# Brain > The brain is the physical translation of consciousness an electromagnetic matrix that produces mentality and words as the physical antenna for consciousness not its origin while translating beliefs shaped filters - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/brain # Brain In Bashar's account, the brain is not the source of consciousness — it is the physical translation of consciousness. You are fundamentally a non-physical consciousness; to express yourself as a physical being, you create an electronic matrix, and the colloquial term for that matrix is "brain." As that electromagnetic matrix interacts with itself, it produces mind, mentality, and the frequencies that translate non-physical consciousness into the vibrations of physical communication you call words. Mentality, therefore, is not a separate thing that needs to be translated into physical reality — mentality already is the physical translation. > — Words and Mentality Are Physical Manifestations (Three Absolutes 1992) (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/words-and-mentality-are-physical-manifestations-three--4d50b33f) The brain is consciousness's physical antenna, not its origin. ## The whole brain as a map of the multiverse When Bashar says "brain," he means the entire brain — from the surface of what you call your analytical mind, all the way to the center of the doorway through which you are connected to every other dimension of reality in existence. The brain is, point for point, a representation of the entirety of the multiverse in one small area of space and time. Traveling anywhere in space is really the same as traveling anywhere within your brain. When you allow yourself to plunge through the center of your brain, you invert back upon yourself and see yourself for exactly what you are — the creator. > — Mass Consciousness (qa-8), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/mass-consciousness) This is the same inward-doorway framing that appears in the navigation material: real space travel is traveling within the self, and analysis alone only slides around on the surface of brain-space without penetrating the doorway within the brain that is true traveling. > — Mass Consciousness (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/mass-consciousness) ## The brain as a belief-shaped filter *Identical water rills pass a natural crystal slab and separate into different channels* Because the brain is the physical translator, what it translates is shaped by the beliefs you hold. You are living within your imagination at this very moment, and all that you have for so long called physical reality is simply a projection of what you imagine reality to be. You do not see with your eyes or hear with your ears, but with your brain instead. The belief systems you were brought up with create patterns, habits, frameworks, and filters, and it is through these filters that you constantly rearrange what your senses receive into patterns that fit what you were taught to believe are real. Even on a physiological level, you always transform what your senses receive into a pattern that makes sense according to what you have been taught — so you are creating your own reality utterly. > — Yardsticks (qa-17), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/yardsticks) ## The amygdala switch: paralysis as calibration The brain is also the mechanism that fixes your frequency during dimensional shifts. When you allow yourself to shift out into other dimensions and then want to stop, you have to throw a switch in the amygdala of your brain to paralyze your body. This forces you to remain in one particular modality, one particular frequency, so that the dimension you are shifting to can be precisely calibrated rather than randomly flying off — you know not where. The same switch paralyzes most people when they dream; if it did not, you would act out your dreams, and that is exactly what sleepwalking is — the amygdala switch hasn't gone on. > — Shifting Dimensions Throwing A Switch In The Amygdala Of The Brain (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/shifting-dimensions-throwing-a-switch-in-the-amygdala--d08c2b01) The fear that sometimes accompanies this (the feeling of being pinned down) is only the survival instinct of the physical mind going into fight-or-flight, believing it is being annihilated or controlled. > — Shifting Dimensions Throwing A Switch In The Amygdala Of The Brain (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/shifting-dimensions-throwing-a-switch-in-the-amygdala--d08c2b01) ## Harmonizing the two hemispheres *A figure-eight path links two abstract network fields* Because the brain's two hemispheres can fall out of smooth communication, Bashar offers a practical harmonizing practice. Focus the gaze on fingers held in front of the eyes and slowly track them in a figure eight — always coming back to the center, going to one side, back to the center, the other side, back to the center, with the eyes only, not the head. Over time, music can be added to represent the figure-eight and the exploration