Asker: There are two apparently contradictory views of reality that I’d like to clarify.

Bashar: Congratulations—when you’re dealing with paradox, you are dealing with the core of your true consciousness.

Asker: Oh good.

Bashar: In one view, well actually this would be a continuation of a conversation you had with someone here quite a while back, where the questioner was asking you about the analogy of moving from one sort of track of reality to another—using the analogy of moving from a movie theater, like in a duplex multiplex.

Bashar: Yes, you’re talking about parallel reality experiences.

Asker: Yes, right. And the question was about when you decided to move to another theater and you in essence got up and left—would people notice, maybe, maybe not?

Bashar: Right. But remember, more specifically and more precisely, it’s not really so much a matter of deciding to move to another theater as it is simply deciding to be another experience that automatically allows you to experience yourself as being in another theater.

Asker: Right. But we don’t have to go into that right now.

Bashar: Okay.

Asker: But that implies to me that, yes, then something is leaving one theater and going into another.

Bashar: Yes and no. You’re thinking too linearly.

Asker: Okay.

Bashar: Remember that when you start dealing with multi-dimensional mechanics, the idea really is you can’t really interpret them with any degree of great satisfaction in linear third-density reality terminology. It will always sound confusing and contradictory, but that’s just because of the terms you’re using—not because it actually is.

Asker: Right. Well, but there are a number of things that have been said about this version of reality that I’m getting at that leads me to—

Bashar: It sounds like—what are you getting at?

Asker: That in on the one hand there’s a version that says that people—that yes, someone that we might experience—that I might experience the other people in this room—yes—as—

Bashar: Don’t get caught in the “this or that” conundrum. Remember, it’s “this AND that.” Whatever you can imagine is somewhere on some level real. You can experience both someone leaving, and you can experience them as having left, and you can experience them as not having left, you can experience them as never having been there—and any other combination or idea you can imagine—and all are true and all are simultaneously going on on some level of reality. All are true.

It simply depends on your perspective as to what you experience at any given moment, and just because you’ve experienced one doesn’t mean you can’t experience the other.

Asker: Okay. Well on that—does that make some sense?

Bashar: So could experience someone leaving, then all of a sudden you can experience them not leaving. One does not necessarily cancel out an experience of the other, because both are real, both are true, and it depends on your perspective as to what you allow your reality to generate in your perceptibility. Is this making any sense?

Asker: Somewhat.

Bashar: Is this addressing the issue, or is there really another avenue you wanted to go down about this?

Asker: Well, I want to compare the two versions. This one is that—I mean, I hear a lot of talk about, sort of, from you and other people that—you know, we’re creating the conversations, both ends of the conversations we have with people. So that version—I see it as sort of treating people as almost props.

Bashar: Well, in some senses yes, but again, it doesn’t stop there. So we’re not talking about devaluing other people. If you stop there, yes, it could be seen as a devaluation, but it doesn’t stop there, so it’s not a devaluation. Yes, on one hand everyone that you perceive is your creation; at the same time, they are real unto themselves and you are their creation. You have to understand it is “this AND that,” not just “this OR that.” That’s where you get confused—when you try to make it “this OR that.”

Asker: Well then I guess I’m having trouble reconciling—creating every this, they are my creations—and yet they are autonomous individuals to themselves.

Bashar: Yes. Why is that so difficult?

Asker: Because it’s contradictory.

Bashar: Why—maybe only your insistence that it’s contradictory makes it seem so. What if it wasn’t seen as contradictory? Can you for a moment imagine that it might not actually be?

Asker: Um—

Bashar: I’ll give you an analogy.

Asker: Okay.

Bashar: All right. You are in a rubber sphere. All right. You’re inside a big rubber ball—it’s hollow, it’s empty, you’re the only one in it. Are you with me so far?

Asker: Yes.

Bashar: All right. Now, a person outside the ball decides to push their hand into the surface of the ball. On your side inside, you see the rubber handprint coming through. You with me so far?

Asker: Yes.

