that you are now.

Question (on finding your most powerful permission slips): I’m guessing that the idea of finding your most powerful permission slip is something that you explore.

Answer (Bashar): The reason you’re attracted to use something is because it will work for you, or you wouldn’t be attracted to it. If there is curiosity to explore, if there’s an attraction to a particular technique, tool, ritual, or process, those are the clues that it will probably work with your present belief system. When your belief system changes, you may find yourself attracted to different permission slips. Always remember, you are the ultimate permission slip, because you’re the one making the change anyway.

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Conclusion: Guided Meditation on the Animal Path

Willow Hill Chring:

Let me remind you first and foremost of the idea of the first phase of the forest path: meditating for at least 15 minutes with your back to a tree, connecting with your energy and facing a body of water, extending your Consciousness below ground into the root system and the mycelial network that connects all the trees, so that you can begin to bond with them and receive the communications along the forest path.

Now we would like to introduce the first step in the next phase, which you call the animal path. This is the springtime of change.

Allow yourself to become very relaxed in whatever way you find comfortable. Allow yourself to drift and dream. Begin to open up to the animal path in the following way:

Allow your imagination to go with the flow of what you are already familiar with. If you already identify with a particular kind of animal, that is all right. But at this moment, invite yourself to open up to different forms of animal Consciousness in different environments around your planet: forest, jungle, sky, sea, savannah, plain, desert. Allow yourself to feel, to stretch out your vibrational energy to connect to the animal you feel most bonded with. Let it come to you, or you can travel to it.

Allow yourself simply to feel that familial bond of love. You must be willing to truly hold them in your heart, truly hold them in your arms. Truly find them to be a connection of love and light. Truly feel that you are in communion with them, that they live with you in your family, that they are a part of you and you a part of them.

Allow yourself a moment to feel this way and see what animals come up to you. One animal may approach and then leave. That is fine. Allow yourself to go through this exercise of opening your imagination and your heart to the animal path. Let the animal show you, by the feeling of familiarity, love, and a family bond, that you could truly feel yourself holding them, loving them, putting your forehead to theirs, allowing yourselves to truly physically interact.

Allow yourself to drift and harmonize and feel that love and that joy with each other. This is the second part of the cryptic journey, and this is just the beginning. We will come back around again and again to take you to the next level of the forest path, the animal path, and the elemental path, so that you can complete the circuitry of the nine steps.

We welcome you with open arms, an open heart, and an open mind into the lodge that we share on the journey of the cryptic, the journey of the shaman, the journey of the spirit, and the journey of the soul. Our unconditional love to you, my dear little artichokes, as you peel away those leaves and find the core, the heart of your being.