Table of Contents
The Rise in Autism
Asker: There has been a recent rise in autism prevalence. What can we do about it?
Bashar: There are actually many reasons, but one of the most prominent is that autism invokes a highly focused point of view in a very, very narrow window of expression and understanding.
In so doing, you get to see demonstrated very clearly the full potential of the expression of that aspect of the personality.
Autistic people thus have chosen to demonstrate to each and every one of you, in different ways, in different slices of personality expression, what you’re all actually capable of if you allow yourselves to operate in full mode.
So they are giving you a loving opportunity to see the potential in each and every one of you.
They are specialists showing you how being a generalist can let you live in the moment more fully, with more focus on every moment, and in living in the present.
And in so choosing to do that, then simply knowing what you need to know in that moment for that particular focus, and not necessarily spending time wondering or worrying whether you’re going to be in the proper focus, whether or not you’re going to have all the proper information that you need at that moment.
You could say our society is highly autistic because we don’t really plan.
We simply know that we will know what we need to know when we need to know it—not a moment before, but not a moment later.
Therefore, in every moment that we are interacting with something, it has our absolute full attention, our full energy focus.
In that moment, we are specializing in living in that now reality and absolutely no other. No thoughts of what was in the past, no thoughts of what will be in the future, which are illusions anyway.
In your society, you will always generate. There will always be beings who willing to take on the mantle of all the reflections that you are going through as changes in your consciousness that are important for your overall collective transformation.
So look around to those that have been willing, have the strength, have the love to be able to express themselves in what may seem to be a very limited way, but which in fact is a very profound state of being, to help all others learn more about who and what they are.
So what you can do about it is use it that way, see it that way, define it in a positive way.
On the other hand, there are those who also are choosing to experience that to give you all an opportunity to also understand how to expand them, as well as they expand you.
Many of you already know that the idea of touching, the idea of interaction with certain kinds of beings such as dolphins and whales—who are telepathic on your planet—have already been of great assistance in bringing autistic people out of their shell, so to speak.
As you thus allow them to interact with those beings, and you interact with them and those beings as well, they will help and assist you in forming more telepathic connections with each other, with them, and with other beings that the dolphins and whales are telepathically in touch with. So that’s another way you can use that experience that they have chosen to have on your planet.
What Is Impossible?
Audience: Is anything impossible?
Bashar: Yes. The only impossible thing is to imagine non-existence. Because by definition, non-existence doesn’t exist.
Therefore it’s impossible to imagine. Now, nothing else is impossible. But the question really isn’t “is this possible or is this impossible?”
The question that ought to be asked in any given situation, based on anything that you may desire, is “is it probable? Is it relevant to my life?”
Because nothing is impossible, but many, many, many things are not necessarily relevant or probable based on the life path you may have chosen.
It’s not impossible that you could suddenly transform into a being that is 12 feet tall, that is blue, and has six arms. It’s not impossible, but it may not be relevant to your life path, and therefore it would be unlikely.
Audience: Can we create anything that you imagine?
Bashar: Anything that you imagine that comes with the energy you call excitement is an indication that it’s part of your path.
If you imagine it and it doesn’t necessarily have the excitement, it may not necessarily be relevant to you, at least not at that moment. That’s always the barometer—what is it that excites you the most?
What contains the highest amount of creativity, excitement, love, joy? Excitement is your physical translation of the vibrational signature of your true core being. So if it comes with excitement, act on it to the best of your ability with no insistence on what the outcome ought to look like, and you will be wholly aligned with the path that you chose to be.
This works because excitement [dharma] is:
- a complete kit
- the driving engine of your life
- the organizing principle of your life.
- the path of least resistance in your life
- the thread that leads to all other expressions of excitement in your life
- the mirror that reflects to you anything within you that is out of alignment with your excitement, so you can identify it, integrate it, and bring it into alignment with your excitement.
Excitement [dharma] being a complete kit leaves nothing out that you need in your life.
So anytime you’re always acting on your highest excitement, it will always lead you exactly where you need to be led, when you need to be led there, with whom you need to interact, at the right place at the right time. It is complete. It leaves nothing out by definition.
Bashar: This is not just a philosophy, this is physics that we’re talking about here. Energy physics—like vibration to like vibration.
Audience: Can we trust that every moment is perfect?
Bashar: Every moment is perfect.
It’s just a matter of what you put your trust in in that perfect moment. Does that make sense? Yes. Remember, there is no such thing as a lack of trust.
There is no such thing as a lack of confidence. There is no such thing as a lack of abundance. But there is trust in lack, there is confidence in lack, there is an abundance of lack.
But you’re always trusting something to be true, you’re always confident that something is real, you are always abundant in something.
So it’s not about having to learn to trust, it’s not about having to learn to be confident, it’s not about having to learn to be abundant—you are already all those things. It’s about where you put your trust, what you are confident in, and what you choose to be abundant in. Does that make sense?
Bashar: And when you allow yourself to know that every moment is perfect, then you are defining every situation from a positive point of view. And when you define every circumstance with a positive definition, the only effect it can have in your life is a positive one. What you put out is what you get back. It’s that simple, because there is nothing in life that has built-in meaning. The meaning you give it determines the effect it has in your life.
Third Question: Sex and Spiritual Communion
Asker: Hello Bashar and good day. So there are many practices in the Daoist tradition and in the Tantric tradition that provide for sex as spiritual communion with a partner and with the Divine. What I’m curious is, is there a similar practice for you and your civilization, and what role does sex and intimacy play?
Bashar: Well, it plays a very large role. Although we used to have sex in the way that you do, although now in our evolution we are now more non-physical than physical, and therefore it happens in a very different way. It happens now as an energy exchange which is ecstatic, and yes, of course it plays a part because it is a state of being that allows us to experience a different way of being in alignment with creation. And so for those who believe and who feel and who know that that is the kind of an experience that they prefer to have at that moment in terms of the way in which they wish to align with creation, then it is in that sense a perfect experience in that direction.
Audience: And how would you advise us to achieve a similar state?
Bashar: By acting on your highest excitement to the best of your ability with no insistence on what the outcome ought to be. Yes, yes, that’s the whole formula.
Why You Are Awesome
Audience: I just fell in love with bubbles. Bubbles are what made me myself, that’s my art. I just make bubbles. Yes. And uh, are bubbles just a universally awesome thing?
Bashar: There are different kinds of bubbles. Yeah, no I know there’s all kinds of bubbles, but it’s just—are bubbles awesome everywhere?
Bashar: Well, yes, where they exist. But the kind of bubbles that we play with are bubble universes, bubble realities.
Audience: That’s all I got for you. I’ll give it up.
Bashar: All right. Bubble realities are very awesome.
The Nature of Time and Free Will
Asker: How do you perceive time?