of both sides. Practiced patiently, this can improve the ability of the different areas of the brain to communicate more smoothly with one another by harmonizing and unitizing the two hemispheres. > — Seizures And Harmonizing Brain Hemispheres (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/seizures-and-harmonizing-brain-hemispheres) The same harmonizing principle underlies the sacred-circuit symbols Bashar offers: they are permission slips, not an external force that puts you into a state — they mirror energy patterns and can allow greater flow through the neurological pathways they represent. > — Activating Pathways In The Brain With Sacret Circuits (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/activating-pathways-in-the-brain-with-sacret-circuits) ## Practical implications The brain teaching has three practical corollaries that do not require any metaphysical commitment to apply. First, because you perceive with the brain through belief-shaped filters, the same sensory data produces different realities for different belief systems — so changing a belief is the most direct way to change what you perceive, not the other way around. > — Yardsticks (qa-17), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/yardsticks) Second, the figure-eight eye-tracking exercise is a body-level practice for helping the brain's hemispheres communicate more smoothly, offered by Bashar specifically in response to a question about seizures; > — Seizures And Harmonizing Brain Hemispheres (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/seizures-and-harmonizing-brain-hemispheres) it is a permission slip, not medical treatment, and the corpus frames it as such. Third, where sleep or out-of-body experiences produce paralysis or a pinned-down feeling, the reframe — that the amygdala switch is fixing your frequency so the dimension you are shifting to can be calibrated — is offered as a way to meet the experience without fight-or-flight. > — Shifting Dimensions Throwing A Switch In The Amygdala Of The Brain (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/shifting-dimensions-throwing-a-switch-in-the-amygdala--d08c2b01) Nothing in this material is medical, legal, or financial direction; the figure-eight exercise and the amygdala-switch reframe are presented as permission slips, and any persistent neurological or sleep condition should be discussed with a qualified practitioner. ## Representative passages You are fundamentally a non-physical consciousness; that is your true nature. Translating yourself as physical reality means you create an analogy for the vibrations that exist within your non-physical consciousness. … As a non-physical being, in order to express yourself as a physical being, you create an electronic matrix. The colloquial term for this is a brain.— Bashar, I am speaking of the entire brain, from the surface of what you call your analytical mind, all the way to the center of the doorway through which you are connected to every other dimension of reality in existence. Your brain is, point for point, a representation of the entirety of the multiverse in one little area in terms of space and time. Traveling anywhere in space is really the same as traveling anywhere within your brain.— Bashar, When you want to stop doing that, you have to throw a switch in the amygdala of your brain to paralyze your body. Because then you are, in some senses, forcing yourself to remain in one particular modality, one particular frequency. … This is what happens for most people on your planet, also when you dream. Because if that switch didn't paralyze you, you would act out your dreams. This is what happens with sleepwalking. The amygdala switch hasn't gone on.— Bashar, Allow there to be a focus on the fingers in this way, in front of the eyes, and thus then slowly begin to allow him to track your fingers with his eyes in a figure eight. Always coming back to the center, going into this side, back to the center, this side, back to the center, just with the eyes, not with the head. … both hemispheres of the brain to harmonize and unitize them in this way, you may find over time some improvement in the ability of the different areas of the brain to more smoothly communicate with one another.— Bashar, You do not see with your eyes or hear with your ears, but with your brain instead. The belief systems you have been brought up with create patterns, habits, frameworks, and filters, and it is through these that you are constantly rearranging what your senses receive into patterns that fit what you have been taught to believe are real.— Bashar, ## Related - [Higher Mind](https://sassani.app/topic/higher-mind) - [Physical Mind](https://sassani.app/topic/physical-mind) - [Personality Prism](https://sassani.app/topic/personality-prism) - [Nine Levels of Consciousness](https://sassani.app/topic/nine-levels-of-consciousness) - [Sacred Circuitry](https://sassani.app/topic/sacred-circuitry) - [Consciousness](https://sassani.app/topic/consciousness) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/brain. The HTML page is the source of truth.