Bashar: The rubber is made out of your reality. That’s not actually their hand—it’s not really them. You are creating it because it’s made out of your rubber. That doesn’t take away from the fact that they’re pushing through, but what you see is your creation—it’s not really them. You’re seeing the representation you have created of them out of your rubber reality. Does that help?

Asker: It does.

Bashar: So in that analogy, you can see that simultaneously, without being contradictory, it is both you and them—without taking away from the fact that for you, it’s just you; without taking away from the fact that for them, it’s just them.

Asker: So does it then necessary for me to see the hand in my reality? Um—is it necessary to have another consciousness on the other side pushing, or can I create it all myself?

Bashar: I’m going to throw another paradox at you.

Asker: All right.

Bashar: When you ask “is it necessary,” the short answer is no. At the same time, you must remember everything is consciousness. Everything. So you could be euphemistically doing it yourself with no other quote-unquote participation, so to speak. But because you are a part of everything, you automatically have the participation of everything else in your ability to do that for yourself on your own. There again is the paradox. You’re always going to find it to be circular.

Asker: Okay. Make some sense?

Bashar: Yes, it does.

Asker: Does this help?

Bashar: It does.

Asker: Well then thank you.

Bashar: Can I ask—not yet. One more.

Asker: The consciousness that is in these physical bodies—

Bashar: Ah, yes.

Asker: That’s not really what’s happening.

Bashar: Understand, if you want to use that terminology, it’s a colloquialism. Your consciousness is here, now, everywhere, nowhere. It’s not really in your body. It’s more accurate to say your body is in your consciousness, because you are in a sense making it up—imagining up your body. Your body is within you, but you perceive your consciousness as being in the body because of your linear space-time frame of reference. So it’s not a literalism, but I’ll accept the term if you simply want to use it for an analogy.

Asker: Well then maybe that’s part of the problem—because I am seeing the physical body to some degree separate from, for example, the oversoul.

Bashar: In some senses, a differentiation is made within consciousness that makes it seem separate.

Asker: Okay. And I—and the physical body has certain concerns, fears, things that it worries about—food and so on.

Bashar: Well, it doesn’t worry—it doesn’t—no, you do.

Asker: Well, that’s part of my question—is how much of these fears and concerns are shared, or are they all yours?

Bashar: Every last one belongs to you. That gives you the freedom and the power to do something with them. Remember, you can’t change what you don’t own. So nothing is not owned by you.

Asker: So the oversoul would have concerns about food and—no, except within its larger matrix of that portion of itself that you define as the body—right, in that sense yes. But if it sees itself only as the oversoul in a separate way, then no. If it sees itself as the larger aspect, then yes, it knows it contains those experiences.

Asker: Right. But if it—so my question then is—if it can be separate in the way you just said and just sees the concerns of the body as sort of part of the matrix—it can, yes. Um, then—and those concerns die with the body, do they not, in some senses?

Bashar: Yes.

Asker: So it may not—there have been many ideas called ghosts or astral forms that still express similar concerns to what physical individuals express, but I’ll take the key of the idea and say yes, they generally die with the body, so to speak. Or even if you include the astral forms that are also in general—when you translate to another level linearly speaking—yes, you don’t have the same focus, you don’t have the same concerns.

Asker: Correct. So why is it that the oversoul—what is it learning by dealing with these transitory issues like food and sex and things like that? Why do we—

Bashar: It is learning the experience of linear reality. Are you saying that that’s not a valid experience? Remember that we have described the idea—to use again a further analogy of space-time reality—as that reality in which you can experience the actual mechanism of creation as it happens, instead of simply the simultaneous instantaneousness of existence. Therefore, what it’s learning is the experience of creation rather than simply the fact of creation.

Asker: I’ve had some very interesting things that I wanted to share with you. I’ve been having some—just before Christmas—some was my first healing.

Bashar: One moment, let us keep all of this brief. Pick one thing, let’s talk about that. That’s it.

Asker: Okay. I woke up at 1:44 in the morning about a week or so—couple weeks ago.

Bashar: All right. 1:44.

