# Nature > Nature is a living symbolic facet of consciousness where each animal plant and mineral expresses one aspect of creation with the self reflective human being as the combination of all those aspects creating self awareness through the integration of every facet - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/nature # Nature *A small walker pauses at the edge of roots, water, and tall canopy trees* In Bashar's teaching, nature is not scenery around you but a living symbolic facet of your own consciousness. Each animal, plant, and mineral expresses one aspect of creation as it appears in your civilization; the self-reflective being called human is the combination of all those aspects, and that combination is what gives you self-awareness. To damage an aspect of nature is therefore to suppress the matching facet within yourselves, and to replenish a facet within is to invite nature itself to re-express it. The chapter traces this core relation and the practical orientation Bashar draws from it: see whole systems rather than disconnected parts, relate to nature without separation, and prefer being natural over being normal. ## Nature as the multidimensional crystal Bashar's central image is that your entire civilization is one multidimensional crystal, and each animal, plant, and mineral is a single facet of it. You, as the self-reflective being, are the combination of every facet, and that combination is what creates your sentiency — not a separate consciousness looking at nature from outside, but the integral of all nature's aspects made self-aware. Because the relationship is interior, every injury to nature is simultaneously an injury to the human. When you degrade, defile, or render extinct one aspect of nature, Bashar says you suppress that same aspect within yourselves and "create yourselves to function incompletely, not as a whole being … having gaps, having holes in your makeup." The environmental stress you observe outside is a readable reflection of which facets of collective consciousness have been rendered sterile. The reverse also holds: because you are the totality, no facet is forever lost. If you resurrect an aspect within consciousness, Bashar says certain physiological mutations may occur so that "a new species will arise to then represent the symbol that perhaps was represented by an old species that became extinct." Nature can be replenished through the replenishment of your own consciousness. ## Natural versus normal A key distinction Bashar draws in this session is between being natural and being normal. He tells the audience, "You are not seeking to be normal. You are seeking to be natural," and warns that "the normalcy you have created in your society is at the expense of your own nature." Normalcy is a social construction that requires suppressing facets of wholeness; being natural is the return to the integral relation those facets already hold. The practical instruction that follows is to commune, communicate, and interact with nature in order to learn what each form of animal, plant, and mineral consciousness symbolizes about you. Nurture them, Bashar says, "as you allow them to show you how to nurture and love yourselves wholly, totally, completely, unconditionally." ## Relating without separation Across sessions, Bashar frames the human–nature relationship as one of reciprocal participation rather than observation from outside. The Lemurians are cited as an example of a people "exceedingly connected intuitively to nature" who "ebbed and flowed within nature completely" and "did not see themselves in any way, shape, or form, or experience as separate from nature." They treated themselves as an extension of it. That participation has a concrete, felt dimension. Bashar describes breathing with plants: "With every breath in, of their perfume, you are also allowing them to take a breath in of you, of what you give off in your breath. The carbon dioxide … And in that interchange is information and sharing and love and relationship." The image is symbiosis read as communication. Listening and feeling are the modes of access. Bashar says this recognition "occurs on your planet all the time when you are willing to listen, when you are willing to feel," and points to the pine as a symbol in the plant kingdom that forms a direct link to what you call nature. ## Whole systems before components When the conversation turns to working with nature's energies, Bashar consistently directs attention away from components toward whole systems. "Start thinking in a different way," he says; "start looking at whole systems instead of components. … so that you can see the balances, the currents, the flows that exist, the exchanges that exist on the various levels in nature." Within that whole-systems view, trees — and especially the tallest ones — are described as antennae: they rise from the earth, extend as feelers, pick up subtle and higher-frequency energies, and act as step-down transformers carrying that energy into the earth. Bashar suggests there are ways to connect with them that harm neither tree nor human and can benefit both. The same whole-system principle applies when a person feels drawn to help in a place of suffering. Bashar's guidance is to act on whatever you are genuinely attracted to do, without futility: if you are in a place and capable of helping someone, you are making a difference, and you will only be drawn to those who are willing to be assisted by your desire — you cannot help anyone who does not attract help to themselves. ## Practical implications Bashar's orientation suggests a few concrete shifts in how a learner can approach nature, drawn from the cited passages: Read the reflection. When a species or ecosystem is under stress, treat it as information about a facet of collective consciousness that has been suppressed, rather than only as an external problem to manage. Replenish inwardly. Because nature responds to the wholeness of consciousness, practices that integrate and complete your own being are described as a genuine form of ecological renewal — not a substitute for action, but its interior complement. Participate, do not just observe. Reciprocal acts like breathing with plants, listening, and feeling for the symbolic link a being carries are presented as the actual mode of relationship. Prefer natural over normal. Notice where conformity to a constructed "normal" requires suppressing facets of your wholeness, and treat being natural — true to your full being — as the higher aim. See the whole system. In any practical engagement with nature's energies or living beings, look first for the balances, currents, flows, and exchanges already present; work with them rather than extracting components. These are orientations toward relationship, not medical, ecological, or technical directives. Bashar's framing does not replace conservation science, medical treatment, or ecological expertise; it describes the inner posture from which a learner approaches nature and the symbolic correspondence between collective consciousness and the living world. ## Representative passages Each animal, each plant, each mineral reflects a different aspect. Each contains a unique aspect, one of the facets of the facets of the multidimensional crystal that your entire civilization is. While you, as the thinking beings, as the sentient beings, as the self-reflective beings, you are a combination of all of those aspects …— Bashar, Nature Of Nature (nature-of-nature#text) You are not seeking to be normal. You are seeking to be natural. In many ways, the normalcy you have created in your society is at the expense of your own nature. Be true to yourselves. And nature will be true to you.— Bashar, Nature Of Nature (nature-of-nature#text) They were exceedingly connected intuitively to nature. They ebbed and flowed and flowed within nature completely. They did not see themselves in any way, shape, or form, or experience as separate from nature. They saw themselves as an extension of it.— Bashar, Dolphin Et Workshop Full (dolphin-et-workshop-full#qa-4) With every breath in, of their perfume, you are also allowing them to take a breath in of you, of what you give off in your breath. The carbon dioxide, you understand? And in that interchange is information and sharing and love and relationship.— Bashar, Dolphin Et Workshop Full (dolphin-et-workshop-full#qa-5) You have to start thinking in a different way. You have to start looking at whole systems instead of components. You need to start understanding everything as one whole system so that you can see the balances, the currents, the flows that exist, the exchanges that exist on the various levels in nature.— Bashar, Everything Is Relevant In Its Own Context (everything-is-relevant-in-its-own-context#qa-3) ## Related - [Holographic Universe](https://sassani.app/topic/holographic-universe) - [Interconnectedness](https://sassani.app/topic/interconnectedness) - [Earth Changes](https://sassani.app/topic/earth-changes) - [Dolphins & Cetaceans](https://sassani.app/topic/dolphins-and-cetaceans) - [Unconditional Love](https://sassani.app/topic/unconditional-love) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/nature. The HTML page is the source of truth.