Schooling Was for the Industrial Era, Unschooling Is for the Future
Our current compulsory schooling model was created at the dawn of the Industrial Age. As factories replaced farm work and production moved swiftly outside of homes and into the larger marketplace, 19th century American schooling mirrored the factories that most students would ultimately join.
The bells and buzzers signaling when students could come and go, the tedium of the work, the straight lines and emphasis on conformity and compliance, the rows of young people sitting passively at desks while obeying their teachers, the teachers obeying the principal, and so on—all of this was designed for factory-style efficiency and order.
The Imagination Age
The trouble is that we have left the Industrial Era for the Imagination Age, but our mass education system remains fully entrenched in factory-style schooling. By many accounts, mass schooling has become even more restrictive than it was a century ago, consuming more of childhood and adolescence than at any time in our history. The first compulsory schooling statute, passed in Massachusetts in 1852, required eight to 14-year-olds to attend school a mere 12 weeks a year, six of which were to be consecutive. This seems almost laughable compared to the childhood behemoth that mass schooling has now become.
Enclosing children in increasingly restrictive schooling environments for most of their formative years, and drilling them with a standardized, test-driven curriculum is woefully inadequate for the Imagination Age. In her book, Now You See It, Cathy Davidson says that 65 percent of children now entering elementary school will work at jobs in the future that have not yet been invented. She writes: “In this time of massive change, we’re giving our kids the tests and lesson plans designed for their great-great-grandparents.”
While the past belonged to assembly line workers, the future belongs to creative thinkers, experimental doers, and inventive makers. The past relied on passivity; the future will be built on passion. In a recent article on the future of work, author and strategist John Hagel III writes about the need to nurture passion to be successful and fulfilled in the jobs to come. He says:
One of my key messages to individuals in this changing world is to find your passion and integrate your passion with your work. One of the challenges today is that most people are products of the schools and society we’ve had, which encourage you to go to work to get a paycheck, and if it pays well, that’s a good job, versus encouraging you to find your passion and find a way to make a living from it.
Passion-Driven Learning
Cultivating passion is nearly impossible within a coercive schooling structure that values conformity over creativity, compliance over-exuberance. This could help explain why the unschooling, or Self-Directed Education, movement is taking off, with more parents migrating from a schooling model of education for their children to a learning one. With Self-Directed Education, passion is at the center of all learning. Young people follow their interests and pursue their passions, while adults act as facilitators, connecting children and teens to the vast resources of both real and digital communities. In this model, learning is natural, non-coercive, and designed to be directed by the individual herself, rather than by someone else.
Self-Directed Education and unschooling often take place in homes and throughout communities, but increasingly individuals and organizations are launching self-directed learning centers geared toward homeschoolers with both full- and part-time options. These centers make Self-Directed Education more accessible to more families in more places, and each has a unique philosophy or focus. Some are geared toward teens and value real-world apprenticeships and immersion; others are makerspaces that emphasize tinkering and technology, and so on. In Boston, for instance, the JP Green School in the city’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood serves as a part-time self-directed learning space for homeschoolers and unschoolers with a focus on sustainability and nature connection. Co-founder Andrée Zaleska says:
People educated in coercive models will be damaged for life (most of us are). The lack of respect shown to their autonomous selves as children translates into a lifelong tendency to “get what they need” by any means necessary…We are part of a growing counterculture which finds traditional schooling damaging in ways that are intertwined with the general brokenness of our culture.
Instead of complaining about the education status quo, entrepreneurial individuals are building alternatives to school that challenge it. Centered around passion and an overarching belief in individual self-determination, these entrepreneurs — who are often parents, former school teachers, and others who have become disillusioned by coercive schooling — are freeing young people from an outdated and harmful mass schooling system. Enlightened parents and innovative entrepreneurs may be the key players in constructing a new education model focused on freedom and designed for the Imagination Age.
Source: http://freedombunker.com/2017/10/08/schooling-was-for-the-industrial-era-unschooling-is-for-the-future/
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Somehow the commentary above reminds me of this piece from Bashar (which I saved from about 20 years ago, LOL):
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Follow Your Excitement
Bashar, What is my purpose for being here? What is my mission in life?
Within any given life which any of you live you can create many so-called purposes, as there are many projects, services and circumstances by which you express who you are. None of these projects, in and of themselves, is your purpose; they are your chosen method of expressing the purpose of your lives.
Now, we recognize that, generally speaking, when you ask that question, you are usually referring to this idea on a much more foundational level. Because of the society you have created yourselves to be, many of you spend a great deal of time searching for your basic purpose, and often become frustrated, tired and discouraged about not finding it.
First of all, please remember: every single thing is a choice–everything! Yes, you chose to be where you are; you chose to be born. So first and foremost allow yourselves to recognize that you made a decision to be physical. You knew what you were doing when you made that decision. And whether you have conscious recognition of it or not, you still do know what you are doing. At least begin by relying upon the assurance and the trust that you are doing whatever it is you are doing for a reason. It is not pointless; it is not aimless; it is not so scattered as it may appear to be in the illusion of the physical reality you have bought into.
Recognize, therefore, that for every single one of you your fundamental purpose is to be the person you have designed yourself to be. It is no more complex than that. It is to do what excites you the most and to be of service by doing so; to be the fullest
you you can be, because you will never be this you again.
Only One Life
The idea is as follows: you have had a saying for a long time in your society, “You only have one life to live.” Well now, rein-carnation notwithstanding, this is true. You, as the you you are now, only have one life to live. You’ve got one shot at being this you. Even though the soul you are may experience many lifetimes, each one of those lifetimes is unique, and a distinct expression of the overall soul you are. Therefore, since you have never been this you before; since you will never be this you again, the founda-tional reason for this life is, again, to fully be the you you chose to be. That’s it. Period.
