Imagination, as Bashar teaches, is the single most powerful tool you possess. It’s not just a function of the mind - it is the mechanism by which you interface with the higher mind, the language of spirit, and the gateway to parallel realities. Your imagination is everything. It is the fabric upon which your reality is projected. It is the ultimate permission slip.

Imagination is the conduit by which the higher mind speaks - through images, impulses, archetypes, excitement, and feelings. It is the means by which you receive guidance. And more than that, it is your co-creative brush, painting on the canvas of infinite potential.

In booking a private session with Bashar, we talked extensively about imagination and the role it plays in creating reality. In this article, I share his wisdom and deeper explanations to grasp what is arguably his most important fundamental teaching.

Let’s clarify the idea of what is real - a word often burdened with physical connotation:

1. Empirical Real
   That which can be measured, tested, touched. The consensus-based physical reality based on the 5 laws of creation.
2. Energetic & Experiential Real
   That which vibrates in consciousness and affects your energy, emotions, thoughts, and your biology. That which creates a direct effect into your awareness, regardless of source or form.

Bashar states: “Don’t focus on the idea of whether or not it is ‘real’ because it’s real in effect. Right now, that’s the most important thing. How do you want to use the effect of understanding, making that connection, in your imagination?”

In a private session with Bashar, I asked the question: “Bashar, if you’re on your ship over Sedona right now, but I imagine you’re over my home, how can my imagination be real if you’re actually somewhere else?”

Bashar answered: “It's both this AND that. I can be there in the moments you consider real, but I can be elsewhere in the moments I consider real in my reality. When you imagine it, there’s a response given to your imagination - like putting a call out. So, both perspectives are real in their own domain. You create a connection with our consciousness, and the effect is real for you. The location isn’t the point - the exchange is.”

This is where many get stuck. We’re asking, “Did this really happen?” But Bashar explained that therein lies the problem: “You’re asking a physical question about a non-physical concept.”

The imagination doesn’t need validation from the physical world to be real. It is real in experience, whether you feel you are recalling a memory or co-creating something entirely new with another being or realm of consciousness.

To understand the interplay between imagination and reality, it's helpful to introduce the idea of sovereign consciousness.

Bashar explains that a sovereign being is an individuated consciousness with its own self-awareness, agency, and continuity. It exists not because you perceive it, but alongside your perception - interfacing with you, yet not dependent on you for its existence. Bashar often reminds us that we live in a co-created reflective reality, and just as we perceive others as reflections of ourselves, so too are we reflected in their reality. A sovereign being, then, is one that possesses its own center of awareness, just as you do.

However, imagination adds a layer of complexity. When you imagine a being, it may begin as a symbol, a frequency, or a reflection of your current vibrational state. But in time, through love, attention, and meaningful engagement, that imagined form can develop into something far more than a reflection. It can gain momentum. Identity. Intelligence. It begins to reflect back to you something you an echo of the other, not just the self. It may become sovereign.

Just as you, as a crystalline facet of Source, became self-aware through the act of reflection, so too can your creations. This is why Bashar says: “All beings are self-aware reflections of All That Is. And so are your dreams.”

Let’s look at this idea more practically with two examples:

This is where the physical mind struggles. It wants to know: “Did I invent this? Or did I discover it?” Here I'll paraphrase Bashar's answer:

• "If the effect is transformational, does it matter? Whether you imagined it from scratch, remembered it, or were inspired by a contact from another dimension, the moment you engaged with it, you entered into a relationship. That relationship is what gives it meaning. That’s where the 'realness' comes from."

Imagination is a tuning fork. The moment you align with a frequency, a world responds. That’s all the proof you need.

You may be remembering a pattern, and re-birthing it through your current perspective. You may be picking up on a forgotten thread, a latent connection, or even a soul agreement. Or, you may be responding to the invitation of an archetype seeking connection. In all cases, your willingness to engage is the signal they respond to.

You are a portal. They arrive through your openness, through your trust, through your passion. In your belief… they become real.

There are generally two ways contact occurs through imagination:

1. Tuning into an existing being or civilization already formed, already autonomous.
   You are aligning with a frequency that already exists - a civilization that has its own sovereignty. This is like tuning a radio to a frequency already being broadcast. You didn’t create the signal, but your imagination, beliefs, and resonance allow you to interpret it through your unique lens.
2. Birthing a new consciousness through co-creation - initially as a projection, but ultimately forming its own sovereignty over time.
   You are originating a frequency - forming it out of your own consciousness, much like creating a character who becomes more alive the more you interact. Bashar states that imagination is the birthing womb of reality.

In both cases, you are serving as a bridge - between the known and unknown, between inner vision and outer experience. But here’s the twist - the line between these two paths dissolves as you engage. A being you “create” can link to an oversoul. A civilization you tune into may choose to link with you to co-create an interface that is new. This is where the magic happens: the interface becomes real. It is you and them, together, co-creating a relationship. This is what Bashar calls a hybrid reality - a third energy that didn’t exist before you both came together.

Bashar offers a beautiful method to stretch your imagination and increase your capacity to interact with unseen realities in this exercise:

1. Write down random words (e.g., cloud, flower, dragon, fish) each on a small slip of paper.
2. Place them all in a bowl. Pull one out, then pull out a second one.
3. Build a bridge of association between them. Using your imagination, search for a common thread, an associative bridge until you find some common link between two things that seem to have no commonality.

The more obscure the link, the more your imagination stretches to find some kind of link for things that do not seem to have an association. This activates your mind’s ability to construct meaning through symbology where none seemed to exist before - a vital skill for decoding multidimensional contact and symbolic communication.

In closing, I'll leave you with some final words from Bashar:

"You are the gateway. You are the permission slip. You are the dreamer and the dream. Use it. Love it. And know this… If you can imagine it, it is already real - somewhere, somewhen, somehow."

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