Improvisation

Improvisation and Era Shifting

“Improvisation” can be very helpful for shifting your personalities and breaking yourself out of habits, of using all the personas you are to create a lack of habit. Getting into the act.

Now say after me. I’ll ask you: Is there a habit, a pattern, a worry, a doubt, a fear that you used to have?

Volunteer 3: “Yes.”

Bashar: Name it.

Volunteer 3: “That I get involved with unavailable men.”

Bashar: Interesting choice of wording. In that you get involved with someone who is unavailable. There seems to be a bit of a paradox in there. But that’s all right. All right. Now, what kind of a line, what kind of a statement, what kind of a sentence would be typical of that you commenting on that situation?

Volunteer 3: “Why do I do this?”

Bashar: Shift now into the year 1928. Say the line now as you would say if you were living in 1928.

Volunteer 3: [Says line in 1928 style]

Bashar: Shift now into the year 1100. Say the line now if you are living in the year 1100.

Volunteer 3: [Says line in 1100 style]

Bashar: Do I do? Now was there any difference in the feeling between those three statements, even though they seem to be the same statement on the surface? How did each of them feel? How did the first one feel, the one you’re used to saying?

Volunteer 3: “Fed up.”

Bashar: Fed up. How did the 1928 one feel?

Volunteer 3: “Like this is exciting but I’m not sure. It makes me feel very… all right. This is exciting but I’m not sure. It makes me feel very good.”

Bashar: How did the one in 1100 feel?

Volunteer 3: “What’s this about?”

Bashar: What era would you like to go to most excitedly? What era do you identify within your history most excitingly?

Volunteer 3: “30s and 40s.”

Bashar: What kind of a persona would you be in that era? How would you define yourself or describe yourself in that era? First of all, what age would you be?

Volunteer 3: “Same age you are now.”

Bashar: How would you be? And is that different from how you are now? And if so, how?

Volunteer 3: “Yeah, I guess it is a little differently.”

Bashar: How? How? How? How? How is it different?

Volunteer 3: “I move more.”

Bashar: You get to move more freely? What do you mean by that?

Volunteer 3: “Uh, I don’t… I don’t lock myself into uh, what society dictates for a woman. Because I… I would still prefer to be a woman in any era.”

Bashar: All right. So you are saying that you feel that your 1940s persona is actually less restricted than your 1990 persona?

Volunteer 3: “No. What are you saying? I’m saying that uh, the 1940s persona is more restricted than my persona. The difference is that there is more freedom now.”

Bashar: Yes. All right. Why were you attracted then to the 1940s persona? What is it about being attracted to that persona that you like?

Volunteer 3: “Uh, it seems comfortable.”

Bashar: Comfortable in what way? Um, be that persona. Would you speak differently as that persona than you are speaking as the 1990s persona? Would your body language and your body posture be different? Yes or no?

Volunteer 3: “It doesn’t seem to be that way now.”

Bashar: Let it be that way. Do you have a picture of yourself as a 1940s persona?

Volunteer 3: “Yes.”

Bashar: Are you standing differently than you would stand if you were a 1990s persona?

Volunteer 3: “No.”

Bashar: Why not?

Volunteer 3: “Good. I don’t know.”

Bashar: What would you be wearing as a 1940s persona?

Volunteer 3: “Pretty much what I’m wearing right now.”

Bashar: What are you wearing right now?

Volunteer 3: “Pants and a shirt.”

Bashar: And made out of 1990 materials? Then how could you possibly be wearing them in 1940? Would they not feel different? Made out of different material? Would you not move your body differently? Would you not be standing differently? Would you not have different habits? What kind of habits would you have? What would be the automatic assumptions and habits of a person in the 1940s?

Volunteer 3: “Um, smoking.”

Bashar: Right here. All right. 1940s. Um, smoking. Right here. All right. Would you have a cigarette between your fingers right now?

Volunteer 3: “Yes.”

Bashar: Then hold your hand that way. Thank you. Do you feel a little more different?

Volunteer 3: “Yes.”

Bashar: This is what I’m saying to you all. When I tell you to act this persona out, I don’t just mean run it through your mind. Do you not understand how differently you feel when you act, physicalize something? Get the point?

Volunteer 3: “Toots yeah, dad.”

Bashar: All right. Although I believe that that wasn’t quite around in the same way now. Why not? Angle your body language just a little bit until you really feel like you’re slipping into that 1940s persona. Let me know when you are there. Okay. What’s your name?

Volunteer 3: “Morin.”

Bashar: Yes. Good day, Morin.

