Are you having a near life experience?

Opening Discussion: Near-Death Experiences vs. Near-Life Experiences

There is a growing number of reports of near-death experiences on your planet.

In most of these near-death experiences, the people seem to be markedly changed when they return to your physical reality.

They have been given perspectives, new insights, new understandings, and in returning with those new ideas, then they recognize their connection to all things.

They begin to live their life more fully. They understand there is nothing to fear about death, that it is just a transition to another state, and that you will always exist even if you change form. You are always still going to be you. And in realizing all these things, they have a renewed respect, a profound renewal of energy and insight, and active in their lives they become, and they begin to really serve all in the best possible way, which of course is the best way to serve yourself.

You don’t necessarily need anymore to have a near-death experience in order to have a fuller life, in order to act more fully on the things that excite you. And so, unless of course that is what you actually prefer to have, we offer you this night the idea of what might be called a master permission slip, so that you can utilize this to begin to infuse your life with the same energy that will allow you to live your life much more fully without necessarily having to kill yourself to do it again. If you want to do that we won’t stop you, but we are letting you know that there are other ways in which this can be done, so that if you prefer another path, that other path is available to you by acting on your highest joy.

What is a Permission Slip?

Many people have asked for different kinds of permission slips by which they can help accelerate their energy, uplift their energy, align their energy more to the vibration of their true core self, their higher mind.

We have delivered such permission slips.

A permission slip is any tool, any technique, any ritual, any object that you are attracted to with your present belief system that allows you to simply believe that you can give yourself more permission to be who you are. You’re the one doing it, you’re the one giving yourself permission.

But sometimes, because we understand that many of the definitions within you are in your unconscious mind, you may not be necessarily aware of what is holding you back. But you can always know when you are attracted to a particular ritual, technique, tool or object that seems to excite you more than any other path, and that is always an indication that at that moment that will be the permission slip that may work best for you.

When you use it you may become a different person afterwards, which means that you may then from that point forward be attracted to a very different permission slip because you are now different.

So if the attraction to different permission slips happens to change, that’s all right. You can go with the flow.

The Master Permission Slip

We called this a master permission slip because we have designed it specifically to key into the mass consensus archetypal symbols that are common for most of you, based on the collective agreement you all made together to participate in the Earth game.

You have created a large collective unconsciousness and consciousness through which to play this game, many of you are automatically, unknowingly tapping into that archetypal level, that collective level.

And so in designing this permission slip to take advantage of that connection, these ideas we present to you now may work for most of you.

it is really up to you to decide what works for you as a permission slip.

The Seven-Week Permission Slip

All right. Now before we go through the reading of this, you will be of course taking home a copy of this so that you can practice and have it before you and get used to it. We will also say that there is a very important part of this particular permission slip that is actually not written on the paper that will come at the end after the reading, and we will explain why it is not actually written down.

This is designed to be done for seven weeks.

At the end of that seven weeks, doing this every day with each new approach for each day Monday through Sunday, you will begin to experience changes in your frequency, changes in your vibration as you go along, so that by the end of the seven times seven, the 49 days, you will experience yourself having different thoughts in different ways, seeing different perspectives you may not have seen before, feeling vibration, sensing things you didn’t sense before, perceiving things that might have been heretofore invisible to you about yourself, and recognizing more strongly that you truly are at the end of this permission slip a different person than was there at the beginning. This is what it’s for, to help you shift very smoothly in this way through a transformation, through an awakening, through an opening of yourself, so that you can experience as a process the actual daily shifting of your energy and the actual different reflections that will result from the shifts that you are making in that energy in your consciousness.

Monday: Air

Monday is air. One deep breath in before each statement.

Looking at yourself in the mirror. Look right into your eyes when you do this. Do not waver. Understand you are making a connection to another aspect, another reflection of your inner being when you do this. So that as you take the breath and make each statement, you are looking into your eyes as best as you can during the entire statement.

The first statement: “I am a child of creation.” (breathe) “I am a child of creation.” (breathe) “I am unique.” (breathe) “I am unique.” (breathe) “I am worthy.” (breathe) “I am worthy.”

The reason it also is arranged in this order — air, water, food, etc. — is because it is arranged in the order of the things you cannot live without, starting from the one that would be most difficult to live without, because you can’t hold your breath that long. Water you can live without food for a while, but water comes first, and then food, etc. They are arranged in the order in which you actually need them for survival.