Bashar: Time is a side effect. The side effect of time is created by the fact that your consciousness shifts through literally billions of parallel realities every second, and that creates the experience and the illusion of change, movement, space, and time.
It’s similar to the idea of what you call your projectors projecting a light through different frames on a film strip. Any given frame in a parallel reality has no movement, no time, no experience.
But as you project the light through different frames in a certain sequence, you project an illusion of time and space and change on the movie screen. Reality is similarly structured.
As you project your consciousness through different frames of parallel realities, you create the experience that you call time and space and movement and change. But all things actually happen at once. In essence, creation, existence is timeless. But time is an experience that can be had in the way that we have described it.
Audience: So you’re saying time is an illusion?
Bashar: Yes. It is a real experience, but it doesn’t actually exist as anything but a side effect of your consciousness shifting through billions of parallel realities.
Audience: Would you say it’s the same with free will—that it’s not real, we just have the feeling that we’re experiencing?
Bashar: Free will is very real, but it works in conjunction with the idea of destiny. In other words, looking at it from a linear perspective, when you are a soul and you decide you want to have a particular kind of physical experience, you will lay out a certain theme that you will explore. You could say that that sole theme is your destiny. How you explore that theme when you’re physical is up to your free will. Let’s say the theme in general—as an analogy—that the soul has chosen, it will walk down a specific hallway in life, a specific pathway in life. That’s your destiny—to explore that theme, to walk that path. But how you do it is up to your free will. You can walk, you can run, you can fly, you can jump, you can resist it, you can flow with it, you can be sad, you can be happy, you can go side to side, you can go backwards, upside down, inside out. That’s up to your free will. But explore that path you will.
Bashar: Now, one additional caveat—because this is the transformational age on your planet, one extra thing has been added: the ability to change your theme while you’re still alive.
So if you get to a point in your life where you believe that you have explored all the major themes that you have chosen to explore in this life, then you can actually add more themes, make new agreements. It’s up to you. You are now that flexible. And when we say explore a theme, what we’re talking about is anything in your life that is what you consider to be the greatest challenges that you face—not meaning challenges in a negative sense, challenges are exciting—but the greatest challenges that you face are usually representative of the themes you chose to explore, and the way in which you chose to transform limitation into freedom and darkness into light.
The Meaning of Being
Asker: What is the meaning of being?
Bashar: Well, the meaning of being is to be everything that you can possibly be as the unique you that you are. Because you see, life doesn’t have built-in meaning. You are designed to give it meaning. The meaning you give it, as we said, determines the effect you get. But really, to take it a step further back, existence has only one quality—to exist.
It doesn’t need a reason to exist. It just exists. Meaning and being are subject to existence. Existence is not subject to meaning and being. It is just what it is. But within existence are all the different viewpoints that it has of itself—you, you, you, you, you—all of you, all of us, all beings in all creation are all the different ways that All That Is has of experiencing itself. So every being is a unique point of view of All That Is of itself, a unique reflection. And thus, when you allow yourself to experience the unique reflection you are as fully as you can, you are allowing All That Is—existence itself—to experience itself as fully as it can in the way that you are uniquely choosing as your true self.
Audience: Does existence precede essence?
Bashar: Everything is after existence, because existence has no beginning.
Audience: Then what is time? What is a beginning?
Bashar: There is no beginning to existence, but there are beginnings and endings within existence.
Existence doesn’t need a reason to exist, so existence is not subject to time. Time is subject to existence.
Audience: You said there was an end.
Bashar: Well, in, uh—no, there are endings within existence, but existence doesn’t end. The very concept or the use of the word “end”—yes, in linear terms, uses the concept of time, like B series of time—before them and after them.
Audience: The B series and the A series of time—is the concept you are sharing that the present is real, or are designations in time as “before then” or “after that” real?
Bashar: The only thing that actually exists is the present.
Designations are arbitrary other views of the present that you might call the past or future or alternate realities, but they are all simply different views of the present, which is the only thing that exists.
Audience: So then time is real?
Bashar: The experience of time is real. Yes.
Audience: Okay. So then what is experience?
Bashar: Experience is a reflection of yourself, of your consciousness in that particular modality from that point of view.
Audience: What is the self?
Bashar: The self is your particular reflective aspect of All That Is—a unique point of view of All That Is.
Audience: What is All That Is?
Bashar: All That Is is literally all that is.
Some people on your planet might call it God, some people might call it Creator. It doesn’t matter what you call it. It is simply literally all that is. In other words, everything is made of it.
There’s no outside to it. There is nothing else but it. And so everything is made from it. So A equals A, A equals A, and A equals B and B equals A, and A equals C and B equals C and C equals B and C equals A.
Audience: Well, that can’t—A never equals B.
Bashar: But these things are different points of view of the same thing.
Audience: But they are different experiences, and in linear time they don’t always seem to equal it. But on a higher level, it is the same thing. So you’re an idealist or a materialist?
You believe that there is a material world? Do you believe that everything is created by your experience? Everything exists within experience, everything exists within consciousness.
Audience: Okay, the experience of everything is real, but there is only one thing and that is existence itself experiencing itself in all the ways that it can. Okay, so there’s no material world? There is the experience of it, but it doesn’t exist empirically without you.
What’s gravity then?
Bashar: Gravity is a relationship of the idea of one point of view to another point of view.
Reptilians, Fear, and Protection
Audience: A reptilian made himself known to us and it very much frightened my husband. And now we’re filled with fear and we’re always trying to live our life without having that.
Bashar: But you understand the paradox in what you’re saying?
That the belief that you need protection comes from a fear-based reality, a fear-based belief system. The belief that you need protection invites the idea of attack.
If you understand that nothing can attack you, nothing can harm you if you don’t operate on the same frequency domain, then you will understand you don’t need protection, because you’ll be invisible to anything you are not the vibration of.
if you don’t have a belief system that works that way, then obviously you do have to honor your belief system. So if you need a permission slip, if you need to believe in something that acts as protection for you, there is nothing wrong with that. All we are saying is just understand that you’re the one creating the scenario that you need protection from.
So if you understand that you don’t have to come from a fear-based belief system, and you operate on a frequency level that is more true, more in alignment with your core self, then you won’t fall into the idea that you need to be protected from something that, if it’s not on your frequency, wouldn’t be able to find you anyway. And remember, you cannot experience anything in your life that you don’t agree to experience. You are your own reality experience. Everyone is their own reality experience. Everyone has their own unique point of view of All That Is. You are, in a sense, really a universe unto yourself. The only way you can experience anything in your reality that is similar to what anyone else may experience in their reality is by agreeing to and creating it for yourself out of your own energy.
So don’t agree to the things you are offered from a reality you don’t prefer to buy into.
The real power of a negatively oriented being, whatever that may be, is to get you to believe they have power over you—which they don’t.
That’s the trick. They want you to believe they have power. They get you to agree with them that they do, when they in fact have no power over you at all.
