The Chooser and Higher Self

Asker: My question has to do with the relationship between choice and commitment and my higher who I really am. And my experience is that I I don’t know where choices and commitment come from.

Bashar: They come from you. Choices come from your motivation. Motivation comes from your definition. That’s it. That’s it. What you were taught to define something to be. Whatever definition you were taught to put into something determines the motivation for choosing that idea, that experience. That’s it.

Asker: But I can’t locate the actual chooser. I am have a difficult time.

Bashar: You are the chooser. What are you talking about? Well, who am I? Am I See, what I I guess what I want to know is you talk about the higher self being made of light.

Bashar: We are talking about colloquial terminology that many people on your planet utilize. But if you find that terminology only adds to lack of clarity, don’t use it. You are you. You know who you are experientially by allowing yourself to feel the idea that is most often translated in your culture as unconditional love, excitement, joy, creativity. Those vibrations are the energy that you are. Anything done that you do that is in alignment, anything that you choose that is most in alignment, most harmonious with the highest expression of feelings of unconditional love, joy, creativity, and excitement will be most aligned with who you are. Does that make some sense?

Asker: I’m having difficulty understanding experientially, and I’m closing my eyes so I can phrase this carefully.

I’m having a difficult time when you say I make the choices.

The eye that you are pointing to or talking to is an eye that I’m having very difficulty locating. So, I don’t know who’s making the choices. I don’t even know who’s talking right now. It just seems to be happening.

And it’s When you say you don’t know who’s talking, right? Can you be more specific about what you mean by that uncertainty? Well, that’s why I closed my eyes because I my ability to recognize who I really am is not very I know who I’m not, but I don’t Oh, right. Well, that’s a start. I you know, I’ve identified I’m not the body and I’ve identified Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. That’s where you’re getting into trouble. Okay.

You are acting like a surgeon attempting to cut away everything until you finally leave that little essential something that you assume is going to be you. Right? In some senses, you can have that experience, but you’re going to be in for a big surprise.

If and when you do give yourself that experience, you’re going to find out once you arrive at that point that everything you cut away was also you and that it actually hasn’t been cut away, but only been transformed to allow you to have the experience of yourself as the little piece that’s left. Mhm. But it’s all you. There is nothing.

Are you paying attention? I’m paying very strict. All right. Strict attention. All right. Strict strict strict attention. He’s got me nailed.

There is nothing ever that you can experience that isn’t you. What do you think about that? I like that. It’s all you. It’s just you in different forms.

Now, if you want to experience you as the remnant essential essence after having cut away other ideas of yourself, that’s fine. But that’s just one experience of you. The body is also an experience of you. Anything else you can imagine in any other way to experience is also you.

There is nothing you can experience that is not some version, some expression, some experience of you. Because there is only one thing you are and that’s you. There is no way to experience anything but you. Because you are the only thing that exists. Does that make some sense?

The you that you speak of is any version you want to call yourself is still a version of you. As you are a version of me. Yes. As you are a version of me.

It’s all you. Anything you experience is you. You are All-That-Is. I am All-That-Is. Anything I experience is me. Everything I experience is me.

This doesn’t discount that others are having experiences. It’s this and that, not this or that. Does that make sense? Yeah. Yes, I understand that. Yeah.

It’s all you. Any way your imagination can come up to concoct it, it’s still you. Still has to be made out of you. You’re the only thing you have to work with in your reality. You’re the only thing that exists in it. In fact, your reality is you. You’re not even in it. It is you. It’s in you.

Any experience is an experience of yourself in some fashion, in some modality. It cannot be otherwise. Mhm. Does this make any sense? Uh, it makes a lot of sense and it it might not answer my question, but it it answers a bigger question. So, thank you.

All right. In what way do you think it does not answer your question? Well, I don’t feel like my question is so important to me right now. So, I Well, maybe then it has answered it, right? Maybe it has.

The idea really is that anything that you imagine as an experience is simply what you’re doing as a way of relating to yourself. It’s a way of experiencing yourself. Doesn’t matter how you do it.

You are the body. You are the spirit. You are the soul. You are the mind. You are the essence. You are the consciousness. You are existence. You are.

Am I also attachment and suffering? Everything. There is no concept that exists outside of you. Every concept, every experience is made from you, made out of you. It cannot be otherwise. There is nothing else.

Origins of Humanity

Asker: I wonder if you could talk about how human beings first came to live on the earth and also what physical proof or evidences still remains undiscovered of that if that even applies after you answer the first question.

