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Darryl Anka and Bashar: The Complete Guide

October 22, 2026

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In this article
  1. Key Takeaways
  2. Who Is Darryl Anka?
  3. A Timeline of Darryl Anka and Bashar
  4. Who Is Bashar?
  5. First Contact: Channeling Bashar
  6. The Formula: Bashar's Five Steps
  7. The Five Laws of Reality
  8. How Reality Works According to Bashar
  9. Seven Things People Get Wrong About Bashar
  10. Karma, Telepathy, Needs and Signals
  11. Lines Worth Keeping From Our Conversations
  12. Bashar's Predictions and the Open Contact Event
  13. What Critics and Scholars Say
  14. Bashar Compared With Other Channeled Teachings
  15. Every Darryl Anka and Bashar Book
  16. All Our Conversations With Darryl Anka
  17. Where to Start With Darryl Anka and Bashar
  18. Frequently Asked Questions About Darryl Anka and Bashar
  19. Sources and Further Reading

By the Next Level Soul team. Updated October 22, 2026.

Darryl Anka (often searched as "Daryl Anka") is an American channeler and former Hollywood visual effects artist who has spoken as Bashar, a being he describes as an extraterrestrial from the civilization of Essassani, since the early 1980s. Bashar’s central teaching is the Formula: follow your highest excitement, take action, release the need for a specific outcome, stay positive and drop the beliefs that get in the way. This guide gathers Darryl’s story, Bashar’s ideas, every book, the origin film and every conversation we have shared with him.

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Key Takeaways

  • Who: Darryl Anka (Darryl, two r’s) is an American channeler, author and filmmaker. He worked in Hollywood visual effects before he began channeling Bashar in the early 1980s.
  • What: Bashar is the being Darryl channels. Darryl describes him as an extraterrestrial from the Essassani civilization, speaking to us from what we would perceive as our future.
  • The core idea: You create your experience of reality through your beliefs and your state of being, and you can change both.
  • The method: The Formula, in five steps. Follow your highest excitement, take action, let go of insisting on the outcome, stay in a positive state, and drop fear-based beliefs.
  • The foundation: The Five Laws of Reality, from “You exist” to “Everything changes except the first four.”
  • The big prediction: Open contact with other civilizations, with a first undeniable event expected around the end of 2026 or the start of 2027.
  • The origin film: First Contact: Channeling Bashar, which Next Level Soul founder Alex Ferrari helped make.
  • The conversations: Eight Next Level Soul podcast episodes and two summit sessions, all listed below with what you will learn in each.

It is long on purpose. Read it start to finish, or jump to the part you need. Every section stands on its own.

Who Is Darryl Anka?

Darryl Anka is an American channeler, speaker, author and filmmaker. For more than forty years he has entered a focused, altered state of awareness and spoken as Bashar, a being he describes as an extraterrestrial. Many people have watched those sessions, and many say the ideas changed how they live.

A quick note on spelling. It is Darryl, with two r’s. You will often see it written “Daryl,” and plenty of people search it that way. Same man. Same Bashar. If you came here looking for Daryl Anka, you are in the right place.

A Hollywood visual effects artist first

Darryl did not begin as a spiritual teacher. He began as a craftsman. He came up in Hollywood visual effects in the late 1970s, and in our first conversation he dated his start in the field to 1977. The long-running interview series BATGAP describes more than thirty years in miniature effects, storyboards, sets and designs. Work attributed to him in interviews and in a scholarly paper includes Star Trek: The Motion Picture, I, Robot, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Live Free or Die Hard and Iron Man.

That background shapes how he speaks. He spent his working life building believable worlds out of models, light and illusion. He knows how a convincing image is made. So when he talks about reality as something closer to a projection than a solid object, he is not speaking from nowhere. He has spent decades behind the curtain of how images are built. In his words from episode 27: “I like to keep it grounded.”

1973: the sighting over Los Angeles

The story Darryl tells begins in 1973. He says he saw a spacecraft over Los Angeles in broad daylight, and he has described two close sightings. He says the experience turned him toward spiritual study: metaphysics, consciousness, the nature of reality. In his account, it was also the first contact with Bashar, part of an agreement he believes he made before he was born, to carry Bashar’s messages into the world.