Tuesday: Water

Tuesday is water: one sip of water before each statement. So you have your little water glass on Tuesday and you look in the mirror right into your eyes. Swallow.

“I am happy.” (sip) “I am happy.” (sip) “I am grateful.” (sip) “I am grateful.” (sip) “I am refreshed.” (sip) “I am refreshed.”

Then you go on about your day. You are doing this in the morning, you are doing this before you go to bed every single day.

Wednesday: Food

Wednesday is food. One small bite and swallow before each statement, so you don’t choke. So have something small that you enjoy. Doesn’t matter what it is, something you really enjoy that’s not too much, and you take a bite and you chew and really relish it, even if it’s not actually relish, and swallow. And say while looking in your eyes in the mirror:

“I am abundant.” (bite) “I am abundant.” (bite) “I am nurtured.” (bite) “I am nurtured.” (bite) “I am fulfilled.” (bite) “I am fulfilled.”

Thursday: Love and Encouragement

Thursday is love and encouragement. One hug with each statement. And so you begin in the mirror like this to yourself and say:

“I am supported.” (hug yourself) “I am supported.” (switch) “I am guided.” (hug) “I am guided.” (switch) “I am loved.” (hug) “I am loved.”

Go on about your day or go to bed, whichever one it is, morning or evening.

Friday: Freedom

Friday is freedom. One spin, arms outstretched, for each statement. This you can do arms outstretched and one revolution around.

With each spin: “I am awake.” (spin) “I am awake.” (spin) “I am powerful.” (spin) “I am powerful.” (spin) “I am free.” (spin) “I am free.”

And that’s all right because this is all about altered states, so dizzy is good.

Saturday: Passion

Saturday is passion. Say your favorite word. Find a favorite word and look in the mirror and say it three times. The word is going to be different for everyone, everybody.

And the next is your favorite sound. So have something that generates a sound that you love and listen to it for three seconds.

And then finally, see your favorite image. You can have a picture posted on the mirror or you can see it in your mind, but again allow yourself to see it and just see it internally or see it externally again for three seconds.

Sunday: Dream and Connect

Sunday is dream and connect.

They have already on your planet done studies to show that you can dream and get very little sleep and you will be tired but you will be all right. But you can get all the sleep in the world and if you don’t dream you will go psychotic very quickly, because you are making a connection back to the higher mind, back to your natural state, and you are re-energizing, reconnecting, restabilizing the idea of your physical persona. Because your physical persona is just a projection, is just a dream, is just an illusion. And without that reconnection there really isn’t much there because it’s just smoke and mirrors.

Say each line with your eyes closed. The first one is “I am rested.” Say that three times. “I am rested. I am rested. I am rested.”

And next: “I am connected.” Say that three times. “I am connected. I am connected. I am connected.”

And finally: “My life is a dream come true.” “My life is a dream come true.” “My life is a dream come true.” “My life is a dream come true.”

Then again you go on about your day or you go to sleep, whichever it is, morning or evening.

The Unwritten Portion: The Test of Truth

And that’s the part that’s also very important, that which is not written. And it is this: as you go through this down the list with each statement every day, pay close attention to anything that you may say that suddenly brings up any kind of a feeling within you. And pay attention to that feeling to see if the feeling is representative of either a positive or a negative definition within you that you may not realize is there.

These can be read or seen or viewed in a sense like what you typically call affirmations. And affirmations are fine as permission slips, but understand that if you are saying “I am powerful” but while you’re saying it deep down in your unconscious mind you don’t believe it, then saying it will actually feel odd to you if you’re paying attention to your emotions, to your energy. And if it does, if there’s any even a minor bit of resistance in there, that is telling you that there is something there that needs to be discovered, needs to be explored, needs to be identified and brought to the surface consciously, so that you can let go of what doesn’t belong within you, what is not aligned with your true core being.

So this is not just a series of nice sayings, it’s not just a series of affirmations. It is a test of truth — your own truth within yourself — about how deeply you know each of these things to be true or not true about you. They are all true, but you may have definitions and beliefs that in some way, shape or form are whispering in your ear saying, “I’m not sure if this is really true about me.” And if that comes up, even one speck, pay attention to it. Work with it. Find that definition, identify it, and when you do, let it go, for it does not serve you.