Bashar: You are consciousness and that the idea of human being is more a reference to the idea of the physical expression and not just the idea of consciousness for the consciousness exists whether it is human or not but the vehicle so to speak as you call it again all this is colloquial you following along with this yes the vehicle you call the human expression of consciousness basically has existed in stages over time of what you call millions of years.

But at one point somewhere about give or take as you say somewhere about 500 to 700,000 of your years ago there was what you would call an intervention of other beings that recognize the homminid life form that existed on your planet as being viable material for a genetic alteration. You follow that? Yes.

This genetic alteration was made using material from their own DNA. Thus then creating specifically or moving evolution more specifically in the direction you recognize as homo sapien. Do you follow that? Yes.

This was to some degree finalized in essence in its most general form about 50,000 of your years ago. Though there have been some small alterations that have occurred since due to the programming that is already in the DNA material. At about 30,000 of your years, another alteration occurred. At about 10,000 of your years, another alteration occurred. And another alteration occurred about 2,000 of your years ago. And another alteration is occurring now to continue the process of allowing the human experience to become more capable of expressing more of the consciousness that has decided to express itself as human.

Now the creation of this human vehicle doesn’t mean that the consciousness you hold yourself to be only came into existence then your consciousness has always existed. You follow that? Yes. What we’re speaking of is a linear time frame perspective to answer your question in a very literal way.

Asker: Um I was wondering also who these other beings were and what they look like.

Bashar: The idea is that these particular beings were similar which is why you are similar to them to the form the structure which is why human and these beings which were ancient Lyens from that star system you have named LRA but which in ancient texts that you call Sanskrit are referred to as Anunnaki. You follow me? Yes.

These were what you would call humanlike beings, much larger in stature in general than your human form at present. But it is from their genetic strain that the human traits derived when imprinted and impressed upon the early homminid species that was similar enough for them to use, similar enough for them to integrate with. Does that make some sense? Yes.

There are a few artifacts, writings, tablets, a few artifacts that remain, some of which have even been discovered, but are not understood for what they are that represent this time frame, this early time frame of about 500,000 of your years ago.

One such artifact which you may or may not be familiar with are small tiny metal spheres that have grooved lines in them. Are you familiar with these? No.

These small metal spheres, dull metallic in color, similar in size to what you now would call a large ball bearing, have small grooves in their equator round about their circumference, usually three grooves. Sometimes can be different. These are remnants of devices, spent energy cells from some devices of ancient alien origin.

And as the culture on your planet in ancient times in Lamoria and Atlantis also learned these technologies and utilize some similar such devices. Some of them are from that too.

Asker: Yes. Actually, it brought up another question. Um, um, I saw in my mind’s eye a round ball bearing like you described rolling around inside a kind of like a track, a circular track. And when it rolled around, it created tremendous amount of energy and a vibrational sound that created a wave of bliss to whoever was good.

Bashar: Well, it’s more than a wave of bliss. That was in some senses a side effect that you are feeling but it set up certain vibrations that did in fact actually impart energy to many different kinds of devices. Yes, you are actually in some senses remembering this. Yes. And the these are yet undiscovered as we have said these little spheres some little spheres have been discovered but their use is unknown.

Asker: Might you be able to direct me to the ones that any that might have not been discovered yet?

Bashar: You may find several in your South American region in the areas you know as Venezuela and Peru and Ecuador. And there are artifacts also in the excavation that have yet to be discovered that has been named Tijuana also in your central and south American areas.

Political Events and Responsibility

Asker: I’ve been feeling politics very intensely like suddenly consciousness became very focused on what’s happening outside in that sense.

Outside what?

Well as opposed to sort of being focused within. Oh I see. All right.

Um, you have eyes upon the world. Yeah. All right.

Um, and one of the things that, um, affected me was, uh, the woman in Texas that, um, they decided to kill. Yes.

Um, even though she had, I mean, in my opinion, she had transformed great darkness into great light. Yes. All right. and and um I I kept getting this image like somebody taking a golden retriever at the pound and putting and killing it. You know, it just seemed that is how you relate to it symbolically.

Then the idea that service was put to death. Yeah. Potential service was put to death. Yeah. All right. And also the idea of the rigidity of the and of and the motives of the beings that chose to do that.

Well, your society mercy has gotten to a point has brought itself to a point where if you are not to begin with willing to understand what needs to be done in order that individuals are raised to not make the choices that that individual made.

Then for fear that you must face a lot of things within yourselves you don’t want to face rather than look at that and change the society you will simply do what seems expedient and remove from your site the reminder that things need to change in the structure of your society and how you teach people about their empowerment.