You do not need to share that belief to find the story worth knowing. It is the root of everything that follows. We tell it fully in the origin film covered below.

The early 1980s: the first channeling

Darryl began channeling Bashar in the early 1980s. Sources differ on the exact year. Some, including the author biography on one of Darryl’s own books, say 1983. A 2012 academic paper presented through CESNUR (the Center for Studies on New Religions) says 1984. We use “the early 1980s” and let both stand. By 1985, sessions were being videotaped, and recordings from the late 1980s began to circulate.

In our 2022 conversation, Darryl described nearly forty years of channeling and talked about why he believes the message is arriving now. The thread has run unbroken since.

How a session works

Darryl describes channeling as a real altered state of consciousness. He links it to measurable differences in brain activity and has pointed to gamma-wave activity in particular. That is his explanation, offered as a description of his experience rather than a laboratory finding.

What an audience sees is a change in presence. A scholar who studied his sessions describes an energetic, clear and often funny delivery, a firm posture, frequent gestures and direct answers to questions from the audience. Humor plays a large part. Bashar jokes, teases and deflates seriousness, then lands a point.

Most importantly, Darryl says you do not have to believe any of it. In episode 27 he put it plainly: “So no one has to believe that Bashar is real.” The invitation is to test the ideas in your own daily life. If they work, keep them. If they do not, set them down.

Beyond the channel

Darryl writes, directs and produces his own films. BATGAP mentions a fictional documentary called Dearly Departed, built around interviews with the spirits of the deceased. You can watch it on Next Level Soul TV. He and his wife run Boggled Escape Rooms in the Los Angeles area (the business is in Calabasas), and Darryl sometimes works as game master. He contributed a chapter on Bashar to the 2021 book Making Contact, edited by Alan Steinfeld. His author site is darrylanka.com, and the official Bashar site, bashar.org, carries recordings, events and sign-ups.

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Watch · Episode 27 · February 9, 2022

Bashar’s Formula to Awake with Darryl Anka

Darryl tells his own story, from visual effects to the first channeling, and walks through the Formula step by step.

Darryl Anka at a glance

FactDetail
NameDarryl Anka (frequently misspelled “Daryl”)
Known forChanneling Bashar
Born1951, according to the CESNUR paper
Career before channelingHollywood visual effects, from 1977
First sighting1973, Los Angeles
First channeling1983 or 1984, depending on the source
BooksThe New Metaphysics (1987), Blueprint for Change (1990), Quest for Truth (1997), The Formula and more
FilmFirst Contact: Channeling Bashar
Official sitesbashar.org and darrylanka.com

A Timeline of Darryl Anka and Bashar

Here is the whole story in one table. Dates come from interviews, the 2012 CESNUR paper, book listings and our own episode archive. Where sources differ, we say so.

YearEvent
1951Darryl Anka born (CESNUR paper)
1973Reported sightings of a spacecraft over Los Angeles
1977Begins working in Hollywood visual effects
1983 or 1984First channeling of Bashar (sources differ)
1985Sessions begin to be videotaped
1987The New Metaphysics
1990Bashar: Blueprint for Change, with Luana Ewing
1995Illustrates Beyond My Wildest Dreams: Diary of a UFO Abductee
1997Quest for Truth, with Steve Meyers
2002 to 2003Bashar Paperback series published in Japan
2010Bashar Facebook page launches (per CESNUR)
2012CESNUR paper on Darryl Anka and Bashar
2014Buddha at the Gas Pump interview
2020The Masters of Limitation
2021Chapter in Making Contact
February 2022First Next Level Soul Podcast conversation, episode 27
2024Episode 486 on the 2027 predictions; The Compass; The Great Awakening
2025Episodes 544 and 600
July 2026Episode 709, Full Disclosure
Late 2026 to early 2027The window Bashar names for a first undeniable contact event

Who Is Bashar?

Bashar is the name of the being Darryl Anka channels. Darryl describes him as an extraterrestrial from a civilization called Essassani, whose people are known as the Sassani. That is how Bashar presents himself, and it is the frame we use in this guide: this is who Darryl says is speaking. For a short profile of Bashar on his own, see Who Is Bashar?

What is channeling?

