The Apprentice The Adept The Alchemist

Ice, Water, And Steam: The Story Of Transformation

Bashar: The idea of this story of transformation, this story of ascension, this analogy if you will, takes account of different states of being that can be, shall we say, represented in a simple analogy by ice, water, and steam.

Ice being The Apprentice. Water being the Adept. Steam being The Alchemist.

Different states of the same material—different frequencies of energy, very different in terms of what they are capable of doing, how they appear, how they are able to interact with reality, but essentially the same material.

As you on your journey allow yourself to go through these stages of apprenticeship and become an Adept, and finally allow yourself to ascend to the vibration, in a sense, of The Alchemist, please understand that it is not about running away from material reality. It is about truly appreciating what each stage has to offer and utilizing it as fully as you can. For there is absolutely nothing that is not spiritual about physical reality. It’s all in how you relate to it. It’s all in how you apply it. It’s all in how you use it.

The Apprentice: Ice

Bashar: The idea of ice—in your apprenticeship, things may seem to be solid, rigid, frozen, static. May not seem to necessarily always be moving at an accelerated rate. Yet if you understand that everything happens in perfect timing, you will allow yourself to truly begin to appreciate the qualities of ice.

Now while it is true that there is an ability to appreciate the qualities of anything, there is also in the sense of the timing an understanding and a sense when it is time to move beyond a certain state—when it is time to ascend, when it is time to increase your frequency, your vibration of energy, and move to and become a different state.

But while you are in a particular state, maximize your ability to truly utilize that state, appreciate that state, apply that state.

For example, even though as we said, while you are in an apprenticeship learning something new, you have the ability to feel that things are not moving fast—like ice, moving slowly, static, frozen, seemingly. There is still movement, but of a different kind.

The analogy of a glacier can be utilized here. For even though a glacier seems to be moving very slowly, it is very powerful. Nothing, in a sense, can stand in its way. It will meander through valleys, carving out valleys, carving out riverbeds, depositing boulders, huge huge amounts of stone, gouging out the land, reshaping the landscape, setting up the foundation for the reality level to come.

So look at ice and the power that it has—even though it may seem to be moving very slowly, the power it has to reshape the reality, to move mountains, to create new riverbeds, new flows, new pathways in life.

Feel that power as you dig deep into the understanding of apprenticeship. For all you are learning in every endeavor that you do that may seem to be new has an innate power to carve out a new landscape, a new reality, a new world for you.

Deeply appreciate that slow movement and its ability to reshape that landscape, for you will know it is only laying out what will be needed in the next state.

The Adept: Water

Bashar: For when you allow yourself to increase the passion within you and provide that heat that will slowly begin to melt that ice into water, you will then begin to appreciate that as you learn to become the Adept, as you learn to flow and not be quite so static, not quite so frozen, you will then feel the trickles going down into those newly carved valleys and riverbeds, into those newly carved lakes.

And you will allow yourself to be able to see, to experience, to appreciate that then all the water that the ice has been now transformed into—filling up those rivers, lakes, and so forth—are now places for new life to form, for life to be nurtured in the streams and the lakes, in those now verdant valleys that are now fed by those streams so they can grow new life in the forests and the flowers and the meadows that surround those beautiful bodies of water, those beautiful babbling brooks, as you say.

And you have become the supporter of the life that would not have a place to go had you not, as ice, as the glacier, carved out those niches for them—created the landscape where those kinds of environments could take hold, where those new systems could grow and spread out from there, and create richness in your life and flow in your life—flowing into the greater sea of your consciousness and providing sustenance for all forms of life that rely upon that ability to flow.

The Alchemist: Steam

Bashar: And thus then, even as you begin to truly appreciate the support that you have created with your flow into water, even when all the ice has melted and you have become the Adept, realize then that as the water in those bodies is again heated by the passion of your being—by your truth, your excitement, by that sun that illuminates your way, your world, your reality, your being—thus then it causes that water to evaporate into vapor, into steam, thus creating the atmosphere around the entire world that supports all forms of life in one way, shape, or form.

Thus then, The Alchemist contains within itself the ability to hold all life, to support all life, all views, all realities, all experiences within its being, within its envelope, within its bubble, within its atmosphere.