Use it this way every day of the week for seven weeks. Longer if you wish, shorter if you wish. It’s up to you to make the adjustments according to your imagination and attraction. But we will strongly encourage you to do it for the 49 days, because we guarantee that when you do, if you use it in the way we have just described — not only the written but the unwritten portion as well — you will not be the same. And you will know more and more clearly who you truly are, or at the very least who you truly prefer to be. And you will know a lot more about those definitions that exist within your personality structure.

And it will all come down to the two words, the two very powerful words that have been in your society forever as the true secret of empowerment: know thyself.

This is a permission slip and an exercise that is an x-ray on your consciousness, and will again, if you’re paying attention, allow you to very deeply investigate and reveal who you are. And that’s why you are looking in the mirror, because every day you do this, you’re going to recognize the next day and the next day and the next week and the next week that the person you’ve been looking at at the end is not the same person who was there at the beginning.

Tomorrow Night’s Preview: The Black Box

The Black Box is where we will be investigating and exploring the tools and the tricks that negative belief uses to trick you into holding yourself back from being who you are. So this can aid and assist you in moving through those tricks in a variety of ways, as well as the other neutralizers we will share with you tomorrow night of your time. You can use these together very powerfully to extract yourself from the tools and tricks of negative beliefs and see them for the smoke and the mirrors that they truly are.

Our transmission on Sunday is 2015 to 2016 — the years of expansion and contraction. During the Holographic Meditation, we are going to do something very different. We have never done before.

Question 1: Adam and Eve and the Bible

Questioner: My first question is, expand more on the idea of Adam and Eve. Were a lot of the stories in the Bible just kind of made up stories?

Bashar: They are allegorical for the most part, although there are parts of them that are somewhat literal. But overall they are used as metaphors to describe things that there was really no understanding or language for on one level, but the concepts were understood and framed in story-like ways, in parable ways, that could be understood by the people of the time more clearly.

The idea for example of Adam and Eve is simply the recognition of the beginning of what you would call the human race by the genetic manipulation of an extraterrestrial race using the natural hominid species that evolved on your planet that you refer to as either Homo Habilis or Homo Erectus, that were genetically altered to contain some of the extraterrestrial genetics and create what you now refer to as yourselves as Homo Sapiens. The idea in an ancient language is that Adam, or Adama, simply means man.

Question 2: Dream About Alabama

Questioner: I’ve been following your teachings for about a month now. Last Tuesday I had a dream and it told me to go back to Alabama. It was very clear and very distinct. It said go back to Alabama and then I woke up. I came to California to… what does Alabama mean to you in terms of an energy state?

Bashar: Not necessarily the physical state.

Questioner: It’s a low energy for me.

Bashar: A low energy. And so that is not an energy state you wish to go back to, correct? So you were given an opportunity to decide for yourself in that dream whether that was a state you preferred or not. And now you have clarity about the fact, even more so than before, that that is not an energy state you wish to experience.

Questioner: In the dream it basically said go back to Alabama. I looked at it as an opportunity to either start a business because it’s cheaper down there. But is that what excites you?

Bashar: That’s what I’ve been trying to work on.

Bashar: If there is any hesitation at all in your answer of yes when asked if something excites you, then the hesitation is an indication that that’s not what excites you. Any hesitation. So you don’t have to try and work on it. All you have to do is ask the same question you were asked in the dream, the same kinds of questions. That’s why you were given the question, because it shows you, it demonstrates to you, how you can easily understand what the direction of your true self is by asking a question and finding out how quickly you answer that question positively or negatively, yes or no. Because that tells you exactly what is true for you, or at least gives you an opportunity to find out why you’re answering the way you’re answering.

Because sometimes you can certainly disguise your excitement and make it seem to not be your excitement. Conversely, you can also take something that is really not your excitement and pretend that it is, so that you don’t face or have to face the fears that come up when you actually move in the direction of your true excitement.

Questioner: I think I’m disguising it. That’s what I feel. I’m disguising my excitement.

Bashar: All right. But the idea is that you can decide for yourself what is really preferable, because the idea of acting on your highest excitement means that all the components of it have to really be in alignment with your excitement: what it is you’re doing, how it is you’re doing it, where it is you’re doing it, with whom you’re doing it, so on and so forth. Have to all line up, or it’s not really a full expression of your excitement.