Audience: If the Pleiadians were able to reach that point of understanding because we feel that he might be that from his past?
Bashar: The Pleiadians in their evolution, as they exist now in linear time, have reached that level of understanding and beyond.
Audience: Do you think he can tune himself back to that state of mind?
Bashar: If he chooses to prefer the state of mind, then he will change to that state of being. If he still is giving himself reason to choose something he doesn’t prefer, then he will not change.
You have to find out what definitions are being bought into that would create seemingly logical reasons to hold on to something he doesn’t prefer. Because the only reason you would hold on to something you don’t prefer is because you’re creating a reason to do so that seems to countermand what you prefer—as actually being more beneficial than what you say is beneficial. You need to find what that definition is that you’ve attached to the negative thing and change that definition so that you understand how to move in the direction of what you do prefer instead of giving yourself excuses and reasons to hold on to something that you don’t prefer. Does that make sense?
Audience: Yes. As long as someone believes they’re getting something out of holding on to a negative thing, they will hold on to that negative belief. So as long as they hold on to it, they will never experience anything but what is relevant to that belief. But if you find out what that belief is that’s out of alignment with your true self, and you identify it consciously, you will see that it is nonsensical and illogical, and as soon as it appears so, you’ll drop it. But you have to identify it first.
Teaching Children
Audience: What is the most important thing we can teach our children and the next generations?
Bashar: The idea of what their highest excitement is—you can guide them in this. But the idea is also to teach them true consequences of choices. Help them by creating interactive learning in a way that adapts the lesson to their excitement instead of attempting to adapt their excitement to the lesson. Do you understand? Because when a child is excited about learning something, you will not be able to stop them from learning. And if you teach them interactively what the consequences of choices are that they might make, then they will understand in a safe environment, supplied by the adult, by the guide, what kind of consequences they will experience based on the choices that they are buying into.
And you can also teach them one very important other thing, and that is: every single being is as powerful as they need to be to create whatever they desire without having to harm anyone else in order to get it.
The idea on your planet many times is that people express what they think of as power by dominating others. But the idea is that if you have to force an idea on someone, then there is no power in that idea, and you don’t really believe in it yourself. Because if you did believe in the power of the idea, you would know you don’t have to force it on anyone.
Everyone will eventually gravitate to where the real power is. So the idea of domination and forcing a way of life on someone is actually a sign that you actually are feeling disempowered and are trying to control your outer environment to give you some sense of the power that you believe you lack. But no one actually lacks power. So if you can teach people that they are truly always self-empowered, you will find that everyone will then be in harmony, because there will be nothing to fear. It’s about the idea of really learning to use the power of the illusion instead of falling under the illusion of power.
Ninth Question: Climate Change, Resource Exploitation, and Unification
Asker: How are we going to break free from the shackles of resource exploitation, and what is happening with our planet—is climate change a real threat to our civilization?
Bashar: Yes, but not necessarily as much as you may think.
Climate change and cycles in climate are a natural phenomenon. The things that you’re doing with your technology have accelerated it. The changes that are going on now wouldn’t necessarily have happened for another several hundred years had you not accelerated it. Nevertheless, it is a natural cycle that you’ve accelerated.
But there are also many people on your planet exploring the idea of what you call alternate forms of energy. Many people on your planet already know this is possible, and many people on your planet are beginning to explore this in earnest.
When you allow yourselves to really move in that direction, when you’re really willing to move in that direction, you will know how to create unlimited sources of non-polluting energy, because it’s all around you. You can tap into the electromagnetic field of your planet, you can tap into all sorts of different kinds of energy fields.
The idea is that you just need to focus yourself in that direction and follow your excitement and allow it to lead you to have the inspirations, the knowledge, and the understanding that will give you the ability to build such devices. It’s really not that difficult, but you have to take the step.
Now, again, please remember—it’s not about changing the systems that already exist on your planet. It’s about building new systems to replace the old ones when they fall away.
So don’t play the blame game. Just get on about the business of acting on your highest joy and creating the things that you wish to create. Then, as we said, please remember—you never actually change the world you’re on.
When you change your vibration, you just shift to another parallel version of Earth that’s already more reflective of the change you made within yourself.
Audience: How do we unite all of humanity?
Bashar: Pay attention. You will not unite all of humanity. You will wind up on a version of Earth where the versions of people that want to experience unification will be there, and the versions of people that don’t won’t.
So when you shift to that version of Earth that ultimately only contains versions of people that want to experience unification, it will seem as if—it will appear as if—all humanity has changed.
But it won’t necessarily have done so. It may simply be that many people that won’t orient that way will never shift to that Earth. You may simply no longer see them and wonder what happened to them.
Bashar: So it doesn’t really matter, because each unto their own. Whatever vibrational state you prefer to have is the Earth that you will experience. Again, remember, you can only experience these things by agreement.
So you will be with all the ones that agree to share a similar experience with you. You will not be with the ones that don’t. But what difference does it make in terms of the effect? You will experience it as if your world has changed.
Audience: Yes, yes. But what about the people whose highest excitement is dominating other people?
Bashar: No, don’t confuse your terminology.
This is why we say it’s very, very important to be very clear about your definitions. A real definition of excitement doesn’t contain a component called domination. Do you understand?
If you’re saying the word “domination” in the way you usually mean it, that’s not part of the component of your definition of excitement. So you have to be very, very aware of what definitions you’re using, because if you have a contradictory definition, you’re not really going to be experiencing the true definition of excitement, which wouldn’t contain such a negative component.
So watch your definitions. You made a contradictory statement. You can’t have someone living their excitement that actually wants to dominate someone. If they want to dominate, they’re not living their excitement. If they’re living their excitement, they have absolutely no need to dominate because they know they are as powerful as they need to be to have whatever they need.
Audience: I see a world where there’s military leaders that are causing a lot of strife.
Bashar: Yes. You are in a world where you are agreeing to see a mix of different belief systems.
But eventually you will not. But as you are right now, it’s giving you an opportunity by seeing all these different belief systems to decide which you prefer.
Many times people on your planet, because of the way you’ve been raised and the certain kind of belief systems that exist within your personality structure, will simply find that it might be much easier to understand who it is they really are by first being shown an example clearly of who they are not. So thank the people that are choosing things that are not what you prefer, because they’re making it easier for you to understand what it is you do prefer by comparison.
You have to define every single situation in your life in a positive way in order for you to get a positive effect. Now, don’t misunderstand us—we are not saying you cannot recognize what you do and don’t prefer.
But the idea is that whatever it is you do prefer and whatever it is you don’t prefer, you don’t invalidate what you don’t prefer. By invalidating what you don’t prefer, you’re actually locking yourself to it by giving it more power than it needs to have. If everything is really equal and you really have the power to choose what you prefer to experience, then it doesn’t matter that there might be people choosing negative things, because it has no effect on you. By giving a positive meaning to what’s going on in your life, regardless of what anyone else’s intention may be, you will only ultimately get a positive effect from it.