Volunteer 3: “Hello.”

Bashar: How are you feeling?

Volunteer 3: “Well, thanks. I am fine.”

Bashar: What brings you here to my office today?

Volunteer 3: “I’m for job. Looking for a job.”

Bashar: What kind of work?

Volunteer 3: “I’d like to be a singer.”

Bashar: Well, there are a lot of singers. Cabaret are a dime a dozen. What makes you think you can cut it?

Volunteer 3: “Oh, really? How good? Good enough.”

Bashar: Good enough? We’ll see about that. All right. Let’s hear what you got.

Volunteer 3: [Sings] “Cat got your tongue? Not hardly. I just do not… not in the habit. I ain’t asking you for no habit. You have an ashtray on the table right next to you. Don’t be… don’t be… Go on. Cut loose. I got to know if you can deliver the goods before I can put you in one of my clubs.”

Volunteer 3: [Sings] “Okay. Well, I’ll believe it when I see it. I can do what I want. I’m in control. That’s what I… myself. I got need. I a good talk. No more being a fool for you. But I see you and all I remember is how you make me want to surrender. Day on your… for taking my breath away. For making me want to stay.”

Bashar: All right. All right. I got the picture. Her a… Give her the job. Sorry, that was my… Aren’t you supposed to be downstairs washing glasses? What are you doing listening outside the door? The job pays 30 bucks a week. Not enough? Then you can go down the block to Frankie. I’m Frankie. I’m worth… Yeah. Yeah. Who says? Me and your customers when they fill up your place. You’re that good, huh? All right. You got it. It’s a deal. However, you pay for your own cab.

Volunteer 3: “That works out.”

Bashar: All right. Then when can you start? Are you open tonight?

Volunteer 3: “I’ll see you at 6.”

Bashar: Sounds good. Thanks. Now how do you feel?

Volunteer 3: “Terrific.”

Bashar: Who are you?

Volunteer 3: “Doesn’t matter. I just feel great. I just feel good.”

Bashar: Then that’s who you are. You are that feeling. This is also what we are saying. The feeling itself. The vibration itself. That’s who you are.

Very often what confuses many of you as the old persona expresses and keeps finding the repetitive patterns of things such as unavailability in any kind of situation, is that you often go looking to define yourself beyond the feelings that are right there with you.

It is the feelings you feel that are you. That is what you are. It is who you are. It is the beingness. It is your soul. That’s really all you need to know.

And it is really all you need to act on—are the feelings that are true and are you. That will allow you to express yourself in any situation, any way you need to, to be taken seriously, to be known transparently, and to be handed the opportunities that are representative of who it is you are willing to express yourself to be.

The only reason that situations in your life would be unavailable is because you are not available to yourself. You are not accessing the feelings. The real you. The you you want to be. You’re not being the feeling.

You are attempting to define yourself through some artificial presentation when all you really need to be, to be taken seriously, is to be the feelings that you all are. That’s who you are. Your feelings.

Break

Technique 3: Shamanistic Symbolism

Each and every one of you needs to have at this time in your hands a piece of paper and a writing instrument. I will wait until each and every one of you has before we begin.

While you are doing this, I will tell you that there are three more techniques we wish to impart to you in this session today.

And to remember that each and every one of these ideas is simply one doorway, one avenue that you have of utilizing a methodology, in a meditation, to tap into your ability to unlock from the idea of patterns that no longer serve you.

Are there still those that do not have a piece of paper and writing instrument? All right. We will wait. Anyone left now who does not have a piece of paper and writing instrument? Anyone who is not ready say “not ready.” All right. You are all ready.

But not quite. Because this exercise takes place on the floor. All of you, in any way, shape, or form—kneeling, lying, sitting in front of your chair, behind your chair, off to the side, does not matter—but on the floor. Whatever is comfortable for you. All right. All right.

Now. Now. Now. Now. Let us impart a sense of great seriousness to this. Oh, very good.

For this exercise will entail that you allow yourself to be in touch with what might loosely be called your shamanistic side. Your shamanistic persona.

Let us go for a moment through what might be termed the Native American route in accessing this aspect of your consciousness. For here is what you are about to do.

Imagine yourself, either with your eyes closed or with your eyes open, does not matter, but imagine yourself now out in the midst of your American desert. Surrounded by the tall rock mesas in their brilliant colors as they reach skyward.

The wind is warm and clear and clean. And you feel the warm desert sand stretching away from you on all sides. Perhaps you hear the occasional sound of a bird or some other animal. Perhaps the forlorn whistle of the hawk in the distance, circling high, high overhead. Its shadow passing over you as its body becomes between you and the sun.