Everything else -any way, any method, any point of view, any methodology of experiencing and expressing the idea of being fully who you chose to be in this life- is up to you as the physiological consciousness. Now, many of you go through life look-ing for a specific thing that would seem like the purpose of your life, but create difficulty in finding that thing because you don’t recognize that it’s up to you to decide what that thing is. The idea is that the choice was made by the higher self, and that -the fact that you are present in this physical reality- is almost the entire extent of what you usually refer to as predestination: just the fact that you are here. Period.
There may be some generalized themes that are also representative of the overall predetermined reality decided upon by you when you were the higher self in a non-physical realm before you became physically born, but they are only generally represented in your life as overall themes. The specifics of how you go about, living the life, and the themes you find yourself exploring within it, are completely up to your determination as a physiological being . The methodology is in your hands.
The higher self, the whole self, may say, “This hallway is the hallway you will walk down as a physical aspect of the total being. But how you walk down the hallway is up to you. You can run; you can walk -backwards, forwards, upside-down, rightside up, sideways. In the dark, in the light; alone, with friends. Swim, fly, crawl; look in all the doors; walk all the way to the end- that doesn’t matter.” It can be positive; it can be negative. That’s up to you and your free will. You are the representative; you are the emissary in the foreign land of physical reality. It’s up to you to decide how best to blend in with your environment. But the overall “mission” more often than not has been decided by the free will of the higher self.
Give Me a Sign
So what do you mean, then, by following your excitement?
Excitement, excitement: what is excitement? Mechanically-speaking, the idea as we perceive it is as follows. Excitement what you feel to be the physical sensation, or the knowledge, the knowingness of yourself that is translated as excitement-is your physical translation of the vibratory energy that represents the path you chose to be in this life. So when something excites you more than anything else, that excitement is there to tell you three things.
First: this is who and what you are. The circumstance and the situation that comes into your life at any given moment that ex-cites you more than any other is letting you know, “This is who you are; act on it!” You see, excitement is the sign that many of you ask for. “What can I do in life? Why am I here? What is my mission? Oh Universe, please give me a sign!”
“Hey, look over here; here’s a very exciting thing you could doing!” “Don’t bother me now; I’m looking for my purpose. In too busy searching for my mission in life. I’m supposed to be serious about this.”
But you see, the things that come with excitement are the answers are the signals, are the signposts; that’s what excitement is. It’s tapping you squarely on the shoulder, saying: “This is what you want to be doing right now.” The reason it excites you is because it is aligned with the idea of who you are; that’s what excitement is.
The second thing it tells you is that because it is who you are if you act on it with trust and conviction, it will be the thing that can be the most effortless thing you will ever do-because it is who you are. You are being yourself. And so of course it will be effortless. The only time you have struggle and pain is when you are trying to be someone you are not, again fighting the flow, buying into the definitions of what other individuals say you ought to be.
The third thing that tells you when a situation comes along that is more exciting than the other is: this is the thing that if you do it, will support you in the most abundant way to allow you to keep doing it in a more expanded, ever spiraling way. Therefore, you will automatically be able to attract the opportunities to allow you to do the thing that excites you the most.
Excitement is the thread that leads to all other excitement, as long as you are acting on the things that excite you the most, with integrity-which means functioning as a whole idea, and not stopping to think of yourself as a collection of parts, or compartments, that is scattered here and there. Recognize that all the different things that have your attention are all part of the same whole idea, and will all fall into place automatically when you act on the one that represents your strongest intention. Then you can flow. That is focus and trust; that is allowance; that is willingness to understand that by definition everything that excites you must fit, and will have a perfect timing in which to do so.
Abundance
So, one: excitement tells you it is you. Two: it tells you that because it is you, it will be an effortless creation. Three: it tells you that because it is you and will be an effortless creation, you will be able to attract the abundance you need in whatever form you need it. And understand that abundance is more than just money. Money on your planet is one of the valid ways to represent abundance, but it is not the only tool, and is not always the shortest and quickest route. Abundance will always express itself along the path of least resistance, just like electricity. When you broaden your definition of what you think abundance is, then you will allow all the different ways it could come to you, to come to you. And now let us add one more definition.
Abundance: the ability to do what you need and want to do when you want to do it. Period! That is all abundance is. If it comes in a number of different ways, what do you care?-as long as you still have the ability to do what you want when you want to do it. Keep in mind that abundance is a general idea, whereas money is a tool.
Now, we know that abundance is a “big issue” on your planet. All right now, you are all abundant; you all deserve abundance unlimited amounts of what you want, at least as far as we are concerned. So here is just one brief example: rearrange this idea; apply it to you if necessary.
Because of the way many of you have been functioning, often you see by example that certain individuals on your planet who are physically abundant are in your eyes morally or spiritually bankrupt. This may create a type of impression on you that causes you, without your consciously realizing it, to automatically equate abundance with moral bankruptcy. You say to yourself in internal dialogue -which is perhaps not as loud as you would like it to be- “If I become abundant, that means I must also become morally bankrupt, and I don’t want the moral bankruptcy. Therefore I’ll keep myself from being abundant.”
When you examine your beliefs about abundance, if you find you have that kind of belief you can say, ‘Wait a minute. I realize that more often than not when I think of a rich person, I think of someone who is,” to use your phrase, “a scum.” You may realize right then and there that you have built up out of different belief components one particular belief structure . You are saying with that belief structure, “Everyone who becomes abundant becomes a scum”. “I don’t want to have that belief any more,” you can say. “That’s the definition I had, but I will now disassemble those components. Being abundant does not have to be attached to the idea of being morally bankrupt. So what are the components? What are the ideas I would prefer?’
