Future Milestones

Bashar: A very specific kind of energy shift is coming in 2007.

There is no such thing as a prediction of the future. There is, however, a sensing of the energy that exists at the time the prediction is made—a sensing of the present.

if that energy does not change, then what is sensed can come to pass. But when someone senses that energy, they are not sensing the future. There is no set future. There are infinite probabilities of many different things, many different paths that can open up. And depending upon where you choose to focus your individual and collective energy, that determines the path you shall experience.

But as we read the energy that exists now at the present time, what we are about to say is what seems likely to unfold based on the strongest energy patterns that we perceive now.

The Template: Numbers and Cycles (2007-2042)

Bashar: We would like a volunteer to write something down. Anyone? All right, you do have what you call your paper and your pen. All right, any one of you may write this down as well if you wish for yourselves. But first, write down these numbers. Are you ready? Are you sure? All right, just checking.

Three, three, five, seven, nine, nine, and eleven. Have you got that? All right, oh, take your time.

Now, also write down in another column if you wish: one, two, three, four, and five. Have you got that? All of you? All right.

Now, 2007 begins a new cycle of energy, a new collective momentum, a new collective inertia in the general consciousness of your planet. And in the beginning of this cycle will be a starting point for a number of things that are to unfold.

As we perceive the energy at present, the first number—three—added to that will take you to the year 2010. That will be the next marker or milestone, if you wish, in this general pattern we are outlining here.

Now, then from there, you may add the five and bring yourselves to 2015. Then from there, you may add the seven, then from there you may add the nine, and then from there you may add the eleven, bringing yourself ultimately to your gate of 2042. You follow along? I’ll wait.

Now, in each of these blocks of time—of three years, five years, seven years, nine years, and eleven years—across this 35-year span.

Now, in the first block of three years, also count one year from that beginning. So when you say 2007, the first span of three years to 2010, but also make a demarcation one year into that, bringing you to 2008. That’s another demarcation point.

Then in the idea of 2010 to 2015, bring yourself two years in from 2015 to 2017. That’s another demarcation point.

And then add in each successive block again the idea of three years in, four years in, five years in each of those blocks from the starting point of the beginning of each block. You follow me?

So you have, as I said, your 2007 to 2010—that starts the three-year block—but go one year into that also: 2008. Then you have your 2010 to 2015—go two years into that so that you get your 2017. And apply three years to the next block, four years to the next block, and five years to the block after that. Those will give you all of the main demarcation times that we have talked about for certain events to occur.

And also, that many of you have been aware of for a while about different beings, different societies, different ideas in your culture of different demarcations for things to happen.

For example, as you have in the second block, your 2010 to 2015, going in two years brings you to 2012, which many of you have for a long time been discussing as a major threshold crossing point.

So you will see that in this overall pattern, you will be able to mark general crossing points that will be indicative of certain societal changes, certain changes in awareness that will bring you to the next level, the next step of changes going on not only in your society but changes toward the interaction of your society with societies from other worlds.

And as we have said, when you get up the scale a little bit in this pattern around your years of 2030 and up, you will find that there will be open contacts occurring on your planet between yourselves and members of other societies. And by the ending of this cycle in 2042, Earth itself will in a sense have already been enlisted within an alliance of a variety of worlds.

So this 35-year span represents your inclusion from the beginning point to a point where you are full-fledged members of an alliance of a variety of civilizations.

And along the way, there will be different incidents, different events both in your society and as you observe other things going on in your universe that will show you that you are progressing toward an expanded awareness that will bring you more and more into contact not only with more of yourselves and give you more ability to choose what kind of world you actually prefer, but will also bring you closer into contact with beings such as ourselves, so there can eventually be face-to-face interaction.

2007 begins the acceleration of that cycle that then in a sense ends in 2042 but then continues on on a very different level altogether from that point forward. You will be being trained how to interact with other societies who are also evolving in ways that you have already gone through, in ways you have already experienced, so that you will be able as a society to begin to help them learn to evolve their societies in ways that you have learned to evolve.

