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What is time?

Participant: I’ve been curious lately about our evolution—like whether or not it really follows what we would call a linear progression, or whether the lessons that we learn, that our higher self would learn through the individual lives that we experience, could be kind of independent of each other.

Bashar: Yes. There is no time. However, you are still functioning within a physical reality and so accepting time—beginning, middle, end. It is a marvelous creation.

You create your past and future from the present since only the present exists.

You are creating experiences in what you have termed nonlinear fashion. Creating them that way to begin with.

Then if you wish to allow those experiences to be physicalized, they will then be, I’ll say, clunked down within the time frame line as you so see fit with regard to your ideas of cause and effect—beginning, middle, and end.

Participant: I think so. The experiences, in other words, happen of course in a sense simultaneously, but may also in your own understanding through your various levels of consciousness create certain events as you say prior to other events.

Though when you view them physically in time, the later event may appear to be the event which comes before.

Bashar: It is simply the way it fits within the framework you have chosen for this reality. Realize there are other alternate realities in which this is not the case. Some realities experience in a sense time in reverse. Others experience no sense of time at all.

And so they can experience a different form of evolution. Also realize of course there are many different ideas of evolution. All right. You can experience them in any way you wish. You may also individually and en masse alter your collective idea of what your mass past has been. You can and have many, many times changed your idea of your own past discoveries, so to speak.

Discovery in a way allows you to simply realize what you have made manifest from your presence. Realize there have been certain cases in which seeming discoveries of the past have been changed, altered, recognized as not being what they were first recognized to be. There are instances of discovery which you have allowed to be, as you say, in direct contradiction to the usually mass agreed upon idea of cause and effect—of an event coming before it could possibly as you say have occurred.

Does it unlock for you a better sense of the idea that evolution in a sense is best expressed spiritually rather than physically?

Participant: I think that’s right down at the basis of my question though, because it seems—well, what I was wondering is if the apparent could be that you would have one lifetime in which you were strongly manifesting spiritual awareness and then, again you know as we know time, a lifetime that followed in which you weren’t manifesting those awarenesses.

Bashar: you have chosen that as you say dichotomy is still a great manifestation of spiritual awareness, though perhaps not on what you term a conscious level.

QUESTION 3: ASTHMA ATTACK AND HEALING CRISIS

Participant: Question. I had something happen Saturday which really shook me up because I thought it was something that was in the past for me. I went to the Healing Life Center and after I got home I had a very severe asthma attack. And I was wondering, is that was that part of a healing crisis for me, or is there something more beyond that that I need to look at?

Bashar: All right. Now realize first of all that in very many ways it is a very good thing when you allow yourself to be shook up as you say. Shows you are alive. Shows you are growing.

Bashar: Very good. All right. If you allow yourself to expand and encompass the essence of the ideas you are exploring, you will find rather than focusing on what you term surface features—physical symbolic representational ritualistic surface features of these areas and ideas you are exploring—you will find you will be less, as you term, claustrophobic.

The attack, as you say, was in a sense a claustrophobic reaction to the idea of the confinement of the physical symbol which represents the essence of which you were exploring.

Bashar: Every idea is in and of itself an essence of creation. Now you exist here physically as well, and so you will have your symbols. Everything is a symbol. Just as you feel words are symbols for ideas, realize also physical objects are also only symbols. Physical acts are also only symbols. You are beginning to realize that that is so. You are allowing yourself in a way to react to the idea of the physical representation of essence as a confining viewpoint. You are seeing physicality as being claustrophobic with regard to the actual spiritual essence—the kernel as it were, core of the idea.

Asker: are you saying I don’t want to be in my physical body?

Bashar: No. To a point part of that idea is represented, but it is all right. What I am saying is that you are passing through your own barrier. You will usually experience a physical reaction when you pass through barriers you have created within your physical reality. In this sense, the recognition of the confining physical symbol to an idea is represented to you by the idea of being confined—claustrophobic. You will learn very quickly it is the essence you are after, and the essence will allow you to breathe easier.

You will in a way understand the body’s importance, but also the essence’s importance with relation to the physical body and how they are actually one and the same. Again, the illusion of separation—illusion is what you are passing through, and it is a reaction to that illusion.

##BUSINESS STRUGGLES AND SELF-WORTH

Participant: Would you like me to tell you what all seven and a half were?

I’ll give you some background. My business has been struggling for a year as I mentioned last week, and last week I decided to look for another career to support this one in the meantime. And when I did the interview, it completely fell apart. So to continue with my chosen path for the past year.

Bashar: since we were talking about symbol that words are in fact again symbols for ideas—who forced you?

Participant: It what you just said—I am forced to continue.