No judgment here; you do not judge or invalidate the moral bankruptcy. It may not be what you prefer; it may be a very negative thing. But if you judge it, you change your vibration to the same level. That’s what your biblical phrase means when it says, “Judge not lest ye be judged.” It doesn’t mean you’re going to be judged from outside; it means that as you judge, you become that vibration, you put yourself on that level and can’t be where you want to be.
The idea is to let that go without judgment. It is one choice you could have made, but you no longer prefer it. Preference is not judgment; preference is your ability to discern what you are all about, what excites you. Examine the possibilities and say, “What components would I rather attach to the idea of abundance? I would rather attach the idea that being abundant would allow me to continue to be a loving individual. Then I will be able to allow other people to be excited by sharing certain ideas with them. I will be able to do this exciting thing and help change the world in positive ways. That’s my idea of abundance.”
There is a segment in your book called Wishcraft, which besides aiding you in finding your excitement, finding what brings you joy, also gives you many examples of all the different ways you can go about expressing your abundance-other than the idea of having to have money. Yes, you can have that; it’s a very valuable idea. But it is not the only one. You can also trade; you can make it yourself; you can win it or be given it as a gift. You can borrow it; you can rent it….
So do you believe you can have what you want? Can you allow it to be that simple?
Sometimes, yes.
Sometimes. All right, fair enough. Always be honest with yourself, because if you do have difficulty believing it, then deal with that. Acknowledge that you have difficulty believing it. Don’t deny it, as denial is the first step to forgetting everything about who you are. Don’t deny anything about yourself, including the fact that you have denial. Allow yourself to deal with the fact that you may be denying you have a certain belief. and that you do buy into the idea of doubt and fear and self-invalidation. It’s all right to acknowledge that you have those feelings. If you don’t acknowledge them and don’t deal with them, then you can’t change them. You cannot transform what you do not own, first of all. So own it. Say, “All right, I do it sometimes, because some times I don’t think I’m capable.” It’s all right to think that way. You see, the whole issue is that once you own the right to think that way, you have made it clear that it was your choice to choose the negative reality. And once it’s clear that it was your choice, it’s back under your control. If you sometimes don’t feel capable of doing what excites you the most, acknowledge that you believe that. And then get into a very honest discussion with yourself about why you would choose to believe that way. What type of beliefs would you have? What kind of definitions would you have to buy into in order to feel you couldn’t do the thing that is most representative of who you are.
Struggle or Ease
Let’s say there are two individuals, one with more money, one with less money: if they are both capable of doing what they need to do when they need to do it, they are equally abundant because that’s all that matters to them. And that’s the level they have defined themselves to be. If someone has a more expanded idea of what it is that excites him, then perhaps he needs more symbols of abundance to flow into his life to represent what it is he is. If he already has sufficient symbols of abundance in his life, then he will be able to accomplish what excites him as smoothly, effortlessly and easily as anyone else. For let me remind you once again that the universe will always support you by supplying you automatically with whatever opportunities represent your ability to continue to be who you are-if you are willing to act that way. The universe always supports you 100% in whatever idea you believe yourself most to be.
Now, if you believe, ‘Well, I have to struggle in order to make a living; and I believe that nothing that does not contain struggle will work for me,” then the universe will support you in that idea 100%. It will say, “Well, if that’s the way you want it. Here are all the situations that will reinforce the beliefs in your life that you already have-: that nothing will work for you easily, and that you have to struggle in order to live. Here are all the situations representing the beliefs you have.” These situations are given to you by the universe automatically to show you exactly what your beliefs are. They are not to prove you are stuck in anything, nor to prove you have failed in anything, but to show you beyond the shadow of a doubt that, “Look, this is the reality you get because that’s what you believe to be true. If you don’t prefer it, then change the beliefs.”
When you change the belief to, “I do deserve to create a reality of effortlessness and ease, and I will be supported,” then that’s the
reality you will get; the universe will support you 100% in that direction. It will say, just as magnanimously and just as equally, ‘Well, if that’s what you want, here it is. Because now that’s what you believe.” And as you believe, that’s what you experience in physical reality. All you need to do is be willing to recognize that 100 % trust in the direction you prefer will create the reality you desire to experience.
Do recognize that we are not suggesting that you do something you are not already doing. You are already using 100% of your trust: but you are using 100% of your trust in a direction you don’t prefer. So place the 100% trust in a direction you do prefer and then that’s the reality you get.
It’s -very hard for me to believe t hat if I just go and quit my job, everything will be okay.
All right . it’s hard for you to believe. But it’s your choice to believe that it’s hard for you to believe You are choosing to believe it is a difficult thing to do; but know that you are never not supported by the universe 100% . It just depends upon what your definition of the 100% is that you are doing. if you have a 100% belief that you must do a job you only like, then the universe will be 100% behind you and give you circumstances you will like.
If you are willing to know that you will not be doing anything differently in terms of the mechanical approach, but just differently in terms of what you allow the mechanics of the universe to support you in-by changing what you like to what you love the universe sees no difference in that. If you choose to go from doing what you like to doing what you love, the universe will support you 100 % by attracting into your life all the circumstances that will support you in doing what you love-just as strongly as it attracted into your life all the things that supported you in doing what you only liked, when you were doing that.
When you know there is no reason to distinguish between the two, you will allow yourself to let it be all right to do what you love to do, and the universe will say, “If that’s what you want, here it is I” That’s the way the universe works. So if things in your life are mediocre, it is supporting your belief in mediocrity 100%. That is all there is to it. Believe in ecstasy. It will support you with no more effort than it supports you now.
Finding A Career
But I want a career that will really excite me, and I just don’t know what that is. Why is it so difficult to find that?
