# Knowingness > Knowingness is direct certainty above belief where action is automatic, grounded in the simplest certainty of existence and validated by behavior. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/knowingness # Knowingness Knowingness is the state of unquestioned certainty that lies above and beyond belief. Where belief is maintained through the personality structure and must be argued into place, knowingness is described as automatic, fundamental, and behavioral: you do not think about it, you simply act from it. Bashar frames the difference by pointing to the things every person already does without deliberation — walking across a room, recognizing one's own existence — and treats those as the prototype for the certainty he is pointing at. ## Knowingness is distinguished from belief, faith, and information Bashar presents a layered model of how a person holds something to be true. Belief works through the personality triad of belief, emotion, and action; faith is belief still tinged with uncertainty about how reality will manifest; knowingness sits above both. Faith "still implies by definition, that you are not quite certain about how your reality shall manifest," whereas knowingness "will allow you to experience a degree of certainty, a degree of confidence that faith does not contain." Knowingness is not the same as accumulated data — Bashar explicitly says going into knowingness does not mean "you will suddenly know everything there is to know about a particular thing." It is, rather, "a familiarity, an intimate familiarity with the nature of existence that allows you to be at peace within yourself about the existence of your life." The distinction also shows up as a different relationship to effort. To believe a preferred outcome (for example, "I must believe I will not age") is still to operate inside the personality structure, where the issue remains an issue. Knowingness, by contrast, "doesn't care": "those things do not concern you. You do not make your consciousness aware of them." The paradox Bashar draws from this is that the less you make a concern of a belief, the less you tend to encounter the reflected experience of that concern. ## Knowingness is grounded in the simplest certainty: I exist The meditations in this corpus repeatedly return to one anchor: the unquestionable fact of one's own existence. In i Exist And That Is Enough and again in A Matter Of Faith, Bashar walks the listener through settling into the statement "I am" and treating it as the prototype of all knowing. "This is the certainty of knowing," he says. "All you have to do, any time you may believe, any time you may feel, that you do not know, all you have to do is stop and remember what I do know is that I am. This is unquestionable. For if it were not so, there would be no me to realize it." The practical move is to take the quality of certainty you have about your own existence and let it spread to the rest of life. "All the things you say you know, all the things you think you know, all the things you would like to know are so, must have the same quality, the same state of being of knowingness as what you are experiencing right now with the … recognition that you exist." When fear or doubt appears, the prescription is to return to "I am" and look again at the circumstance from there. ## Knowingness and behavior are synonymous In Knowingness And Behavior Are Synonymous, Bashar gives the most operational definition of knowingness in the corpus: it is not a feeling about a belief, it is the doing that follows when something is actually known. "When you know something to be true, you just do it. You don't think about it," he says, using the act of walking to a microphone as a demonstration — no one rehearses each footstep or affirms that the next one will move; they simply walk. Knowingness is therefore visible in behavior, not in claim. "When you behave like you know that to be true, it will be experienced as true." This framing makes knowingness self-validating: the proof that you know something is that the action arises without rehearsal. It also reframes doubt. Trust, in this teaching, is never a matter of degree — "The level of trust is the same for everything you trust in. It's 100%." The variable is what that 100% trust is placed in: "If you have decided that you're putting your 100% trust in something you don't prefer that's out of alignment with yourself … then decide what else to put your trust in." What we usually call doubt is, here, complete trust placed in an unwanted outcome. ## The paradox: let it be all right not to know A recurring claim across these sessions is that knowingness is opened by allowing oneself not to know. Beyond Belief closes on this paradox: "The sooner you allow yourself to let it be all right to know that you don't know anything, the sooner you will know everything you need to. Let it be all right to not know, and you will find that you know everything you need at any given moment to know." A Matter Of Faith states the same principle in sharper form: "From the state of knowing, you know that what you don't know you don't need to know. … That's what knowingness brings you. The certainty that there are things you don't need to know." This is paired with a second, related move: stop generating the question. In Beyond Belief, Bashar tells a questioner who keeps asking how to tell knowing from belief: "If you don't want it to be an issue, don't make it an issue. Don't create the question that then begs the answer. Know that it doesn't need to be set up in your mind as a conundrum." The personality constructs labyrinths of investigation that knowingness simply does not enter. ## Knowingness as a state of acceptance, gratitude, and letting go When Bashar describes the felt quality of the state, he repeatedly names the same cluster: acceptance, gratitude, letting go, and a sense of being supported and unconditionally loved. Beyond Belief presents these as the somatic markers of knowingness — "the sensation of acceptance, that sensation of gratitude, that sensation of letting go, that sensation of knowing beyond the shadow of a doubt … that you are supported, that you are looked out for, that you are unconditionally loved, and that who and what you are created to be is automatically deserving without having to be earned, for if you exist, you deserve it." Knowingness, in this formulation, is "a supreme letting go, a supreme acceptance of total self. A supreme validation and valuation of your existence." ## Practical implications Test a "knowing" by behavior, not by claim. If you find yourself rehearsing, affirming, or arguing for a belief, you are inside the personality structure, not in knowingness. The shift Bashar points to is recognisable when the corresponding action begins to arise without internal debate. Return to "I am" when doubt appears. The teaching treats one's own existence as the master certainty. When fear, doubt, or confusion arises, the prescription is to pause, settle into the undeniable fact that you exist, and then look again at the circumstance from that state before acting. Examine what your 100% trust is placed in. Doubt is reframed as complete trust placed in an unwanted or misaligned outcome. The practical question is not "how do I trust more?" but "what have I placed my trust in?" Let it be all right not to know. The paradox is that needed knowing arrives when the demand to know everything is released. This is presented as the condition, not the reward, of knowingness. Stop generating the question. Where a concern is not actually preferred, the teaching is to drop the question rather than investigate it; the personality-driven question is what keeps the belief structure alive. This is metaphysical guidance rather than medical, legal, or financial direction. Nothing here should be read as a substitute for professional evaluation of any health, legal, or financial situation. ## Representative passages When you behave like you know that to be true, it will be experienced as true. Because remember, knowingness and behavior are synonymous. It's even above and beyond the idea of belief. When you know something to be true, you just do it. You don't think about it.— Bashar, Knowingness And Behavior Are Synonymous (knowingness-and-behavior-are-synonymous#qa-4) What comes before belief, what is above and beyond belief, is simply knowing, knowingness in much the same way that there are certain things that you just know. You don't have to think about it. You don't have to form a belief around it. It is so automatic, so fundamental that you just know it. … Knowingness is a supreme letting go, a supreme acceptance of total self. A supreme validation and valuation of your existence.— Bashar, Beyond Belief (beyond-belief#qa-1) The level of trust is the same for everything you trust in. It's 100%. There is no different level of trust. It's just what you're putting your 100% trust in. … If you have decided that you're putting your 100% trust in something you don't prefer that's out of alignment with yourself that doesn't resonate with you, then decide what else to put your trust in.— Bashar, Knowingness And Behavior Are Synonymous (knowingness-and-behavior-are-synonymous#qa-3) The sooner you allow yourself to let it be all right to know that you don't know anything, the sooner you will know everything you need to. 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