Bashar: For me, the company failed. Not oh, really? Who forced you?

Participant: The physician was no longer there. I guess I was not the right person.

Bashar: Oh really? Why not? You seem like a right person.

Participant: To right—that is a good idea. A very creative idea. Thank you.

Bashar: Do you suppose if you allowed yourself to have these creative ideas all the time, you would find yourself in the position you desire?

Participant: Yes, really.

Bashar: That was very simple. You’re hired.

All right. Now let us begin the job. What do you imagine you applied for anyway?

Participant: What job?

Bashar: Oh, title.

Participant: All right. We’ll start with a type—marketing.

Bashar: Very good. All right. What would you like to sell to me if I am interviewing you? After all, I want to make sure you can do a good job of selling. Sell me.

Participant: Tell you on the fact that I should be working for you.

Bashar: All right. That is your best product.

Participant: Uh, I feel I’m a very conscientious being. I feel that I could help this company grow and doing what I’ve done, and based on my experiences the last five years.

Bashar: Excuse me. Excuse me. What company is that?

Participant: The company I’m interviewing for.

Bashar: What company is that?

Participant: CV is not a company.

Bashar: What company?

Participant: I don’t—can’t you help to grow the one I’m now interviewing?

Bashar: Yes. Which company do you think that might be?

Participant: The first company that counts—you all.

Bashar: All right. You are your own company. You must sell yourself. But you do not need to sell yourself at this moment to anybody but yourself. You are carrying on within you your own constant interview. And allow me to say, you are constantly turning yourself down. All right.

Somewhere within your collective personality there exists your own, I shall say, boss. What do you imagine that boss must think of you to turn you down so often?

Participant: Why do you suppose?

Bashar: All right. In other words, yourself go into these interviews not feeling your own worth. Is that a fair assumption?

Participant: On a conscious level, I feel most worthy.

Bashar: On a conscious level, all right. But the results are—realize your reality, your results as it were, are a product of more than your what you term conscious realization.

Participant: Do you know that?

Bashar: Yeah.

Bashar: All right. Then allow yourself to feel it as well. What if I may ask you in this interview do you feel is the best possible contribution you could make to your own company to help it grow? What is the first thing that comes to your mind? Do not think about it.

Participant: A complete blank.

Bashar: That is all right. It is at least honest. Very good. Take that blank. Let’s play around with that blank. All right. Blanks are not empty. They contain quite a bit. Just as the vacuum of space is not empty, it contains all possibilities. They are all there.

That little blank as you say contains of wealth, probabilities. It is only blank because it is quiet about them. Close your eyes if you will for a moment.

Now for the moment, simply allow yourself to play. Realize playing is one of the most important things you can do. This is no silly exercise. Playing is a fundamental part of your creatorship and all that you truly create that is long-lasting is created in play, in enjoyment.

How’s that blank doing? Do you see anything popping its head out of the blank? Is it curious about the idea of playing a little bit?

Participant: I got the idea of playing and—now idea toy. Idea toy. I enjoy playing softball.

Bashar: Very good. What else?

Participant: Physical activity. Sport. Acting.

Bashar: While you allow these visions to remain within your mind, ask yourself what occupation or career would be the most fun.

What did he—allow me to ask you, has your conscious mind ever told you that that was something not possible to make a career out of?

Participant: Made decision.

Bashar: All right. Why do you think you did that?

Participant: I guess I—who told you?

Bashar: I always—I enjoy.

Participant: I was.

Bashar: But you love sports. All right. But you have chosen a way to be exposed to that which you loved which would cause you to rebel against that which you love. All right. Very creative lesson. Thirteen years. Lucky number. Time for change perhaps.

Participant: What do you think?

Bashar: I feel very nervous again.

Bashar: All right. That is all right. Now realize I’m not saying that you must go right out and have no other career in mind but sports. No. But you may allow that idea back into your reality as a valid idea. And I will say that in so doing for now, you will ease pressure within all other areas that you are holding yourself back from, that you are rebelling against. Since I cannot play, I will not allow myself any other outlet. Do you follow me?

All right. Allow the play back in as valid. Make it equal to every other opportunity within that little blank. Make all your opportunities equal. In that way, you will allow them to stand on their own clearly within their own identity and make themselves, I’ll say, obvious to you. You have in a way short-circuited your own steering mechanism. You are floundering upon the reefs. Your chart is murky. All right.

Simply get back into the spirit of play. Allow to be valid. You will start to experience more obvious path. You will find yourself becoming attracted as it were to those situations from which you have removed the gag. They will speak up. Step right up, take a number and take their turn telling you how it would be if you were to follow their path. In interview them.

They do not interview you.