Bashar

In 1973, within a single week, a young man from Los Angeles saw the same thing in the sky twice.

It was not a distant point of light. It was a triangular craft, dark and metallic, about thirty feet on each side, with three blue-white lights at the points and an orange-red light in the center. The first time, about one hundred and fifty feet away. The second, only about sixty.

And he was not alone. On both occasions there were witnesses.

His name was Darryl Anka. He was in his early twenties, worked in film, and had no idea that it would change the rest of his life.

It would take ten years.

The special effects man#

Darryl Anka was not a mystic.

He worked in the film industry, in visual and special effects. His life was made of models, cameras and illusions built with his own hands.

After the sightings of 1973, he did what any curious person would do. He went looking. He read, researched, searched for explanations. He found none that fit.

And life went on. Ten years passed with nothing extraordinary.

Ten years later#

In 1983, Darryl was attending a channeling class. Not as someone seeking a gift, but as someone still trying to understand what he had seen a decade before.

It was during one of those classes that he received, in his own mind, a telepathic message.

And, by his own account, three things became clear all at once, without his having to deduce any of them: that the message came from an extraterrestrial consciousness called Bashar, the same one whose craft he had seen in 1973; that he himself, before being born, had agreed to do this work; and that the time to fulfill the agreement was now, if he still wanted to.

Darryl has channeled publicly ever since. That is more than forty years.

Who Bashar says he is#

Here a caution is needed that the previous chapter did not require.

Ra's material has a beginning, a middle and an end: 106 sessions, transcribed, numbered and available to be checked word for word. Bashar's material is not like that. It is four decades of public gatherings, thousands of hours of questions and answers, with no closed canon. This makes the content more accessible and less verifiable at the same time.

With that caveat made, let us turn to what he says of himself.

Bashar claims to be a physical being — not a discarnate spirit — from a civilization called Essassani, which, according to him, lies about five hundred light-years from here, in the direction of Orion. We do not see it because it vibrates in a frequency band that our instruments cannot reach.

And he says something that reorganizes the whole relationship: the Essassani would be our descendants. A hybrid lineage, formed from human genetic material, existing in what he describes as our future.

If this is true, Bashar is not a visitor. He is family.

What is more: he claims that Darryl Anka is one of his past lives. These are not two people talking. It is one consciousness speaking with an earlier version of itself, across time.

You do not need to accept any of this to make use of what follows. Keep it as a claim, not as a fact, and go on.

A very different process#

Compare this with what we saw in the previous chapter and you will understand why channeling is not just one thing.

Carla Rueckert went into deep trance. She left completely. She had no memory at all of what passed through her, and came to know Ra's material only by reading the transcripts, as we do.

Not Darryl. Darryl stays awake.

It is like handing over the wheel: he is still in the car, still sees the road, but someone else is driving. He hears what is being said while it is being said, and remembers afterwards.

There is no chalice, no incense, no white candle. There is no elaborate ritual. There is a man sitting in a chair, before an audience, answering questions for hours.

Two radically different ways of doing the same thing. This should teach us prudence: when someone claims that channeling "works like this", be wary. There are many methods, because there are many ways for one consciousness to touch another.

The Five Laws#

Bashar states that there are only five things that are absolutely true in all of creation. Five, and no more. Everything else is choice, belief or preference.

• You exist. And, existing, you can never cease to exist. Non-existence is not a state to which something that exists can return.
• Everything is here and now. There is no other place and no other time. Past and future are ways of looking at this instant.
• The One is the All, and the All are the One. There is only one thing, and it presents itself as many.
• What you put out is what you get back. Not as punishment, but as reflection. Reality gives back the frequency you sustain.
• Everything changes except the first four laws.

Read the first and the third again, and notice where we have already met them.

"You exist" is the same statement with which we closed the chapter on Ra: You are. And it is the same one with which we ended the chapter Being, in this book: God Is. We Are.

"The One is the All, and the All are the One" is, word for word, what we maintained in Made of God: Creation individually is not the Creator, but Creation as a whole is the Creator.

Ice, water and steam#

Bashar offers an image to explain how we can all be the same thing while being so different from one another. It is simple enough for a child and deep enough to hold up his entire metaphysics.

Think of ice, water and steam.