When we talk about the idea of doing what excites you the most, we do not necessarily mean that you must have a cognition of the thing that will be the most exciting thing you will ever do in your entire life. We are talking about living in the moment, keeping it in the moment, keeping it present-focused. If you do not have an idea of an over-riding career, then at any given moment you can still be doing the thing that excites you the most with all the integrity you have at your disposal.
Doing that step by step, a step at a time, will always lure you into the circumstances that represent the next step you need to take to bring you an automatic and effortless understanding of what it is you could be doing that represents more and more who you are. When we say do what excites you the most, we’re not just saying, ‘Well yes, have a good time.” We are saying that also, but it is not being left on that level.
We are talking mechanics here, not some airy philosophy. As we have said, excitement, that knowingness of what moves you, is actually your physical translation of the vibratory energy that represents who and what you are! Excitement tells you what you are best capable of doing. If something excites you, it excites you for a reason. There are no extraneous creations, no accidental interactions. Whatever at any given moment is the most exciting thing you could imagine doing, with all your integrity, is the path in its most synchronistically unfolding manner. Follow it; do it; trust it. It will always lead you where you need to go to give you the skills, the abilities and the abundance necessary to do the next most exciting thing, or the next most exciting step of the thing that will come along.
If two or more things excite you equally, act on any one of them; it doesn’t matter which one you pick. When you make the decision, it will be obvious which one actually excited you more. All you need to do then is to act on that one, and it will lead to circumstances that will give you the time necessary to act on all the other things. They will all fall into perfect timing. If they are all representative of aspects of an overall idea that excites you, then they are aspects that will enhance each other, not exclude each other.
Let them occur in your fife at whatever timing is necessary. Let it be obvious by simply looking around and seeing which ones you are capable of doing anything at all about at any given moment. The ones you are capable of doing something about, do something about. When you get to a point where you can no longer do anything about that, look around and see if getting to that point has given you the capability to do something about some of the other things you are excited about at that point. Then bit by bit, step by step, you will bring them all up to the same level … in perfect timing.
Many of you know very, very well what your excitement is, but you have been talked out of believing that what you know you really want to do is a valid way to make a living. So you shut it down and pretend you don’t know what you really could be doing. Without placing judgment on it; without invalidating it in any way, at this particular moment is there any one thing, no matter what it is, no matter how silly it may seem in the eyes of your society, that actually would give you the most joy in doing as a career? Or, if you wish, just doing.
I would probably just dance for free, but I know that’s—
One moment. Let me repeat myself: without invalidation; without qualification, what would give you the most joy? Are you saying dancing?
I love to dance.
Well, thank you very much. Could not have said it better myself: “I love to dance.” Is it the most exciting thing you can imagine doing, above and beyond anything eIse? … yes, no–?
Well, probably in this moment; that’s the only thing that comes to my mind.
Do not qualify it. Of course we are talking about this moment. Right now is it the most exciting thing you can conceive of? Yes or no?
Then that’s it. That’s it, yes.
All right; thank you very much. Then right at this moment -as long as you are focused on that idea- right now, you are a dancer! You are the energy of a dancer; you are the frequency of a dancer. And if you continue to act like a dancer from this moment forward, you will have the life style of a dancer and automatically attract -automatically; synchronistically– synchronistically and effortlessly, effortlessly, all the circumstances and all the relationships germane to the life of a dancer, to allow you to take advantage of them so you can continue to be the dancer you say right now you are.
Are you willing to act that way, though? That’s the real question. Are you willing to act in the manner of what you say really excites you-knowing beyond the shadow of a doubt that by acting as if that really is true for you, the universe will support you in the doing of that thing? Are you willing to believe that, or do you doubt yourself?
There’s probably a little hit of doubt there.
All right. Let me remind you of something else, if I may….May I?
Oh, of course.
100% Trust
Oh, thank You very much. When we talk about infinite trust, we are not talking about something that is difficult to do. When we say “Trust it 100 %, ” many times we hear a collective psychic groan from you. “Oh, no! That’s real hard.” 100% trust? Every- one knows how hard that is’!”
But you see, you have all always trusted 100% in something. What your society calls doubt is not a lack Of trust It is an absolute unshakable, unswerving 100% total conviction in a negative reality. You always use trust 100%. It’s just a matter of whether you trust in something you don’t prefer, or trust in something you do prefer. Now which do you prefer to trust in-what you prefer, or what you don’t prefer?
As soon as you decide, however, that what you really prefer you will do 100%, there is absolutely no reason, as far as the universe is concerned, to withhold any less than 100% results from you. You will get 100 % of it when you act in that direction 100 %
Sometimes, because of the way you define yourself, you may find you are doing something 99 %, and yet there is still the 15 that you are not doin it, that 1% may be enough to prevent you from experiencing the other 99%–depending on how you have arranged the definition.
100 % trust will always -1 guarantee it; I promise- give you 100% absolute reflection of that reality. Absolute – You are always getting a 100% % reflection of the reality that you define as the most likely reality you are capable of handling. Always. The Universe will only give you what you say you are ready to handle. So as soon as you say, “Well, of course. Because I am excited about this more than this; because it is what I prefer more than that, then it must be representative of who I really am. Therefore, by definition, of course I’ll be able to handle it. Otherwise I wouldn’t have conceived of it.”
As soon as you act as if that is true for you, the universe will say, “All right; if that’s the way you want it, here it is: all the opportunities that represent the you you now believe yourself to be, as opposed to the you you used to believe yourself to be.”. . .You always get an absolute reflection of whatever you define yourself to be-no more, no less. So ’tis up to you. At least, if you’re going to hang on to things you don’t prefer for now because you believe that’s the rate at which you need to handle it, then at least -if we may suggest, because we love you- please do not spend time berating yourself for the time you are taking. For that only adds to the time it takes.