The sun that gives life to the whole area. And you are on a vision quest. Sitting and meditating on a rock on the sand. Higher up in the high desert. Down below on the plains. Does not matter.

But you are now the persona of a Native Shaman. A medicine person. In touch with higher aspects. Higher energy. Higher consciousness. Open to the universe to receive the important information that you are waiting to receive.

Information that will help and assist you in breaking free of past assumptions, past patterns, past personas. You are simply open. Listening. Feeling with your body, with your heart, with your soul, with your spirit, with your mind.

Open to receive to All-That-Is. To Mother Father Earth and Sky. Your heart is open. And you have before you the desert sand in which to write an image. An image that you are waiting to receive.

This image will be given to you in a very specific way by a very specific messenger. But it is not there yet. You may see a foreshadow of this image, but it is not there yet. So wait. Just wait.

And allow yourself to know the one thing, the most important thing you need to know about receiving this image. And that is that when this image, when this symbol, is finally presented to you, you will write it down in the sand before you. On your piece of paper, which will be the sand before you. You will write it down.

Doesn’t matter whether fast or slow. But when you write it down, you will make it a deliberate action. Not just a haphazard action with no thought. All of your senses, all of your being, whether this is recorded quickly or slowly, everything about you will be focused into the doing of this thing.

The recording of this symbol as a deliberate action of choice. That is the only important thing you need to know. And the only thing you will do.

As you sit and you wait, you observe the sun setting below the mesa. Streaking the desert with gold and ruby red. Streaking what clouds there may be with crimson fire.

Seeing the sky go from bright crystal blue to deep, deep, deep azure velvet. Bright and clear. But deep, deep as the sea. As if the sea, the ocean, were above your heads. Stretching to infinity. And all around you, horizon to horizon, 360 degrees open and expansive. Ready to receive. And receive.

Begin to feel a tingling. A touching. Something intangible passing over you, through you.

Like a wind. Like a warm desert sigh. It breathes with you. You feel your breathing and the desert begins to breathe with you.

And you know there is something else here. Someone else with you. A huge, enormous presence. Invisible but enormous. Breathing all around you.

And it begins to coalesce, to congeal, to crystallize in light before you. Bit by bit. Thickening. Glowing. Standing.

An enormous image of the Kachina energy standing before you. As an aspect, a reflection of the infinite. All of nature embodied in this one bright, colorful form.

Towering before you. Standing with its feet, its energy feet, planted in the desert rock, and its head scraping the sky above. Brilliant in its color and energy. Standing before you.

And it reaches up to the sky with its arms. Stretches around and hands to you. Opens its hands.

And there you see a symbol. A swirl. A pattern. A spiral. Whatever it may be. It shows the symbol of your very consciousness to you.

And you watch that symbol. Look at that symbol. Its shape. Its form. Its color. Its size. Its configuration.

This is the symbol that represents the center of your being. Your ability at any moment, in any shape, way, and form, at any place and any time, when you feel you might be in any pattern, to see this symbol, will to bring you back to the patternless void. The center of your being.

To unlock you from all patterns into the limbo of existence. Sheer presence of self.

And now, in a deliberate act of choice, you accept and receive this gift of this shape, this symbol, this form, whatever it may be for you. And you write it down.

Now. A clear and deliberate action with a beginning and an end. This is your symbol. The symbol of centeredness. The symbol of unlocking. This is your key connection to nature and the peace of your soul.

Thank the being. Thank the presence. And feel the eternal gratitude that comes from knowing you are connected to All-That-Is and that you are at one with the infinite. Gratitude and unconditional love.

Let the presence go. Let it dissolve and expand back into the desert scenario. And you are once again by yourself. And it is now night time on the desert. The moon is bright. The stars are sharp and clear.

You are under the veil of night. At one both with the light and the dark. The day and the night. Within the soul of your center. The center of your soul.

Hold the symbol now to your heart. Pick it up and hold it to your heart. See. Feel the love that vibrates within that symbol. Within that sign. Within that communication from All-That-Is to you.

It is the mark of your uniqueness. The treasure of your being. Your key. Your guide. It is your contract of living the life that you choose to live.

Take a deep breath in and feel your heart beating with the peace of the desert. The expansiveness of the desert. And feel and know that you are living a living dream. A dream of eternal life and light. And light.

And now open your eyes. Or wake up. Or let yourself have the ability to look at that symbol. Look upon it and see the mirror that is there. Use this symbol anytime you wish to center yourself immediately and feel yourself back in that warm, supportive wind. The wind of unconditional love of All-That-Is.