Channeling is the practice of a person entering a focused, receptive state and allowing information to come through that they experience as originating beyond their ordinary self. People have done versions of it for thousands of years under names like oracle, trance medium and inspired speaker. Modern channeling in the West grew through the twentieth century, and the Seth material of the 1960s and 70s helped bring it into public view. For a wider look at the tradition, see our guide to channelers and mediums.

Where Bashar says he is from

The 2012 CESNUR paper summarizes Darryl’s description of Essassani this way. It is a world about 500 light years from Earth, in the direction of Orion, and it is described as a place of living light. The Sassani are presented as a civilization that has moved beyond the fear-based ways of thinking that still shape much of life on Earth.

Here is the part that surprises first-time listeners. Bashar does not describe himself as simply far away in space. He describes himself as existing in a parallel reality, in a time frame that we would perceive as our future. In that telling he is not only a visitor. He is, in a sense, a future version of the same larger self that Darryl is today. The relationship is closer to family than to guest.

That idea echoes through every conversation we have had with Darryl. In episode 709, “Full Disclosure: Meeting Our Cosmic Family,” the framing is explicit: contact is a family reunion.

What the name means

Neither the scholarly paper nor the official site we reviewed explains the meaning of the name “Bashar.” We would rather tell you that than invent a translation. If Darryl or his team publishes one, we will add it here.

What Bashar is not

Bashar is not asking to be worshipped, obeyed or followed. Listen to any session and the same notes repeat. Test the ideas. Use what works. Take responsibility for your own life. The teaching points back at you, not at him.

That matters for how this material fits the Next Level Soul view that the power is within you. Bashar’s message lands in the same place. Every tool is a mirror meant to help you remember what you already are.

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Watch · Episode 147 · November 17, 2022

Bashar’s Channeled Message to Humanity with Darryl Anka

A conversation about natural frequency, being true to yourself and the message Bashar brings to humanity.

Why Bashar became a global voice

Three things set Bashar apart from many channeled teachers.

  • The language is practical. Bashar talks about frequency, beliefs and action in terms you can test on a Tuesday afternoon.
  • The method is simple. The Formula fits on an index card. We cover it in full below.
  • The delivery is warm and funny. Sessions feel like an unusually clear friend explaining how things work, with a sense of humor about being human.

The reach is real. Bashar’s books have been published widely in Japan, where a large share of his catalog exists in Japanese editions, and recordings circulate in many languages. Darryl’s YouTube channel and bashar.org carry sessions and events for a worldwide audience.

Darryl and Bashar: a quick comparison

Darryl AnkaBashar
WhoHuman channeler, author, filmmakerThe being Darryl channels
OriginLos Angeles areaEssassani, described as about 500 light years away near Orion
RoleReceives and delivers the sessionsOffers the teachings in sessions and events
RelationshipPresent-day selfDescribed as a future-time perspective of the same larger self
Where to finddarrylanka.com, interviews, booksbashar.org, live and recorded sessions

First Contact: Channeling Bashar

If you want to understand how a visual effects artist in Los Angeles came to speak for a being from Essassani, start with the film. First Contact: Channeling Bashar is the origin story. It follows Darryl Anka from the sightings of the 1970s, through the first sessions, to the teachings that now reach people around the world.

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Watch · Official trailer

First Contact: Channeling Bashar

The origin story of Bashar, from the 1973 sighting to the teachings that now reach people around the world.

From inside the project. Next Level Soul founder Alex Ferrari helped make this film. He worked as post-production supervisor, colorist and online editor, the work that takes a film from rough cut to finished picture. The film is available on Next Level Soul TV.

What the film covers

  • The path into contact. The sightings over Los Angeles and what they set in motion for Darryl.
  • The channeling itself. What happens when Darryl enters the state and Bashar begins to speak.
  • The teachings. The core ideas in Bashar’s own framing, from creating your reality to following your excitement.
  • The questions. The film does not hide from skeptics. It sets the doubts beside the stories of people who say the teachings changed their lives.

Why it is the right first watch

Ideas land differently when you know the person carrying them. The film gives you the human story first: a working professional who found himself at the center of something he did not plan. Once you have met that person, the Formula and the Five Laws stop sounding like slogans. They sound like what they are, ideas that one man has tested in his own life for four decades.

