Creating Your Reality

We would like to begin this transmission with the following brief ideas to lay a little bit of what you call a foundation or a groundwork for the primary principles that will generally be contained in almost every subject that we will discuss this day of your time.

Self-Valuation: The Foundation

So many of you have heard us talk about certain tools, certain states of being, certain states of mind that will allow you to understand who and what you are as a person, as a being, as a personality a little bit more clearly. For it is in understanding the structure and the nature of yourself as a person and as a being that will allow you to make changes, make shifts in your reality in the manner that you desire, in the manner that you prefer more effortlessly, with the idea of less pain, more joy.

These ideas now are paramount for what you call this age of transition, this age of awareness on your planet, as you have named it, as you have deemed it. And thus we are very happy to help to assist in presenting concepts, tools that are handy, that you can use very easily so that when applying them, you can see the results in yourselves and in your physical reality relatively quickly.

The idea first and foremost, of course, always begins with self-valuation. We understand from our experience with many of you that one of the most difficult things that many of you now have to do on your planet is learn to value yourselves. Because for thousands upon thousands of your years, you have been taught—because you have forgotten your connection to the infinite—you have been taught to think of yourselves as less than worthy, as undeserving, as possessing little or no value.

And without an understanding of your worth, without an understanding of your value, no tool we would share with you will really be effective. Only when you begin to learn and behave and hold true that you are a worthwhile aspect of the infinite, that you are a beautiful, unconditionally loved and supported aspect of creation, and hold yourself in the same value that the creation holds you in—only really then will the tools be effective in the strongest way possible.

This only makes sense, for the tools will only be as strong and as powerful as the energy you give them, because the energy comes from you, through you. Therefore you are the ones that determine the efficacy of the tools. They do not really have the ability to work of and by themselves, because they draw their energy from you, they draw their realization capability from you.

The Three-Part Personality Structure

So let us briefly lay down a little bit as an outline of these ideas so that we will understand when questions come what we are all talking about, and we’ll have something to refer back to as a base point, a baseline.

First and foremost, as we have said: self-valuation. From there comes the understanding of what it means to be a personality structure. Personality structure, very briefly in recap for some of you, in newness for others, is based on three things, three principles. Your personality is an artificial construct—doesn’t mean it isn’t natural, but it is a type of mask that is built or created or fabricated from three ideas: belief systems, emotions, and behavior.

You can understand the analogy of belief systems as being like blueprints of a building. Emotions are the builders—the activation principles and energies that get the building built. The behavior is the building materials—the thoughts and actions that you do.

So you can instantly understand that the nature of the blueprint, the clarity of the design, will determine the ultimate product, and the nature of the builders will determine the quality of the product, and the nature of the building materials will determine the quality of the final building. When those three things are in alignment, you can understand that your reality will reflect the idea of a strong structure, a strong reality that is stable in that way.

But if either your belief blueprint, your emotional builder, or your behavior building materials are somehow lacking or out of balance in the idea of self-worth and self-valuation and are not aligned with the other sides of the three-sided prism, then of course it would be obvious that your building would be, as you would say in your language, a little bit wonky.

So this whole idea is to help clarify what those three components really are all about and how to maintain them and bring them back into balance.

The Four Laws of Creation

Now, it also takes an understanding that physical reality is really just a mirror, and it can only reflect what you put out. There are really only four laws in creation that allow you to experience everything that you experience.

Law Number One: You exist. Can’t do much about that. Now when we talk first of all about laws, we’re not talking about the type of laws that you have on your planet that are in that sense arbitrary rules and regulations that can be broken or changed or rewritten or ignored. The idea is even beyond what many of you call laws of physics, because even some of these are only germane to your particular universal reality, and in other dimensions many of the so-called laws that you have labeled do not really apply. We are talking about real laws because real laws cannot be broken. It is impossible.