So by asking yourself or telling yourself from another level to go back to Alabama and finding out what your reaction to that is, you get an opportunity to decide whether that actually is in your best interests by looking deep within yourself to see if you are making it seem not exciting when it could be, or whether it’s truly not representative of what would really excite you in life. And if you find that it is really not representative of what would excite you in life, then any other factor you need to consider doesn’t really need to be considered to the detail that you are considering it. For example, as you said, “Well maybe I need to move my business there because it’s cheaper.” But if that’s not really a place that’s representative of your excitement, then the success of your business doesn’t have to require a state where it’s cheaper. That means you will attract what you need to do it where you are more excited to do it. You understand?

Questioner: Why would I have the dream? It was so vivid and then I woke up. I feel like it was my spirit guide, because a week before I asked the spirit guide to show me something.

Bashar: I didn’t ask for anything specific, but the spirit guide knows what you need to hear. And telling you to go back to Alabama doesn’t mean you have to go back to Alabama. It’s telling you: look at your response or reaction to the statement, and that will guide you.

In other words, let me give you a simplified version of this. Sometimes people on your planet find they have a difficult time making a decision between this or that. And sometimes you say, “Well, flip a coin.” Well sometimes that’s actually not a bad idea, because when you flip the coin, whatever it comes up, you’ll see if you feel “Yes, that’s what I wanted” or “Darn, I wish it was the other side.” And that may give you an immediate answer, because then you can realize, well, you don’t have to do it just because it came up tails, because you now realize that you actually preferred heads.

So it’s another way, another permission slip, of making your decision more definitive by really paying attention to the energy of your response to a statement. So the sentence “Go back to Alabama” is as definitive a statement as the flipping of a coin, heads or tails. So don’t take the dream literally. Take it for the literalness of the energy you experienced within yourself in response to the statement.

Because the things that excite you don’t necessarily have to come to fruition in the way that you think. So never pay attention to what something appears to be on the surface. Even that sentence, there is an underlying reason why the sentence is there, and you will understand the underlying reason when you pay attention to your response to it, not to the sentence itself. The sentence is just a mechanism to get you in touch with how you really feel about that reality and to point out to you that if you really, really understand that being in Alabama is not in alignment with your true vibration of excitement, then you don’t have to worry about the details like “Well maybe it needs to be in a place that’s cheaper,” because excitement is a whole kit. It’s a holistic idea. And if you know any one part of it, then all you have to do is simply look for the other things that have equal excitement and not get in your own way by making negative assumptions that don’t have to be made, because you don’t need to work out all the details. It’s already worked out. All you need to do is know what the excitement is, take whatever action you can on it to the best of your ability, and have absolutely zero insistence or assumption as to what the outcome ought to be, knowing that whatever the outcome is, it will be the perfect outcome. And you will attract with synchronicity everything you need to allow it to be what it needs to be as an expanded representation of your excitement.

Questioner: I’m just trying to wrap my head around why would the spirit guide give me something that was so unclear?

Bashar: It’s not unclear. It’s very clear. When you were given the sentence “Go back to Alabama,” what was the first reaction you felt?

Questioner: I didn’t want to go.

Bashar: How clear is that? All I’m saying is give yourself a moment to figure out whether your response is actually indicative of a true reflection of your excitement or whether you’re coloring it to make it seem unexciting when it might be. But as soon as you figure out that it might actually be representative of your true excitement, if that’s what you figure out, you have your clear answer: don’t go there, because it’s not representative of your excitement. How much clearer does it need to be?

Questioner: You know, why do you keep saying it’s not clear?

Bashar: We understand why. Thank you. Your spirit guide is actually helping. You have an assumptive definition in your mind, the way you think guides are supposed to talk to you. That is incorrect.

Questioner: So how are they supposed to talk?

Bashar: The way that they gave it to you invokes a process. Life is about the process you go through in discovering what you’re truly all about. They don’t just hand you answers on a platter. That’s not living. That’s having someone live your life for you, like you are a puppet on a string — go here, go there, do this, now go to sleep, wake up, brush your teeth.