Asker: 1:44, yeah. I woke Fred up—he said with the most bloodcurdling scream he has ever heard.

Bashar: Well, an interesting technique—I suppose it got his attention.

Asker: It sure did. And I was out of a sound sleep. He was very shaken, yes. But now I experienced it in the physical as two powerful spheres of light that I saw—that were intersecting each other.

Bashar: Yes. And um—ah, okay. Merging realities. The overlap and intersection of different dimensional reality frequencies can be sometimes a bit startling, a bit electrifying.

Asker: Yes, yes, it was very much so.

Bashar: Uh, the energy was very, very strong—and then, congratulations. Okay, you pushed the membrane, pushed through the envelope, allowed yourself to perceive the overlap of dimensional frequencies. Ah, allowed yourself to experience it.

Asker: Yes. It felt like it was stepping into my body. It was coming through the head, it was coming into the body like a possession—but not negative or anything like that—it was very—

Bashar: It is simply like opening the valve of a dam and allowing more to flow through, and feeling the vibration that that causes—the expansion and the rush that that causes.

Asker: Yes, yes, it was very loving, yes, but very powerful. It reminded me of the ocean and the respect that I have for the power of the ocean. It wasn’t fearful—it was a little scary just because it was so—

Bashar: You were simply not used to it.

Asker: Right. I was resisting the energy. It kept like it kept coming into the body, and just as I would start to fall off to sleep again, it was like a rush again of it. So then I felt like I was going to be so totally carried away—so that was sort of the resistance, but yet I let some of it through.

Bashar: And at your own pace, in your own way, in your own good time.

Asker: Yes.

Bashar: That happens. You know what you can handle—you can actually handle all of it, but you know what you believe you can handle and regulate yourself accordingly. Yes.

Asker: Yes.

Bashar: This goes for all of you. Okay. And that was a very fabulous experience.

Asker: Well, thank you for creating it for yourself. And I also have moved. Physically moved. All right. And congratulations—that was a great experience.

Bashar: And I have found that I live on a street with 100 as the number, and also circle—it’s a circle.

Asker: Very good. My circle energy then—it is an indication you are more willing to use 100% of yourself, and in that sense you understand you have no beginning and no end.

Bashar: Yes. And I chose it—it’s a much smaller place, but I chose it because of the environment—it’s woodsy.

Asker: Yes. Um, and of course also, you know, in what we have been discussing these past few times—that the circle is the, the circle is the, the circle is the like All-That-Is.

Bashar: Close one word.

Asker: Infinite.

Bashar: The one for you specifically.

Asker: Yes, all this is correct, but for you specifically—the circle is the O energy, and the circle is the zero point energy, it’s the oh, it’s the sphere, the all of that.

Bashar: What are you looking for?

Asker: I’m not getting it specifically.

Bashar: I am looking for the obvious.

Asker: The infinite—the obvious.

Bashar: In our convers—what have we been? What are you pointing yourself in the direction of understanding as a principle, as a discipline?

Asker: Oh, the—oh, that yeah—the—my mind just went blank.

Bashar: The Tao.

Asker: Very good. Yes. The Tao. The circle is the Tao.

Bashar: Yes. Oh, and this move—yes, totally I got to experience.

Asker: I have been experiencing waves of extreme itchiness manifesting as hives, and it’s driving me crazy—and I don’t know what it’s coming from.

Bashar: What have you done about this physiologically?

Asker: I have cleaned the house better, I dip the dog, I’ve noticed what I’ve—yourself better—myself.

Bashar: Yeah. All right. I took—I even thought it might be yeast ‘cause I took some antibiotics—all right, but actually it was before the antibiotics that I started the itching, but anyway—so I’m taking like this yeast-killing medicine.

Bashar: I see. And I mean not medicine—herbs.

Bashar: Well, what answer did you come up with? What are you itching to do?

Asker: I don’t know. I’m itching to do so many things—I don’t know which one is making me break out in hives.

Bashar: Maybe it’s that you’re itching to do too many things that’s making you break out.

Asker: Okay.

Bashar: How many things do you want to do?