Thus then, you have expanded to a new level of reality, a new level of expression, a new level of being of a very high frequency—flitting to and fro as the winds, moving, nurturing, bringing, exchanging nutrients from one area to another, seeds from one area to another, allowing new life to travel great distances within the atmosphere of your alchemy.

Bashar: Thus understand that no matter where you are in life with any particular endeavor—be it what seems to be the ice, the glacial flow in that sense of The Apprentice; the greater flow of the Adept; or the free flow of The Alchemist and the winds—there is an opportunity to truly examine, truly investigate, truly invest in, and truly appreciate each of those levels.

And don’t be in a hurry to go from one to the other. For each must have its timing in order to provide the proper foundation for the next.

For without that glacier, there’s no place for the water. And without that water, there is no atmosphere. And without that atmosphere, there is no life and no cycles.

Allow yourself to truly live in each moment fully, fully appreciating why it is there, fully appreciating that learning process. And allow yourself through the process of your ascension, through the process of your expansion of energy, through the raising of your frequency in all endeavors that you undertake that are representative of your joy, your passion, and your excitement.

The Nine Powers

Bashar: Exercise what we will call the nine powers of your physical reality experience. Look to these powers. Utilize these powers.

They are:

The power to perceive The power to choose The power to act The power to experience The power to reflect The power to learn The power to grow The power to transcend

And perhaps, in a sense for your physical reality experience, in some ways the most mysterious and powerful power of all—

The power to forget.

To have a clean slate, to start a new, so that you will have the experience of discovery in the utilization of these powers that exist within you, that create your physical reality experience.

THE CYCLE OF THE POWERS

Bashar: Once again:

The power to perceive. The power to choose what it is from what you are perceiving that represents what you prefer—your passion, your excitement. The power to act on that excitement, to act on that passion, to ground that energy to the Earth, to anchor it to physical reality, to create. The power of your experience from that action. And from that experience, to reflect upon what you have created. And from that reflection, to learn. And from that learning, to reinvent yourself, to grow. And from that growth, to transcend—to see from a new perspective, a new idea, for new choices, new actions, new experiences, new reflections, new learnings, new teachings.

And then, in a sense, while you have allowed that experience to transform you, to allow you to transcend to the level of The Alchemist in that endeavor—the power to forget, in a sense, to go through the experience of experience, the experience of discovery, the experience of creation again and again and again and again and again—going from apprenticeship to Adept to Alchemist again in every new undertaking that seems fresh to you.

That is a great power—the ability to make something seem like it’s the first time. Because everything exists already. Everything exists all at once. And the power to not know that is a great gift—a gift that allows you to experience creation as if for the very first time and allows you to always feel new in the now moment and live in the present like it’s never happened before.

Which from your perspective, it has not. For even though the structure exists—always has and always will—your perspective of it, your experience of it, your point of view of it, your unique interpretation of that structure is brand new every time.

Every different perspective you have that uplifts you through those different stages—from ice through water to steam—every single one of those experiences adds to the greatness of All-That-Is, adds to its experience of itself.

APPRECIATE ALL STAGES

Bashar: Appreciate fully the ability to be an apprentice—to not know where you’re going, to welcome the unexpected surprise. Appreciate the experience of the Adept, that knows that life is all about the unexpected, all about timing, all about the freedom to choose. Appreciate the Alchemist, that is transformation itself—so that you can learn, grow, and transcend to another level that will allow you from that level to cycle into something new, and that you can continue to experience new things forever and ever and ever and ever without end.

For there is no beginning to end. There is only now. There are only different points of now, different perspectives of now. It’s the same now—just a different point of view of it.

And the ability to relish and cherish those seemingly new experiences, those new perspectives, is a great gift. Use that power fully—the power to be new.

Q&A SESSION

The Confusion of Truth

Asker: Bashar, and to you good day. Speak up and be bold so that all may hear what you have to share. I will. I’m not even nervous—I’m really—congratulations that I’m not even nervous up here.

Bashar: There is no need to be nervous, unless of course you are passionate about being nervous. But if you prefer, you can simply be excited, or at peace, which is another form of excitement.

Asker: Yes, I’m very excited to talk to you. And as are we with you. My question for you, Bashar, is: I’ve been on the spiritual path for a long time—done a lot of teachings, met a lot of teachers. Non-dualism, Course of Miracles, manifestation, breath work, all kinds of stuff, Law of Attraction—all sorts of permission slips. And I get so confused about what’s the truth, what’s the highest teaching.