And it is these four laws that give structure to all of creation. So as we have said, law number one: you exist. And what that actually means when taken out to its ultimate logical understanding is that if you exist now, you always will, and you always have. Therefore, you may change form, but you will always exist in some way, shape, or form, because is-ness is the only quality that existence has. It does not know how to become non-existence. Non-existence is already full of all the things that will never exist, and there is no room in non-existence for that which does exist. That which exists only has one quality: to be. And thus that is the only thing it will always be. So if you do exist, you always will. So relax.

Law Number Two: The one is the all, and the all are the one. This simply means that all of the pieces together form the one, and the one is the one but knows itself simultaneously as all the pieces. What this means is that creation is not separate from the Creator but is made of the Creator, and that there is no outside to it. Everything that is—every discrete person, place, thing, every discrete concept, every discrete part—is a part of one same whole. And also holographically, every single part is the whole expressing itself as a part of the whole. So the second law: the one is all, the all are one.

Law Number Three: What you put out is what you get back. Very simple. The energy you give off based on your beliefs, your emotions, your behaviors—the vibrational frequency you give off—is what determines the kind of reality experience you have, because physical reality doesn’t exist except as a reflection of what you strongly believe is true for you. That is all physical reality is. It is literally like a mirror.

If you are looking in a mirror and you see your face with a frown on it, you know that you don’t go over to the mirror and try to force the reflection to smile. You know that if you want to see the reflection smile, you must smile first. There is no way to change the reflection without you smiling first. But you can also conversely understand that when you decide to smile, the reflection has no choice but to return the smile, because it doesn’t have a mind of its own.

So the idea to understand is that physical reality very much is really like a mirror. It will not change until you do first, but if you do, it has no choice but to follow suit because it is only a reflection of what you have put out.

Law Number Four: Change is the only constant. And everything changes except the first three laws. That is it—1, 2, 3, 4. That’s it. Every experience you have ever had, are having now, or will ever have, is based on a combination of these four laws to varying degrees.

Motivation and Definitions

Now the idea to understand again is that when you allow yourself to make choices, then your choices are based on your motivation, and your motivation is based on your definitions. This is the other way to explain the three-part process: your behavior—your choices—are based on your motivations—your emotions—which stem from your definitions, which are your beliefs.

So anytime you are making a choice, it is always because you have been motivated to make that choice. Motivation only has two parts to it—this is all there is to motivation: you will always, in every single case, always choose what you perceive to be the choice that is closest to pleasure and furthest from pain. That’s it. That is your entire motivational force.

But notice I said “you will choose what you perceive to be closest to pleasure and furthest from pain,” and that’s where definitions come in. Because only as you define what you believe to be pleasurable or painful will you then be motivated to make choices in accordance to that belief.

So many times you may choose things that on one level you could say seem to be detrimental or destructive to you, but if you keep choosing it, that simply means that you must have a definition in your belief system somewhere that says that regardless of how painful it is to keep choosing that, you are somehow defining it as being less painful than making any other choice. That’s why it is so powerful to get in touch with what your belief systems are, because when you find out why you may be defining something as pleasurable or painful and you change the definition, you will instantly change your motivation, and you will instantly change the choices that you make.

Because you’re all motivated people. None of you lack motivation, none of you lack trust—it’s just a matter of where you are placing your trust and what definition you are motivated to act upon. That’s all there is to it.

This is how you simplify the things in your life, by understanding them from the base on up—from definition through motivation through choice; from belief through emotion through behavior. That’s all there is to it, really.

Surrender and Knowingness

The final thing that we will be including in this toolkit is the idea that we have begun to talk about now recently, that is above and beyond the idea of belief, and that is simple knowingness, which comes from the idea of surrender, letting go.

Now again, we understand that in many of the definitions many of you have on your planet regarding this word “surrender,” many of you will label this as a loss of some sort or a lack of control of some sort, and this is not the case. Surrender, if we may provide our definition, is the letting go of the concept of who you think you’re supposed to be and actually being who you are.