I’m going to tell you a very short story.
There is a friend of the channel’s who is a fanatic about music—passionate, passionate, passionate about music. That’s their highest excitement. They wanted to have a stereo system in their automobile that was the best possible stereo system, but they did not have enough money to buy the best one. They did have enough money to buy the next best one. So they acted on their highest excitement, number one, to the best of their ability, number two, and they got the radio they could afford.
One week later, a thief broke into the car and damaged the dashboard and stole the radio. Now, if going by the old paradigm, someone would have said, “This is awful, this is terrible, this is a negative thing, this is a bad thing that has happened to me. I was so positive, why is this bad thing happening to me?” Then, generally, by labeling it as a negative thing, you would have only had a negative experience out of it.
However, this person knew better. They said, “All right, I don’t understand how this serves me, but I know that it has to serve me. Why? Because I say so—that’s why.” And therefore, they went about their business of doing the things you do on your planet—reporting the theft to the insurance company and getting the amount of money necessary to repair the damage to the dash and replace the radio he originally bought. But when he went to the auto repair place, the person looked at the damage and said, “You know, it’s not really as bad as you think. I can fix that in a jiffy,” and did so. So quickly, he didn’t charge the person for the repair. And now the person’s standing there looking at the money they have from the insurance company, and it is to the penny the amount of the original radio they wanted to buy.
That’s the way life works when you allow it to. It’s not a fairy tale—that’s the way life works. If you stay in the positive state, it doesn’t matter that you might recognize that the thief was acting out of a negative state, that it was something that you don’t prefer. But he didn’t invalidate it, and by not invalidating it, he’s staying in a positive state. He was only able to get a positive effect even out of a negative action by someone else. That’s the point.
Audience: That makes sense, but it makes me wonder about the people that get killed or blown up by American bombs and how that philosophy applies to them.
Bashar: Well, again, you have to understand that many people in your reality have been brought up with many different fear-based beliefs. Now, that doesn’t mean that it always happens for that reason, but many times many of you will attract yourselves into circumstances and situations that will, in no uncertain terms, reflect very quickly and very strongly to you that you might be holding on to a fear-based belief. Yes. Okay? So you will attract yourself into danger, and if you attract yourself into what might be a dangerous situation, well then you are increasing the odds that something dangerous will happen to you.
Audience: So you’re saying people that lived in Afghanistan that got a bomb dropped on them somehow attracted that bomb onto them because of their—
Bashar: I know that sounds overly simplistic, but look at the nature of the structure of many of the different social, religious, and governmental systems on your planet that teach people to think of themselves in self-depreciating and negative ways. And thus then, what kind of consequences can there be if someone considers themselves a victim? But the idea that they attract someone weak enough to actually be a perpetrator—do you understand this concept? It takes a victim to make a victim. Both the perpetrator and the victim are victims, because they are both being weak in the sense that they are choosing negative choices to believe in more strongly about themselves, and then experiencing the consequences of those choices. Many times, those choices might even be unconscious. That’s why we say it’s so important to get in touch consciously with the definitions that you’re buying into. Because many people on your planet will put themselves in a situation, in an area, in a circumstance where it is highly probable that they will experience damage to themselves because they’re holding on to negative definitions they aren’t even aware of. That’s why it’s so important to have this clarity. Do you follow?
Animals and Unconditional Love
Asker: Can you tell us about the way we treat animals.
Bashar: They are a part of your world. They are an expression of unconditional love. They are often reflections for you of certain issues that you may be dealing with, certain processes that you may be going through. And many animals love you so unconditionally that some of them are willing to take on the physical effects of negative beliefs to give you time to process them and let them go.
many people on your planet think that animals are not as smart as you. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact—I’m not meaning this in a derogatory way, allow us to explain—in many ways, animals are actually quite a lot smarter than all of you. The reason for this is: animals, in whatever they are, whatever expression of animal they are, don’t have to be anything but that animal. Therefore, they are absolute geniuses at being that animal. They are specialists at being that animal. You are generalists, and thus then you’re not necessarily specializing in the way that animals do. You spread your intelligence out in a number of different directions. All their intelligence goes in one or very few directions. So they are all geniuses at being what they are, and have a lot to teach you about how to be a genius at being what you fully are.
They are family. They are expressions—another expression of the creation consciousness. They are your family. They are unconditionally loving beings if you allow yourself to experience them that way. It doesn’t mean that there are not things that happen in nature, but they will always happen in balance when there is a balanced relationship with them.
Audience: Is there is any way to awaken mankind to animals and to their unconditional love to us.
Bashar: There are many ways. Use your imagination. You can go out in nature and be with animals. You can act on your excitement, which will make you a more receptive and sensitive being to other vibrations, other communications coming to you from animals, from trees, from rocks. All things are made of consciousness. All things have a certain form or expression of consciousness. Everything has a way of communicating. You just have to learn how to listen. The easiest way to listen is to be more of yourself, because more of yourself means you’re more connected, because everything is a different expression of the same one thing. So the more you are yourself, the more you are capable of experiencing the reflections that they are too.
Audience: Is there a way to awaken people to stop hurting animals?
Bashar: Yes. Teach them that animals are not less than you.
Show them demonstrations of their intelligence. Many people on your planet are beginning to do this now. Look at all the examples that exist on your planet now that—even though they’ve been going on for hundreds and thousands of years—you are only just noticing. How long did it take you to notice that birds use tools? They’ve been doing it for thousands of years.
How long did it take you to notice? So the point is, pay more attention. The more attention you pay to what’s going on around you, the more intelligence you will observe, and the more demonstrations and examples you can show other people. “Look, look what that beautiful being is doing. Isn’t that amazing? Isn’t that intelligent? You and I aren’t that intelligent, are we?” I’m just being funny there. But the idea is you really just need to get people to pay attention to what’s going on around them. Get them to open their eyes. Get them into places where they can experience interactions with animals in creative, loving, interactive ways.
This is also one of the reasons why it is so powerful to do things now on your planet like go swimming with the wild dolphins and the whales. They are, shall we say, the keepers of the sea, as you are the keepers of the land in a sense. And the idea is, they are stewards, like you are stewards. They are telepathically connected to other civilizations, other star systems. Let them teach you how to connect. Swim with them, play with them, be with them. They’ll rub off on you.
Bashar: So have fun with it. Use your imagination. Follow your excitement. It will come to you—the best way for you to demonstrate to other people how to do that. However, you have to allow yourself to do these things because it excites you, not because you need other people to think like you do. Do you understand?
Audience: Yes. That’s the paradox.