Bashar: All truths are true. That’s the highest truth—that all truths are true.

Understand, there is nothing outside of creation. There is nothing outside of the imagination of the Creator. So anything—anything you can imagine, and anything you can create, and anything you can do, and anything you can experience—is your truth within creation, because there is nothing outside of creation. That’s the truth.

Does that make sense? Your perspective is your truth. It may not be everyone’s truth—their truth may not be your truth—but the fundamental truth that is true for both of you is that both of your truths are true for you. Make sense? That’s the glory of the holographic structure of existence.

The most fantastic and amazing thing about existence is that every single one of you have your own reality experience, and that for you that reality is your truth. And the same can be said for everyone.

Life Eats Life and Veganism

Asker: Very excited here talking with you. All right, we are excited as well—of course we’re always excited—but go ahead. Okay, please tell me: why does life eat life? To live.

Let me be a little bit more specific. I was vegan to live longer—to live longer now. But it doesn’t always seem like the most spiritual thing to do.

Bashar: Depends on your point of view. There is nothing wrong with the idea. It depends on how it’s done. It depends on the relationship to the idea. It doesn’t always exist that way. It doesn’t always express itself that way. On our world, there is no predation—there is only symbiosis. On your world, many of the animals are predatory because you are. Understand the reflection.

There’s nothing necessarily wrong with it. However, it is a reflection. Now again, fundamentally it is one of the ways that creation has of expressing itself, of exchanging energy in that sense. Again, it depends on how it’s done. It depends on the relationship.

For many beings in that sense in a natural state that are, as you say, eaten, you must understand that the experience for them is not what you necessarily think it is. They understand and are very deeply in touch with the fact that they do not end, and they are very deeply connected to the overall oversoul of the collective consciousness of their kind of expression.

Asker: Does that make sense? It does. Let me be a little bit more specific—by all means. Very quickly: ten years ago I became vegan out of choice because I decided out of compassion I did not want to eat the animals.

Bashar: That’s all well and good, and many areas of research convinced me. All right, well, you’re still eating the plants. Yes. Well, they have feelings too, you know. More plants—yes, plant might be going: “Why is she picking on us? Why don’t you go and eat that nice animal over there and let us grow a little more?”

Now you understand I’m just playing with you. Yes, I do. All right. But attempting to just give you a different perspective on this.

Asker: I was dismayed that after ten years my health went downhill dramatically—digestive, adrenal, and my husband’s as well. And then when I started eating meat again, I’m feeling better and these things are getting better.

Bashar: This is why we say you must listen to your body consciousness. Because you may still be in an apprenticeship state that requires a certain form of sustenance. There is nothing wrong with that. It’s all about how you do it. It’s all about the relationship. It’s all about being in gratitude and appreciation for the exchange that is given to you. And the idea of doing it in the most natural healthy way possible. But it doesn’t mean that it’s fundamentally non-spiritual just because that’s the way it plays out.

There are many cultures on your planet that are generally considered indigenous cultures that still eat meat that have an extremely spiritual relationship with the animals that they ingest. And the animals know this, and they give themselves—give of themselves—to those people for that exchange.

Many times, as you say in nature, the idea is that the herd is culled of the weaker members so that the rest can remain strong, so that the race can perpetuate. There are many reasons why this is a particular system on certain worlds, including yours. There is nothing non-spiritual about it.

The non-spiritual, in a sense, comes about when it is done in a manner that is not necessarily as natural as it could be, not necessarily as steeped in the vibration of gratitude and appreciation as it could be.

Asker: Make sense? It does. I’m still digging for something deeper, though.

Bashar: All right, let’s dig. Why is it healthier to eat animals than to not eat animals?

Asker: As this has been…

Bashar: Because your body is in a state where it requires that kind of protein in order for cellular cohesiveness. Because your belief system at this point, being that it is still strongly connected to the general consensus reality of what kind of chemistry you need to reflect in order to survive in your reality, requires that certain chemical interactions take place in your body that are representative of certain energetic reactions. And thus then, sometimes you still require certain chemical reactions to be representative of the energetic state that you still may be in, as you have agreed to be part of the collective consensus reality at this point.