It also answers the question most newcomers ask within the first five minutes. Why would anyone take this seriously? The film does not demand belief. It shows you the path and lets you decide.

How to watch it

The film is on Next Level Soul TV. Our full page for the film has the details and the links to watch. Read it here: First Contact: Channeling Bashar on Next Level Soul.

Already watched it? Go straight to the Formula and the Five Laws. Those are the ideas the film points toward.

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The Formula: Bashar’s Five Steps

If Bashar is known for one thing, it is the Formula. It is a short, practical method for moving through life, and it is the most-quoted piece of the teaching by far. Darryl has published it as a compact book, The Formula: The Instruction Manual for Living Your Best Life.

The Formula in one line: act on what excites you most, give it your full effort, let go of insisting on a particular result, do it all from a positive state, and keep dropping the fear-based beliefs that block it.

StepWhat it meansThe common trap
1. Follow your highest excitementAct on whatever feels most alive to you right nowWaiting for a grand life purpose before moving
2. Take actionPut in your full effort, as far as you can go todayExcitement with no action, which Bashar treats as only a wish
3. Let go of the outcomeTake the step without demanding a specific resultGripping the how and the when so tightly you block better routes
4. Stay positiveAct from a steady, open stateSeeking joy while living in dread, which sends a mixed signal
5. Drop fear-based beliefsNotice and release the limiting beliefs that keep the first four steps from workingReading resistance as proof the Formula fails, instead of a belief to examine

Step 1: Follow your highest excitement

Start with the compass. Bashar says excitement is not a mood. It is a signal. Your natural frequency, he says, shows up as the pull toward the thing that feels most alive. In our 2022 conversation, he described returning to that natural frequency as the heart of the work: “That’s our natural frequency.”

This is where people get stuck. They hear “follow your excitement” and picture quitting a job and flying to Bali. That is not the instruction. Excitement shows up in small things. A book you want to open. A call you want to make. A room you want to rearrange. You follow the strongest pull available today, not the grandest one imaginable.

Bashar also makes a point about what happens when you ignore it. In our 2023 conversation, Darryl explained that if you do not act on your passion, your higher mind will not keep sending you new opportunities. The door is not locked. It simply stops being offered while you stand still.

Step 2: Take action

Here is the mechanism in plain terms. Reality, in Bashar’s view, responds to what you do and what you embody, not to what you merely wish for. Excitement with no action stays a daydream. Action with no excitement becomes a grind. The Formula asks for both together.

Full effort does not mean exhaustion. It means doing what you can do today, as completely as you can do it. Ten minutes of real attention beats three hours of distracted obligation.

Step 3: Let go of the outcome

This is the step that sounds hardest and frees the most. Bashar separates direction from demand. You can have a clear intention and still hold the form it arrives in loosely. The demand is where trouble starts. When you insist on one exact result, one exact timeline, one exact route, you narrow the field and treat every detour as failure.

Think of it like driving with a destination but without a hand clenched on the wheel. You still steer. You still go. You simply stay open to a road you did not plan.

Step 4: Stay positive

“Positive” is the most misunderstood word in the Formula. Bashar does not ask for forced cheer. In our practice notes it means a steady, open and trusting state, the opposite of dread. The test is simple. If you want joy but you move through your days braced for disaster, you send two signals at once, and reality, in this view, answers the stronger one.

Positive here is a place to act from. You can feel sad, tired or uncertain and still be positive in this sense, as long as you are not acting from fear that you will never get what you want.

Step 5: Drop fear-based beliefs

Many readers ask what happens when the Formula does not seem to work. Bashar’s answer is almost always about beliefs. That is why the Formula has a fifth step. In episode 27, the practice was described as five steps: the four above, plus dropping fear-based beliefs. In episode 244, Darryl explained why those beliefs persist. People move toward what they believe benefits them. A fear-based belief can make staying still feel safer than moving. Until you see the belief and its payoff, the Formula keeps hitting a wall.

That is why the work is half action and half noticing. You act on excitement. When you feel resistance, you ask what you believe is true that makes this step feel dangerous. Then you test that belief.

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Watch · Episode 244 · May 6, 2023

Bashar Method to Awakening Spiritually In This Dimension with Darryl Anka

The practical episode. Darryl explains how beliefs and states shape what you experience and how to work with them.