Bashar: That’s the paradox. Yes, you have to be as unconditionally loving as you are asking them to be. Yes. And unconditional means no condition. So if they choose not to see things your way, not to have the kind of relationship with animals that you prefer to have, you can do your best to show them how they could and how it might improve their lives and expand their consciousness. But if they ultimately choose not to, you must allow them the same respect that they are allowing you to choose what you prefer.
Yes. Remember, please—all of you remember—in a sense, there’s really no rush. You are eternal, infinite beings. What’s your hurry? I understand that it is all well and good to allow things to change in certain ways as you change yourself on your planet, and it is absolutely a lot of fun to experience those kinds of changes. But every being is an eternal being, and therefore, somewhere, somehow, they will experience those ideas whether they experience them in this particular linear life or not. So do your best to be the living example that they can then see in you—something that makes you so ecstatic that they will come up to you and say, “What makes you so happy? I want to be that happy. I want to be that loving. I want to be that free. I want to be that creative. I want to be as inventive as you, as imaginative as you, as abundant as you. How do you do it?” There’s your lead-in. And then you’ve opened the door—they’ve opened the door—and you can lead them through it. But first you have to be a living example of it without the negative idea that if they don’t walk through that door, something is wrong. Otherwise, all you’re doing is tainting the energy that you prefer to have and going down to their level.
The phrase in your Bible, “Judge not lest ye be judged,” doesn’t mean that you’re being judged from outside. It means that as you judge someone, you judge yourself and take yourself down to that level. So if that’s not where you prefer to be, don’t buy into the negative side of it. Just be the positive living example that they will all want to emulate.
Eleventh Question: Extraterrestrial Contact and Timing
Audience: So you’re an extra-dimensional being, correct?
Bashar: Yes. You might call us extraterrestrial, extra-dimensional—it doesn’t really matter much. We do exist in a parallel reality, and so in that sense it’s another dimension. We do exist on another planet other than Earth, and so in that sense we are extraterrestrial. Either label will do, in a sense.
Audience: So from what I understand—what I have learned—that the universe and all life in it is an expression of this Divine love. Correct?
Bashar: Of course. Everything is made out of existence. Everything is made out of All That Is.
Audience: So then we can expect that the universe itself is not only just extremely full of life, but that the universe itself is alive?
Bashar: Absolutely. As I said, everything is consciousness.
Audience: Yes. If the universe is so vast with life, and I can only imagine there’s much intelligent life, why not show yourselves in your true essence, in your true being? Why can’t—not ready?
Bashar: What is this going to take? That’s a very good question. We have asked it for many years. What’s it going to take? What it’s going to take is you being more equal to us instead of devaluing yourselves, diminishing yourselves, doubting yourselves. You understand?
This is the point of all the information we are sharing with you. This is all a prelude to contact. However, we can’t force contact on you. You have to really allow yourself to absorb the information, to exist on a vibrational level that is more compatible with our reality so that we are capable of interacting more freely. We exist at a vibrational frequency that, in a sense, is much higher than yours. This is not a diminishment of you, it’s just a physical fact. The idea would be like unto a very high spinning gear. You might be a slower turning gear. If we were to jam a high spinning gear and a slow spinning gear together too fast, you could strip the gear. We don’t want to strip your gears. So the idea is, we give you this information, we share this information. The degree to which you absorb it, the degree to which you integrate it, raises your frequency. It makes you spin faster, something closer to us. When you arrive at a place at a rotational rate, at a frequency rate that is close enough so that we know we will not cause psychic shock within you and damage you by forcing things to the surface you’re not ready to face within yourself, then that will be the time when we know open contact can occur in a way that is beneficial for all concerned. We’ve done this many times. We know what we’re doing now. So trust the timing.
You know what you’re doing too, even though the physical mind may not always think so. But your higher mind knows exactly what’s going on.
I will give you this: remembering that there is no such thing as a prediction of the future. There is only a sensing of the energy that exists in the present. The present energy, as we have said now for a while that we read, is that the most likely window of timing for what you call the beginning of the beginning of open contact with your world with another civilization is going to be sometime between your year of 2025 to 2033, most likely. That’s as we read your energy right now. You can accelerate this toward the lower end of the window if you wish. The more you act on your highest excitement, the more you integrate the idea of your negative beliefs and transform them into positive ones, the more holistically you function on your planet, then the closer in frequency you become to us and the more likely you make it to have this kind of contact.
We are using you as a barometer for when contact is appropriate. Now, here’s a secret that I’m going to spill the beans on right now: many of you—in fact, a lot of you—have actually already had physical contact. You just don’t remember it. You don’t remember it for a reason, though. You are made to forget the contact that has already happened because the rate at which you remember that contact has already occurred—whether it comes as a memory in waking state, whether it comes as a dream, no matter what—the rate at which you remember you’ve already had contact is a barometer, a measurement for us that lets us know when you’re ready for more.
Audience: Are there forces at work working against this progression moving forward?
Bashar: There are always those who would desire to go in a negative direction. A lot of them exist on your own planet, as you know. Nevertheless, as we’ve already said, it doesn’t matter what those forces may want, because if you are of a frequency that has nothing to do with their frequency, they have no ability to affect your forward or upward motion.
Eating Animals and Unconditional Love
Audience: Can we have unconditional love even for our enemies, and even for the bad people.
Bashar: Yes. But you don’t really have enemies if you have unconditional love. Correct. You may have people that you are aware of that are not choosing what you prefer, but they’re not your enemies. Correct.
Audience: So I want to talk about something that is probably an unpopular belief here.
Bashar: Oh boy, how exciting! We love things that are not popular.
Audience: So I’ll start with the part that is popular. Oh, all right. That’s exciting too. I have an incredible amount of compassion for animals, and it really breaks my heart when they are mistreated.
Bashar: I understand, and we have just had a discussion about that. Yes.
Audience: And this is getting into the unpopular part. In particular, when they’re mistreated and not raised in their natural habitat, the Native Americans and all of the cultures of the past who had wisdom ate animals. Yes. They had a balanced relationship with them. So my question is, do you feel it’s okay, or actually is it the way we were evolved to eat animals as long as they were raised naturally?
Bashar: Some of you will require that, and some of you will not. It’s on a case-by-case basis. It’s not the same for all. Do you understand? Okay. So you will have to determine for yourself whether that is true for you. If you determine it is true for you that your body consciousness may require the ingestion of certain kinds of animal protein from time to time—at least—if that is true for you, allow it to be the most natural, balanced relationship that you can possibly create so that the animal is participating with you in that way. Do you understand?
Now, I’m also going to tell you another little secret. Many of you may not actually realize—as you eat an animal, the animal is eating you. Because as you absorb anything in nature, because you are a part of nature, nature is absorbing you. It’s a two-way street, not a one-way street. So the idea again is that if you do it in a way that’s not in balance, you’re going to experience a lot of imbalance in your relationship to nature in a variety of ways. But if it is in balance, then the act itself is not the imbalanced thing. And if you do it in a balanced way, you will experience a relationship with nature that is balanced, and things will be provided for you that you truly need, and they will be gifted to you in a balanced way, in a natural way.
