# The 13th Frequency > The 13th Frequency is Bashar's term for a transition frequency between physical and nonphysical consciousness, a processing number that serves as a portal to the unknown and a gateway to higher-self and oversoul levels. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/the-13th-frequency # The 13th Frequency In The13th Floor, Bashar presents the number 13 as a transition frequency — a vibrational resonance defining the relationship between lower-frequency physical dimensionality and the higher, more rarefied realms of non-physical consciousness. Archetypally it is a gateway or doorway through which consciousness connects to higher self, oversoul, and spiritual realms. The teaching is a framework for inner exploration, not a claim of a measurable physical frequency or a prediction about external events. ## A processing number, not a superstition Bashar directly addresses why 13 carries superstitious and fearful associations in human culture. The fearful meanings have been attached only because 13 is recognized, even unconsciously, as a connection to more rarefied realms of spirit — and a humanity out of touch with its inner self has come to fear that recognition. In this framing, the fear of 13 is itself information: it points to a culture that has lost contact with the inner realms the number represents. The number is described as a processing frequency. Contemplating it or focusing on it in meditation is said to open specific doorways within consciousness, helping you connect to higher-self, oversoul, and spiritual realms. The processing is inward: it brings forward what has been hidden, so it can be integrated. ## The 13th floor as the portal of the unknown The session's central image is the 13th floor hidden between the 12th and 14th in buildings that omit it. Bashar names 13 the portal of the unknown and stresses that it is best to make a friend of the unknown. The challenge is playful and literal at once: go and find the 13th floor in a building that doesn't have one — you may find it in your dreams, or even momentarily on a 13th floor that isn't there. What inhabits the 13th floor cannot hurt you, because it is only the hidden portion of yourself — all the things you have taken and hidden between the other floors of your consciousness. Finding the 13th floor is therefore an act of recovery: retrieving the disowned self and making it accessible once again to the elevator of your imagination. ## Practical implications If 13 carries a charge for you, treat the charge as information. Bashar locates the superstition in an unconscious recognition of a connection to inner realms that an out-of-touch culture has learned to fear. Use contemplation of the number as a processing tool. Focusing on it in meditation is presented as a way to open specific doorways within your own consciousness and connect to higher-self and oversoul levels. Befriend the unknown. The 13th floor is the portal of the unknown; making a friend of the unknown is the suggested orientation toward what has been hidden. Treat what arises there as disowned self, not threat. Nothing on the 13th floor can hurt you — it is the portion of yourself you have hidden between the other floors of consciousness, now made accessible again. ## Representative passages 13 is a transition number, a transition frequency, representative archetypally of a gateway, a doorway, through which consciousness can connect to higher levels of awareness, higher dimensions of experience. [...] It is a processing number, a processing frequency. 13 represents in many ways the actual portal of the unknown, and it is best to make a friend of the unknown.— Bashar, The13th Floor (the13th-floor#qa-21) There is nothing that inhabits the 13th floor that can hurt you — it is only the hidden portion of yourself, all the things you have taken and hidden between the other floors of your consciousness. It is time to find that 13th floor and make it accessible once again to the elevator of your imagination.— Bashar, The13th Floor (the13th-floor#qa-21) ## Related - [Consciousness](https://sassani.app/topic/consciousness) - [Fear](https://sassani.app/topic/fear) - [Higher Self](https://sassani.app/topic/higher-self) - [Dream Reality](https://sassani.app/topic/dream-reality) - [Guidance](https://sassani.app/topic/guidance) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/the-13th-frequency. The HTML page is the source of truth.