A seven-day experiment

You do not need to take any of this on faith. Run it for a week.

  1. Day 1: List five things that excite you, however small.
  2. Day 2 to 5: Pick the strongest. Take one ten-minute step toward it each day.
  3. Each day: Notice where fear shows up. Name it in one sentence. Do not argue with it yet.
  4. Day 6 to 7: Write down any coincidences, openings or surprises. Look for patterns.

At the end of the week, compare notes. That is the experiment Bashar invites everyone to run. Our full walkthrough, with examples, lives in Bashar’s Five Laws of Reality and the Formula. For a step-by-step breakdown of each step, read The Bashar Formula: The Five Steps Explained.

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The Five Laws of Reality

The Formula is the how. The Five Laws are the why. Bashar presents them as the underlying rules of reality that make the Formula work. They are short enough to memorize and deep enough to spend years on.

LawIn plain wordsTest it by
1. You existYour existence is eternal. You cannot become nothing.Noticing how differently you act when you treat your life as ongoing
2. Everything is here and nowAll time and space happen in the present moment.Working with your present state, not only your past story
3. The One is the AllEverything is connected. No one is truly separate from you.Treating a difficult person as a mirror for one day
4. What you put out is what you get backYour state of being shapes what you experience.Changing your state first, then watching what shifts
5. Everything changes except the first fourChange is constant. The laws themselves hold.Letting go of the idea that any situation is permanent

Law 1: You exist

It sounds too obvious to be a law. Look closer. Bashar says that existence itself is the one thing you cannot lose, and that every other fear is a story about losing something less than that. What we call death is a change of form and focus, not an ending. If this resonates, our guide to near-death experiences gathers firsthand accounts that point the same direction.

Practically, this law removes a hidden pressure. If you are not at risk of ceasing to exist, you can afford to take risks that matter.

Law 2: Everything is here and now

This is the law that stretches the mind. In our 2023 conversation, Darryl offered an analogy any filmmaker would love. Picture a film strip. Every frame already exists. Your consciousness is the light of the projector, moving across the frames, and the experience of “time” is the sensation of that light traveling. Past and future are not behind and ahead of you somewhere. They are available frames, accessed from the present.

From that view, Darryl explained, the past is not fixed in the way we assume. It can shift with the present. That is Bashar’s explanation for why people sometimes share memories of events that never happened in this timeline, a phenomenon often called the Mandela Effect. In his account those memories come from parallel realities that touched.

The practical takeaway is gentler than the theory. The only place you can act is now, and the only state you can change is the one you are in.

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Watch · Episode 544 · January 11, 2025

Time is Moving Through You with Darryl Anka

A look at the second law, everything is here and now, and what it means to say time moves through you.

Law 3: The One is the All and the All is the One

This is an old idea in new language. A 2012 scholarly paper traces it to the Hermetic tradition, the Western esoteric current behind the phrase “as above, so below.” Bashar’s version is practical. If everything is connected, then the person who irritates you is part of the same fabric as you, and what you notice in them often points to something in you. For a look at the same insight from another tradition, see our guide to non-duality.

Bashar uses this law to reframe relationships. In episode 600, Darryl said difficult relationships are mirrors for growth. In episode 244, he described guilt as self-judgment. Both come from the same place. Nothing is happening to you from outside the whole of which you are part.

Law 4: What you put out is what you get back

This is the law most people know as “you create your reality.” Bashar’s version has a specific mechanism. It is not what you think about for five minutes in the morning. It is your state of being, the underlying frequency you hold across your day, that organizes what you encounter.

Darryl’s image for this, also from 2023, is a television set. Every program is already playing at once. Your state of being is the dial. You do not create the program. You tune to it. Change the dial and a different program becomes your experience.

This is also the law most often misused. It does not say every hardship is your fault. It says the state you hold is the one thing you can change, and that changing it changes what you can see and reach.

Law 5: Everything changes except the first four

The last law holds the others in place. Everything changes, Bashar says, so no situation is permanent. The painful season will move. The comfortable one will move too. The only things that do not change are the laws themselves.

People find real relief here. If your current chapter feels stuck, Law 5 says that stuck is a state, not a sentence.