And now take your symbol and take your seats. Any seats at all. Give yourself an opportunity to stand and stretch if you wish.

Technique 4: The Electronic Being

Adopt a completely different posture for the second technique. The technique of being electronic. Sit in your chairs ever so straight and true, with your hands upon your knees, as an Egyptian statue. Eternal and unmoving. Straight and true. Serene in your beingness. At ease. Relaxed yet eternal. No stamina required. Just peace and clarity.

And now the second technique. All of you know in this day and age upon your planet, with your technology, the idea of encoding and recording things magnetically. This is where the concept of programming comes in. You can look at yourself as a magnetic being, encoded and recorded with different ideas and beliefs, patterns, lines, strips of magnetism that point in certain directions and mean certain things to you. It is these lines that you wish to erase and redirect. And just as you know that placing a very strong magnet next to a recording of magnetic tape will erase that tape, so now in your imagination, close your eyes and see your body as this magnetic tape. All the beliefs, all the ideas, all the patterns, all the habits, all the rituals are lines of magnetism moving through you like a printed circuit board. Pathways tracing and retracing, tracing and retracing over and over again. All the habits. All the things that no longer serve you. All the rituals you no longer need.

And now imagine above your heads a bright, shining, electromagnetic blue disc of light radiating above you. And see this disc.

Now feel this disc pulsing above your head like a halo of bright blue electromagnetic light. Here is it humming. Hear it vibrating. A powerful magnetic source. A doorway. An opening to another dimension. A pure, absolutely pure magnetic light.

And feel the disc descend upon you. As your body moves through the disc as it comes down, passing through you. Your head passing through it. Wiping clean all the way from top to bottom. All the way down to your feet. Wiping clean all the old patterns.

Feel your temperature change. Feel the dizziness. The giddiness of being a pure and absolute one vibration. One pulse. No differentiation.

All the way down to your feet and all the way back up again. Oh, the dizziness. Oh, the giddiness. Oh, the clarity. Oh, the purity.

Feel the cold sweat of change glisten on your skin. The expulsion and the purging and the rearranging of old ideas evaporating with the wind that passes by your skin, carrying off the old ideas away forever. Away.

Leaving you one crystal clear idea. One pure electromagnetic moment.

Now breathe. Just breathe. Deeply. Deeply. Cleanly. Clearly.

See the entire world become green. Green with life expanding outward from the very center of your being. Infusing freshness and vitality. Newness. Spontaneity. Synchronicity. Moment by moment.

Ever spiraling outward. Always coming back new. New. Giddy with freshness and creation. You’re at the moment of initial creation. And everything is possible. And everything shall be what you choose it to be. Choice. Not pattern. Choice. Not habit. Choice. Not doubt, fear, or denial. Only choice. New choice. Eternal choice. Forever and ever. Choices. So choose the you you prefer to be. Now. Now. Now. Forever.

The eternal statue in the desert that is forever redefine. Forever built anew. Eternal and always changing. Changing electromagnetically. Absolute and pure. Breathe in. Expel. You are the source of the desert wind. Breathe in. Expel. You are the warm night zephyr. Breathe in. Expel. You are the voice and choice of change. Open your eyes. Stand up and stretch. Shake yourselves out. Reconnect to the earth. You are reborn electronically. Electromagnetically. This second technique is a very quick and strong way to realign every single cell of your physical form. Every single cell feel refreshed and fulfilled with moisture. Water. Water. Alive. Alive. Alive with breath and newness.

Technique 5: The Periscope Perspective

Remain standing for the third technique. This connects you to the higher self but allows you to see from the perspective of the higher self so that you can know that what you call the higher self and the physical self are not separate ideas.

You are one thing. One view. One consciousness.

This meditation you may need to practice. Practice every chance you get.

You will get stronger at it. But this is a most unusual exercise, and you must take care to do this exercise at the right place, at the right time, when you know that you can do it safely and easily. For you will understand that this exercise is done with your eyes wide open. This meditation is with your eyes wide open.

Now here is what we wish you to do. Just look around you at the room you are in. Just look. Slowly. Open your eyes very, very, very wide. And when you look at something, really look at it as if for the very first time. Just look. Now here is the part that you will practice and get stronger at day by day. You are now going to move your point of view upward from the physical body to the point of view of the higher self by doing it in the following way.

Imagine that while you are a physical consciousness—we are not going to ask you to do something that is not natural to you—but while you are used to seeing from the point of view of your physical eyes, I’m going to ask you now to think about this view that you appear to be having from your physical eyes in a very different way.

