Bashar:
from "Comet, Commitment, Conviction"
3-26-97

Integrated Behavior

Questioner:  I wanted to talk about acting upon your highest joy.

Bashar:  Yes.

Q:  Which is what I do, for the most part, but there are a couple of things
I'm confused about with that.

B:  Oh, all right, such as?

Q:  Well, the first one is ... there are countries that create war acting
on their highest joy, which may be religion or...

B:  One moment, you must understand the difference between acting on your
highest joy, and acting out of fear and calling it joy.

Q:  Right.

B:  You understand?

Q:  Right.

B:  There is a difference.

Q:  Right.

B:  They are not acting on their highest joy.

Q:  Well, that's what I was wondering because, for instance, maybe a serial
rapist, or a serial murderer, maybe...

B:  Yes, is acting out of fear and fear of powerlessness.

Q:  Are they confused that that IS their highest joy?

B:  Yes.  The idea of, what you call on your planet, abuse, in that many
individuals who function that way have histories of abuse, is the idea that
that was what was transferred to them as the loving familial connection.
Abuse is the only form of expression they understand; so when they want to
show connection, they can only show the tool of abuse.

Q:  So that's kind of related to...

B:  It relates to the idea of the expression of love, for them, because
that is the only kind of connection they have been taught to know how to
make.

Q:  So that's related to habit?

B:  In a sense, yes; in some ways, yes.  Because it is a self-created loop
that allows them to think they are expressing themselves in ways that they
truly wish to, but in ways that are incongruous with the idea of their
innermost desire.

Q:  So in expressing your highest joy in that moment...

B:  Yes?

Q:  ... there are additional elements such as love, integrity.

B:  Yes.

Q:  Anything else?  Can you expand upon this?

B:  It must be congruous to the idea of what you would call positive, or
constructive, or integrative behavior.  That which is negative is simply
destructive or segregate, that which is positive is constructive, or
integrative.  That is the mechanical explanation of the idea, and how to
recognize what the behavior actually is aligned to.  So even though someone
may be saying, "I am doing this out of my love, out of my joy," but they
are exhibiting destructive, segregational, separational, disintegrative
behavior, then you can see that there is incongruity between what they say
and what they do.  Do you understand?

Q:  Yes.

B:  Does that help explain it sufficiently?

Q:  Yes.