But that will take place, as we said, after your 2040s. But in the meantime, many exciting things will happen as we read the energy now.

So keep that in mind, use it as a template. See what happens around those years and begin to understand the pattern of energy both within yourself as an individual personality and in the collective society. You will see many different things that will start to happen in and around these times—give or take a few months here and there, one side or the other—but we are giving you a template so you can follow along.

Now, in this time, your own progress of acceleration and evolution in the expansion of your consciousness as it relates to discovering more of yourself and as it relates to discovering others that are aware of you and have been aware of you for thousands of your years. And as you come into more contact with us and others, it will also accelerate and increase your understanding of who you are as individual people and as a civilization.

And it will start to illuminate the choices you have made in creating your society, so that in looking at those choices, you can decide more clearly what choices you would like to make from that point forward to create the society you all say you would prefer to have on your planet.

So use this template and see what insights can be gleaned from it as you compare the events in your society to the years that are marked on this particular template. You will learn a lot about patterns of consciousness that occur within your collective self and your individual self. It’s a tool we give you to have some fun with.

Institute of Applied Metaphysics

We have now been communicating with your society for 23 years.

Tomorrow we shall conduct a workshop on your west coast. After 1 month, we will conduct a workshop on the east coast of your country.

That workshop on the east coast will be the last workshop of its kind. From that point forward, there will be something different.

We will help create a curriculum that will actually be offered through an Institute of Applied Metaphysics.

That curriculum will be something you can begin to study at your own pace and apply the tools we have discussed with you for 23 of your years in such a way that you can really strongly begin to apply all these things in your own way, at your own pace, to your own life and get very specific changes by training yourself how to do what we have come to learn to do naturally with every breath.

Thus, you will be immersed in an atmosphere and an environment of learning these ideas, these tools that we share with you in such a manner akin to what you may call your schools, so that it will truly be steeped into you in such a manner that it will become second nature to you rather than just hearing the information now and then.

It will provide a true training over a long period of time to allow these to become ingrained behaviors, so that you will have profound effects on your life rather than just intermittent ones.

This curriculum and the Institute of Applied Metaphysics will occur in time, perhaps again over the course of what you may call the three years in the first block from 2007 to 2010. Most likely will this curriculum appear, and the institute that will allow you to apply it.

But there will not be workshops of tomorrow’s nature again. You are ready for something different. You are ready for a different level now.

There will continue from time to time be the availability of having what you are experiencing this day of your time to be questions and answers, interactions of a type. But what will eventually also replace the timing of these Q&As or incorporate the Q&A will be something that we will begin to deliver on our schedule, on our time, that you might call “State of the Union” addresses.

Because now that you are going into the cycle of the pattern of the template of truly moving toward becoming a member of an interstellar alliance, we will include you in a variety of State of the Union addresses to update you on your progress and assist you in learning how to become more interactive within that alliance, to be a true full-fledged member of that alliance.

So instead of the idea, thus then, of just Q&As—although these will include the ability of dialogue back and forth—they will be more like reports, states of the union, states of the interstellar union if you wish. It is time that these formats change. And at this time, we will be the ones to determine at this point exactly when and where they will occur.

So simply be open and synchronicity will bring you the information, and you will be where you need to be when you need to be there. Information will be provided through your usual channels—no pun intended—and you will find out the information that you need involving the changes I am now speaking of.

Vibrational Changes and The Process of Ascension

Bashar: This brings us to the third item we would like to address this day of your time, and that is with regard to the energy vibrational changes taking place within each and every one of you individually.

your vibrations are raising, your vibrations are increasing, taking you to a higher level. Now, some of you don’t necessarily always know this or are aware of this, but over time you have increased your frequency, you have raised your vibratory level of energy. It’s just that you may be so used to it that you don’t necessarily know that this has happened.