Because who you are is unlimited possibilities, and when you allow yourself to surrender to the idea and the experience that you were created in the image of the infinite—which means you are infinite possibilities too—then the physical reality, which is only a mirror, can then reflect those unlimited possibilities back to you in the synchronicities as they naturally unfold in your physical day-to-day life.

So surrender is actually acceptance of your total self, not in that sense the forsaking of your total self as many of you have been led to believe through the definitions that your world has provided you with that only serve to limit you. And this is what we want to share with you and what we suggest you learn to give up: those limitations.

Following Your Joy

So that is really what we are going to be discussing in all of these interactions—variations of those principles. It will usually all come down to that idea, and of course it will usually also come down to one other principle that is all wrapped up in this, and that has to do with being your natural true self, which in many cases is simply another way of saying follow your joy, follow your excitement to the best of your ability.

Because the sensation that you call joy, the sensation that you call excitement, the sensation that you call unconditional love, is the frequency of energy that represents your natural true core original self. So when you are acting on circumstances and opportunities that bring with them the highest level of this joy, the highest level of excitement, you are saying you have the faith to take the steps to act upon your true self. And in so doing, your physical reality—the mirror—will support you because it has no choice but to do so.

These are the principles that comprise the toolkit of manifestation and change, and that’s really all there is to it. You will see as we discuss the ideas that you wish to share this day of your time that almost everything you have to share will come down in one way, shape, or form to these ideas—if they have to do with the idea of your own personal growth and your own personal life and the expression of who and what you are.

QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION

Question 1: The Y2K Millennium Bug

Frank: My question is the computer millennium bug. What are the events that will affect the United States, in Denver, Colorado and the world? Will the stock market fall at this time?

Bashar: No, it will not “sack.”

However, you will find that some systems will begin to crash, but not necessarily as many as you think.

However, in certain circumstances and in certain circles, as we perceive the energy now, it will cause the beginning of a cascade collapse over time that will allow for an introduction of new systems, new ideas.

The mainframe structure is no longer capable of supporting itself under its own weight.

It will allow for the opening and introduction, through opportunistic time frames, of new ideas, new systems, new endeavors, new approaches that, when they are then put into place, will begin to lay the foundations for more communication, more personal self-empowerment, and so forth.

This entire process will most likely take about 7 to 10 of your years. By then, you will see the most rapid changes in the infrastructure of economics, communication, and so forth.

There is no such thing as a prediction of the future. There is only a sensing of the energy that exists at the time the prediction is made, because there is only the present.

If the energy that is sensed at the time the so-called prediction is made does not change, then it will come to pass, but if it does change, it will not. It does not mean that the prediction was not true; it simply means that the energy has changed.

Many times, the existence of a prediction itself will change the energy because now it has made you aware of where the energy is, and if you don’t prefer it to be there, then your consciousness changes the direction of the energy and renders the prediction obsolete.

So in many ways, sometimes a good prediction is doing its job when it renders itself unpredictable.

This is how time works. There is no such thing as a fixed future. There is the energy that exists at the time the sensing is made, because there are an unlimited number of probable future realities, and it could go in any number of ways.

Yes, there are some probable future realities that have a great deal of momentum and energy behind them and may be unlikely to shift, and those are in a sense easiest to sense and quote-unquote “predict,” but nevertheless it is created in the moment and sensed in the moment. Barring certain circumstances where there simply is too much matter agreement for something to change, it is almost always changeable.

Each and every one of you together are your government.

To allow yourself to make sure you are not perpetuating division by creating an “us and them” scenario, but by allowing yourself to work toward the creation of systems that you believe are representative of self-empowerment, sharing, communication, clarity, creativity, unconditional love, and support of all.

By instilling those systems and infusing your society with those systems to the best of your ability, they will eventually replace any system that is outdated, that tries to control, that tries to dominate.