Asker: Well, I want to get my acting career back on track.

Bashar: Back on track—what does that mean?

Asker: Putting energy into it.

Bashar: Putting energy into it—you mean acting like an actor.

Asker: Yeah. Oh.

Bashar: All right. When will you start?

Asker: Well, yes, well when will you start? When will your act be back on track?

Bashar: I have started.

Asker: Oh, so you are an actor. Why is there hesitation? I gave you a cue—the cameras are rolling.

Bashar: Okay, this is what it boils down to.

Asker: Oh, boiling—all right, yes.

Bashar: Boil down. Well, I had this regression where these beings confirmed with me—through me, I answered myself whatever it was—that I’m still supposed to be acting, and so I felt really happy during this session, and I confirmed a lot of things like changing my name and some other things. And since then, I had a lot of fear come up again about being involved in projects that are worthy—worthy—about remembering how to act—I haven’t done it in two years—and um—anyway, you could act like you remember.

Bashar: I know, I know. And I don’t know—I’ve been experiencing a lot of fear regarding this.

Asker: What is the core fear? Let’s get to the point. What is the core fear? What is the thing that is the most awesomely horrifying, terrifying thing at the core? What is the worst possible point to this whole idea?

Bashar: Change—of what—to what, from what to what? Or change itself?

Asker: You fear the change itself?

Bashar: I don’t think that’s true. I want change—you wouldn’t be an actor.

Asker: I agree—no, I want change and I want all that—I don’t know.

Bashar: Yes you do.

Asker: Oh, I can’t say that. I forgot.

Bashar: Remember that doesn’t work anymore. What do you fear? What, what, what, what, what?

Asker: I fear abandonment, I don’t know—I’ve always feared that.

Bashar: Is that a good one?

Asker: All right, that’ll do if you want it to—but I think there’s something more specific.

Bashar: I fear loneliness.

Asker: Loneliness. Why? Why that? Because—are you just reaching into a grab bag kind of—all right? What shakes you to your core? What, what, what, what, what?

Bashar: I don’t know.

Asker: Yes you do.

Bashar: Jumping out of an airplane shakes me to my core.

Asker: All right, well what does that symbolize? You’re on the right track.

Bashar: Oh, not so much specifically—out of control—though that’s connected. I—okay, this is—yes, it’s also having to do with my feelings about what’s changing with me with the ETs and everything—

Asker: Never mind that, never mind that, never mind that’s not interfering.

Bashar: No.

Asker: Okay.

Bashar: Good. I don’t know what I fear. I fear a lot of things—but—

Asker: Oh, you do. Name some.

Bashar: Roller coasters.

Asker: Oh, all right. Why—‘cause they make me sick?

Bashar: Why—because—is it because you feel out of control?

Asker: Yes. I fear being out of control. What else do you fear?

Bashar: Answering these questions, obviously.

Asker: Yes. Um—I fear leaving my boyfriend.

Bashar: Why?

Asker: Because I don’t know—um—go on.

Bashar: Second—‘cause I don’t know if it’s—I don’t know if—why do I think about doing that all the time?

Asker: What—leaving?

Bashar: Yeah.

Asker: Well, I don’t know—you tell me.

Bashar: Oh, God. Why am I—somebody else talk?

Asker: I don’t want to talk anymore.

Bashar: I don’t know. I just want to act again.

Asker: Then do so.

Bashar: Okay.

Asker: And remember, it requires a leap of faith into yourself. Make the jump—you will be supported, you will land safely.

Bashar: Well, make the jump.

Asker: I just made friends with an old friend from school.

Bashar: I want to hear this—who’s—oh, I’m just going to say he was a successful—I don’t want to hear this—never mind.

Asker: All right, never mind what?

Bashar: Well, I’m the way—I’m being an actress—I was going to tell you an example of the way I’m doing things good for me in that regard.

Asker: Well, I don’t want to hear it.

Bashar: Okay.

Asker: You just want to see me do it.

Bashar: Yes.

Asker: Okay.

Bashar: Is that what the itchiness is about?