The example we often give to illustrate this point is that a person who lived on your planet say 300 of your years ago, if they were suddenly to be transported to your present time and were to look at any single one of you, they would actually see you as glowing. Your vibration is that much higher in 300 years compared to theirs 300 years ago that you would appear to be glowing to someone from 300 years ago. But to you it’s natural, so you don’t notice it. It’s your natural vibration now, but it has raised over time.

You are higher energy level beings now, and your vibration will continue to rise. But here’s how it rises. Because some of you have been experiencing the idea of what you call ups and downs, ups and downs, ups and downs in life. And you say, “Why is my vibration not always going up? Why does it sometimes go down?”

Here’s why. Remember that some time ago we said expansion and evolution and growth is the product of inclusion, not exclusion. You are gathering all of the things from lower vibrations you need to look at to integrate them into the higher vibration.

So your general cycle is rising into a high vibration that gives you the ability to dip into the lower vibration and bring up to the higher vibration issues, beliefs, definitions that you need to resolve, that you need to integrate, that you need to process.

And by going on a higher vibration, it gives you the ability to do that—to dip lower so that you’re gathering all of yourself together, including all of your experience of life.

And as you do that, it’s not that you’re going like this and traveling in a straight line. You will start doing this and start averaging a higher vibration. As you dip down, you will not dip down as far as you did before. As you rise up, you will rise higher and higher. And the average of those two—no matter how high you rise and how low you may go—the average of those two will constantly be rising. That is how you do it.

So invite the idea of what seem to be the low points, because it is those low points that allow you to gather things that you don’t want to leave behind—ideas that you need to examine, beliefs and definitions that you need to process in order to truly integrate yourselves as holistic beings and raise your vibration in general to be able to manifest the life you prefer more and more easily through ecstatic explosions of synchronicity.

Because synchronicity is one of the first and primary side effects of beginning to live in the moment, beginning to live in the now, beginning to be your true self.

Synchronicity is spacetime physical reality’s way of showing you that all things exist now. But in linear spacetime, the only way that you can experience that is by many different things happening coincidentally all at once, one after another, showing you that things are linked, things are connected, that you are manifesting these things.

And as you live more in the now—where everything exists—then physical reality, which is a mirror, can reflect back to you through synchronicity more and more and more of all the things that exist with you right here, right now.

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The Nature of Reality: Creating Experience, Not Attracting It

Bashar:

Many people talk about the idea of creating your reality. You don’t really create it—it already exists. Many people talk about the idea of attracting the reality you prefer. You don’t really attract it because there is nowhere out there to attract it from. There is no outside; that’s an illusion.

It’s not that you’re creating the reality, it’s not that you’re attracting the reality. What you are creating is the experience in your consciousness that is most reflective of the vibration on which you exist. That’s what you’re creating—the experience.

Reality is experience. There is no empirical reality outside of you. It’s all within your consciousness. But you can create the appearance, you can create the experience of physical spacetime, you can create the experience of an outside, so that you can play a game of investing yourself with new knowledge about yourself by creating perspectives that otherwise could not be created without that format. But it’s all taking place within your consciousness, and it’s all just a matter of perspective. It’s all it is.

So when people talk about creating their reality—yes, in a way you are. When people talk about attracting the reality they prefer—yes, in a way you do. But it’s already here, all here right now within you.

So what you’re actually creating with your vibrational changes is the experience. And that’s the reality. That’s the reality. It’s not so much what happens, it’s how you respond to what happens that determines the vibratory frequency that determines your experience of reality. That’s all it takes.

You’re already here, you’re already now. There is nothing really you have to learn how to create, nothing really you have to learn how to attract. All you need to learn is how to allow the experience to happen that is most reflective of the vibratory signature you’re giving off, and then respond to it in a way that is reflective of the kind of being you prefer to be.

That’s all it takes to have an unlimited experience of synchronistic reality in ecstasy, excitement, joy, unconditional love. That’s all it takes is the willingness and the allow to let it occur, to let it reflect the true you.