Because ultimately, by definition, such a system will ultimately not be able to stand up under its own weight. And as it begins to crumble a bit at a time—a little glitch here and a little glitch there—then the new systems will already be in place and will be capable of sprouting up very rapidly to form a network that will take over the job and in a sense provide a little bit more equality.

Audience Member: The stock market was a big concern of mine.

Bashar: What is it you’re actually putting stock in? I would suggest you put stock in yourselves rather than some relatively arbitrary system.

Audience Member: I’m concerned about the effect of the stock market—what it’ll do.

Bashar: You don’t have to be concerned. If new systems are in place by people who are excited and creative to put them there, then when the other system collapses, it won’t matter. For those that have prepared themselves will not feel a negative effect.

All situations are fundamentally neutral. No situation has built-in meaning. The meaning you put into it determines the effect you get out of it, regardless of what anyone else’s intention happens to be.

Audience Member: Yeah, I’d like to get an idea of a date of a stock market crash.

Bashar: Why? I have already told you about the fact that there is no such thing as a prediction of the future, you still want me to give you one?

Audience Member: A guess, ballpark figure.

Bashar: Well, which ballpark are we talking about?

Audience Member: The one that they’re playing the stock market in.

Bashar: I see. January 7th, 2005.

Asker: That’s one. Could I have the close?

Bashar: The one that is the closest one in the way that you mean it, but it may not happen the way you think it will happen. Put stock in yourself. That is the only thing that will always go up.

What we are talking about is not philosophy but physics. These kinds of statements—to put stock on yourself—are statements of absolute fact and mechanistic realism. They are not simply cute catchphrases.

We mean this from our heart of hearts: you are the determiner of your realities. When you put stock in yourself, you will understand that no arbitrary system can really reflect what it is you deem is going to be true for you.

Audience Member: I’ve heard different reports on whether or not we have reached critical mass.

Bashar: In some senses, yes you have.

Audience Member: Could you give a very clear definition of critical mass?

Bashar: The idea of critical mass is to simply understand when there is a sufficient amount of individuals within the whole collective consciousness of any given reality system that changes its agreement in another direction, that will determine the general path then of the whole. Do you follow?

You have already gone beyond the necessary critical mass, and now in a sense you are simply building up a certain kind of momentum. There are still thresholds to cross within the overall bubble of the critical mass you have built up, but in many ways you have created enough critical mass to allow yourselves to understand that you are taking back your power.

Were it not so that you have reached this critical mass, in all probability we would not be having this discussion because your world would not be ready for the idea of the expansion of consciousness that all of you are exploring—not just because of us but because of yourselves. That is an indication that you have reached the critical mass—that spiritual issues and issues of consciousness are now in your daily language, that you are beginning to hear it in different forms and different ways, that you all know what you’re talking about in that sense, and that you hear others talking about it. Are signs and symptoms of the fact that you have reached critical mass in that context.

Physical Symptoms and Following Joy

Audience Member: My head just sort of rings all the time, and I have a pain in my neck. I just wondered what’s going on.

Bashar: You do not get rid of things; you transform them. Are you following your highest joy?

Audience Member: Well, what is my highest joy?

Bashar: You tell me. I can give you some hints and some clues.

Audience Member: I’d appreciate that.

Bashar: Your highest joy—and this goes generally first of all for all of you—is to be yourself as best as you know how. Following and acting on your highest joy does not have to be a big mystery, does not have to be a complicated issue, does not have to necessarily represent itself as a lifelong career or project. Start simple with simple steps.

If you have no overwhelming project or career in mind or anything of that nature, then start moment to moment. Following your highest joy then entails nothing more than this: are you paying attention? Yes? All right, just checking.