Did that make sense? Yes. Are you sure? Was that deep enough? No. All right. What else do you need to know?

Asker: Why must we consume—I mean, I look at the animal and I don’t want to eat the animal, I want to cuddle with it. You want to be friends with it. You know? Why must I consume it to be healthy? It’s a little heartbreaking actually making that choice again.

Bashar: All right. Because I didn’t want to must. Okay. Ultimately, it’s not a must. However, what you need to examine is: why are you choosing to be in a state where that seems necessary for you at this point?

Asker: Why have I chosen to be?

Bashar: Yes. Obviously it was a choice to be in a state where you would require that kind of sustenance. So even though you may have what you call a desire to subsist on a different kind of sustenance—a lighter vibration sustenance—you yourself are saying that you find that you don’t feel healthy when you do that. So why are you choosing to buy into the consensus reality that you need the sustenance you say you don’t prefer?

Asker: Well, it took ten years to get me to that point again.

Bashar: I was saying, but why are you choosing that? Science doesn’t—science is reflective of your energy state. Science is reflective of your energy state. Chemistry is reflective of your energy state. And your energy state is reflective of your belief system.

Asker: So does that mean it’s not necessarily so that I would feel bad not eating meat, or vice versa?

Bashar: It’s not necessarily so. So there’s no specific way to be healthy—to eat or to not eat animal? No. But if you have chosen to be in a system that generally believes that it is necessary, and you’re continuing to buy into that system for one reason or another, then you will exhibit the parameters of the consensus reality that says you need this kind of sustenance in order to be healthy.

So what you need to do is examine your beliefs more deeply to find out why you would be continuing to buy into that system. It may actually be serving you in a way that you’re not in touch with, and that’s why it’s important to get in touch with your belief systems about it—because you may not be allowing there to be a positive reason for it.

Once you allow there to possibly be a positive reason to continue to eat the meat, then if there really does not need to be a need, only by examining the willingness to allow there to be a possible reason will you actually discover whether there actually is or not. But if you refuse to believe that there could be, you will never get close to discovering what the belief is.

Because you have to allow for duality. There is duality in everything. In fact, actually—and we’ll talk about this another time—there is actually Trinity in everything. But that’s another subject.

In terms of the idea of the so-called polarity that you are experiencing, you have to allow what may not necessarily be your preference to still be valid in order to actually be capable of choosing what you prefer. If you invalidate what you don’t prefer, that’s where you’re stuck, because you’re putting undue energy on it being wrong, being bad, being invalid.

But if you allow it to be valid—it’s an equally valid choice as any choice you could make—then you will neutralize the idea of the polarity and you’ll be free to choose what you really prefer.

So this is your lesson in dealing with this—is to not invalidate what you don’t prefer, to see that it actually does have the ability to serve a positive purpose, even though you may not right now be capable of understanding how that could be.

So that’s your exploration. You understand? Yes. Is that deep enough for you? It is.

Asker: I have one additional question as far as that relates, and I think it relates to a lot of core sponsoring beliefs. I would like to know what these beliefs are that have manifested this situation. And I have asked and meditated about it, but it hasn’t come to me yet.

Bashar: I can think of many. I just told you—but which one? I just told you. You are believing that certain beliefs are invalid. Yes. You understand? Yes.

You’re making a value judgment on something that simply needs to be looked at in a neutral way, and perhaps even in a positive way. Are you, in your belief system, capable of looking at the idea that sometimes life eats life in a positive way? Are you capable of seeing it from that perspective? That’s the question that you need to explore, and that will lead you to the belief—the core belief—that you need to discover.

Education System and Sound

Asker: What do you wish to share? I have information. I am from Blue Planet.

Bashar: You are from Earth. You have connections to other places—as all of you do—but you don’t come from those places as the person you are on Earth. You come from Earth. And I do. You understand what we’re saying? Yes, sure.

Asker: I have a mission to change the education system on our planet.

Bashar: Well, go right ahead. We have long talked about the idea that new educational systems on your planet are required for the children to learn in a different way. So by all means, follow your passion and create new systems for learning.

Asker: When I was inside the pyramid in Giza, I received information that our Throat is the flying vehicle and we can use to change our reality and multi-dimension fly by using—but you have to change your belief systems and change your reality before you have the ability to access those things, because they exist in another dimensional plane.