Think about it now in a very different way. Pretend. Imagine that as you are looking at everything very closely, that your physical eyes are not where you are looking from, but that your physical eyes are mirrors in a periscope.

Normally, when you look through a periscope, you look into mirrors which are angled in such a way that your vision bounces into the mirror and up into other mirrors and then out to look at the scene you wish to see, grabbing the handles of the periscope and looking around to see the reality that you are peering into.

Only now, reverse the entire procedure. You are no longer looking up. You are now looking down from the perspective of the higher self.

Your physical body is the periscope. The other end of the periscope. Whatever you see is not being seen by the physical you. Whatever you see is being seen by the higher, non-physical you through the periscopic mirror of the physical body.

So imagine that the initiation of what you are looking at is happening up there above you. You are looking from up there down through the periscope and seeing it as if your point of view was in the physical body, but that’s just a reflection in the mirror of the body periscope.

Hold this perspective and begin to look around as if you are looking from up there through a tube, through a device. Begin to let yourself feel your consciousness looking from up there.

Some of you may begin to experience a little bit of dizziness or disorientation if you are transferring the point of view properly. If you’re not feeling this, it’s all right. This will take some practice.

But this is the technique you can begin to use day by day to begin to move your perspective into the higher self so that you can function as the higher self and detach and unlock yourself a little bit from the physical reality, to see it only as a reflection through the periscope of the physical form, and to see it therefore as if you are exploring that reality for the very, very first time.

As if you have just stuck your periscope down into the different dense layers of physical reality for the very first time and start moving it around. Grab the handles as the higher self and move it around and see the reflection of that physical reality. Oh, how interesting. Look at that.

Your eyes are wide with wonderment. You have never seen these things before. This is the very first time you are exploring this realm down there. Just look around.

Do this for about 10 minutes each day, and slowly, bit by bit, you will begin to feel your perspective move up and out of the physical body so that you will begin to feel yourself as more, to expand and stretch your consciousness.

This is in no way, shape, or form to be done at the expense of your physical body or being attached to physical reality. This is for the purpose of allowing yourself to feel yourself to be the expanded being you are. But because of your physical patterns, it may take a strong detachment first before you can balance the perspective of the two. So begin to treat your physical body now as a periscope which you, the feel-you, is looking down and out through. You are no longer in the body. You are looking down and out through the body. Let yourself feel that. Feel it. And remember, a little bit of dizziness, a little disorientation, is all right. It is the appropriate feeling. You won’t always feel it. Not all of you may feel it. But if you do, it’s all right. You may sit your periscopes down.

We do not want you to discount your body and make you feel as if your body is only a puppet, because your body is an expression of your consciousness. It is you. So do not discount it.

But you may also begin to feel, as you improve on this sensation, that your body is actually like a puppet being operated by remote control from the higher self, which in one perspective it is. It is all right to have this feeling, but do not discount nor judge your body to be anything less than the higher perspective that you will get used to seeing the world from.

Remember that it is all one thing. But this technique can really be the true beginning of expanding beyond the whole concept of pattern and habit, because those concepts really only exist in the physical realm you have locked yourselves into for thousands and thousands of years.

You are now beginning with this technique to redefine and dissolve the barriers, dissolve the differences between the vibration of physical reality and the vibration of your non-physical consciousness, and are beginning to see it as truly one endless, unbroken sea of self, of awareness, of beingness.

Conclusion

Take three deep breaths and lock all that we have discussed this day into the very fiber of your being, but in such a way that it is free, free to change at any moment because you choose to change. Also remember, as you breathe and open and listen and receive these gifts, when it comes to habit, when it comes to pattern, when it comes to ritual, when it comes to feeling stuck, when you feel like you’re doing the same thing over and over again, remember: Change is the only thing that is always constant. You will always be changing. You are never the same you. The only reason you would experience what appears to you to be habits and patterns is because you continue to choose to act like the you you used to be. And as we illustrated earlier, when we say use the different persona, act like a different person, we really mean act like a different person. Adopt that different attitude. Adopt the different affectations. Be who you want to be totally. And you will create the new reality that goes with the vibration of the new persona completely. You are always rotating through yourselves. You are whatever you wish to be. You are whatever you imagine yourself to be.

Take and use the gifts that you have allowed us to give you this day. We extend to you our deepest appreciation in being given the gift of being allowed to interact with you, and for always allowing us to experience something new every moment that we interact with your world. You are never boring, and never do we ever feel like we are in a rut when dealing with you. Always exciting are you to us.