But we understand how many of you were raised on your planet, and we understand the definitions and belief systems that you were raised to buy into. And we understand that what you go through is part and parcel of the process of getting in touch with what those beliefs and definitions are, so that in doing so you can then decide whether those definitions work for you or not, whether those definitions are in alignment with your true self or not, whether those definitions and beliefs are what you prefer to believe or not.

And in getting in touch with them that way, it is up to you—up to your free will, up to your ability to choose what definitions you believe are most true for you. And that will be the reality you will experience because it all happens within you anyway.

The experience of physical reality fundamentally exists for one reason only: so you can have an experience called choice. That’s why it exists. Without physical reality, things happen instantaneously. But in physical reality, you can have an experience of creating something, of taking time to experience a process, of savoring the mechanism of creation. You can have choice. That’s what physical reality is all about.

And what you’re all awakening to now in this day and age on your planet is the realization that that’s all reality is—making choices. That’s all it is. The experience you have of reality is completely the result of the choices you make based on the definitions you buy into most strongly as true. That’s it. That’s how it works. It’s the only mechanism there is.

I know, I know—it’s too simple. We know that humans love to complicate things, and if you enjoy that, then by all means please go ahead and do so. We will not stop you. We want you to do what you enjoy doing. We are simply here to let you know there is another way.

And we think most of you are beginning to get some inkling that that’s so. And so we are here to reinforce for you that it is so if you want it to be so. It is what works for us, it is what works for many other beings, it can work for you too if you choose it to. But you don’t have to. That’s the beauty of it. You don’t have to. Whatever you choose is perfect because it’s your choice.

You see, once again as we have said many times, this is the beauty and the paradoxical proof that creation is absolutely unconditionally loving and supportive because you are allowed to believe anything you want and experience it as true.

You are so unconditionally loved and so unconditionally supported that creation will even support you in believing you are not unconditionally loved and not unconditionally supported. That’s how unconditionally loved and supported you actually are—that you can even believe you’re not. That’s how much freedom you have, how much allowance you are given.

Your reality is firmly in your hands, and it’s up to you to decide what to choose. It’s only a product of choices anyway. So it’s really up to you to get in touch with what definitions and what beliefs you may have that have determined your experience of reality to this point, and decide whether those beliefs belong to someone else, whether they still work for you or not, or whether you can let them go like baggage you no longer need to carry with you.

And remember, keep it simple. The universe, even though in a sense complexly rich, is fundamentally very simple. It’s just a matter of identifying what the definition is that you have bought into and letting it go as something that no longer works for you as a choice. That’s all it really takes fundamentally.

Although, because we understand that many of you really love processes, there are sometimes other steps that can be added to that to help illuminate this concept a little bit more clearly for all the different points of view that come to this understanding. But because we are having this conversation with you this day in this way, we will at least assume that most of you are beginning to get an inkling that it is simpler than you think. And we are here to assure you that it absolutely can be if you choose it to be.

Q&A Session

Personal Update and Reflections

Participant: Both of my parents died. The dreams I had after they both died—strong interactions with them which I felt were processing my stuff and their stuff too, and also in true communication.

Bashar: Physical death is certainly not the end. No, it’s not. And it’s the strongest interactions I’ve had with anyone who’s passed.

Participant: Then both my cats died, all right, and that seemed to be the end of a cycle, all right, and the beginning of another. And I have these new kitties in my life, and they seem to be able to help me see things that I wasn’t able to see maybe when I wasn’t with the kitty energy.

Bashar: Cats symbolize the ability to see into other dimensions exactly.

Participant: One thing I do want comment back from you on is they don’t want to come on the bed right now, and I’m just thinking, am I back into interacting with the Grays, which I thought had stopped?

Bashar: No, but they are giving you space to make a change that you need to make—okay, in dream time. Okay, and when you make that shift, it is similar to the kind of energy that was involved in the shifts when you were interacting with the Grays, but now you’re learning to use that energy as many of you are on your own and on your own terms, right? So that you can begin to become more conscious about your ability to shift from reality to reality.