Asker: Yes. You’re going to drive yourself mad because when you do that—you’ll live, finally live.

Bashar: Okay. Spending time caring whether you live or die is what kills you. When you stop spending time caring whether you live or die—you live. Okay. Number two.

Asker: Good day, Bashar.

Bashar: Good day.

Asker: I’m going through some anxiety today.

Bashar: Oh, right—some anxiety today on the menu. Today—anxiety about our system of injustice, I would say.

Asker: Oh, all right. What about it?

Bashar: Well—what are you anxious about?

Asker: Just the fact that I was innocent of something I was charged with—all right—and I—traffic type thing—and so went to court to try and fight it. I didn’t go to court to try and fight it—I went to court to win. Clearly. And I was sure that I was going to win.

Bashar: And did you?

Asker: No.

Bashar: Are you sure?

Asker: Yes.

Bashar: Are you sure?

Asker: Yes.

Bashar: All right. If you say so. That’s kind of my—my paradox is that I’m having a hard time not putting a negative spin on it all.

Bashar: All right. I’m going to give you a very simple answer. You need to do more studying of what? Of your laws—to understand what the situation was you actually were in, because you went in not actually understanding what the legal circumstances were and what you actually could have done.

Asker: Well, I did—and I was not entitled to a jury trial.

Bashar: Think you did okay. You do not have all the information about how those things actually work. You need to do more studying if that is an area of interest to you—to be able to go in knowledgeable in those kinds of situations—in legal situations on your planet. You have to know more than you actually know about what that system is all about.

Asker: Well, I actually witnessed about 50 cases being heard today. That’s not—people pleading not guilty—and everyone was convicted.

Bashar: I understand—but that’s not the point. The point is, if you truly honestly believe that you did not deserve the charge, there is an opportunity here for you to win by allowing the circumstance to put you in touch with the education you need—if it is of interest to you—to actually find out what was really going on in that situation legally—which you actually don’t know.

Asker: Can you clue me in?

Bashar: But you don’t.

Asker: Can you clue me in besides the fact that I believe it’s corrupt?

Bashar: This is your opportunity to understand that many times the corruptness is simply the idea that someone knows how to use the laws—not that they break them—how to use them in a negative way.

Asker: Well, lying under oath—perjury—and the police officer that appeared in court against me perjured himself today.

Bashar: One moment—we will give you an example that may help you understand what we are referring to. Do you understand that it is against your own laws for a biased witness to testify against you?

Asker: Well, do you understand that—yes or no?

Bashar: No.

Asker: It is. It is against your own laws for a biased witness to testify against you. Will you accept that as true for the moment?

Bashar: Well, if it’s true, then I’ll appeal.

Asker: That’s not the point—I haven’t gone far enough yet. Okay. Do you understand what I am referring to when I say a biased witness?

Bashar: Not exactly.

Asker: Well then why did you say “oh, I’ll appeal”? Well—would you—a character presenting his case? Who—the police officer? And why is the police officer a biased witness?

Bashar: Because he’s got an interest, for one reason or another, in obtaining a conviction—and that interest is—

Asker: I’m not sure. He works for the state.

Bashar: Right. Then he is a biased witness. That’s against the law. If you knew that and knew how to pursue that, you would have won. My understanding also—stop. That’s it.

Asker: Okay.

Bashar: That’s the kind of thing you need to understand if this is the kind of thing that interests you to research. But that’s the kind of thing you need to understand—if it doesn’t, end of story, no more complaining. Make the best of it, extract from it what you need to learn for other things—end of story.

Asker: Thank you.

Bashar: Thank you. Bashar. Number three.

Asker: Hi Bashar, good day.

Bashar: I’d like to talk about one night about a month ago—I had like three visitations of sorts—all right—and also—just as much information as you want to offer on Andromeda and the energy there, or beings from that area.

Bashar: And why are you curious about this?

Asker: Because it keeps popping into my meditations—pop, pop, pop, pop.

Bashar: In what way does it present itself when it does? This energy you call Andromeda energy—how do you recognize it as such?