Bashar: Sound is a key to change the education system on the whole planet.

Bashar: All things are about vibration and resonance. In what you call Atlantean times, sound was used in a very strong way to allow people to learn.

The students were allowed to relax. Drums were beaten at a very specific pace that matched the heartbeat, slowed the heartbeat down. Then the hearts started to match the drums, and the students went into certain kinds of trance states with those vibrations. And then the things that were described to them, they actually were capable of experiencing those things as if they were actually happening. So they learned in that sense through this trance state by vibrational means.

And that’s one thing that you can recreate on your planet at this time with sound if you wish to—although of course there are many other ways as well.

Asker: Please help me with techniques, because I’m searching and searching and listening.

Bashar: Well, I just gave you a technique.

Asker: Yes, and I understand we have put in each school in the world on our planet music at the first lessons. The most important lessons is because sound is a creator, and we are creators because we have this sound and we have this gift, and we can connect by sound, by vibration. And our children—they know how to do this. The crystal children, the Indigo—and we have to just listen to them and we have to open up our ears, we able to listen more than we receive. And we are all of us—we are just receivers—and we have to open up, just switch on.

Bashar: What have we been saying for 30 of your years? Yes. All of that is what we have been saying, and many other sources have been saying. But it’s not enough to just say it—go do it. Go create those systems. Go create those classes. Go create those techniques. You already know what to do—go do it. Yes. Take action. Yes.

Asker: Sacred geometry inside the sound—this is our mathematics.

Bashar: And now stop. Go do it. We understand all this. Yes. Stop talking about it. Go do it. Yes. All right. All right. Thank you.

Asker: I’m preparing a project and I’m—do you have a question? Yes. I’m from Moscow, from Russia. And a question: how I can connect all languages because there is other continents—Russian and Turkish, I speak—

Bashar: Stop. Do you understand what telepathy is? Yes. Are you sure? Give me a definition. No, no, no—give me a definition of telepathy. We communicate with you now in a telepathic level. Give me a definition of telepathy. Can you describe what is the definition? Maybe I’m wrong about—understand the meaning of definition.

Asker: All right, it’s not really telepathy. It’s telepathy when you are in the same vibrational state as someone else. You’re not reading their mind—you’re not communicating from mind to mind. You’re having the same thoughts at the same time. That’s what telepathy is. That’s why people who are in love often have the same thoughts simultaneously.

So if you want a true universal language, be in love with humanity. Mirror them. Mirror the different individuals’ body language. Mimic the vibration. And you will have the same thoughts at the same time. You will know what they are thinking, what they are feeling. That’s what telepathy is.

So the universal language of telepathy is predicated by being on the same wavelength—which means being in unconditional love. And that will generate over time, slowly or quickly, the universal language of telepathy.

Asker: It means all schools on the planet have to have one lesson the first and most important: how to laugh.

Bashar: Stop. That is the first lesson, and that will lead to all other lessons that need to be known. But don’t rigidize it. Don’t structure it.

There must be a flexibility and a flow to this idea as well—otherwise it just becomes institutionalized again, just like the systems you already have.

Yes, yes, yes. All right. So go and teach that. Use music. Use sound. Use your imagination. Create environments. Let the children learn by doing. Teach them the consequences of their choices by giving them an opportunity to actually interact in scenarios where they can actually play out their questions, play out their investigations. Thus then, they actually get real experience, and they will learn from that experience—which is the only way you really learn: from experiencing something. So go and do that.

Free Energy and Dark Gravity

Asker: When will humanity utilize and implement free energy?

Bashar: Within the next 50 of your years—tops. Could happen sooner, but will not happen any later than that, as we read your collective energy right now. Our reading of that is that it seems that it will take no longer than 50 of your years, but could take sooner, depending on our choices, of course. Yes, of course.

Asker: And when do you feel we’ll be finally off our present monetary system?

Bashar: That may take a little bit longer.

Asker: What would be your suggestions for humanity to initiate to, let’s say, accelerate our choices into a free energy system that we actually do have at present, including radiant free energy?