So the idea is that a guide does their job best when they allow you to be your own best guide, because that’s what they’re training you to do. That’s why they are a guide, not a do-it-all-for-you person. So they will always give you the information in a way that invokes a process. And the process actually was a very simple one: all you had to do was pay attention to your reaction to the statement, and you had your answer. Very simple. But that’s what they’re training you to do — pay attention to your response to statements so that you know how to guide yourself, because you know how you feel when you’re given a proposal, when you’re given a statement. You know how you feel about it. The only thing you have to do is make sure you’re not coloring it to make it seem something other than what it is. But when you are clear about the idea that your response is a genuine, authentic response, your answer is clear. But you had to go through a process in order to get it, because it’s not going to be done for you.

Questioner: Do you have a name for my guide so that when I talk to it I won’t just make up a name?

Bashar: The guide says you may use Phillip.

Question 3: Contract with Grace and Tinnitus

Questioner: My first question is: do I have a contract with the Grace?

Bashar: Yes.

Questioner: Which kind of contract?

Bashar: A contract to allow certain genetic patterns within you to form templates upon which hybrid beings can be created.

Questioner: I had experiences during AASA sessions that the being… first I was thinking it was an attack, but…

Bashar: It’s not an attack. It is simply an opportunity to explore your own fears and let them go. If you want to call those options, then by all means you can. You always have the option to explore a fear, know that you are safe in doing so, and let it go because it no longer serves you as an idea, thus allowing you to become more and more expressive of who you truly are.

Questioner: Do I have a responsibility to them?

Bashar: You have responsibility to everyone, but you’re never responsible for anyone. You have the responsibility to them to be yourself as best as you possibly can, because that’s what this is all about.

Questioner: I tend to… I beg your pardon?

Bashar: You tend or you choose? One implies you are empowered, one implies you are not. “I tend” — it’s out of my control, I don’t know what I’m doing. Or “I choose” — even if it’s negative, “I choose” gives you power to deal with it. “I tend” removes the power from your hands because it sounds like it’s something you can’t help. And once you know you have a habit, you don’t have it anymore. A habit is something you do you don’t know you’re doing. If you know you’re doing it, it’s gone.

Questioner: I have tinnitus since more than 30 years and it’s becoming over the years stronger and stronger.

Bashar: Leave your email with the people that run this organization and information will be sent to you.

Question 4: Fractal Universe

Questioner: Does the universe have a fractal structure?

Bashar: Yes. Your universe does. Not all of them do, but yours does, and many do.

Questioner: So I can find a whole new universe in one aspect of this?

Bashar: Yes, fractal. And that is usually the way it is laid out when fractals are involved. But there are other ways in which universes can express themselves.

Question 5: Medical Journalist and Finding Excitement

Questioner: I’m a medical journalist and I do research. My highest excitement is to find out what my highest excitement is.

Bashar: Good luck with that. You’ll be looking for a long time. When we talk about the idea of acting on your highest excitement, we don’t mean it has to come in the form of a career or a project long term. We simply mean at any given moment you have a number of options available to you of things that you can take action on in your life, and all you need to do is act on the one at any given moment that has more excitement than any other. And you’ll be doing the same thing. If it ultimately turns into something that you could call a career or a job or a project, that’s fine, because one expression of excitement is connected to all other expressions of excitement. That’s part of the kit. But you don’t have to start that way. You can start with baby steps and just keep acting on what’s most exciting that’s right in front of your face.

Questioner: I do that.

Bashar: Well then you don’t have to go looking for what your excitement is, because you’re doing what is your highest excitement every moment by simply making those choices.

Question 6: Young Being from Another Civilization (Preview)

Questioner: I find your expression so funny.

Bashar: We think many of you are quite hilarious too, in fact. Since you bring it up, I will now let you in on a little preview of something to come in your year of 2015. In one of our transmissions, we will bring in a young being from our society who has absolutely no idea what your society is like, and you’re going to get the opportunity to explain some concepts to him. It’ll be a lot of fun, I guarantee.

In a transmission like this, we will facilitate the training that he has had sufficiently to communicate with you. But understand that when we as first contact specialists contact a civilization, we have already had at least one incarnation in that civilization so that we understand the civilization, so we have a frame of reference so that we’re not too alien. But this being, while being trained as a first contact specialist, does not yet have an incarnation in your civilization. And therefore you’re going to really get to see the difference in the concepts you think are very obvious as compared to what one of our natural people actually perceives you to be.

Questioner: Is this going to be like a little alien baby?