At every given moment, you have available to you a number of options of things you could choose to do, don’t you? All you have to do is pick the one that has the highest level of excitement in it and do it to the best of your ability. That’s all you have to do. And in the next moment, take another assessment: what out of all the options available to me right now is the option, the opportunity, the situation, the circumstance, and the direction that contains the highest amount of excitement and joy? And when you have determined what that is, take whatever action you are capable of taking on it as far as you can take it to the best of your ability. And when you can take it no farther, again ask yourself: out of all the options available to me now, what is the direction that contains the highest joy? And when you find out what that is, take that action to the best of your ability. And keep doing that for the rest of your life.

Because excitement is the thread that leads you to all other excitement. That is the energy that leads you to yourself.

Regardless—important, important, important—regardless of how it looks, regardless of whether you think it’s connected to something you’re supposed to be doing or not, regardless of its outward appearance—because you already know you can’t judge a book by its cover. Excitement is the content that lets you know this thing here now is you. Do it because by doing it, you are making a statement to the universe full of conviction that it is you. And then the universe can support who you actually are, rather than supporting who you’ve been told you have to be.

Bashar: Now one thing you must also understand—sometimes because we know how you have been taught, and this goes for all of you, I’m not just talking to you personally—you must allow yourself to be honest as to whether you’re actually experiencing excitement or anxiety. Because sometimes many of you will go “oh yes, this excites me,” and in fact what you’re actually doing is running away from your excitement, and you’re actually following something out of anxiety. But you all know the difference when you’re honest with yourself, because you know they feel different.

And in actual fact, they are the same energy. Your natural energy is experienced by your body as the sensation you call excitement. When you flow that energy through belief systems that are in alignment with your harmonious natural self, you feel the very same energy as anxiety and fear when you flow your energy through belief systems that are out of tune, out of harmony with your natural self.

And that’s what fear is for: to tell you, “Hey, you’re feeling fear because you are running your energy through belief systems, beliefs that you have, definitions that you have about this situation that are out of alignment with your true harmonious self.” So find out what those definitions are, change them into definitions that you would prefer to have, run your energy through those, and then your relationship with the circumstance will be harmonious and joyful. And you will approach it in a manner that is harmonious and joyful, and in approaching it in that manner, you will get a harmonious and joyful effect out of it.

Is this making some physical sense to you?

Audience Member: Yes, it’s getting a little excitement going.

Bashar: Oh, all right. That’s the whole point.

I also leave you with this understanding—and I understand, we understand, I know sometimes how difficult this concept is for many of you on your planet—but it is that simple. It really is that simple. Now you can make it more complicated if you want; I’m not going to take that away from you because it’s your reality. You all have free will, and we are not here to tell you what to do. If you want to make your life more complicated, please, please go ahead and do so.

Audience Member: Well, I’d prefer not to, if you don’t mind.

Bashar: All right. Well, if you prefer not to, then you must allow yourself to create definitions that allow you to function more simply. So when you find yourself stuck, when you find yourself feeling blocked, understand it’s usually due to a definition you have that is more complicated than it needs to be, out of alignment with your true self. Find out what the definition is that would make you relate or feel the way you do to the situation. Change it into the definition you would prefer to have with your imagination.

Now this is key: know that when you’ve created the new definition, it’s automatically in place. If you want to go through a long involved process to replace the old one, that’s up to you too, but that only complicates things. But if you know it’s automatically replacing the old one, then all you have to do is behave like you know it has replaced the old one, and you will see the effect in your reality.

However—big, underline it, one million times—however, this is critical. One of the most critical things we can say to you about the idea of looking to your reality for change, and that is this: do not look to the reality for the change first. You must simply know you have changed, and you must behave differently toward the reality outside you, even if it looks the same as it did before. When you behave differently, when you behave as if you have changed, regardless of how the reality still may look—that’s when you really have changed, and when your reality can then really reflect the change.

But if you are waiting for the reality to show you that you have changed, then you haven’t changed because you’re simply waiting for the reflection in the mirror to smile first instead of simply smiling first because that’s what you prefer, regardless of whether there’s any mirrors around or not.