# Self-Integration > Self-integration gathers the fragmented aspects of consciousness into a more coherent whole through recollection, permission, and authorizing the full natural self. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/self-integration # Self-Integration Self-integration, in Bashar's framing, is the process of remembering and gathering the parts of consciousness you had appeared to break yourself up into, and becoming more whole, more holographically connected. It is presented as the deeper work of a transformational age: humans have fragmented themselves through conditioning, and the path forward is recollection — recollecting the pieces, dropping what no longer fits, and authorizing the full natural self. ## The dream of the neglected aspect that did not die In the source session a questioner reports a dream of a handicapped girl being left to die by an older woman, only to look up and smile three days later. Bashar begins from the first principle of dream interpretation — that everything in the dream is an aspect of you — and reads the dream as a portrait of self-integration. What appeared to be the neglect of a part of self was not its death; no aspect of consciousness can actually be set aside. The aspect that no longer serves simply transforms into what the new you requires. This reframes letting go. Releasing an old identity or belief is not abandonment; the apparent death is transformation, and the transformed aspect "will rear up from the ashes of the so-called death, look at you, square in the eye and smile at you and say, see, I could never really die, I could only change." Letting go of a vestige of fear is therefore not neglect of self — it is the cessation of a pretend game of having cut a portion of consciousness off. ## You are gathering yourselves back together Bashar locates this personal recollection inside a collective one. In this transformational age people are remembering more and more of the pieces they created their consciousness to be broken up into, and are now gathering themselves back together — becoming more holistic, more homogeneous, more holographically connected. The dream's rediscovery of a "piece of magic" left behind is a sign that the dreamer is gathering the whole self back together, and in that sense literally waking up. The same session extends the theme to childhood wounding: where the questioner was physically cared for as a child but emotionally undernourished, the work now is to learn how to nurture oneself, to be one's own maternal parent, to feed one's own soul. Because of compartmentalization and fragmentation, most on the planet have never truly grown into actual adults — they are big children — and the opportunity now is to raise oneself to true adulthood by claiming one's spiritual and emotional heritage and breaking the chain of dysfunctionality. ## Authorize the full natural self The practical vehicle Bashar offers for integration is self-authorization: grant yourself permission. Write yourself a permission slip — from your internal parents, or whatever you take your internal authority to be — that says: I grant myself permission to be, even for just a second, my full true natural self. Writing it out makes it a contract, a commitment; the act of literalizing the permission on paper turns a vague wish into a deliberate practice. ## Practical implications When a dream, a feeling, or a memory surfaces that seems to be about an abandoned part of you, read it as recollection rather than neglect: that part never died, it is asking to be transformed into what the now-you requires. Treat letting go of an old identity, belief, or vestige of fear as the end of a pretend game of separation, not as abandonment. You cannot actually set any part of consciousness aside; you can only stop pretending you have. Where childhood conditioning left an emotional gap (you were physically cared for but emotionally undernourished), the work of integration is to become your own parent — to feed your own soul rather than look for the missing nurture outside. Use deliberate self-authorization as a practice: write a literal permission slip to be your full natural self, even for a second. Making the permission physical makes it a commitment. Simple physical tools support the inner work: when a thought hurricane freezes action, write down everything you think needs doing, let the paper act as your organizer, and then act on what excites you. Writing is a support for action, not a substitute for it. ## Representative passages You are remembering more and more and more of the pieces you created your consciousness to be broken up into and are now gathering yourself back together, remembering, remembering who you are, to become more holistic, more homogenous in that sense, more hologo more holographically connected. [...] You can never really, absolutely, truly, set any part of your consciousness truly aside. You can pretend that you have for a long time, you can create it to seem like it's been a long time, but since all time is now, it never really has been set aside.— Bashar, Getting Organized (getting-organized#qa-2) Grant yourself permission. Write yourself a permission slip from your internal parents or whatever you deem your internal authority to be: I grant permission to myself permission to be even for just a second your full true natural self. Literally write out the permission slip, look at it. Write it out. Do it. Because when you do that, it is a contract, it is a commitment.— Bashar, Getting Organized (getting-organized#qa-4) ## Related - [Dreams](https://sassani.app/topic/dreams) - [Natural Self](https://sassani.app/topic/natural-self) - [Self-Awareness](https://sassani.app/topic/self-awareness) - [Permission Slips](https://sassani.app/topic/permission-slips) - [Definitions & Beliefs](https://sassani.app/topic/definitions-and-beliefs) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/self-integration. The HTML page is the source of truth.