Right, so they are giving you some space to allow yourself to do that.

Participant: Yeah, because I’ve been writing my dreams down all right, very good yeah, and it’s really been interesting and I’ve learned a lot.

Bashar: As we recently discussed with many of you in one of the workshop exercises that we suggested, the idea of writing down your synchronicities every day and writing down the essence of your dreams every night will put you in touch very clearly with the changes going on in the consciousness of your being and allow more synchronicity to unfold.

Participant: One thing that I was going to talk to you about what you addressed in this third thing that you talked to us about was the ups and downs, because my life used to flow. I used to be able to manifest pretty much whatever I wanted, and I feel like I’ve been having what I thought were blocks, but I realized it was giving me time to go inward and learn and grow, and time to redefine the concept of a block as simply an unexpected direction to move in. And I’ve gone inward instead of doing this outside life; I’ve been doing all this inner work. Very good.

Participant: One last comment. Oh, all right. Remember D, yes? Okay, I was with her sister and her two sisters today and her nephews, and her younger nephew has her energy. I mean, he looks like her. All right, what is that connection? I mean, other than him just being her nephew, is there some other kind of thing? I mean, I felt like I was with her.

Bashar: It is a reflection in the same life of another aspect of the same soul. So they can feed off each other and reflect to each other certain things that they each need to learn about themselves in this life.

Participant: Right, ‘cause she was recently came to me and was thanking me, and I really felt like it was her energy in a sense.

Bashar: It is, although it is also distinctly its own energy, but it is enough of a reflection to allow that to continue on in a way that others can still gain reflective insight from interacting with it. So in that sense, also it is proof that the energy is not gone; it has simply manifested itself in a new way. Right, right. Nothing in that sense goes away because once again there is nowhere for anything to go. Right, it is all right here, right now. It just changes its frequency in a manner that creates a different perspective, but once it exists, that’s the only quality it has—existence. It cannot not exist.

Bashar: One moment. What creative endeavor are you involved with at present?

Participant: Oh, I’m looking for a house to work on and then sell.

Bashar: In what area on your planet?

Participant: In Venice, Italy? No, Venice, California. All right, just checking. Yeah, yeah.

Bashar: One moment. Don’t want you to begin that project and suddenly have a sinking feeling. One moment. One moment. Will you include the color yellow?

Participant: I hate yellow.

Bashar: Why?

Participant: Don’t know, just don’t like it.

Bashar: Why?

Participant: It doesn’t make me happy to look at it.

Bashar: Then that’s what you need to explore before the house will come to fruition.

Living Life Fully

Participant: Welcome, and are you good day? It’s wonderful to be here with you again. It is wonderful to be with you. I just—I never share. I always like to sit and listen to everybody else, and I—until now. Until now. And what do you have to share?

Participant: I love my life. I love the process that my life has taken in thank you since the beginning of the contacts with you.

Bashar: Yes, I see that you were extremely instrumental, and much—am I developing a greater awareness of myself and you were instrumental in finding myself?

Bashar: Of course, I agree. I cannot do it for you. You have to choose to do it. If you take inspiration from our vibration, so be it, and we are happy to provide. But you are the one that’s instrumental in actually making the changes in your lives.

Participant: I agree because thank you—we’ve received, I’ve received a lot of inspiration, and I’ve made a lot of choices to change things.

Bashar: That’s what makes all the difference in your world. When each of you live your life to the fullest, that’s what creates a vibration in your world that makes it more possible for others to also choose to live their lives to the fullest because they see so many more examples of it and feel the vibration of the possibility of it more and more every day. So living your life is the best way you can help others. Living your life to the fullest, the best way you can help everyone else. Because if you don’t live your life to the fullest, then you’re not here, and if you’re not here, how can you help anyone?