Audience: Why is it that All That Is chooses to manifest itself sometimes as a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay or any other situation where it’s tortured? Is there something—why?
Bashar: All That Is is all that is—negative, positive, and the balance in the center. Remember, it’s not a duality, it’s a trinity first and foremost: positive, negative, and the balance in the center. But the idea is that to All That Is, those things aren’t necessarily negative in the way that you humans usually think of them. It’s just an experience. It’s just a point of view. It’s something that it can experience, and it will experience anything that it is possible to experience because that adds to its understanding and its experience of itself.
Audience: So if I can’t comprehend that and it bothers me, should I just not think about it?
Bashar: If it bothers you, it might be important for you to think about it. That might be an indication there is something in there for you to learn. And as someone in the audience pointed out, at least it’s an opportunity to experience compassion. Yes. For the bad people and the good people—quote “bad people.”
Audience: Yes, quote “bad people.” Okay.
Bashar: Because again, please remember, the only reason that people might, in any way shape or form, wind up in those kinds of circumstances really is because they haven’t been taught that there might be other choices. Do you follow me on an un-logical level?
Audience: I do. I can’t comprehend that, but that is what I believe. Yeah.
Bashar: If you are taught growing up that blue is the only color that’s worth anything, then anytime you want to express something to someone, you’re only going to choose blue to do it. You follow me? You will not know that you have the choice of red, yellow, orange, green, violet. You follow me? You will only choose blue. So if someone is brought up being taught that the only kind of real contact, the only kind of real connection that ever happens for you is abuse, then when you try to connect with someone, what are you going to do? Abuse them. Do you understand? Because you’re trying to express love through the only tool you’ve been given. That’s why it’s so important to teach people new tools.
Therefore, if you see someone expressing abuse, you can have the wisdom and the compassion to understand that what they’re attempting to do is express love, but they haven’t got the tool. Teach them the tool that self-empowers them, and then they will have a new tool and express themselves in a new way. Because everyone wants to feel powerful. Teach them what true power is, and that expressing the idea through abuse is actually just the opposite of power.
Taking Action for Animals
Asker: In what you were speaking about before with the animals—yes, and the idea that—speak up—the idea is when we do see situations where animals are being abused or they require assistance, then acting on our excitement by taking action in the direction of supporting the transformation of that situation is a really positive way, as long as you make sure you know what you’re doing.
Bashar: Yes. Right. Well, I mean, because many people will think that they’re helping—they may not actually be helping. Make sure you know what you’re doing.
Audience: But just the idea of like, like when people get upset because they’re seeing that an animal’s being mistreated or something like that, and then when you take action—yes—instead of staying in that negative state, take it from a positive, balanced state. Of course, because how are you going to help anything if you’re in a negative state? And by taking that action, you allow yourself then to shift to a parallel reality where animals are treated better. Yes, that’s the idea. And it’s up to you to have the facility to be able to do that. But again, make sure you know what you’re doing. Sometimes you may think an animal is in danger and it’s actually just fulfilling its natural function.
Audience: You mean such as if an animal’s going to lay eggs but everybody thinks it’s going to a place where it’s dangerous?
Bashar: Yes. Okay. So we always want to be mindful of their natural cycles and what they’re doing, yes. And take that into account. Have knowledge and respect what the animal is doing. And when you are sure it is something that is outside of its natural biological need, then by all means, step up and take action if you wish, in the most positive way that you can. Because again, bringing negative energy into the situation will only bring the vibration down. Right? So that’s a really good transformative experience—when you can balance your energy when you’re feeling very emotional about a situation like that, and take action in a positive way and supportive way, things will change. Absolutely, they can do nothing but.
Again, this is why we say physical reality is not a real reality. It’s just like a mirror. It’s a reflection of what’s going on in your consciousness. If you see a reflection in a mirror that is frowning at you, you don’t go over to the mirror and try to make the reflection smile—that will never work. And you don’t stand there and go and cross your arms and go, “Well, reflection, I’ll smile when you smile first.” It will never smile first. The idea, though, is that if you decide to smile for its own sake, the reflection has no choice but to smile back. That’s how it works.
Fourteenth Question: Tools and Permission Slips
Asker: Good day to you, sir, and to all you beautiful, vibrating, positive beings shedding so much love and energy and raising it up, raising it up.
Bashar: It is our pleasure to do so always. Yes, yes.
Audience: And I thank you and I thank you and you as well. So I want to talk about tools. We just recently downloaded some free tools to go and help you snap back into that positive headspace. It’s free technology. All right. And are you doing that in a positive way? It’s called Positive Head, and it’s there. It’s free for everyone to experience. And it’s just something to help—a tool to help. That is your choice to do so. Yes. And do you have any other tools that you could share with us?
Bashar: There are many tools. We call them permission slips. It’s anything that works for you. Any tool, any technique, any ritual, any object is a permission slip. You are attracted to whatever is aligned with your belief system that you believe will work for you. But a permission slip is just a tool that allows you to be okay to give yourself permission to be more of yourself. The tool never actually does anything. It just allows you to believe that it does so that you can give yourself permission to be more of who you are. That’s what tools do.
Audience: So we already have the tools, of course. You do. They’re built in. It’s up to us to use the tools.
Bashar: Absolutely. But you understand that sometimes you have been taught belief systems that may make it seem as if you need to use those tools, and that’s all right. If that’s what works for you, then that’s your process. We’re not saying that’s wrong. Just recognize that that is simply what is happening—that those tools are your inventions. You already have them. You’re projecting them outside yourself in a way that makes it easy to recognize the tool as a reflection, and then use the tool that’s already within you in an apparently outer way to allow things to go in the direction you prefer them to. This is the game you’re playing—the game of reflectivity with those tools. Because they’re all in you. You wouldn’t be able to see them in your outer world if they weren’t already inside you, because there is no outer world without you. Does that make sense?
Audience: Clearly and precisely. All right. Thank you.
Fifteenth Question: The Seven Classical Liberal Arts
Asker: Bashar, I have a question about a common theme that’s been popping up over and over—studying a lot of influential thinkers ranging from Nikola Tesla, Copernicus, Kepler, Pythagoras, and the common theme that keeps popping up is the seven classical liberal arts as a foundation to the attainment of higher knowledge.
Bashar: All right. Again, that’s an interesting permission slip, but that’s what it is. I was wondering if you could comment on it all. I mean, I just did. It’s an interesting permission slip. Okay? If it works for you, if that idea, that system, that relationship works for you as a permission slip to allow you to raise your vibration, to be more of who you know yourself to be, then by all means use that particular idea. But as we said, any tool, any technique, any ritual, any format, any object is a permission slip. Does that make sense?