Yeah. I felt I I just you understand? Yeah. That’s I think that’s why I felt so disturbed by it. I What are you going to do about that? How are you going to use that disturbingness?

I don’t know. I That’s I mean, it’s on top of a million things, you know? So, on top of a million things. It’s up to you. Um Yeah, I know.

Cuz it does it runs through me and um it was more the callousness and the the lack of mercy, lack of humanity, and I I felt like I’m part of It is distinctly human. It’s distinctly human. Oh. just seemed creepy to do such a thing. That is distinctly human, too. Oh.

and then and then all of these other activities that are going on like the issue of Clinton and his integrity and the issue of what’s going on in the Middle East. And I’m I’m symbolically trying to understand like the the issue that Clinton is revealing to the collective, guys. What is he telling us by his behavior and our reaction to it?

What what are you don’t understand the connection the connection is responsibility. If each and every one of you will understand the concept more deeply of responsibility then many of these things will never have occurred whether they actually occurred or not.

The discussion of them, the experience of them in different levels will no longer be a part of your society when everyone accepts the responsibility for who they are and the power that is within each to be the fullest being they can be. These things will not come up.

Well, what about the idea like power is the ultimate aphrodisiac is a very common you see here. That’s an idea. And and this sort of split attitude that human beings have about this like they go, “Oh, that’s terrible. Oh, that’s terrible. And then like underneath, do you not understand that these are simply again more variations, more definitions, and the definitions that you buy into create your reality. That’s all this is.

More and more opportunity to examine the definitions you have all bought into to decide for yourselves whether you want to continue to buy into them or not. For only in changing the initial definitions will you change the outcomes.

Well, and here it’s connected with maybe an act of war. Yes. Well, so there’s sort of this connection with violence also. Well, of course. And and lack of Has this not been part and parcel of your history that your definitions have led you to the idea that the only way to resolve thing is through violence? Doesn’t have to be that way. You all know it doesn’t have to be that way.

Well, but are those not the results of the definitions that you generally accept as a society to be true? Well, I I feel so uncomfortable with it that Well, then do something about it.

Well, I do by transforming myself. And transforming yourself means taking actions that are representative of the transformation you say you have undertaken.

In other words, to put it simply, becoming involved, not taking responsibility for others, but being responsible to others by being yourself, becoming involved, participating creatively in whatever way, shape, or form your imagination comes up with. Or else I talked about it in my classes. There you go. You see? So that I gave people opportunity to explore it. All right. That’s one way.

Any other way that comes up to you to participate and be intimately involved? I don’t know if I’m that interested in being intimately involved. You are intimately involved. Except that this is obviously an aspect of my consciousness, right? If I’m watching, are you on Earth? Yes, you’re intimately involved. Period. There’s no other way to say it. Are you alive on Earth? Yes, you’re intimately involved. Can’t get out of that.

You see, what you are expressing, and I know you don’t really mean it, but what you are expressing is exactly the avoidance of responsibility that got you all where you are. I don’t want to be intimately involved. This looks like it’s so incredible to transform that.

Like, I am not saying you have to look at it as a big rock that you’re rolling uphill like your mythological sophus. I am simply saying that if you do your part, one person makes more of a difference than you might think because you’re all connected. Haven’t you learned this yet?

In all the times we have been talking about the fact that every change is a total change. That’s why I focus on transforming myself. I understand that. But don’t stop with that. Don’t hold yourself back.

Well, I’ll find something creative. Of course you will. And the things that you find that are gerine for you will not be a chore because they’re gerine for you. from even paying attention. So there you go. All right, there you are. Does that help? Yeah.

Claustrophobia and Power

Asker: I’ve been exploring claustrophobia cuz claustrophobia. Yeah, cuz I have it and a friend of mine has it and she had an attack of it recently. So we started exploring. Was she attacked by a small room? Um, yeah. All right. Oh my god. She got locked in her office and that’s what stimulated it for her. And so as we started exploring it, what we realized that I’m sure there’s a connection with breathing with it. However, the real focus is on being trapped and that the actual conjuring up of a physical idea of that, but it’s actually about being trapped within your own consciousness of like a negative.

Bashar: It is having a definition that you are powerless. Yes. That you are not in control. And in that sense, you experience the fear that backs up and reinforces that belief, that definition. Yes. And the power of that emotionally is just huge.

And there you have said it. And there you have found the way to expand the room. You see, there’s the paradox. Oh, I said it was huge. The power of feeling powerless is enormous. Oh, the power that it takes to feel powerless is enormous.