Participant: I like that. Thank you. Well, and I am living my life. I know pretty full, yes. I’m sharing a lot of my time with an organization called Heart Touch where we do compassionate touch, all right, and I’m getting a lot of joy from being able to touch the lives of others through physical touch and sharing my vibration.

Bashar: Oh, I will thank you for sharing that with us. And my sense of being grounded and just things that make people feel better. Yes, sometimes as we say, it’s the simple things that make all the difference.

Participant: It really makes me feel great.

Bashar: Thank you for choosing to feel great.

Participant: Part of my passion right now is to also travel. All right, where will you go?

Participant: Right now, it’s a trip plan to go to Thailand to work in some orphanages with children that have AIDS and have a wonderful time. Do you have anything to share with me about that process?

Bashar: That’s going to be quite—you find everything you need to find on the journey. I always do. Just remember, you are never alone. Okay, you are never alone. And that will come into play in Thailand. There will be moments when you will need to remember you are never alone ever. All right, all right. I stress it now so you will remember it in those times to come, and that’s all we are allowed to share with you at this moment so we do not interrupt your process.

Luran Energy and Ascension

Participant: There is a being named Meanti and this Luran Council who are—uh, are these questions?

It’s like almost like I’m about to give birth with these this council coming in many ways. it seems to me that possibly some of the information that’s going to be coming through me from them has to do with physical ascension. Some of it—that’s not all of it, but some of it. Okay. So I was wondering if you could help me with what would be the best way to work with them.

Bashar: Here is the paradox, and here is the power of paradox—and one of the most powerful things any of you can do, and particularly in this case, is learn to work with the power of paradox.

The best way to understand the energy of ascension is to always make sure you are firmly grounded.

Participant: Ah, nice area for me to work on.

Bashar: Yes, especially with Luran energy, who were absolutely instinctive about their understanding of nature and stayed firmly grounded to the earth. And in that way, allow themselves to reach and experience ascension easily because they understood that there really is no difference really fundamentally between the idea of physical reality and spiritual reality. Physical reality is just as spiritual as anything. It is a manifestation of you as spirit. And when you fully connect with physical reality through a spiritual understanding that promotes the idea of expansion—which is what you’re calling ascension.

Participant: Okay, what would be the best way for me in my own life to have a fuller understanding and make a fuller connection?

Bashar: Well, that’s up to your imagination. Okay, because you see, each and every one of your imaginations is keyed to you to allow you to come up with the best possible process or tool that will work for you. So when you are excited, when you’re following your excitement—if you are—are you?

Participant: I am, am so.

Bashar: So when you do that, always allow yourself to believe that what comes up in your imagination when you ask yourself the question, “What’s the best way I can approach this?"—allow your imagination to be your guide. And whatever technique it comes up with that excites you in the same way, use it. That’s what will work best for you. That’s what your imagination is for.

Participant: I Magi Nation.

Bashar: Ah, you are the magician of your world—I Magi Nation.

Participant: And if I may ask, what is—you may, thank you, not that you need my permission—is there a particular reason why this Luran energy is entering now?

Bashar: Because you can relate to it. Because you have many lives there, and you felt that it would be something you would instinctively understand in this day and time. Plus, it is necessary for people on your planet to get back to a stronger understanding of their connection with nature. So you will demonstrate that in your work.

Voluntary Society and Government

Participant: my husband has gotten deeply involved with—voluntary society.. it seems to be a society without government where, for example, no one can—there are no policemen that can get you to do things at the point of a gun. You don’t pay taxes, basically there’s no government at all.

Bashar: this is how it exists in our civilization.

Participant: Can you tell me a little bit about that?

Bashar: It isn’t that there is a government. There is, however, an organizing body, but that’s all they do. They make sure that information that needs to get to people gets to people. That’s all they do. That’s the organizing body that we use. It’s just an information exchange body. They do not govern anything.

The reason this works is because humans have a completely different understanding of what autonomy is all about than we do. Let us explain our particular perspective of true individual autonomy.

