"The Mechanics of Metaphysics"
Excerpts from "The Mechanics of Metaphysics Workshop © 1992


Q:  Bashar, what do you mean when you say I choose everything that happens
in my reality? I would never have deliberately chosen some of the things
that have happened to me!

B:  On some level you are in control of every scenario you experience. For
example, you may say, "I wouldn't choose to be hit by a car, why would I
choose that specific thing?"  When we say you choose your reality, we do
not literally mean that you specifically choose a particular way it will
manifest.  What we are talking about is that your belief systems and
whatever emotions are strongest within you, will draw to you the type of
physical experience that most precisely represents the basic idea or image
or belief about yourself  that you hold to be the most true.  You may have
a general description of yourself and you will simply attract in specific
physical terms, in specific physical experiences, the one experience that
represents the path of least resistance that is capable of fulfilling or
manifesting or reflecting to you the general belief you have of yourself.
It is not that we are saying that you definitely, precisely, and
specifically desire to be struck by one of your automobiles.  But if an
individual is dealing with ideas and issues of safety and unsafety, of
victimhood and non-victimhood, of fear on many different levels that where
they are is not a safe place to be, then that fear in and of itself is what
will attract the most likely occurrence to reflect and to show, in no
uncertain terms to that individual, that they have, that they harbor, those
types of negative beliefs.

Situations that happen in your life, circumstances that are the reflection
of your physical reality; they don't happen to show you that you are stuck;
they don't happen to show you you are a failure in life; the circumstances
that happen in your life, the physical experiences that you have, they
happen to show you what you believe, so that if you don't prefer it you can
change it. Your physical reality is your feed-back mechanism, so that every
single moment of your existence as a physical being, you will constantly be
giving yourself an opportunity to gauge and measure what belief systems you
are buying into, moment to moment to moment.  You are not lost in life, you
are not out of control.  The things that happen in your reality are the
reflections of what you believe about life, the quality you believe life to
be, so you are always given, by yourself, through the events in your life,
the opportunity to determine whether or not the beliefs you have are the
beliefs you want to have. They are not there to show you you're stuck with
what you've got; nor that you have failed in your life; but to show you how
free you actually are.  Because at every given moment you have the
opportunity to know precisely what your strongest belief is, because your
strongest belief must always be what manifests around you in physiological
reality. It is a very simple thing; very, very transparent are all of you
to yourselves, if you would but allow your definitions of life to be clear.

Allow yourself to know that there is absolutely nothing you could ever
experience, nothing you could ever discover about yourself that cannot be
applied in a positive way - absolutely nothing.  Every circumstance, every
situation, they are all fundamentally neutral, devoid of meaning entirely.
No circumstance and no situation has built-in meaning. They are props, in a
sense, surface features. You are taught to assign meaning to them. So
automatic does this process become, that you automatically believe that
when a circumstance occurs, the meaning you automatically perceive is the
meaning that automatically comes with it inherently  - but it doesn't! It
is neutral, when the circumstance occurs and you automatically assign the
meaning that you've been taught to assign.  The meaning you assign to the
neutral situation is absolutely, totally, and utterly what determines the
effect you get out of it.  Positive meaning in... positive effect out.
Negative meaning in... negative effect out.

To illustrate this idea we will use an analogy we will call "The Train
Station Analogy."  You are all familiar with the device you have on your
planet called a train, yes?  Let us say that you are within the best of
your ability and fully within your intention and integrity rushing to meet
one of your trains because you have a very important meeting. The meeting
will turn events around in your life in the direction you really prefer, so
you know you don't want to miss that meeting.  So you are doing your best
to make sure that you meet that train on time.  You arrive at the train
station and you are on the platform.  You look down the track and... there
goes the train without you.  Now, decision,  automatic assignment of
meaning #1: A negative meaning: "I've missed my train, oh no! This is
horrible, terrible-a catastrophe!  Oh, miserable day!  Now I will never
make that meeting I will never be able to do what I really want to do. That
meeting was so important.  I am now going to be very angry that I missed
that train, I'm now going to be judgmental about the whole situation."
You are miserable, or furious (depending on the type of person you are) you
will either hold it within yourself and allow yourself the idea of
negativity simply within your own life, or if you prefer company, you will
stomp off to the train station to complain, making everyone else's day just
as miserable as your own.  Now away you go stomp, stomp, stomp!

Scenario #2:  You arrive on the platform there goes the train and you're
not on it.  Neutral situation.  Now, you say to yourself (making the choice
of a positive affirmation): "I know, because I have chosen to know, that I
am a positively manifesting person.  I also know that there is really no
such thing as an interruption in the path that I am, that everything that
occurs in my life, because of the decision I have made about who and what I
am, must therefore be a part of the path I chose to be, not an interruption
in it - therefore, this circumstance somehow, even though I don't
intellectually know how, must serve me in a positive way.  Oh, joy! Oh,
joy! The unexpected has happened!  Now I am giving myself a wonderful
surprise I wonder what it will be?  So now, perhaps your demeanor is a
little more calm and a little bit more ecstatic and you begin to ponder all
the positive reasons why you might have missed that train knowing you did
your best to get there.  And as you are pondering, you stand on the
platform a little longer than you might have had you gone stomping off in
anger.  Suddenly, you feel a tap on your shoulder and you turn around.  Low
and behold, a friend that you have not seen in 10 years and who has just
gotten off the train you missed is standing there and he tells you that he
was just coming in to town to surprise you.  And, he turns out to be
someone who actually serves what you want to do better than the person you
were originally taking the train to meet. "Now I understand why I missed
the train, so I wouldn't miss you! Because you, my friend, actually
represent more precisely and more realistically the path I chose to be and
the service I can provide in life."

Too good to be true?  "Oh, that's just a coincidence what a fairy tale -
life isn't like that."  Oh yes it is!  Life works exactly that way when you
let it!  Because everything is connected to everything else. Synchronicity
- coincidence -- not accident.  Co-incidence is actually a simultaneously
manifesting incident.  It doesn't mean it's an accident; it simply means
they are parallel, tandem, interactive. You have built into you all of the
vibrations of all the possible and probable realities you could ever
experience in your life.  The vibration, the emotional vibration that you
are at any given moment utterly determines which of those probable
realities you manifest into physical experience.  You are holographic in
nature, holographic in structure, which simply means that every point and
every place, contains the ability to manifest any part of the whole, at any
time, anywhere.  The vibration you are utterly determines which aspect of
the holographic whole you experience to be your physical reality. Positive
in... positive out. Negative in... negative out.

Your imagination is the library of all the things that could be and that
simultaneously are existent within you.  Your imagination is the template,
the blueprint for all the probable realities you could manifest.  Emotion
is the activation switch for the blueprint of your imagination.  Your
emotion determines which of those particular blueprints, which of those
particular templates will be brought into manifestation.  If you have
positive emotion, excitement, joy, strong desire and ecstasy, you activate
the positive blueprints.  If you have fear, doubt, guilt, judgments, that's
what activates the negative blueprints.  It is as simple as that.  It is
simple physics simple mechanics.