Oh, well, I’ve been at both ends of the spectrum. So, and often in the middle. Yes. But the idea again, not to take away from anyone’s process, is to again use the power of paradox and understand that if you feel helpless, if you feel powerless, you are using all your power to create that feeling.

Well, that’s what’s so scary about it is having that much power. Well, that’s what many of you say about your power. It’s scary because it’s not.

First of all, the idea of communication with the self. I mean that the clarity of that communication. Everywhere I look, communication breaks down in different areas, different ways. Be it if we’re talking to youth in another dimension or if we’re talking to ourselves or we’re talking to each other, the communication is not as clear. That is usually only because it isn’t clear within yourself. usually.

Well, you know, like the game of telephone they play on Earth, you know, it seems inherent in the Well, in that your society has created much of its language out of the disconnection to itself, it is no wonder that the language itself would also carry within it the ability to disconnect. The true language doesn’t being telepathy. Yes.

So, when you’re having an experience of powerlessness Yes. And you know, I mean, you feel the intensity of it and you know that that’s how huge your power is, right? But but I think with that comes the definition that you’re powerless to do anything about it. Yes.

Because you have definitions about power. You have definitions that you attach to the concept you call power that make power seem overwhelming, incapable of being contained or controlled. Yes.

But you see, even attaching the concept to power that it is something that must be controlled automatically makes it uncontrollable. True expression of power does not require the kind of control you think it does.

Remember what we said earlier, the biggest expression of power requires the most delicate of touches. That which is truly powerful needs only brush upon something to create profound change. No kidding.

So if you truly are exercising your full power, you will not have to control it. You will only have to be all the more gentle and easy. That’s true power.

So, but your definitions of power make it seem as if it will be easy to get out of control. But that’s your definition. I think it’s not really knowing the intelligence associated with it and not communicate. What you mean is it doesn’t know yourself. Yes. Well, that’s the whole point. Yes.

The more you know yourself, the more you will understand that you’re already using your power to create the experience of being powerless. And then you will decide that that’s not the game you want to play anymore.

And you will start allowing yourself to be more transparent about what you’re doing and will allow yourself more conscious recognition that you are using your power.

But after all, what is power? Power is only the ability really to choose. That’s it. To choose. You all have that. That’s all it is. That is all the most ultimate power in the universe will ever boil down to the ability to choose.

So if you’re going through releasing negative vibrations, yes it is and that’s part of that process of experiencing that. Well, yeah. If you wish it to be your story, then that’s your story. But that’s what everyone is a different story of the power. Even if it is a story of powerlessness, it’s a different story of the power of the one. That’s it. Just a different story. Write the story you prefer. You’re the author.

Seems well, but see that you’re the author. Don’t we have to have a consensus though with other beings in writing our stories? Yes and no. No no. No story you as a human on earth will write that is the story you prefer will conflict with any other true stories. True.

You know the way I mean that those that everyone feels are representative of their natural selves. Okay. The stories that are not representative of who you know you are can create conflict because that’s the nature of the story. But you can all also write a story together and individually wherein there is no kind of conflict except creatively.

I’m going to think about this a lot. You think about it a lot. am and while you’re thinking we’ll move to the next story. Okay. Thanks Bashar.

Relationship Dynamics

Asker: Do you have current events current events? Do you have any insight into the dynamics of the personalities of the relationship of the school teacher who had a child by her 13-year-old student and went to prison for seven years recently? Do you know about that this? Yeah. Do I have any insight into the emotional dynamic?

I’ve been seeing someone who’s much younger than me and this is a new experience. Not that much younger though. No, not that much younger, but it’s still it it’s making me think, you know, um I’m thinking that the person I’m seeing it must be past life or something because it’s so strong and not something I would normally do. And I’m wondering, do they have some kind of past life experience?

Bashar: They do, but I’m not just going to leave it at that and chalk it up to that. The idea still involves the recognition of what exists at present and the responsibilities and integrity that go with that. The idea is to use the connection to flow the connection and flow the recognition of the connection into ways that are empowering and respectful of the level of agreement and responsibility that exists within the parameters that the individuals have accepted at present. This is truly of course as you know a drastic oversimplification of the dynamics of the relationship you are talking about. There is not in your terms enough time to really dig into it too deeply.

Desires and Ownership

Asker: I’m a little confused about my motivations and my definitions here and I’ I’d like some help with it.