Each and every being is like a piece of a picture puzzle. When you have a large picture puzzle, it comes in a bunch of pieces. Yes, yes. And each piece has a different shape. Yes, yes. Well, each of those shapes fits in a certain place perfectly. Yes, yes. And when you put all the pieces together, no matter how different the shapes are, when they all come together, they make the big picture. Yes, yes.

Well, when each and every individual is their true shape, their true selves, they by definition automatically fit with all other pieces also being their true shape and create the big picture automatically—which supports all of the pieces automatically. And no governing is required. The shape of each individual determines the structure that needs to be there instantly, automatically, and effortlessly to create the big picture that then gives reason for all of those shapes.

But if you try to be a shape you’re not, you don’t fit. You don’t fit with any of the other pieces, and you can’t create the big picture that supports the totality of all the pieces.

So rather than anarchy, as many people on earth believe would happen with absolute individual autonomy, just the opposite happens. When you are truly vibrating from your core, truly the shape you were created to be, you automatically fit where you belong, and you automatically support the whole, and then the whole can automatically support you. That’s how it works.

Participant: Does that make sense? It does. Is there a possibility of that happening the way he’s envisioning it without government in the near future here?

Bashar: Time, yes. Are we talking about in the next few years, or are we talking about the next few centuries? You are talking about between now and what we already described in the beginning as your year of 2050. The possibility will escalate and expand exponentially with each demarcation point we outlined at the beginning.

Because remember, when people work together in an integrated way, it requires less people on a positive vibration to outweigh the energy of segregated individuals of a negative vibration. Yes, you understand because the integration is exponentially powerful—more powerful than all the individuals in a lower vibration attempting to make things work. The integrated individuals simply allow things to work as they naturally do, and so immediately with fewer numbers outweigh the collective energy of all of the individual scattered people who are, shall we say, of a vibration that is segregative rather than integrative.

So as each of these demarcation points, each of these thresholds of energy is crossed, as you attain, shall we say, critical consciousness mass, then you create more ability for people to catch on to the wave, the vibration, and begin to think the same way and begin to create the same kind of new systems that will replace the old ones.

It’s not about changing the old systems. It’s about creating new ones that will take the place of the old systems when they fall away. And you will turn around before you know it—within a few decades—and realize that everyone around you is thinking pretty much the same way, and you will almost wonder how it happened so quickly.

Participant: On a more personal level, I have a concern that somehow this vision of the voluntary society is causing my husband to decide that he no longer wants to be Jewish. He converted at the time that we were married, and he’s identified very strongly as a Jew since then, and he’s now deciding that he no longer wants to be Jewish.

Bashar: All right, and why are you concerned about that?

Participant: Well, I enjoyed sharing that with him.

Bashar: Well, you can still share it. And you can also again understand that it’s not an issue of exclusion; it’s an issue of inclusion. As we said, true expansion includes everything that went before it, not excludes.

How would you define the term atheism? ‘Cause I’m not sure I’m understanding it as he is relating it to me that he’s now decided he wants to be an atheist but still have spirituality in there.

Bashar: Well, then he’s not really an atheist in that sense by Earth’s definition. He is more of an agnostic.

Participant: Well, I did try to say that, but okay. He can call it whatever he wishes, however.

Bashar: Right, okay, because that’s his choice. So if he wants to say he is a spiritual atheist, well, that’s creative. And again, it might be an example of demonstrating the use of the power of paradox. You can be whatever you wish. So if he wishes to be a spiritual atheist, more power to him.

The point is, what’s the effect? And is it an all-inclusive idea as opposed to an excluding one? It is the inclusivity of all things that he has been before that will allow him to truly experience an expansion in his awareness. If it is another step that is excluding other things, then it will simply be another step towards the realization that he must include everything to actually expand in a spiritual way. But whatever definitions he wishes to use along the way really don’t matter to All-That-Is because All-That-Is is any definition you can imagine.

Remember, there is no outside to All-That-Is. All that is is literally All-That-Is. Okay, so saying that he is a spiritual atheist—are definitions that exist within All-That-Is.