Bashar: You do remember the formula that we gave earlier in the conversation about acting on your excitement? Yes, yes. Because when you do that, it leads you into the synchronous paths and gives you the ability to imagine what it is that is representative for all these things that you are passionate about, and will lead you into the circumstances that will give you the best opportunity to create these systems.

Asker: Besides inclusive of the passion, what concrete items would you suggest to formulate and implement them as well?

Bashar: Study electromagnetism, electricity, gravity. Your physical reality is a trinity, not a duality.

Matter and antimatter is not the same thing as dark matter. You have a trinity there.

So you’re talking about energy—positive energy and negative energy—but you’re also talking about dark energy. Again, a trinity.

You talk about gravity and anti-gravity. But no one on your planet yet is talking about dark gravity—because it does exist.

That’s your hint.

Abortion, Guilt, and Forgiveness

Asker: I was recently pregnant and faced with a very difficult decision of whether to have an abortion or to keep the child or even to adopt.

Bashar: What was your challenge? What did you decide?

I decided to have an abortion. I felt completely insane as I moved around with these decisions. I have a religious background—Christianity. Oh, yes. And so I talked to a lot of people. I was given a lot of different kind of conflicting information. It caused me to feel really crazy.

How do you feel now?

I feel good, but I still feel a little confused about the decision.

Bashar: What do you want to actually ask?

Asker: I would like to know what happens to a fetus, a child, when it is aborted.

Bashar: The spirit, the soul, cannot really fully connect to the body for 49 days. That is the time at which the pineal gland forms. And once the pineal gland forms, then the idea of the expression of consciousness can come through the body.

Nevertheless, understand that the spirit, that being that was representative of your child, knew what your decision would be and only wanted to stick its toe in the water of physical reality.

Nothing happens by accident. It’s an orchestration. That being still exists, still around you, still loves you, still perfectly viable. Knew that it didn’t necessarily want a full physical life—knew that it might just want to give you an opportunity to go through this process. And so in that sense, chose to help you experience whatever it is you are experiencing in this examination.

All spirits, all beings are eternal, indestructible. You understand? Yes. The idea of physical reality is a temporary construct. That being is perfectly fine.

Asker: I have experienced a long string since I was a child of injury after injury after injury. It seems like once I am healed from one injury, I have another painful experience. So I’m wondering how—

Bashar: Because your belief system is all about beating yourself up—like you’ve been doing about this issue of the abortion. Guilt, guilt, guilt, guilt. Beat yourself up over and over again. Punish yourself, punish yourself. “Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I do not deserve—through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault. I’m not worthy.”

But it doesn’t matter whether or not we forgive you—you need to forgive yourself.

Asker: What is the best form to be able to forgive yourself? Because I feel like I come close to it, or it’s what I strive for, and what holds you back? I don’t know. It’s just—I think that I’m there, and then I have another experience that proves to me that I’m not quite there.

Bashar: It’s like “oh all right.” Maybe you have a belief that you can’t quite get there.

Asker: Okay. What do you think about that? Perhaps. How do I get—or let me put it another way. Let me put it another way. What do you fear will happen if you do get there? Maybe that would be the most revealing question for you.

Can you answer? What are you afraid—what are you terrified will happen if you actually forgave yourself and let go?

Asker: I don’t know.

Bashar: Sure you do. What am I afraid? Yes. What are you afraid of? Well, you want me to give you a hint? Yes. Are you sure? Or would you like to say something first? I don’t want to interrupt.

Asker: It’s kind of like—the closest that I can come to it is like swimming in the ocean. It’s the fear of the unknown, of what’s the depth beneath me.

Bashar: All right, but that’s not really quite it. It’s something a little bit different. Please help.

Bashar: Oh, all right. Since you ask so nicely—this is what it is. Are you ready? Yes.

Who do you think you are—little miss perfect? Are you getting the hint? You’re so much better than everyone else that you shouldn’t feel bad about these things, you shouldn’t feel guilt about these things? Who do you think you are?

What you fear is alienation from those you love. You fear to stand out. Do you understand? Yes. You’re right.

You fear to be taken as egotistical—as “better than thou,” “holier than thou.” You understand? Yes. All right.

Do you think you have the ability to drop that idea? I do. All right. Understand that you deserve happiness—you really do. Because if you didn’t, you wouldn’t exist. I guarantee you.