Bashar: There is no confusion about motivation. That is never a confusing thing. It’s too simple to be confusing. Okay. You’re always motivated to move and choose in the direction of what you perceive by definition to be the most pleasurable and the least painful thing. There is no confusion about that. Okay. So, I’m confused about some conflicting definitions I hold. I believe that to want something outside of yourself means that you’re not in complete and happy and fulfilled.

Bashar: So, it depends on how you mean that and who you are, right?

So, it’s real easy for me to like want a car or a computer or something like that. And I know that when I want something, I can usually manifest it, but I’m having a real hard time with a new desire I have.

Asker: I am having a hard time and I can’t believe I said that. Well, all right. But that’s not what I’m going to ask you.

Why is the concept of a car outside yourself?

Bashar: Why do you consider that to be outside yourself? Is not everything you—

Asker: Yes, but if I don’t own it, I feel like it’s outside of myself. Well, then something I don’t possess, I believe is outside myself.

Bashar: But look at how you said that and understand how to mean that. If you don’t own it, do you understand the inflection here?

Asker: Yeah, I do.

Energetically?

Yes, I got it.

Bashar: All right. Thank you for your honesty.

It is all about owning and at the same time recognizing when you may simply be projecting and placing your power in exteriorized symbols when you don’t need to.

But then at the same time, it’s about understanding that everything is you. And if you really truly own that and you know you are working within your integrity to the best of your ability, then there is no reason why individuals cannot in a harmonious way in a constructive and beneficial way allow their reality to reflect that quote unquote ownership by the reflection of physiological symbols such as a car if you wish to use that as a symbol.

Asker: Well, here’s where I’m having the problem.

Bashar: Oh, all right. The problem. Where is your challenge?

Asker: Yes. My challenge is here. Um, I have this idea that I would be happier if I was in a relationship, an intimate relationship, like being married. Yes. And I have this idea. I have an idea that that might make me happy.

Bashar: Just might, right? It might be something I prefer. Might. Might. All right.

Asker: And yet I think, well, if I’m thinking that that might make me happy, then I must not be happy.

Bashar: Well, in some senses, that’s true. and who I am. So then maybe I should in some senses that’s true the way you have said it. Yes.

Asker: So then I don’t know what to do with this.

Bashar: Well, one suggestion would be to recognize that there is only one thing of course that makes you happy and that’s you. Do you follow that?

Asker: Yes.

Bashar: Only you can decide that you will be happy.

Asker: Yes.

Bashar: Are you waiting for me to drop a shoe or something? I mean one moment I’m not done. I have many shoes to drop.

You know already, do you not? That only you can decide that you will be happy. Yes or no?

Asker: Yes.

Bashar: Because you can be married and not be happy.

Asker: This is true.

Bashar: And you can be not married and not be happy.

Asker: This is true.

Bashar: And you can be married and be happy.

Asker: Yes.

Bashar: And you can be not married and be happy.

Asker: Yes. All of these are true. Yes.

Bashar: Yes. Well, then if all of those are true, what does it come down to? Who makes you happy? What makes you happy?

Asker: Only you.

Bashar: Because obviously by the example we have just given, it’s not the circumstance because the circumstance in that sense is neutral. You can be happy or unhappy being married or unmarried.

Therefore, that tells you that example tells you the happiness isn’t in the circumstance and isn’t not in the circumstance. The happiness is only in the one experiencing the circumstances which means you are always first and foremost the master of whether or not you are happy.

Asker: I understand that and that has an answer.

Bashar: Oh, I’m not done.

Asker: Oh, okay.

Bashar: But you understand that principle first?

Asker: Yes. Sure, I do.

Bashar: Well, then the idea or do you wish to continue first?

Asker: No, I’m go ahead.

Bashar: Oh, all right. Thank you.

The idea is to allow yourself the opportunity. Allow yourself permission. Allow yourself to know that you can create reasons to be unhappy or you can allow yourself to have reasons to be happy.

But that when it comes right down to it, you don’t really need reasons at all. You are the prime principle of your reality. You are the prime existence, the prime consciousness of the experience of yourself.

You don’t need a reason to do anything. You can just do what you want to do. You have absolute freedom to feel however you want to feel. You don’t need a reason one way or the other.

You can be miserable just because I feel like being miserable. I can be happy just because I feel like being happy. I can be sad just because I don’t need a reason. I am the creator of my reality.

That is what it means to be made in the image of the infinite. I decide what I will experience.

So if I say I’m happy then I’m happy and I know it’s not just a glossing over because I understand fully the concept that I am the pro that I am the prime consciousness of my reality.

If I am faking it, I know I’m doing that too. But then that’s what I’m choosing as an experience and I acknowledge that and take responsibility for it.