Asker: Well, at first what I see is a spiral galaxy—yeah, it’s all right, it’s very strong in my third eye—and you’re certain it’s not your own—you’re certain it’s not what you call your Milky Way galaxy—you feel it is the Andromeda galaxy?

Bashar: Well, I asked and I got that name right. I’m always seeing A’s—the letter A seems to be very prominent in my interaction.

Asker: We will share this with you. It is specific for your use. If you will immerse yourself in the vibration of the note A, it will help align you more strongly to receive more information with regard to your connection to the Andromedan consciousness.

Bashar: I got that on one level—I wondered about that.

Asker: Well, there you have it—then allow us to confirm it for you. Do that and see what happens. We will talk about this at another time once you have immersed yourself in that frequency.

Bashar: Okay.

Asker: All right. I’m in my second year at a healing school—yes—energetic healing—yes—and through my meditations, I’m discovering that—you know, I go to the classes and I learn the techniques—yes—and I have a real strong need to understand healing—yes—through me—yes.

Bashar: And this will also be done when you immerse yourself in that frequency and learn to express your connection through the Andromedan energy. So begin by immersing yourself in the frequency of the note A, and you will start to understand how to express that healing energy through yourself more naturally. It’s all connected—it’s not different things. Okay. Are you getting this?

Asker: Yes.

Bashar: Does that help you?

Asker: Well, it confirms a lot of things that I wondered about.

Bashar: Then pleasant dreams to you. May I just discuss briefly the three interactions?

Asker: No, not at this time. Use the Andromedan energy in the way that we have discussed now. We will talk about the interactions at another time.

Bashar: Okay.

Asker: Thank you.

Bashar: Pleasant dreams.

Asker: Hi Bashar, good day.

Bashar: The prince is here. Oh, you’re not so old.

Asker: I’ve been feeling old lately.

Bashar: Oh, all right—but wait till you get to be my age.

Asker: Oh, wait.

Bashar: All right.

Asker: Though I do not feel old. You know that.

Bashar: I know that. Next month will be one year since I saw you last—and you haven’t seen me yet—but I understand what you mean—since I experienced you—since you gave me some very helpful information—I want to thank you for that.

Bashar: You are welcome—for your mantra, yeah.

Asker: Thank you. And I thought when that went away that life would be easy—but it didn’t turn out that way.

Bashar: And of course not.

Asker: And I want to talk to you about that after I share something. I had a really great experience in the dream state a few—a couple weeks ago.

Bashar: Yes.

Asker: Actually last week, I ran into a parallel me that stemmed from my marriage—yes—and this me was still married to my husband—and this was a conscious experience—it was very, very cool. I ended up going to her reality and I was observing her, and she became aware of me and my reality. And I observed her going back to my husband, telling my husband that there was this place—she didn’t know how to say “parallel reality”—but she said, “There’s this place where you and I aren’t together in the future—aren’t together”—and she was shocked. And she walked up to him and she kissed him this passionate kiss, and he looked at her like—you know, “Why are you doing that?"—and she said, “Because I haven’t done that in such a long time.”

Bashar: Right. And I realized that her getting in touch with my reality where we aren’t together gave her so much more appreciation.

Asker: This is one way that you can use parallel reality experiences.

Bashar: Yes. And by telling this story, you have probably caused no end of confusion to this parallel reality person over here.

Asker: It was very poignant—it just showed me how parallel realities affect one another even if we don’t know what’s happening.

Bashar: She might not be conscious—correct. Correct. You know correct. Yeah. So that was cool.

Asker: Many of the things that occur in what you deem to be your day-to-day reality are intimately tied to parallel reality experiences within the whole. That’s why it can be all things at once—because what you consider to be your unique life is—and at the same time is made up of all the other experiences. It’s not just one or the other.

Bashar: And so—thank you. Yeah. And so then the other thing—the other thing is I have been wallowing in self-pity and stuff.

Asker: Are you enjoying that?

Bashar: No, I’m really sick of it.

Asker: Why have you been doing it?

Bashar: I don’t know.