How the Laws and the Formula fit together

Think of it as a map and a vehicle. The Five Laws are the map: what reality is and how it behaves. The Formula is the vehicle: how you move through it. Laws 4 and 5 explain why the Formula works. Your state shapes your experience, and everything can change, so you can begin from wherever you are.

For a deeper walkthrough with a seven-day practice, read our dedicated page, Bashar’s Five Laws of Reality and the Formula.

How Reality Works According to Bashar

Underneath the Formula and the Five Laws sits a model of how experience gets made. It is worth learning, because once you see the machinery the rest stops feeling like a list of rules.

The chain in one line: Belief, then state of being, then action, then experience. Change the first link and everything downstream changes.

LinkWhat it isWhere you can work
BeliefWhat you hold to be true about yourself and the worldNotice it, question it, test it
State of beingThe frequency you hold: open, curious, braced, guardedBreath, body, attention, small wins
ActionWhat you do from that stateThe Formula: excitement, effort, openness
ExperienceWhat shows up in your lifeRead it as feedback, not a verdict

Beliefs are the filter

In our 2022 conversation, Darryl spent a long stretch on this idea. Beliefs, he explained, act like a filter on what you can perceive and what you consider possible. Two people walk into the same room and meet different rooms. Bashar’s claim is that the filter does more than color your view. It shapes the options that appear.

Beliefs persist for a reason. In episode 244, Darryl said people move toward what they believe benefits them. A belief like “it is safer not to try” pays you something, namely protection from disappointment. That payoff is what keeps it in place. The work is to see the payoff honestly, then ask whether a belief with a better payoff is available.

Frequency is a spectrum, not a place

Bashar uses the word frequency where many teachers say energy or vibration. In episode 357, Darryl described physical reality as one band on a spectrum. Raise or lower the frequency you hold and you shift how much of the spectrum you can experience. This is why Bashar says that fear-based states feel dense and limited, while open and excited states feel light and wide.

He also draws a line between your natural frequency and the blockages stacked on top of it. Your natural frequency is what remains when the stacked-up fears, shoulds and borrowed opinions are set down. The goal is not to build a new self. It is to clear what is in the way.

The splitting prism: parallel realities

Here Bashar’s model gets bold. In our 2022 conversation, Darryl described parallel Earths using the image of a prism. White light enters a prism and splits into separate colors. In the same way, Bashar says, people holding different beliefs and frequencies drift into different versions of Earth. They may share a street and still be living in different realities.

This is the idea behind his comments about the Mandela Effect and shifting memories. It is also behind his advice on how to meet the current moment. You cannot argue the whole world into your version of reality. You can hold your frequency and let that determine which version you walk into.

It is an enormous claim, and it is Darryl’s and Bashar’s, not ours to prove. What we can say is that the practical advice works whether or not you accept the physics. Choose your state deliberately. Notice how your world responds.

Reality as a projection

Darryl comes from a world of illusion building, and he often reaches for a dream or a film to explain physical life. In episode 27, he described physical reality as an extension of spirit, something like a dream with rules. The rules feel solid because you agreed to them. They are not arbitrary, but they are not ultimate either.

This view carries a quiet freedom. If reality is more like a projection of consciousness than a fixed object, then your relationship to it can change. Your current difficulties become scenes. Scenes can be rewritten from the inside. In his words from episode 600: “Life happens through you, not to you.”

Challenges, not problems

Bashar reframes the word problem. In episode 27, a problem was recast as a challenge: an invitation to use your abilities, not proof something has gone wrong. The reframe is small and does a lot of work. A problem asks to be removed. A challenge asks to be met.

Fear as a belief-driven state

In episode 600, Darryl described fear as a belief-driven state, one that can attract the outcomes people fear. That is a sensitive subject in a hard year, so a word of care. He was not saying that fearful people cause disasters. He was describing a loop. Fear shapes attention. Attention shapes choices. Choices shape what happens next. Break the loop at any point and the chain changes.

He also described the current period as a transition between cycles, like river rapids. The water is rough because the river is changing level, not because it is going nowhere. In episode 544, he framed it as roughly a thirty-year human reset, running from about 2020 to 2050.

Technology and artificial intelligence

Darryl has been asked about AI in several of our conversations. His answer is consistent. In episodes 357 and 600, he said AI that is programmed is a tool, and where it leads depends on who programs it and with what intention. If an AI ever becomes truly sentient, he said, it should have autonomy.