But that’s the point. Whatever you are feeling, whatever you are experiencing, acknowledge it and take responsibility for it as it is. And ask yourself, this has no more or less reason for existing than anything else I could choose. So, is this what I prefer? Yes or no?

Decide what you do prefer and allow yourself to experience it without needing a reason to because you don’t unless you insist that you do.

Do you prefer to insist that you must have a reason to be happy or do you just prefer to be happy? That’s the question. Be honest.

Asker: Well, if it was that simple, I would be happy all the time.

Bashar: Well, it is that simple. It is.

Asker: Then then the truth is I must prefer to not be happy all the time.

Bashar: Thank you. Very good. You get an A. A plus.

Asker: Thank you. Thank you. That is true.

Bashar: And therefore when you admit that what happens? What instantly happens when you admit that?

Asker: I see that I’m responsible for happiness and unhappiness.

Bashar: But more importantly choice more to the core it means you are always in control. You are never out of control. You are always making the choice. You are always intending the choice you experience always. And you don’t need a reason to do so.

Asker: If I say I recognize I am choosing to need a reason to be happy. That’s my choice.

Bashar: That’s my choice.

Asker: That is my choice. That’s it.

Bashar: Wow. That my choice.

You see where you get yourself confused many of you is that you get caught up in the thing the object within the scenario instead of allowing yourself to understand. The experience itself is the choice not the object in the experience. The experience itself is the choice.

Is this making some sense?

Asker: Well, the experience of needing a reason to be happy is it. That’s the choice.

Bashar: Yeah, that’s the reality. Never mind what the scenario is about. Never mind that marriage has been made the object of the sentence and you are the subject.

Don’t look at the words. Don’t even allow yourself to focus on the fact that there is grammar. It is the grammar that’s confusing you.

Understand that the fact that there is a sentence at all is the point of the experience. When you understand that, you will be able to make any sentence you want and you will understand that the making of the sentence is the point, not what the sentence is about.

When you understand that the making, the ability to even make the sentence is the point. Stop caring about what the sentence is about. You will profoundly and paradoxically understand that every experience within the sentence, everything that the sentence is about will be capable of being experienced by you when the information in the sentence isn’t the point.

Is this sinking in at all?

Asker: Boy, I kind of in and I’m a little confused, but good.

Bashar: Okay, let’s just stay present with it.

Asker: All right, just stay present with it. Well, what I did get out of this was um I understand what you’re saying and it’s bringing a little clarity into my challenge and my challenge is I was feeling like I shouldn’t want to want something outside of myself. So that’s my definition and I see that now.

Bashar: Why? Okay. So now I can look at it as I’ve been single and now I choose I prefer another experience. All right. But let’s go back. Let’s go back. Let’s go back. Okay.

When you say I shouldn’t want something outside of myself. Right. Right. Everything is me, so it’s never outside of myself.

Asker: Thank you. Okay.

Bashar: And the sentence itself, the creation of that sentence, of that perspective is the whole point. Not that you really shouldn’t want something outside yourself. That is the subject of the sentence. That’s not the point. That’s not the reality.

But the creation of the perspective, the experience of the perspective is the only point to the sentence. Does that make sense?

Asker: Yes.

Bashar: Does that help lighten things up?

Asker: No.

Bashar: No. All right. One more time. This will do for now. One more time.

Asker: Say again. I had the perspective that I shouldn’t want something outside myself.

Bashar: You want me to say that?

Asker: Yes. Is that what you said before?

Bashar: Yeah. I had—

Asker: Yeah. Oh, well then say it. Yes. I had the perspective that I shouldn’t want something outside of myself.

Bashar: All right. Now, what does that perspective mean to you as a consequence? Where do you go from there?

Asker: Where do I go from there?

Bashar: Yes. Or I’ll ask the question another way. Did you spend any time at all savoring the fact that you actually had that perspective or did you allow the subject and object of the sentence simply move you on to other things looking for something else to do? Or did you stay with the experience of the perspective?

Asker: I don’t know.

Bashar: Well, yes, you do. You move right along. Obviously, you didn’t stay with the experience of the perspective.

Asker: Okay.

Bashar: What does it mean to you that you have the ability to experience that you shouldn’t want something outside yourself? What does that experience mean to you?

Asker: I’m pretty creative.

Bashar: Yes. That’s pretty complex thing to create.

Asker: Yes, it is.

Bashar: And when you stay in the moment with the experience, you begin to understand those kinds of things. And understanding those kinds of things, hey, this is a pretty creative and complicated thing to have created.