Bashar: Oh, the challenges of your planet. No wonder we were so astonished when we came upon it.

Playing Cards, Meditation, and the Atacama Mummy

Asker: The first question is: will you speak on the ancient history of the deck of playing cards for us?

Bashar: This actually does go back to Atlantean times and was more akin to what you now understand to be the Tarot deck or something similar to that idea of divination. Back then, it was that which was used as triggers to allow insights to come into the mind, awarenesses to open up. And became simply simplified and symbolized down through the ages into its present form of what you call playing cards. But you still have attached to that idea the concept of what you would call chance and destiny, so on and so forth.

Nevertheless, that’s sort of where it began. Does that make sense? Yes. All right.

Asker: My second question: when I go into a meditative state, I get very peaceful and still. Yes. I get to a point where I exhale and it’s more comfortable not to inhale again—and just breathe, just stay still and not breathe. All right. So I’m worried that I’m doing something incorrectly or harming myself.

Bashar: Oh, believe me, when you need to inhale, you will. I will assume that that happens automatically, since you’re still here speaking with us.

Asker: I feel it’s a gateway to something.

Bashar: I feel it is, but we can’t really go too deeply into it for you at this moment because you’re going through a process. Thank you.

Asker: My last question: two months ago, a disclosure documentary came out revealing a deceased possible extraterrestrial—six-inch-long—what you call the Atacama Desert mummy. Yes.

Bashar: Well, you understand the idea of what has been called the hybridization process from the alien abduction scenario? Yes. And you understand that sometimes the idea is that certain hybridization fetuses are grown for a while in the human mother and then, in a sense, taken and incubated on ships off your planet. Yes, yes.

Well, not all of them are taken all the way. Sometimes those that do not—or have not, in that sense, met certain genetic markers—sometimes, very rarely, are actually left on Earth. They can’t really come to full term, even though they can be born, they usually will not live long.

But what you are seeing in that sense was a genetic alteration of a hybrid child that was left on Earth and could not grow, in a sense, beyond that size, but did live a brief life on your planet.

Bashar: One more thing. When you are in your meditative state and you find yourself exhaling and find it just too much trouble to inhale, I would suggest that you allow yourself to recognize the humor in that situation and laugh—and your breathing will be back on track. Yes, yes. The laughter will take you where you wish to go in your discoveries. All right. Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Discomfort, Responsibility, and the Threshold of Believability

Asker: I’d like to have a conversation about the glacier you spoke about—yes—and the apprenticeship—yes—and how it relates to the discomfort I feel in my body and my system.

Bashar: In what way? Physically, in specific terms. Emotionally, energetically—how I think. Physically and emotionally.

Bashar: Can you be more specific about how the discomfort expresses itself?

Asker: For example, when I was chosen to speak, there’s a lot of discomfort in my system. Where specifically? Solar plexus. Yeah, I think so.

Bashar: That’s the chakra of intention. What are your intentions in life? What do you intend for yourself?

Asker: To travel lightly.

Bashar: Travel lightly—do you mean so as not to disturb anything, or do you mean to be lighter?

Asker: I think yeah, I guess I—but I want to be lighter, you know.

Bashar: You want to be lighter. All right. Well, many times the path to enlightenment is to simply start lightening up on yourself. Are you too hard on yourself?

Asker: Perhaps.

Bashar: Perhaps in this case would probably mean yes. Okay, okay. Are you hedging, holding back? Why—why would I choose to hold back? You tell us. What are you afraid of?

It’s a similar question to what we asked before. If you move fully forward in your joy, what’s the greatest thing you are afraid will happen?

Bashar: You see, many times it may seem difficult for you to understand the idea from the positive side, so we know you can understand it from the negative side. If you have trouble finding out what that belief is, amplify it, magnify it, give it full body, give it full force, give it full voice. What’s the most terrifying thing you’re afraid will happen if you do move in the direction of your joy—if you do become the self you prefer to be?

What are you afraid will happen? Don’t worry, it won’t bite you just by saying it.

Asker: I don’t know.

Bashar: Come on. Yes, you do.

Asker: Maybe it’s the responsibility of—responsibility. All right, well, what’s your definition of responsibility? Obviously not a positive one.

Define responsibility.

Asker: Addressing what’s in front of you.