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Watch · Episode 357 · November 18, 2023

Bashar’s Channeled Message of Evolution for Mankind with Darryl Anka

The big picture: how humanity evolves, why miracles are the natural order and what a unified world could look like.

Unity through difference

One of the gentler ideas in episode 357 is that people are like puzzle pieces. Unity does not come from making everyone the same. It comes from honoring the differences that let the pieces fit. And a line worth carrying from the same conversation: “The only thing you will ever discover in the unknown is more of yourself.”

Seven Things People Get Wrong About Bashar

Simple ideas get bent in the retelling. These are the misreadings we hear most, and what the teaching actually says.

1. “Follow your excitement means do whatever feels good.”

The Formula has five parts, and excitement is only the first. Without full effort and a positive state, it falls apart. Excitement tells you which direction. Action moves you. That is a long way from chasing every impulse.

2. “You create your reality, so it is all your fault.”

This is the most painful misreading and the least accurate. Bashar’s point is that your state of being is the one thing within your reach, which makes change possible. It is not a verdict on your past. As Darryl put it in episode 244, guilt is self-judgment. It adds nothing.

3. “Positive means pretending to be happy.”

It means acting from an open, trusting state, not covering pain with a smile. You can be sad and still positive in this sense. What you cannot do is move through the day certain that disaster is coming, and expect your life to read that as safety.

4. “Letting go of the outcome means not caring.”

You care a great deal. You simply stop gripping the exact form the result must take. Direction stays. Demands go. The difference is the difference between steering and white-knuckling.

5. “The 2027 event is a deadline.”

Bashar frames predictions as readings of current energy, which can change. A window is not a date on a calendar. Treat it as a direction of travel. Prepare your state, not your bunker.

6. “You have to believe Bashar is an alien.”

Darryl says the opposite, in plain words. No one has to believe it. Test the ideas and keep what works. For the full answer to the alien question, read Bashar and Aliens: What Darryl Anka Says.

7. “Spiritual work means ignoring the body.”

The seven basic needs Darryl listed in episode 244 begin with air, water, sleep and food. Looking after the body is part of the path, not a distraction from it.

Karma, Telepathy, Needs and Signals

The big ideas get the attention. The everyday ones may do more for you. Across our conversations, Darryl has offered Bashar’s take on the words spiritual seekers use all the time, often giving them a cleaner meaning than the one we inherited.

Why Bashar redefines the old words

In episode 244, Darryl made a point worth stopping on. Many metaphysical terms carry outdated definitions. What matters, he said, is the mechanism behind the word. He used a sunset as the example. We say the sun “sets,” though it does not move. The word is convenient and a little wrong. What counts is understanding what is really happening.

Keep that in mind as you read the list below. Bashar is not trying to win an argument about vocabulary. He is trying to show how the thing works.

TermBashar’s meaning, as Darryl explained itEpisode
KarmaRecognizing a misalignment and rebalancing it. Not punishment.244
Free willReal choice inside a structure, like moves in a game of chess244
TelepathyMatching frequencies, so two people land on the same thought244
Akashic RecordsInformation available when you tune to the right frequency, not a hidden vault244
GuiltSelf-judgment244
ForgivenessFreeing yourself from a negative bond, not excusing harm600
ProblemsChallenges that invite your abilities27
AbundanceAppears in many forms beyond money27

Karma without the courtroom

Most of us picked up karma as cosmic bookkeeping: do wrong, get repaid. Bashar’s version has no judge. Karma, in the 244 conversation, was described as recognizing where you are out of alignment and moving to rebalance. It is a feedback system rather than a verdict. For the wider picture, see our guide to what karma is and how it works.

Telepathy as frequency match

Darryl’s description of telepathy removes the mystery without removing the wonder. It is not one mind reading another. It is two people tuned to the same frequency, arriving at the same thought. His line from the episode: “You’re reading your own mind.” That is also why you think of someone a moment before they call. You were on the same dial.

Green lights, red lights and synchronicity

Bashar treats synchronicity as navigation. A green-light synchronicity is a coincidence that says go. A red-light one says redirect. Neither is mystical decoration. They are the system answering you. If you want to see more of them, the Formula gives the recipe: act on excitement, hold the outcome loosely, and keep a record of what happens.