When you get into it that way, you will be truly staying where you need to be and you will be happy with who you are. No matter what you’ve done, no matter what perspective you’ve created, you’ll be enamored with yourself for having created it.

You will enjoy having created the perspective for its own sake rather than getting caught up in what you think the statement is supposed to lead you to. You see the difference?

Asker: Yes.

Bashar: That’s the difference between simply riding along keeping yourself focused on the future and staying within the point of present power. Did that make some sense to you?

Asker: Yeah, it made a lot more sense than I was looking for. I see.

Bashar: In other words, it burst the bubble.

Asker: Yeah, sure did. of the game. Woo! God, you feel more present. I feel huge.

Monroe Institute and Higher Self Connection

Bashar: Greetings and gratitude from the Monday night meditation group in Sydney. Oh, all right. Good day to you. Especially from John who with a lot of respect does a fairly decent imitation of you.

Asker: So I said with respect.

Bashar: Understood. Um no disrespect would ever be taken. Thank you. Since all you’re hearing right now is an imitation of him. Point taken. Thank you.

Asker: Um, following on with one question regarding, the experiment that’s being the work that’s being done in Virginia.

Bashar: Yes.

Asker: And I knowing that you got the impression that you couldn’t go much further with Joe’s question, but one of the gentlemen involved has recently been in an accident and has had seizures and those around him are very concerned that the accident was a result of his work with the electromagnetic fields.

Can you let us simply say that the electromagnetic fields may have aggravated and or magnified and or amplified something that was already offkilter. This is to this point as far as we can take this right now.

Bashar: Understood. Thank you. Is there something else you wish to discuss?

Asker: Yes, there is. While I was working at the Monroe Institute, I’m very aware and very grateful for a lot of synchronistic things that are happening in my life on a day-to-day basis.

Bashar: Your entire life, all of you is synchronicity.

Asker: Um, one of the challenges on my path that I’m currently working on is making the connection on a more intimate basis.

Bashar: Um, between making what connection?

Asker: Myself and my higher self.

Asker: And working through abandonment issues. Working through abandonment issues and vulnerability issues.

Asker: Um, and I have worked through trying to do it with humor, trying to let it happen.

Bashar: Um, trying to trying trying. Yes, that trying word.

Asker: I know. I knew you were going to catch that one as soon as I said it.

Bashar: Um, maybe that’s why you repeated it because you wanted me to. Perhaps.

Asker: And one of the experiences I had while I was doing one of the meditation tapes in my perception was a conversation with you in a sense in a sense that was although I actually can’t remember it, it was a very comforting all right resolution.

Bashar: Thank you for comforting yourself.

Asker: Um, and there are blocks that—

Bashar: No, they’re not.

Asker: I feel I am putting up.

Bashar: Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. No blocks. Choices. No blocks. Choices. You’re making choices. You’re motivated. You’re choosing. You know what you’re doing. You know what you’re afraid of and you know how far and fast you want to go.

So, you’re making choices. You’re putting on the brakes. They’re not blocks. You’re regulating yourself as you choose to, as you’re motivated to. You’re in control and consciously I feel I’m choosing to pull the blocks down.

I went through a situation where I asked what I needed to do to make that connection and the information I got was that I had to die.

Bashar: Well, in a sense, yes.

Asker: And so I went through a ceremony of anointment and bearing my abandonment and bearing my vulnerability and then actually killing myself.

Bashar: No, no, not at all. Not even one iota.

Asker: Yes, one iota.

Bashar: Oh, all right. Just one iota.

Asker: So my question is, yes, your question is, other than continuing to choose to pull down the blocks, yes. Is there any other guidance you can give me?

Bashar: All right. Well, let’s go back to the basics. By holding on to these ideas, what do you get out of holding on to them? How does it serve you in some way to continue to perpetuate this state of being?

Asker: I get frustration and anger.

Bashar: Now, how does it serve you though? I understand you recognize that there are ways it does not serve you. But how does it serve you? Because if it didn’t serve you, you wouldn’t hold on to it.

Believe me, there is no such thing as a lack of motivation in the human species. And once you have defined something as truly being tipped on the scales as being more painful to hold on to, then you will let go of it.

But as long as you hold on to it, it must seem less painful to hold on to it than making a change.

So the question either is how does it serve you? Can be answered perhaps by saying you might have a definition of what it is you are changing to that makes what you may change to more painful than simply holding on to something that you’re familiar with no matter how painful it may be.

Asker: The fear of the power.