Bashar: It’s not a baby. It’s a young being on our planet in physical form, a physical being, but will channel through just as I am channeling through right now. And you will get a chance to speak with him and he will get a chance to speak with you.

Question 7: Following Excitement with Zero Insistence

Questioner: Follow your excitement to the best of your ability with zero insistence on the outcome. Many of you forget that third part quite conveniently. That’s the whole formula. That’s the formula that opens excitement up as the complete kit, no resistance.

Questioner: What if you feel like you have to do something? I find many things excite me.

Bashar: That’s all right. There can be many different expressions of your excitement. That’s why you just need to follow the thread. The thread of what excites you at any given moment that you have the greatest ability to take action on is the thing to do at that moment, knowing that it’s all connected and would lead you to any other expression of your excitement that needs to be expressed in your life.

Questioner: I find it so easy to get off that thread.

Bashar: If you’re following the thread, how can you be off it?

Questioner: Let’s say I’m with a group of people, family or something, and I really want to do something totally different.

Bashar: If it is actually truly representative of your excitement, then that’s the thing to do. However, we also remind you that many people on your planet confuse anxiety with excitement. And that’s why we initially said you have to first be honest about whether or not what you say you’re actually excited about is actually a definition of excitement, because it may not be. You may be in denial about things and wanting to go this way and go that way because there’s something else you don’t want to look at within yourself, and then calling it excitement so you have an excuse to go do something else and not pay attention to what you really need to process.

You have to decide whether that’s what’s happening or whether it is truly representative of your highest excitement. And also ask yourself: why, if you have a real definition of excitement, a true definition of excitement, which by the way in the complete kit is also the organizing principle of your life — remember that — as one of the tools in the kit, the organizing principle that allows synchronicity to bring you what you need exactly when you need it in the order you need it. Why would you create a definition of excitement that piled those things on top of each other so quickly that you couldn’t finish one or two of them? That may not be a definition of excitement if you don’t actually have time to enjoy what you’re excited about.

So pay attention to the fact that you may be creating a definition that is not actually purely a definition of excitement, with certain assumptions that you have to go hither, thither and yon in order to be expressing excitement, running around with your hair on fire, which isn’t always necessarily an indication of excitement. So the best solution to that is just be as present as you can be. Because remember, there are many expressions of excitement, and sometimes even being in a balanced state of meditative peace can be a complete expression of excitement. So there’s no rush.

Questioner: I easily get frustrated.

Bashar: That’s the clue right there. When you say “I easily get frustrated,” it’s because you have a definition that creates the feeling of frustration. If you understand that all feelings exist only because of something you believe to be true first, you can’t have an emotional response to something that you don’t believe in. So if you have a certain emotional response, that’s an indication, that’s your first clue, that that response has to be intimately connected with a definition that is generating that response. So if that’s the case, you take a moment, you take a breath, you take a pause, and you allow to ask the questions from one direction or another.

“What would I have to believe is true about myself in this situation in order to feel the way I do?” That’s one way to ask the question. Another way to ask the question, because we understand that many of the definitions you may be holding on to might be fear-based, is to actually use the fear to your advantage and ask the question from the reverse angle, which is: “If I really allowed myself to be who I truly prefer to be, what am I most terrified will actually happen?”

One way or another, when you ask the question from one direction or another, if you’re willing to hear the answer, then in some way, shape or form, the answer will be presented to you — whether in your life when you’re awake, when you’re dreaming, synchronicity — one way or another, the answer will come if you’re willing to hear the answer.

So anytime you have a feeling that you feel uncomfortable with, stop and ask the question: “What would I have to believe is true about myself in order to feel this way in this circumstance?” And then listen. You’ll get the answer if you’re willing to hear it. But the only thing that would keep you from being willing to hear the answer is if you have another belief that says if you find out that answer, it’s going to be horrible and you’re going to find out that your worst nightmare is actually going to come true. This is what we’ll be talking about tomorrow night about one of the tricks of negative beliefs.

As we said in a session called Angels and Demons, negative beliefs are the father of lies. You understand that biblical phrase? That’s actually what the biblical phrase means. It’s referring to the idea of the negative beliefs that have the sole duty and the structure of convincing you that there is no other possible belief. So they will say anything to get you to stay in that state because that’s their job, that’s what they’re designed to do. You have to know differently. And that’s what will be discussed tomorrow night of your time — how to do that.