So if that’s the way you are going to go about it, then at least relax, breathe easy, and say, “All right! That’s the way I’m going about it, because I choose to believe that’s the way I need to go about it.” Paradoxically, as soon as you let the way you’re doing it be all right, you will probably change. That’s the whole paradoxical mechanism. As soon as you allow where you are to be all right, you will be able to get where you want to be much faster. When you are always where you want to be, you are living in the now. If you let wherever you are be where you want to be, you will live in the moment. And then everything will be able to find you. There is no other time that exists except now. If you are living in the past, living in the future, then nothing you need to work with can find you … because in the present you are not at home. So again: where do you choose to put your trust-in something you prefer or don’t prefer?
One Consciousness
Well, my mind says I would choose—
Ah-ah-ah-ah! When I am speaking, at least for this moment, I am speaking to the total you. If you now choose to segregate yourself into a mind and a conscious and a subconscious, you will spin a game that will last for years, as many of you already do. You think you have to reconcile all these different fragments of yourself you have created yourself to be—but you have created these levels.
I’ll let you in on a little secret, which is no secret at all. You don’t really have -none of you actually really have- an unconscious or a subconscious mind. You are one consciousness, one homogenous idea. What you call your soul, or your spirit, your higher consciousness, your lower consciousness, your mind, your mentality, your physical consciousness, your subconsciousness, your unconsciousness: all of these are simply different convenient ways to avoid looking at something you fear. That’s all it is. You are one consciousness, unbroken.
You have created convenient compartments in which you can place things that for some reason you have been taught are dangerous to look at…. Why? It’s only a portion of you. There is absolutely nothing! you could ever! discover about yourself that cannot be applied in a positive way. Oh yes, you can discover many things and apply all of them in negative ways, but is that what you prefer? Yes or no?
If it’s no, then why not assume you have just as much power to decide how to apply what you discover about yourself, just as much power to decide to do that in a positive way, as you have always had in a negative way. You can apply anything you discover in a negative or a positive way. Why not choose to understand that you only prefer to apply it in a positive way; and that you will therefore only get a positive result out of that application. You cannot get -cannot get!– a negative result from a positive application.
Let me say again: you cannot experience any reality of which you are not the vibration. If you have a reality you don’t prefer, then it’s because you are buying into a belief system that supports that reality. It’s as plain and simple as that. You have a saying for it. “Mat you put out is what you get back. What goes in is what comes out.” You cannot get the opposite effect; you can only get an equal, corresponding reaction. If you put a positive idea out, positive preferential trust, you can only get a positive reality back. If you put a negative idea out, which you call doubt, you can only get hesitation, guilt, frustration, and all the other symbols your society has created to represent negative trust.
Do you believe—are you at least willing to consider the possibility of believing—that if you fully act in the direction of the being you say you want to be, that you yourself can be responsible for attracting the things in your life that will support you as that being? And that spiral will continue forever? Are you willing to believe that could be possible? And that nothing is too good to be true?
Yes, I’m willing to believe that.
All right. Then discover what stops you from believing it now; come to terms with what that definition is that prevents you from living that reality, and reinvent, redefine the reality you prefer to have. You will get that reflection; I guarantee it 100%. The universe keeps nothing from you-nothing! But the universe can only give you what you say you’re ready for. If you do not believe you are ready to handle the idea of success -because you are willing to buy into, “It’s got to be a struggle,” or “It’s got to be a striving”- the universe will only give you so much.
That is because obviously you’re telling the universe, “I’m not ready for any more. Please don’t give it to me. I am still creating a trust in a negative reality, and when I have that kind of a belief,
I do not want these things-because they will not manifest in a positive way. Give them to me when I choose to believe that I deserve a positive reality.”
And you do, you know. You deserve anything you can conceive of just because you have the ability to conceive of it. You don’t have to earn the right to deserve happiness; you already have that right because you exist. Do you understand?
I hear you and I do want to believe that.
Threshold of Believability
You are on the threshold of your believability. You are exploring that threshold, what you are truly willing to believe is possible for you. Listen to the language in which you put it; it will indicate where your threshold of believability is. As soon as the threshold of believability is squarely within you in the present, then you will experience the life you desire. As long as the threshold of your believability is still out there somewhere in the future, no matter how close it is to you, if it’s not in you, you won’t experience it. Now you are exploring that threshold of believability.
How can I-?
Ah, we’re getting to that, thank you. Let’s do a little exercise, one which will assist you in recognizing where the threshold of your believability is. All right?
First of all begin by creating for yourself, in any way comfortable for ou -it does not have to be very complicated; it can be anything at all- that represents the idealized way you would prefer to live. Have a picture of yourself doing something you would enjoy doing, and being supported fully in that life style. Not having the shadow of a doubt that you are supported; truly feeling that’s the way you live. That’s the way you live, and everything is just fine. Understand it as the idealized essence of the way you feel about living.
We are not asking you to have a picture that is absolutely structurally rigidized. We are talking about the life style in essence in the way you feel. Have that picture in your mind with that idealized state. And then I will ask you a series of questions…. Do you have that picture or feeling in mind?
Yes.
All right. Now, be very honest with yourself, and also with me for now, in these answers. Do you honestly think that within, oh, say, ten of your years- will that be enough time for you to be able to create that way of life?
Yes.
Do you believe you will be living that way in a month?
No.
Do you believe you can be living in the way you prefer to be living, no matter how that is, in one year?
(Pause) No.
Do you believe you can do it in three years?
I believe I could do it then.
All right. Are you sure? Can you really feel it? … A year?
If I put all my attention on just doing that, yes.
All right. Why would you do otherwise? Why would you have to put your attention on anything you do not want to do?