Asker: I know why.

Bashar: Yes you do.

Asker: I don’t want to do what I feel is necessary to take care of myself—this thing of responsibility.

Bashar: Is that because you have a definition about that that makes it seem distasteful instead of having a definition that makes it seem like fun?

Asker: Absolutely. I don’t want to get a job. Why not?

Bashar: Have you not recently discovered that being attracted to the idea of getting a job that is actually germane for your frequency leads you to more expanded ideas of joy and other opportunities? Have you not recently discovered that?

Asker: No.

Bashar: Say that again.

Asker: Have you not recently discovered that allowing yourself to explore the concept of getting a job that is representative of your energy would also simultaneously lead you to more expanded opportunities, encounters and relationships that are beyond the job description?

Bashar: I suppose if I have to get a job, I could find one that would be like you’re talking about—but you already did, and you can do it over and over again. Did you not recently attract yourself to the idea of a job interview?

Asker: Yes.

Bashar: Did you not in that interview synchronistically meet someone that was well beyond the job description that actually represented more expansion and abundance?

Asker: Well, yeah—but—well, yeah—but—well, yeah—but what?

Bashar: I mean, you know—that’s just one.

Asker: Well, yeah—but what—what’s the excuse?

Bashar: Well, I don’t know. I’m just—I’m sitting on the fence here. I’m in this double bind. I love where I live and I don’t know how to make a living there, and I can come here and make a living and I don’t want to live here—so I’m not doing anything and all my money’s run out. I’m sitting there going—but again I reiterate—going in with the definition that whatever is actually germane for you will include the ability to do everything else. You would then not hesitate to go in the direction of something that you are defining as negative—when it doesn’t have to be defined that way—because you don’t allow yourself the faith to believe that going in that direction will actually bring about what you want. You don’t allow yourself to explore it at all.

Asker: You’re right. I’m looking at getting a job as hell—as having nothing to do with your joy—when in fact there is always something in every direction that’s going to be uniquely your way of doing it. Explore all the avenues, because every avenue generally—maybe not always specifically—but every avenue and every opportunity and every possibility generally has some way of representing itself to all of you that is your way and will contain the ability to bring about the things that represent your joy. Whether you can imagine how it might be able to do that or not is not the point.

But you just recently gave yourself a perfect example of how it could be by attracting yourself to a job interview and then meeting someone else who represented something far beyond the idea of the job description. That’s one example—and if it happened once, it can happen over and over and over again on many expanded levels, can’t it? Can’t it?

Bashar: I guess it can.

Asker: You guess, you guess, you guess. How many times in your life have you been shown that it can? And how many examples do you need?

Bashar: I don’t know.

Asker: It’s up to you. You know.

Bashar: Yeah, I guess it’s up to you. So just keep moving. Is it just keep moving?

Asker: Just keep moving—and understand that when you look at something, remember please all of you, when you look at something and at first—as you say knee-jerk reaction—say “oh, that’s not exciting”—make sure that it’s not exciting because it’s really not representative of your joy, or because you have defined that it will not be. Because if you’ve only defined that it will not be, no matter what, then you won’t know that it actually might be or could be.

If you start from the assumption that anything can actually contain your joy, then allow yourself to at least give yourself the benefit of the doubt and make sure that you’re not just defining it as not being exciting as opposed to it truly not being representative of who you are. Once you have made that clarification in total honesty and acceptance, then it will be easier for you to tell what to do—and more likely you will accept more things than you would, because you will recognize that you will not be putting conditions upon yourself that limit your ability to recognize that your excitement can come in many unexpected forms, and you will explore more freely.

Do not worry, do not worry. If it’s really not you, you’ll know it. But don’t hold back from exploring on the chance that you might actually be coloring it to make it look unexciting. At least find out truly if it really is you. You’ll know, you’ll know. Don’t be afraid to look, don’t be afraid to jump, don’t be afraid to allow different avenues to be representative of your path of least resistance. Don’t define things out of your reality that could represent the shortest line between two points just because you have been taught to find them distasteful in your definition.