Participant: It makes sense. It makes sense, yes.

Bashar: So the idea that many of you on your planet will begin to understand is that all of the so-called religious points of view are simply different aspects of the same one All-That-Is. It doesn’t care how you look at it. It’s all the same.

Anything that you call Jewish, anything that you call Christian, anything that you call Muslim, anything that you call Buddhist, anything that you call agnosticism, anything that you call atheism, anything that you call spirituality, anything that you call metaphysical, anything that you call by any other name is still just another name of the same one All-That-Is. That’s the point.

All that is is so incomprehensively unlimited, infinite, and vast that any perspective, any name, any idea that you can come up with is still a representation of the same one All-That-Is from a different point of view. And it is that different point of view that creates the enrichment of the tapestry of all the things All-That-Is.

Career Changes and Personal Rifts

Participant: I work with hypnosis and coaching, oh all right, and I do various shows and exhibitions and so forth. Oh all right, and is this fun? Um, yes, oh all right. And I’m presently having a rift with one of the organizers of one of these major conventions that I do.

Bashar: Of what nature is your rift?

Participant: Well, his wife has some serious issues that are causing her to ask him not to have be included in this particular show, and I’d like to heal that. I’m not sure how to go about it.

Bashar: She—are you able to have a dialogue with her about what it is she is concerned about?

Participant: I don’t know. She’s written poison pen letters and things like that, and it’s pretty nasty.

Bashar: Oh, all right. Poison pen letter? Yes, all right. How dramatic. Yes, that’s true. How creative. Right, how fairy tale like.

Now then, perhaps this is your opportunity to decide whether or not this individual may in fact—even though it may not seem like she is doing you a favor—actually be pushing you in a direction that might be better for you. Have you thought about that?

Participant: Well, it looks like I’ll be missing the opportunity to interact with a large portion of my particular clientele. But perhaps you will come up with an inventive way to actually interact with even more people than you thought if you approach a different direction.

I am not saying you cannot attempt to make a healing with her, and that process may certainly give you something that is important for you at the same time.

Sometimes in circumstances and situations on your planet, when you shall we say become focused or set in doing things a certain way, you will actually force yourself to move along by, in a sense, shall we say, getting others to force you out—getting others to take a position that gives you no choice but to move in another direction.

So you have to examine whether or not the purpose of this rift is for you to form a bridge and a link that can cause a healing, or whether it’s simply a sign that you actually will be more successful in another direction than you may have heretofore thought. You have to decide which it is and act accordingly, because it could be either.

Participant: It offers another point of view. All right, it offers another option for you. All right, we think about it and see which comes truest to you.

Are you in any way, shape, or form harboring definitions of fear about changing course in your activities?

Participant: It means leaving a lot behind.

Bashar: There’s that theme again. It isn’t leaving anything behind to move ahead. It’s bringing it all with you in an inclusive way that will make all the difference in how you perceive the experience of moving ahead. If you define it as leaving something behind, as losing something, that’s how you’ll experience it.

Participant: So I need to experience it as all of that was in the past, and now as I move forward, I’ll find it that way.

Bashar: Remember, you do not have an experience without a definition first. Okay, you cannot have an experience, you cannot have an emotion, you cannot have a behavior, you cannot have an experience without it being based on some definition you hold to be true.

So if you are finding you are experiencing trepidation about moving forward in another direction, look to the definition within you that says that doing so would be a negative thing, and find out if that definition really works for you.

And even when you do that for yourself in examining whether or not to move in another direction, even in that process of self-examination, you may suddenly encounter an inspirational idea that would also simultaneously allow you to form a way of healing the rift between you. Because when you go to the center of your being and really understand what definitions you are buying into and examine them and explore them and change them, you will find that all of the issues going on in your life will be connected to the very same definitions, and you will find answers for all of what appear to be different issues but which at the core you will understand are all the same issues in different disguises.