Bashar's Basic Principles

Bashar's thirteen Basic Principles explain how to navigate human experience by recognizing one's true nature as a non-physical consciousness, exercising free will, following excitement, and understanding the reflective nature of all experience.

These are the basic principles. Understand them, work with them, and your life will reflect them back to you in ways that will surprise and delight you.

You are a non-physical consciousness that is experiencing physical reality. You are not a body that has a soul. You are a soul — a consciousness — that is currently projecting a physical experience. The body is the vehicle. You are the driver. And you chose this vehicle, this lifetime, this experience, before you arrived.

You are here on Earth at this time because you chose to be. There was no accident. There was no mistake. Before this physical experience began, at the level of your Higher Self, you made a choice to be here, now, in this particular time of transformation. You were created in the image of the Creator. Your essential nature is unconditional love. And the experience of joy — of ecstasy — is not something you have to earn. It is your birthright.

The highest purpose of your life is to be yourself — to the best of your ability — and to live each moment as fully as possible. Not to be what someone else wants you to be. Not to fulfill someone else's expectations of who you should be. But to be authentically, completely, joyfully yourself. That is the whole point.

You always have free will and the freedom to choose. Always. No exceptions. No one can take that from you. Every moment of every day, you are choosing — consciously or not — the beliefs you hold, the emotional states you maintain, the actions you take. Choosing is not optional. Even the choice not to choose is a choice.

Anything you can imagine that is relevant to your life's theme is possible for you to experience. If you can genuinely imagine it, it exists as a real possibility in the structure of creation.

You attract your life experiences through the interaction of your strongest beliefs, your emotions, and your actions. These three together form the signal you are broadcasting. Reality picks up that signal and reflects it back to you as your experience.

Excitement is the physical translation of the vibrational resonance that is your true, core, natural being. When you feel genuine excitement — not manufactured excitement, but real, authentic, spontaneous excitement — you are feeling your Higher Self. You are feeling the universe saying: yes, this is the direction. Follow your excitement.

You are naturally abundant. You were born abundant. The universe supports every choice you make. Lack is not natural. Limitation is not natural. These are ideas — beliefs — and beliefs can be changed.

There is actually only one moment in creation. Everything you experience is the same moment from a different point of view. You create the past and the future from the here and now. The present is the point of power.

You are an eternal being. While you may change your form, your consciousness cannot cease to exist. Death is a transformation, not an ending. You have lived before. You will live again. You are not going anywhere. You are just changing your costume.

Everything you experience is another aspect of yourself. The people in your life, the situations, the challenges, the joys — all of it is you, exploring yourself through relationship and contrast. There is no other. There is only the One.

You are loved so unconditionally by Creation that you can even choose to believe that you are not loved. That is how unconditional the love is. Creation supports even your choice to believe in separation, in lack, in fear. But you don't have to believe those things. You are free.