I guess I think I have to take care of a lot of other details.
But understand: when you are doing what truly represents the vibration of your reality, all the details take care of themselves. Not that you will not be doing anything; it is simply that when you live the essential way; when you live in synchronous harmony with the path you chose to be, everything is already on that path in the format it needs to be, and will fall into place as it needs to fall to let you continue being the person you chose to be. You will automatically and effortlessly and coincidentally attract into your life all the tools necessary to allow the details to be taken care of. It is all one package.
You see, the difficulty you are having is in thinking that your life is a series of separated ideas, rather than one homogenous event in which everything that needs to be done to allow you to be the person you need to be will be taken care of automatically. The things that don’t get done, if you are truly being who you know you need to be, don’t need to be done to allow you to be that person. You follow me?
The Outer Reflection
I think what I need to get is that it’s more a matter of feeling a state that I want to feel than an acquiring or attaining some outward form.
Oh, yes, yes, yes! The outward form is only a reflection of the inner knowing. When you create and generate the vibration of the inner knowing, “This is the way I am!” then your outer reality shows that to you. You don’t get the outer reality first before you create the inner belief. You always get in physical reality only what you already believe to be the most likely reality you’ll get. And only when you choose to truly believe with your whole heart and soul, “This really is what I’m all about! This really is the way I prefer to be!” — when you generate that feeling and that desire and that energy within you, then your outer reality has absolutely no choice but to reflect that inner feeling, that inner knowingness.
And it is that simple. Letting yourself know that that vibration of truth for you is your vibratory frequency, the vibratory frequency that represents the being you chose to be, you will then tune yourself to that station. When you tune yourself to that station, and let your dial remain on that station, only the things that are pertinent to that station can be received by you. You know you can’t receive anything other than what the station is that you are tuned to. But you must decide to tune to that frequency first. Otherwise you are listening to a program you don’t enjoy. Change the dial, and the program will change along with it.
No Excitement
Bashar, I don’t get really excited about anything.
All right. Now do realize that when we talk about the idea of doing what excites you the most, it doesn’t necessarily mean you are going to be jumping up and down every single moment. The idea of a peaceful knowingness, an absolute certainty, can also be representative of that excitement, of that vibration that represents your knowing that you are in synchronous alignment with the path you chose to be. It doesn’t mean you have to be running around all the time. It can be a very steady conviction, a balanced knowingness, a certainty.
Yah, that’s kinda the way it’s been-just relaxed. I want a little more excitement than that.
Yes, the thing you are doing right now. Therefore, if you truly allow yourself to understand that what you are doing right now is, and must be by definition, the most important thing of all at any given moment, then you will start looking at it that way.
All right, the idea of wanting something to be exciting: what’s wrong with right now being exciting? Do you remember the question we asked all of you as to what was the most important thing of all?
Yup.
And the answer was?
Where I am right now.
When your attitude changes, you will start realizing that you are where you are for a reason, and start allowing yourself to get out of the moment what you really need to-rather than assuming that this moment contains nothing for you that would generate excitement.
The idea is to face your world with a child-like fascination. Then you will begin to discover that a lot more things you take for granted as being mundane are actually quite a bit more exciting than you thought, and you will be able to act on them-because you now see them for the excitement they are. Many of you have very thick skins by this time. And so things that could be exciting to you do not have much of an effect on you. You may not even be able to recognize your own excitement because of the thickness of that shell. But start walking through it. Allow yourselves to break through it by simply breaking through the conventions of your society. That will allow the skin to become much thinner, and allow the excitement to penetrate much more easily. Then it will be obvious in which direction lies your excitement and your path.
Again, the idea is to act upon your imagination. Here is a very simple mechanism: all of you-this will work for anything and everything. Very simple. Your imagination is the template, the blueprint. If you conjure up in your imagination an image-a vision of how you prefer to be-then take whatever situation is going on in your life, hand it to the you you have conjured up who is representative of the excited person you would prefer to be, and watch how the you in your imagination handles the situation you have given to it.
Then copy it. You will get the effect that it gets in its excited -state of handling all things in that excited way. That’s what your imagination is for: to copy. It gives you the picture, the blueprint, the path, the methodology, the ritual, whatever will work best for you. Create an image and mimic the image. Then you will be that person, and you will have that life style automatically.
That’s what a child does. It sees and it becomes; it sees and it becomes. It does not question whether what it sees is valid. A child knows it is within integrity, so it doesn’t have to stop to question it. It sees and it becomes; it expands and it grows. You can do that; you can play. It is up to you.
Out of Work
Bashar, I’ve been getting progressively more depressed from being out of work. The longer I’m out of work, the less trust I have in myself and my ability to find work in something that’s going to excite me.
Then create what excites you to be your job; that’s the whole idea. The idea is not to look I around, necessarily, for the things that excite you that already exist. If you do not find something, then allow what excites you to become your job. Somebody had to start the jobs that exist in your society. They didn’t always exist in the format they exist in now. Someone had to say, “Wait a minute! Look around; the thing that really excites me the most there isn’t a job for. I guess I had better start one.” And now, at this point in time, you think that’s a typical job.
But if you look around and do not find something that excites you; if you look around and find that your path simply does not lead you into these things, then allow yourself to truly examine in all honesty what it is that really would be exciting. Take it for granted that you then, if that thin$ really excites you, and no one else at this point is doing it, or you do not attract into your lire an opportunity to do it where it already exists, then take it for granted that your ability to conceive of what it is that excites you the most also represents your ability to create that to be the job that will support you-automatically.
Again, this is a matter of truly trusting that what you come up with, what you really know would excite you in life, you are capable of doing, whether any structure already exists for it or not. If no such structure exists, then it means that because you thought of it, you have the structure inherent within you, and all you have to do is let it out. Let it unfold, and then the reality will be able to build itself on that template structure. But you’re not letting it out.