Audience: Yes, it does. Thank you very much.
Bashar: Now, one moment—we’re not done. There are certain permission slips such as the one you’re mentioning and others that resonate to certain chords, certain keys within the human psyche, because you crystallize your psyche in a certain way. And so when you use permission slips that harmonize, that vibrate, that resonate with those particular chords, those particular harmonics, it can be particularly powerful for many of you in a general sense. In other words, there are permission slips that work for many of you in common, and there are permission slips that also work for individuals specifically more than others. One of the strongest permission slips is the idea of storytelling. The storytelling structure is embedded in your psyche, in your psychology. That’s the most efficient way to transfer information in your reality. So when you tell a story and you hit all of the proper story chords, all the proper story points that are aligned with the story structure in your psyche, then you retain that information, and those stories last forever. When you miss a point, people go, “Uh, not such a good story,” and they forget about it. But when you hit those points, it’s a very powerful retention system for the transference of information. And that’s why those stories last forever and become what you call classical.
So there are other techniques such as what you’re talking about that are also hitting some of those points, some of those resonant frequencies that are common to many individuals on your planet, and so they can be very powerful permission slips for a large portion of the general mass consensus. Yes. But it’s up to you to decide whether they work for you or not. If it works for you, use it. If it doesn’t, don’t. It’s that simple. And you could change your mind tomorrow. If it works for you, use it. If it doesn’t, don’t. Is that simple enough?
Audience: Yes, it is. It doesn’t have to be any more complicated, unless of course you enjoy making it more complicated. I will never stop you from making things more complicated if that’s what you enjoy. All I’m simply saying is you don’t have to. Does that help?
Audience: Yes, it does. Thank you very much.
Sixteenth Question: Excitement and Fear
Asker: Hi, Bashar. Good day. It’s exciting to meet you.
Bashar: It is exciting to meet you as well. All of you.
Audience: The most exciting thing I want to do in my life is to visit another planet.
Bashar: All right. Well, in the meantime, what are some exciting things that you can do while you are on your planet? Because if you do all the things that are really exciting that you can do while you’re on your planet until you have an opportunity to go to another planet, doing all the exciting things you can do on your planet will actually accelerate the probability that you can then go to another planet. Does that make sense?
Audience: Yes. All right. So what are some of the exciting things that you’re doing on your planet now in your life?
Audience: For one example, I’m here right now.
Bashar: Yes. That was exciting.
Audience: Anything else?
Bashar: Are you acting on your highest excitement to the best of your ability with no insistence on what the outcome ought to look like?
Audience: Most of the time.
Bashar: Hmm. Most of the time.
Audience: All right. Well, that’s all well and good. What about the times you don’t? I’m a bit confused.
Bashar: You are confused. That’s a wonderful state of being—confusion. You are transforming from one idea to another. You’re unlocking from one reality to another. You are disorienting from one reality to another. Confusion is the positive understanding—the positive definition—of that idea. Do you prefer the positive definition or the negative definition?
Audience: Probably the positive one.
Bashar: Probably or definitely?
Audience: Definitely.
Bashar: Thank you. And so what are you confused about?
Audience: Well, a lot of times I’m excited, but then I’ll find myself at times being upset, and I don’t know about what—various things.
Bashar: Give me an example.
Audience: Take one example. You’re excited about something, but then suddenly you find yourself upset over what? It’s actually kind of hard to remember right now.
Bashar: Oh, don’t give me that. Okay. You can’t get out of this now. You opened the can. Okay. Okay. I know you have the ability to think of something.
Audience: Well, I don’t want to have a normal job, but—
Bashar: Well then don’t. What’s stopping you? Are you saying you don’t believe that your excitement can support you?
Audience: Yes.
Bashar: All right. Well, why do you buy into that? What do you get out of buying into that idea? I’ll tell you if you really can’t guess. Okay, tell. But I’d like you to give it a shot.
Audience: Um, I won’t have any money and I won’t be able to support myself.
Bashar: But what I’m saying is, what do you get out of buying into that?
Audience: Oh, uh, you don’t know. I guess I’d be safer.
Bashar: Safer. You believe that it’s safer. Very good. Thank you for being honest. So the idea is, as soon as you understand that you don’t have to buy into that anymore, you will start realizing that the safest thing to do is to actually be yourself. Does that make sense?
Audience: Yes. But how do I change that belief?
Bashar: You have to find out what it is specifically.
Audience: I’ve been trying to do that.
Bashar: And it’s all right. Would you like a little help?
Audience: Yes, please.
Bashar: All right. Have you been raised in your life, in any way shape or form, being told by your parents, your friends, your school, your society that somehow you’re not deserving, you’re not worthy?
Audience: Uh, not sure.
Bashar: You’re not sure. Probably at some point.
Audience: All right.
Bashar: So the idea is that you are afraid to move in the direction of your highest joy because you’re afraid that if you do, you might prove them right. You might, in your words, quote-unquote, as you say in your language, “fail,” and then they will be right. You couldn’t do it. You don’t measure up. You can’t live up to it. That’s nonsensical. It makes no sense. You’re a fool. Do you understand? All those ideas that people on your planet talk about. So you’re not even taking the step as fully as you could be because you’re worried that you might prove them right. Does that make sense?
Audience: Yes.
Bashar: But I’m guaranteeing you that will never be true. It will never be true because if you weren’t worthy, you wouldn’t exist. So what you’re doing by holding back, by choosing to buy into the belief that your joy, your excitement, can’t support you, by holding back who you really are, by holding on to a belief that’s not what you prefer to hold on to—you are arguing with creation about your worth. Why argue with creation? Aren’t you tired of it?
Audience: Yeah, I am.
Bashar: All right. Well, are you tired enough to stop doing it?
Audience: I understand it in theory, but when I actually—like I’ll think that I maybe I change the belief, and then I’ll find myself upset about that.
Bashar: That’s all right. That’s the process. That’s okay. You’re never in the same place twice. You have an old saying on your planet: you can’t step into the same river twice. You’re never in the same place. It’s a process for you. That’s all right. Enjoy the process. Give the process positive meaning, and you’ll have a better time with the process. It’s all right if you don’t get it at first. You will get it. Just keep looking.
There are sometimes secondary beliefs. You may find out what the secondary belief is, and you may change that one. But if you keep doing the same thing you don’t prefer to do, all that means is you haven’t found the fundamental belief that is below that one. Keep looking, keep digging, keep investigating, keep exploring. But when you finally do find that true foundational negative belief and you let that one go, all the secondary ones on top of it will collapse. So if you find one and it’s not enough, then keep looking.