Three completely distinct substances. One is hard and cold: you can hold it in your hand. Another runs between your fingers. The third is invisible and rises. If you knew no chemistry, you would never suppose they had anything to do with one another.

But they are the same thing. Exactly the same. H₂O, from beginning to end.

What changes is not the substance. It is the frequency of vibration of the molecules. Lower the agitation and you have ice. Raise it and you have water. Raise it further and you have steam.

And here is the point: ice never stopped being water. Not for an instant. It is not a defective water, nor an incomplete water, nor an imperfect water, nor a water that needs to become something else. It is water at a certain vibration.

All of creation, says Bashar, works this way. There is only one substance — call it God, the Infinite Creator, All That Is — and everything that exists is that substance at different frequencies. The stone, the plant, the animal, you, the spirits, the beings we call higher. They are not distinct things. They are distinct vibrations of one single thing.

You are not on your way to becoming divine.

You are ice remembering that it is water.

Notice how this image speaks with the one we have already used in this book, that of the Sun behind the clouds. They are two ways of saying the same thing: what you are has not gone away, has not been damaged and does not need to be conquered. It is there, under another appearance, waiting for the change of state.

The Formula#

As a bonus, I will leave here the practical teaching Bashar offers so that we may live better in our present physical reality.

He sums up all his guidance in three steps, which he calls simply The Formula:

Act on your excitement, to the best of your ability, with absolutely no insistence, assumption or expectation of what the outcome should be.

All three parts matter, and almost everyone forgets the last two.

"Act on your excitement." Excitement, in his vocabulary, is not euphoria or fun. It is the name he gives to that resonance which appears when a possibility aligns with what you truly are. In the words of the material itself: excitement is the physical translation of the vibrational resonance that is your true, core natural being.

That is: what lights you up is not a distraction from your path. It is its compass.

"To the best of your ability." Here the matter stops being a feeling and becomes practice. It is not waiting for the ideal condition, nor the money, nor permission. It is acting now, with what you have, as large as you can. The smallest available action counts.

"With absolutely no insistence, assumption or expectation of what the outcome should be." This is the part that holds up the other two. Demanding a specific result is, in his model, announcing to the universe that you believe it is not yet resolved. And it is precisely that belief that keeps you in the lack you are trying to leave.

Notice that there is effort here: acting, to the best of your ability, every day. What there is not is sacrifice to become someone else, nor deserving to be proved. There is an inversion: instead of chasing what you want, you begin to live as the person who already has it. And reality, which gives back the frequency you sustain, follows.

Beliefs create reality#

Bashar's entire edifice rests on a single statement: you do not experience reality, you experience your beliefs about it.

Your strongest beliefs generate emotions. Emotions guide actions. Actions produce circumstances. And circumstances, when they arrive, confirm the original belief — closing the circle and making it even firmer.

That is why changing circumstances without changing beliefs is a losing battle. The circle simply remakes what you undid.

And emotion, in this scheme, has a precise function: it is the warning mechanism. It is not the problem. It is the car's dashboard. An uncomfortable emotion is not there to punish you; it is informing you that there is, right there, a belief that no longer fits who you are.

In other words:

You live what you believe yourself to be. Believing yourself to be a mistake makes you live as a mistake. Believing yourself to be peace makes you live in peace.

Do you believe you are an imperfect spirit or a perfect creature of God?

What Bashar confirms of what we have already seen#

I close this chapter the same way I closed the previous one: by showing where the lines cross.

Evolution does not consist in adding what we lack, but in letting go of what no longer serves. Bashar says exactly this when he states that the work is not to build a better self, but to remove the beliefs that keep the self that already exists from expressing itself. Ice does not need to learn to be water.

We said that we were created perfect, simple and ignorant. Bashar says that the highest purpose of your life is to be yourself to the best of your ability — which only makes sense if what you are is already enough.

We said that we are essentially God. He formulates it as the third law of creation and places it among the only five things that admit no exception.

And when we asked, at the opening of this book, what the true nature of the human being is, Bashar answers in the first of the five laws, in two words, just as Ra did:

You exist.

Not "you exist in order to". Not "you exist because". No complement, no condition, no proof to present.

You exist.

And that, in itself, is already the whole answer.