I feel so incompetent …
That means you believe you are. No feeling comes without a belief already being instilled within you. There is no such thing as simply feeling something for no reason-out of the blue. Feelings are not generated out of thin air, out of a vacuum. If you are feeling something, it is because you already believe that something to be true.
Feelings Are Secondary
Feelings are a reaction to a belief they are secondary to beliefs. Feelings are not the primary experience of reality; beliefs are the primary interface. First you believe something is true; then you get the feeling; then you have the reinforcing thoughts-which may re-reinforce the belief; and then you regenerate more of the same feelings. But the feeling that you are incompetent comes from the fact that you simply choose to believe you are incompe-tent. It’s your choice to believe that, but you don’t have to.
I want to let go of it, and every time I try, I keep getting these voices that tell me, “Remember this time; remember that time when so-and-so happened. . . ”
Let them come up! So what?!? You see, you are trying to shut portions of yourself off. You think that when you integrate, you will never hear those voices again. And that’s not true; you will always hear those voices. As a matter of fact, the more you integrate, the more you will hear them because you are accepting everything, every way you are, into your life. And those are some of the ways you can exist. They come up not to show you you have failed, not to show you you are stuck; they keep coming up to give you the opportunity to realize how much you must have changed. You don’t relate to them the same way you used to unless, of course, you choose to do so.
When you say, “Oh well, look: the voices are still coming up. That must mean I have failed; that must mean I’m not doing the right thing the right way,” you are choosing to maintain the same relationship with those voices; but you don’t have to. The voices are there as an opportunity to realize you can for a different relationship with them. “All right; here comes the voice: ‘Well, remember when this happened that way?’ Well yes, but so what? That was then; I have learned since then. And because you, oh wonderful voice, have now reminded me of the way I did it then, I have a great and positive opportunity to see how differently I am going to do it now.’ “
You are giving yourself a measure. It is the way to allow yourself to recognize you are going through an evolutionary process, if that’s what you believe you must go through. From time to time you may find, well, the voice comes up: “Look, this is the way that happened then.” And then you may say, “All right, this time it happened almost the same.”
But there is the key word. If you are a positive individual, you ill lock onto that “almost the same.” It was a little bit different, and that’s good enough for you, because if it can be a little bit different, I it can be a lot different. Next time when the voice says, “Well yah, but remember when it happened this way?” then you can recognize that the last time it was different, and next time it will be more ‘more different.’ “So you just keep reminding me, little voice, of the way it was, because when you keep reminding me of the way it was, it gives me an opportunity to see how much more different it’s becoming all the time.”
Everything in your life can be used in a positive way-even the same old little voices. It’s up to your willingness to allow your imagination to work for you. Trust it; have a positive attitude, and that will determine everything. If it’s there, use it as a tool. Don’t think that just because it’s there, it means you’ve failed. That’s your old attitude; that’s your old belief.
I just get reinforcements from other people in my life telling me also
No one can give you reinforcement; you have to accept reinforcement.
Well, they’re agreeing with the voices
So what?!? The inner reality is the outer reality; it is one and the same. If you have the little voices within you, of course you’re going to have the voices outside of you as well. But when you start using those little voices in the way we have just described, then the outer voices will also change. You understand? The inner is the outer reality; the outer is the inner reality. They are not two different things. It is one.
Plant Something Different
As you believe in, so do you see out. As you sow, so you reap. That’s what that means. The seeds you plant within yourself are what you see growing in the garden around you. If you do not like the flowers you see growing, then change your order of seed. Plant something different, and then something new will grow. The inner is the outer. If the outer is not the way you prefer it to be, change the inner and the outer will follow.
I’ve worked on saying those things. I guess the belief was still the old one; I didn’t get rid of the old belief.
You cannot get rid of anything.
What I said was,, “Okay, I can do this, and I can handle the job.” But that belief was still hanging on
Listen to the way you sometimes phrase things, as well. Many times the way you phrase things is an indication of the way you really believe. ” Okay, I can handle it” Right there it lets you know: the way you are saying it means you think it’s overwhelming to begin with. And that’s what the real belief is. The belief, therefore, is not really that you can “handle it” -because if you knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that you could, you wouldn’t have to convince yourself. If you find yourself using phraseology that indicates you are attempting to convince yourself, then you do not believe it naturally.
Let yourself know that you do not have to think twice about something you already own. When you phrase things in that manner; when you say, “All right, I can handle it,” then you are indicating that you do not really believe it is handleable. You do not have to “handle” things in that way. You already control everything. Therefore, if situations occur in your life that seem to be non-preferable manifestations, you controlled it for a reason, for a-positive reason, into that format.
Even though I don’t see what the positive reason is?
Let the positive reason at least be the fundamental reason that you’re giving yourself an opportunity to realize you don’t have to relate to the scenario the way you used to. And you may be checking yourself to see if you still are.
Something Positive
What phrases could I use that would be more beneficial to me?
“How does this serve me-exactly the way it is? Exactly the way it is: how does it serve me? What can I learn? How can I positively learn something from this?” When you let it be the way it is, that is when it has the greatest opportunity to change into something else. If you deny the form in which it comes, then you are not allowing yourself to see what is inherent within it. You are not allowing it to present itself in the way you have created it to present itself. You are denying your own creation, your own format. Only when you acknowledge your own format of delivering messages to yourself, exactly and completely the way it comes to you, do you then create the conscious freedom to transform that delivery system into a way you prefer it to come.