All you have to do in any given situation where you feel a negative idea, where you’re experiencing what you call a not-preferred emotionality, is ask yourself: “What do I have to believe is true about myself in relation to this situation in order to feel the way I do?” Because you cannot have a feeling unless you have a belief first. Feelings do not come out of a vacuum. You have to have a definition. You have to believe in a definition as true before a feeling can be generated.
Do you want proof of that? All right. Do you know the definition of a “brontide”? No. How do you feel about brontides? Interested. I don’t know. I’m actually curious to find out what—yes, but you don’t really have a real strong feeling about it because you don’t know what it is, do you? No. “Brontide” in your language is distant thunder. That’s interesting. All right. Now, did any more feelings come up when you knew what the definition was? Just memories of storms, memories of lightning, memories of thunder making you shiver, making you thrilled, making you afraid, making you wonder. You understand what I mean? When you have a definition, you have more feelings. When you have no definition, you’re kind of curious but you’re kind of blank. You don’t really know what direction to go in. You don’t know how to respond.
So if you have a feeling and it’s fear, that’s telling you you have a definition you’re unaware of that’s out of alignment with who you are. Use the fear. Use it as your friend. Fear is your friend. And when it comes up, it’s going, “Hey, I’m knocking on your door to let you know you have a belief you don’t prefer. Find out what it is.” As soon as you pay attention to the fear and say, “Thank you, fear, for letting me know there is something going on I don’t prefer. I will investigate it. Thank you for doing your job,” then fear will turn into joy, into excitement, into curiosity. It will have done its job. The only way that fear turns into terror is when you don’t let it deliver the message it is designed to deliver to you. So let it do its job. Say thank you very much, and get on about the business of finding out what you would have to believe is true about yourself in order to have the feeling that you had.
Another approach you can take to this is approach it from the opposite polar direction. If you don’t find an answer coming when you ask “What would I have to believe is true?” then ask, “What am I afraid will happen if I actually go forward in the direction of my joy? What am I afraid is the worst possible thing that might happen if I actually moved in that direction?” Very often, people on your planet will get the answer that way. But one way or another, if you’re willing to hear the answer, you will get the answer.
Audience: How do I, once you discover that definition, if it is truly out of alignment with who you are, the moment you identify it, it will appear instantly nonsensical and illogical. It will make no sense, and as soon as it makes no sense, you will instantly drop it.
Audience: How do I know if it’s the actual belief?
Bashar: As I said, if you find a belief and you have transformed it but you still keep doing the same behavior, then you still haven’t found the fundamental belief that underlies or underscores that one. Keep digging. Just ask the question again.
Audience: I think I might believe that it’s difficult to do that.
Bashar: You do believe that it’s difficult. How do I get rid of that one? Why do you choose to believe that it’s difficult? Do you remember what we said about the nature of beliefs? They are designed to make it appear that it’s difficult to change them. But if you know that’s a belief, then you know you can change it more easily because it’s just a belief. It’s not empirically true that it’s difficult. It’s just a belief that it’s difficult. And if it’s only a belief, you can change a belief because you’ve already done it before. Yes.
Audience: Okay. Do you understand that?
Audience: Uh, yes, not really. Well, I understand it, but then when I think of actually it happening, I don’t understand how.
Bashar: In other words, you don’t believe that it can happen to you. Maybe. All right. Well, again, that comes back to the idea of self-worth. Why are you singled out of all the people in creation that this idea won’t work for you when it works for everything else in creation? Isn’t that being a little bit arrogant?
Audience: Probably. Yeah.
Bashar: All right. Well, I know that many people think, “Oh, I’m not worthy, I’m not deserving.” Is that a very humble attitude, an attitude of humility? No. It’s an extremely arrogant attitude, because you’re saying, “I, out of all the beings in existence, am the only being that this doesn’t work for. Look at me.” So don’t be arrogant. It works for you just as it works for every being in creation. And if it’s not seeming to work, it’s because you are defining that it’s difficult to work. But if that’s what you’re defining, then you can change that definition because you created the definition of difficulty. So it’s in your control.
Please remember, here’s the paradox of the illusion: I know there are times when you feel like you’re out of control, but the only way you can actually have an experience of being out of control is if you’re controlling that experience. So you are always in control. Now it’s just up to you to realize, “Oh, I am in control, but I’m using my control to create a feeling that I’m out of control.” So instead of using my control, my power, to create a feeling of powerlessness, what would I prefer to create? Because if you’re creating the feeling of powerlessness, you can just as easily create a feeling of self-empowerment. As far as creation is concerned, it doesn’t care which one you choose because it’s up to you to make that decision. So choose what you prefer, and understand that any difficulty you experience in that choosing is coming from your choice to experience difficulty. But if you’re tired of experiencing it, don’t buy into it anymore. It’s that simple, because it isn’t an empirical truth.
Audience: Okay. Makes sense. Yes.
Bashar: It’s just the parameters you’re setting up for yourself. That’s all.
Audience: Thank you very much.
Bashar: You’re very welcome. Hopefully I will meet you in person.
Audience: We’ll see about that.
Bashar: Oh, no. Okay. First, before you can meet us in person, you have to meet yourself in person.
Final Question: Vaccinations and Yoga
Asker: Good day, Bashar. First of all, I want to say thank you for being a positive impact in my life.
Bashar: It is all that I can be, and we are happy that you chose to positively impact yourself by matching our frequency. Thank you.
Audience: Thank you. So I just want to know a couple things. What is your take on vaccinations, and are there any benefits?
Bashar: Again, you have to take it on a case-by-case basis. It cannot be one general idea for everyone. Some people will derive benefit, some people will not. You have to explore it on an individual basis. But the idea again is that in general, if it is something that is fear-based, you will find that it’s not something that you necessarily have to have. But you have to be honest about whether you’re holding on to that belief system, and it isn’t wise to jump off a cliff if you don’t know you have a parachute. So honor your belief system. But if you know it is not something that you need, that is really not true for you in your life, then don’t worry about it. Do you understand?
Audience: Yes, thank you. Also, anything else? What is your take on the present role of yoga in our society?
Bashar: Did you hear us talk about permission slips?
Audience: Yes, I did.
Bashar: I’ll repeat one more time. All tools, all techniques, all rituals, all formats, all objects are permission slips. Does yoga fall anywhere in those categories? Yes, it does. Then it’s a permission slip. So it has more to do with what you believe about it will do for you than what we have to say about it. It is just as valid as any other permission slip, and it is more valid for you if it’s the one you’re most aligned to, if it’s the one you’re most attracted to. That’s all you have to do—determine what you’re attracted to, and that tells you it’s the permission slip that will work for you at that moment. Tomorrow, if you change your mind, if you feel more attracted to something else, then that’s the permission slip that will work for you at that moment. Obviously, it will have benefits for you because you’re moving toward it and aligning with it in a way to have that intention. Yes, yes. All right, well, then that’s what will happen for you. But it’s still a permission slip.
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