# Intention > Intention in Bashar's teaching is the action itself not the contemplation while behavior reveals the real intention and the law of what you put out is what you get back returns intention to the sender through synchronicity. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/intention # Intention *A hooded lantern illuminates one section of a branching path* Intention, in Bashar's teaching, is not the contemplation of doing — it is the doing. Where most people locate intention as a private mental posture that precedes action, Bashar locates it as the action: the reaching-out itself that supports a desire. The proof of intention is behavioral, and the failure mode people commonly diagnose as "weak intention" is, in this framing, a confusion between the actual intention (visible in behavior) and the advertised one (stated in words). The chapter also draws a sharp distinction between intention (the goal) and detail (the specific route), and frames the law of "what you put out is what you get back" as the mechanism by which intention is returned to its sender. ## Intention is the action, not the thought of the action Bashar's core move on intention is to collapse the gap between intending and doing. In Communication, when a questioner fixates on the analytical steps needed to reach a goal (selling land, moving east, finding the money), Bashar distinguishes the intention from the details: "You are focusing on the detail and not the intention." The intention is the oriented energy behind the goal; the analytical mind is useful only as a directional finder, not as the journey itself. The teaching is to put the energy toward "the thing that really excites you as your overriding intention" and let the details take care of themselves, rather than pouring energy onto each intermediate step. This re-frames what people usually call a failure of will. If someone is not acting, the teaching is not that their intention is weak but that they have not actually intended the thing they say they want — their behavior is the intention, and that behavior currently points elsewhere. ## Behavior reveals the real intention Because intention is action, the action itself becomes the diagnostic. What a person actually does is "representative of their real intention"; what they say is comparatively unreliable. This is the operational test the teaching offers: when stated preference and observed behavior disagree, the behavior is the truthful report. There is no separate, hidden intention that the behavior is betraying; the behavior is the intention. This has a sharp consequence for self-knowledge. A person who insists they intend one thing while repeatedly doing another is not a hypocrite in this framework; they are accurately revealing that the definition of "more preferable choice" in their belief system is pointing at the behavior they keep enacting. In Communication, Bashar frames this as absolute motivation: "You will always, in every single case, you will always choose what you perceive to be the choice that is closest to pleasure and furthest from pain." The apparent exception (a self-described preferred choice that is never taken) is explained by a definition somewhere in the belief system that renders the untaken choice more painful than the taken one. The fix is not to strengthen intention but to find and change that definition. ## Intention versus detail: the symbol and the end result The clearest practical distinction in these sessions is between the intention (the end result you want) and the details (the specific path that gets you there). In Communication, Bashar tells a questioner who keeps visualizing the precise route by which they expect their desire to arrive: "Use what your analytical mind gives you as a symbol, as the target energy itself, as representational of the energy itself. It could happen just as precisely as you have seen it, but the image you have conjured up can also simply act as a directional finder." The rule that follows is exact: "The intention always will [manifest literally]; the details don't have to." Insisting that the details manifest literally — the specific job, the specific sum of money, the specific route — spends energy crystallizing intermediate steps rather than letting all of it flow into the end result. The teaching is that rigid insistence on the how slows the manifestation of the what, because each added detail the personality insists on must itself be created. ## One intention at a time Bashar presents intention as singular by nature: at any given moment a person has exactly one intention, just as they experience one reality at a time. The apparent experience of competing intentions is, in this view, the experience of shifting between different definitions of what is preferable — but only one is ever active in the now. This is why the test of intention is the present behavior rather than a list of long-range commitments. The All Aboard The Train meditation puts this into practice: the meditator is asked to choose one starship, one program on the holodeck, and commit to it as the ship leaves the station, rather than endlessly walking between ramps while docked. The image makes the same point operationally — commitment to one intention in the now is what lets the journey begin. ## Intention and the third law The third law of creation ("what you put out is what you get back") is the mechanism Bashar uses to explain how intention is returned. In Is There A Santa Clause, the Santa Claus archetype is read as a karmic-reflective entity: "the idea of negative intention was reflected back as negative experience; positive intention, reflected back as positive experience." This is not a moral judgment delivered from outside; it is presented as the same mirror logic Bashar applies everywhere. Physical reality "doesn't exist except as a reflection of what you strongly believe is true for you," so the intention you put out — behaviorally, vibrationally — is what the mirror returns to you. This connects intention to integrity. When divine will and one's own will are understood as the same, intention and will are "one and the same"; balance and integrity follow from acting on a single coherent intention rather than from performing a separate, more respectable intention for display. ## Practical implications Read behavior as the real intention. The teaching's diagnostic is to look at what is actually being done, not what is being said. Persistent inaction on a stated preference signals a definition in the belief system, not a weak intention to be strengthened. Put energy into the end result, not the route. Use the analytical image of the goal as a directional finder, and let the path take care of itself. Insisting on a specific route crystallizes intermediate steps and slows the arrival of the actual preferred outcome. Stop insisting on the literal detail. The intention can manifest in many forms; fixing on one specific form (one job, one source of money, one sequence of events) is what makes the process feel stuck. Treat the third law as feedback. What returns is information about what is being put out; "negative intention reflected back as negative experience" is a reading of the current state, not a punishment delivered from outside. Commit to one intention in the now. Competing intentions are sequential, not simultaneous; choosing one and acting on it (rather than reviewing all options indefinitely) is what allows movement to begin. This is metaphysical guidance, not medical, legal, or financial direction; no part of it should be read as advising anyone to ignore professional evaluation of any concrete situation. ## Representative passages You are focusing on the detail and not the intention. … Use what your analytical mind gives you as a symbol, as the target energy itself, as representational of the energy itself. It could happen just as precisely as you have seen it, but the image you have conjured up can also simply act as a directional finder. It doesn't necessarily have to manifest literally in terms of the detail. The intention always will; the details don't have to.— Bashar, Communication (communication#text) You will always, in every single case, you will always choose what you perceive to be the choice that is closest to pleasure and furthest from pain. … Only as you define what you believe to be pleasurable or painful, will you then be motivated to make choices in accordance to that belief.— Bashar, Monologues (monologues#text) The idea of negative intention was reflected back as negative experience; positive intention, reflected back as positive experience by this being, by this nature spirit, by this archetypal facet.— Bashar, Is There A Santa Clause (is-there-a-santa-clause#text) When you create more things in which something thus then needs to happen, you must create more time for all those things you have created to happen in. When you thus operate more holistically and allow yourself to experience more of the now by living in the present, you experience and create less time.— Bashar, Blueprint For Contact (blueprint-for-contact#text) ## Related - [Excitement](https://sassani.app/topic/excitement) - [Integrity](https://sassani.app/topic/integrity) - [Manifestation](https://sassani.app/topic/manifestation) - [Definitions & Beliefs](https://sassani.app/topic/definitions-and-beliefs) - [Personality Structure](https://sassani.app/topic/personality-structure) - [Synchronicity](https://sassani.app/topic/synchronicity) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/intention. The HTML page is the source of truth.