Bashar: What power?

Asker: Being who I completely am. Fear of that power.

Bashar: Now, may I ask you a very sneaky question?

Asker: Of course.

Bashar: Well, why? Thank you. Because we do enjoy asking sneaky questions.

How do you know that you have this great power? How do you know that there is some great power you are avoiding? How do you know that?

Asker: I’ve been told that.

Bashar: So, you believe everything you hear? Uh, how do you know? Or are you uncertain you even have this power? Be honest.

Asker: No, I know it’s there.

Bashar: Oh, how how do you know you have this great all-consuming unlimited power? How do you know? And by the way, of course, correct me if I am using inappropriate adjectives.

Asker: If I didn’t know I had it, I don’t think I’d be as afraid of it as I am.

Bashar: Oh, interesting point.

Asker: If I didn’t know I had it, I wouldn’t be as afraid of it as I am.

Bashar: Well, that’s very very creative of you to say that. But what does that actually mean?

Is the amount of fear that you’re feeling then not the same energy you would be using if you were expressing your power? Do you not understand it is the same energy?

That what you feel as this great overwhelming fear is exactly the same energy that you would be feeling if you expressed it as power? Don’t you understand? You’re already feeling the same energy. You’re not avoiding anything. You’re just using that energy. You’re just using that power to create a sense of overwhelming fear.

You’re not avoiding the power. You’re just using it that way. In a different way. Yes. You haven’t avoided anything. None of you have.

You’re only a 100% energy. If you experience overwhelming fear, it’s not the fear of in a sense using the energy that is your power. You are just creating a definition within yourself that makes it seem as if you are not tapping into it. But you are. You’re just experiencing it as fear. That’s all. Okay.

Now, if you don’t prefer to experience it that way, then don’t. But please don’t assume that you are not experiencing your power, your energy. Totally. You are. Always have been. Always have been. All of you. Never a moment when you don’t experience your total power.

It’s just that you use your total power sometimes to make it seem as if you are less than your total self. But you’re using your total power to do that.

So you don’t have to be afraid of the total power. You’re already using it. You can’t do anything less. Your power doesn’t exist in fractions. There is only one. There is only one. In true existence, there is nothing less than one. There are no fractions.

In that sense, you can use the one to make it seem as if the one is fragmented. That’s why you have all different people in creation because the one used itself to create the apparency of fragmentation into the many. But the one still knows it is the one that all are the one.

You are simply playing the game where you don’t understand that you are using the oneness of yourself to create the apparency and the experience that you are using less than the totality. But that’s all it is. You’re still using all that energy to do that. Understand?

So you don’t have to be afraid of what it’s going to be like to use all that energy. Already doing that. That’s as we say old hat.

It’s just a matter of asking yourself, do I want to continue to use all my energy to pretend that I’m not using all my energy or do I want to use all my energy consciously or at least allow myself to consciously know I’m using all my energy even while I know that there may be reasons sometimes I give myself for not experiencing it that way because sometimes there are valid reasons for experiencing it as a peace.

Because that’s a valid experience to do that. But if you know you’re using your whole energy to do that, then that’s all right. You just don’t have to get caught up in the game of thinking or pretending or believing that you’re actually not experiencing your total energy and that you’re afraid to.

Bashar: Are you feeling any more release?

Asker: A little bit. Yes.

Bashar: That’s also a definition. When you say a little bit, that’s a definition that determines how you experience a total change. Because every change is a total change. You, the you I’m talking to now, is not the you that was here a moment ago. I don’t know where she went. But you are not her. Right now, if you decided to, you to define yourself how you prefer to right now. You could be anything you wish right now regardless of anything she chose to be wherever she went. Right?

But if you say, “Well, I changed a little.” Then you are a totally absolutely completely new you deciding to experience yourself as if you are the old you who has changed just a little, but you are a completely new you doing that. That’s the difference. Got it?

When you begin to understand and see yourself that way, then miracles are the natural order of things. Every day instantaneous and spontaneous change blossoms from you.

When you know that every change is total, when you want that to be your experience of your total energy, it will be. As long as you don’t, it won’t be. But if you don’t, that’s all right. Not going to force you to feel it that way because whatever you decide to use your energy for is up to you because it’s your energy. You own it. You decide how to use it.

I’m only here to suggest that you can use it in other ways and be aware of the fact that you’re using it to create what you’re experiencing now. But if you take that to heart, that’s up to you. If you don’t, that’s up to you because who you are is unique. And I would never take that uniqueness away from you, especially because I can’t. So I would never even try.