Bashar: No, no, no. You said that you were afraid of the responsibility. Thus then, how are you defining responsibility as being something to be afraid of? What’s your definition of responsibility? Does it contain the concept of blame? Or is it simply the positive definition, which is simply the ability to respond?

Asker: Yeah, maybe that’s it. I think sometimes I feel like I’ll be overwhelmed by—

Bashar: Why would you be overwhelmed? You see, you have a negative definition of how you receive things. What you’re saying is you don’t trust how your life unfolds. What point would it serve for you to receive more than you’re capable of handling? Does that make sense? Right.

Then why not relax into the understanding that no matter how challenging something may seem, it can’t be more than you can actually handle? The only reason it doesn’t seem like you can handle it is because of the negative definitions that you color the situation with. But if you give them positive meaning and see them in a positive way, you’ll see that you’re capable of handling it and that you haven’t been given any more than you can handle.

Asker: This goes back to your glacier analogy—that the discomfort or the hesitation or the fear of responsibility in some way has been serving me on some level. But maybe now what you’re telling us is it’s time to melt a little.

Bashar: Because you’re getting uncomfortable remaining frozen. Correct. That tells you, as we said initially, that it may be time to change.

Yes. Appreciate the glacier. Appreciate the state of ice. Appreciate the apprenticeship. At the same time, recognize there is an appropriate timing to become the next level.

And do you see the core of that frozenness—that it has to do with blame? Some of it maybe a little bit, and a mix of other things. Blame of myself or blame of others?

Well, you’re just not really sure that you know what you’re doing.

Asker: Why wouldn’t I know what I’m doing? Why would I choose that?

Bashar: You may have simply bought into other people’s belief systems—that when you get to a certain point, as we already said, you won’t be able to handle what you’re given. Same thing is saying “I don’t know what I’m doing.” But you do know what you’re doing. So there’s no reason to assume that whatever point you arrive at and whatever level you allow yourself to go to—there is no reason to assume that you won’t be able to handle it, that you won’t know what you’re doing.

Asker: How does one get to the forgetting stage? It seems so…

Bashar: I forget, right? But it’s so familiar—the hesitation and discomfort—that it seems like that is such a fundamental orientation point.

Every single belief system has a certain structure to it. One of the primary structures in beliefs is the ability of the belief to make it seem as if no other belief is possible. It has to be that way, otherwise you can’t have a full experience of that particular belief.

The only thing that unlocks you from that is the overriding, shall we say, skeleton key belief that all beliefs can be changed.

So as long as you allow yourself the opportunity to experience fully the nature of a belief that says “for this particular experience, no other belief is possible” so that you can experience it fully, as long as you know you will always be able to remember that you can change that belief anytime you want, then in a sense you’re free to experience the idea of forgetfulness because you know you will always remember.

Asker: Is the melting a process? It can be at whatever rate you prefer it to be. Can it be accelerated? Of course it can.

Bashar: And that’s the process that we call the idea of the “Threshold of Believability.”

You can give yourself the threshold of believability test and say: “All right, if there is someone I desire to be with my present belief system, how long do I actually believe it will take me to become that person or experience that reality?”

Let’s just say, arbitrarily, you allow yourself to start way out in the future, so to speak, and say: “Well, 20 years from now—do I really think that 20 years is enough time for me to truly be the person I really prefer to be? Well, yes, that’s a long time. I have no doubt that I can become who I really prefer to be in 20 years.”

“Do I believe I can do it in 10? Yes, that’s long enough.”

“Do I believe I can do it in 5? I’m not sure.”

As soon as you do the countdown, the moment you hesitate to say “yes, absolutely”—the moment there is even a fraction of hesitation—that’s how long it will take with your current belief system.

So now you can examine the belief system: “What would I have to believe is true in order for that process to take that amount of time?”

When you find out what that belief is and realize that that’s not what you prefer, you can let that belief go and then take the test again.

20 years—no problem. 10 years—piece of cake. 5 years—absolutely. No hesitation whatsoever. 3 years—yes. 2 years—maybe.

As soon as you hesitate again, that’s how long that process will take on the current belief system. Go find the belief that makes it take that long. As soon as you have eliminated all those beliefs, transformed all those beliefs, whatever time is left is the time it really needs to take to be to your best benefit, for you to experience the process you really truly need to experience.