Question 8: Prayer

Questioner: When it comes to prayer, from what I understand, it’s about faith and believing it already exists. It’s about receiving, knowing it exists, knowing it’s already here, and being in a state of gratitude that it already exists.

Bashar: You have to pray as if it’s already a done deal, not for something you want, because then that keeps it out there in the wanting state. But if you know it’s already a done deal, then you know that it will manifest at exactly the perfect moment, not a second before the perfect moment when it serves you best, but not a second later than the perfect moment. So once you are in that state of gratitude for what you already have — that may simply be invisible to you at the moment — just go on about your life and let it manifest when it serves you best.

Question 9: Face-to-Face Contact Timeline

Questioner: I am very interested in the phenomenon of contact. I mean a step further, to have actual communication… face to face.

Bashar: That will happen eventually when you’re really ready, because you’re not ready yet. Trust me. That’s why I’m not experiencing that?

Questioner: Because not ready.

Bashar: You’re not ready. And it’s not ready for many people on your planet. When it will start to happen will be the timing that will benefit everyone the most. As the energy exists on your planet now, the highest degree of probability for the window of the beginning of face-to-face contact between your world and other worlds will be between 2025 and 2033. That’s the highest probability window of when it will begin. But there’s no rush. We’ve done this many times with many different civilizations. We know what we’re doing. We know that this dispensation of information is the first step in the idea of moving toward contact, depending upon how the information we deliver is received and applied. Because we use the way in which you handle the information we already deliver to determine whether or not you’re actually ready for more information.

Questioner: Last night I had a dream of a ship that was very beautiful. It was round like a ball of silver, and around it were spinning several rings like Saturn. I wonder if they came as an answer to my wanting to have more contact?

Bashar: Yes. And do you know who they are?

Questioner: I do.

Bashar: Who are they?

Questioner: I’m not telling.

Bashar: But I will tell you this, as we have said to many of you before: almost all of you have already actually had face-to-face contact. You just don’t remember it, because you are made to forget by agreement, because the rate at which you remember you’ve had contact — whether in awaking state or in dreams or what have you — the rate at which you remember you’ve already had contact is used as a barometer to determine when you’re actually ready for more.

Questioner: Would it be possible for us to have a real photograph of you eventually?

Bashar: That’s also when we’re ready. You already have real photographs of our ships. Eventually you will have real photographs of us.

Question 10: Doing the Work You’re Prepared For

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

Bashar: Are you doing that work?

Questioner: No, I’m not.

Bashar: Why not?

Questioner: Because I don’t really know where to start.

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

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

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

Question 11: Moving to the US

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question 12: Connecting with Souls Who Have Passed

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

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

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

Bashar: Then you will give them closure.

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

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

Questioner: I believe they are.

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

Question 13: Listening to Meditations While Sleeping

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

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

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

Question 14: UFO Demonstrations Over Missile Sites

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

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

Question 15: TV Show and Multiverse

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

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

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

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

Questioner: I’ve always thought of the universe as being all that is, but you said there can be multi-universes.

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

Questioner: Is that multi-dimensional?

Bashar: Same thing.

Question 16: Earth’s Magnetic Field and Pole Flips

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question 17: Reincarnation

Questioner: I need some clarification on reincarnation.

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

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

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

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

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

Question 18: Cat’s Behavioral Change

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

Bashar: Are you sure?

Questioner: Not that I know of.

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

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

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

Questioner: Oh yes, definitely.

Bashar: What is it you are unsettled about?

Questioner: It’s jumping off into the unknown.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question 19: Alien Contact Experiences

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

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

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

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

Questioner: Some were creepy and disgusting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Questioner: That’s not how I experienced it.

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

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

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

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

Questioner: Can we rescind these agreements if we choose?

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

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

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

Questioner: Can I be 100% sure?

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

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

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

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

Questioner: I believe that.

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

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

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

Question 20: Estranged Father in Japan

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

Bashar: Why did you stop talking?

Questioner: When I get him so upset so easy.

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

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

Questioner: Yes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question 22: Pre-Birth Planning and Anxiety

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Questioner: I will allow them their choice.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Questioner: How?

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

Question 23: Mirror Work and Seeing Changes

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

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

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

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

Questioner: I feel impatient.

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

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

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