If you constantly treat your delivery system as if it is malfunctioning, then you are not listening to it. You are thinking something is going wrong within you, and therefore that’s the belief you reinforce. And therefore that’s the cycle you repeat: “Something is wrong, something is wrong!” So of course your reality constantly reflects back to you, “Something is wrong; something is wrong.”
Everything is just fine. In what you used to consider the most dire circumstances, let yourself realize everything is just fine. “I’m in control of this; look at how much control I have, to have created such an absolutely exciting scenario. Everything seems to be wild and hither and thither and all over the place, and seemingly wild and unconnected and out of control. But since I know I’m controlling that, look at how much power I have.” . Are you beginning to get the idea?
Yes.
For the only thing you are experiencing is the idea that you have old habits that are difficult to break. If that’s where you are coming from, all right: “I have habits that I believe are difficult to change. So if I believe in the idea of habits, then I’ll use the idea of habits in a positive way and create positive habits. I am in control of everything. Even when it seems like it’s out of control, I’m controlling that.” Get used to knowing and believing there is a positive manifestation that can occur from every scenario. With no exceptions! . . . None.
I felt like I was, but when I lost my job, I just went down–
But you see, you assume that not being in that job for some reason has to be an inherently negative scenario. Why make that assumption? It is only an assumption. How do you know what losing that job may be making room for -perhaps something you would just explode with delight to receive- that you wouldn’t have room to receive if you still had the old job? Trust that when things like that occur in your life- if you know you are doing the best you can do at that moment, and those things still occur, then assume it’s for a good reason, and let yourself see how it is for a good reason.
Only when you insist that those things occur not for a positive reason, do you then keep the reason from coming to you that would let you see why you lost the job for a positive reason. Because you’re sitting there moping on the idea, “Oh well, the only thing I can think of that losing my job means is that it must be negative. Something’s wrong.” And when you are focused in that way, you can’t see the positive side of the coin. You can’t see it until you choose to look at it. You have to decide consciously that you will look at the positive side of the coin in every single circumstance, or you will not be able to see positive manifestation. If you are constantly insisting that circumstances are inherently negative, then, “Losing a job must be a bad thing. It has to everyone knows that.”
If that’s the way you choose to look at it, that’s the way you’ll experience your reality. When you insist just as strongly that to job must be leading to a more expanded and broader positive experience, that’s what you will get in your life. That’s it; it’s that simple. Honest!
I guess I got impatient, because I did state that. I said that exactly. And what happened was I did get an interview for a job that I paid more
Yes? And then what? Did you bring back the expectation, ” If I don’t get this, I’m failing.”?
Yah. Then when I blew the interview and I didn’t get the job, you know, then I started to go into my old
Remove the expectations! It doesn’t have to manifest exactly as your ego or your habits think it should. It doesn’t have to I Let it manifest along the path of least resistance. Stop fighting yourself. You do not have to push yourself into a mold. You fit exactly where you are. You do not have to conform to a particular idea of what success represents. You are successful exactly as you are.
Anxiety
It’s also very scary doing something new. Could you give me a suggestion for helping to let go of the anxiety?
Well again, it can be very easily done when you recognize, as we have suggested, that anxiety and excitement are the same energy. If you understand that, and start acting like you believe it, then you will feel the energy as excitement and not anxiety. It is not that you will get rid of the energy; it is not that you will not continue to feel the energy. It is that you will feel it in the way that is indicative of how you look at it. That is all. So know that it represents the discovery of something new; that the energy is there, the vibration is there, because you are on the threshold of more information, more awareness. And we assume that that’s an exciting thing.
Since you will never go faster than you are ready for, you do not have to worry. You will always be able to handle it, because again, if something came that you were not really able to handle, there would be no point to it-and the universe does not do pointless things. So trust that you always have a built-in governor saying, “Whoa, whoa! Take your time. No rush; no hurry.”
Do what excites you the most in the way it excites you the most to do it, with integrity, and you will always be being of service. Remember, the things you are exploring now; the things you are learning now, will be some of the information you may impart to other individuals who wish to do the same thing later. So pay attention to what you are going through; you can use all of it in a positive way…. Relax. Laugh a little more about the .idea you are going through. And if you feel the anxiety, that’s all right. Remember: Anxiety is the same energy as excitement, with judgment placed upon it. That’s all it is.
Relax the judgment, and you will let go of the anxiety. It will turn into excitement and laughter, and you will giggle your way through life.
Follow your Excitement!
Acquire the tools and the props of what you need and use them. Do not build a prop and then sit with it, wondering what is going on. Apply it; act on ft. Get out in the world, doing what you most love doing, and know that the world will shape itself to what you need. It will do so for everyone, and there is no conflict in it. No one loses because you are winning! You all win because there is enough for everyone. You are all learning this, and we thank you for learning it now.
A very good suggestion was given by a spiritual friend of us all: even if at some moment you may feel that you do not have all you need, you do not have what it takes, very often all that is necessary is to say, “I may believe I do not have it ‘now, but at least I am willing to have it.” Then act to the best of your ability on what you can do. Use your imagination, and let the rest take care of itself.
Be bold, for no one will turn you away. There is always an appropriate audience for everything you truly need to say, and you will find that audience. For everyone who wishes to be on a particular stage, there is always an audience to appreciate what you have to say-once again, because everything fits. Everything belongs; and there is never!! -never-never-never-never!!- an actor who is born without an audience being born at the same time for that actor.
NEVER!! It all works perfectly!! Flawlessly!! Believe it; act like you believe it, and you’ll see the results-guaranteed. Can’t prove it to you; wouldn’t want to try. But it works for us, and you are no different. You fall under the same one law of Creation: what you put out is what you get back. See for yourself.
Do! … Think is wonderful. Believe is wonderful. Feel is wonderful. However, doing is what creates the reality you wish to experience.
Follow your excitement!