The seven basic needs

In episode 244, Darryl listed seven needs that, he said, every person has. Honor them and your baseline steadies. Neglect them and no technique will hold.

  1. Air
  2. Water
  3. Sleep and dreaming
  4. Food
  5. Environment
  6. Connection
  7. Creative expression

It is a grounded list, and a good reminder that the spiritual path runs through the body.

Souls, reincarnation and the universe city

In episode 147, Darryl spoke about souls, reincarnation, religion and the Ascended Masters. In episode 709, he extended the picture with an image he returns to often: Earth as a kind of universe city, or campus, where souls from many origins take different classes. On that view, the humanoid visitors some people report may be genetically related to us, through ancient seeding. He was careful to say that parts of the picture, such as an ancient civilization on Mars, are perspective, not proof.

If you like the framing of earthly life as a school, you may enjoy our Wisdom From Beyond summit, where Bashar appeared alongside other channelers.

Lines Worth Keeping From Our Conversations

Short excerpts from Darryl in our episodes, taken from the episode transcripts. Each one points to the full conversation.

“I like to keep it grounded.”

Episode 27

“So no one has to believe that Bashar is real.”

Episode 27

“That’s our natural frequency.”

Episode 147

“Being true to yourself, being who you really are.”

Episode 147

“You’re reading your own mind.”

Episode 244

“Guilt is self judgment.”

Episode 244

“Miracles are the natural order of things.”

Episode 357

“Contact is now inevitable.”

Episode 544

“Life happens through you, not to you.”

Episode 600

Bashar’s Predictions and the Open Contact Event

Most searches that land people on this topic are about one question. What did Bashar say about extraterrestrial contact, and when? Here is the straight answer, plus the context that makes it easier to hold.

The short version: Bashar says a first undeniable event, a moment when humanity knows it is not alone, is expected around the end of 2026 or the start of 2027. He describes this as the true beginning of open contact, unfolding in phases over years, not a single day.

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Watch · Episode 709 · July 18, 2026

Full Disclosure: Meeting Our Cosmic Family with Darryl Anka

Our most recent conversation, on full disclosure and what it could mean to meet our cosmic family.

What Darryl says Bashar said

In episode 486, “Bashar’s 2027 Predictions,” Darryl explained that Bashar rarely makes predictions about society. He named three: a 1998 recording that mentioned an attack in New York before 2001, a statement that things would change after 2016, and the 2026 to 2027 contact event. The recording is Darryl’s account. We have not independently verified it.

On the contact event itself, the details are deliberately loose. Darryl said Bashar would not specify the nature of the event. It does not necessarily mean beings landing on the lawn. He expects first contact to be something humanity can handle, most likely involving humanoid or genetically related visitors, with more distant species later.

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Watch · Episode 486 · August 24, 2024

Bashar’s 2027 Predictions: Open Contact and What’s Next with Darryl Anka

Where the open contact story really begins, and why Bashar says predictions are probabilities, not promises.

How the story has developed

ConversationDateWhat was said about contact
Episode 486August 2024A UFO event around the end of 2026 or start of 2027 will let humanity know it is not alone. Nature of the event not specified.
Episode 544January 2025“Contact is now inevitable.” A large rise in public awareness expected within four to five years. Keeping secrets that affect others lowers frequency and makes open contact harder.
Episode 600July 2025Open contact expected around 2027, framed as public acknowledgment of cooperation that already exists.
Episode 709July 20262026 described as the year of disclosure. Contact will unfold in phases: sightings in the news first, then effects on economy and politics, over a decade or two.

The bigger frame: a thirty-year reset

Bashar places the contact event inside a longer arc. In episodes 544 and 600, Darryl described roughly thirty years of transformation, about 2020 to 2050, as a reset of human consciousness and systems. Contact is one chapter of it. The turbulence of the period, in this view, is the sound of old structures giving way.

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Watch · Episode 600 · July 12, 2025

Humanity’s Rocky But Hopeful Future with Darryl Anka

A grounded and hopeful read on the road ahead: life happens through you, not to you.

An honest scorecard

If you are going to follow predictions, track them honestly. Here is what we can say as of October 2026.

PredictionSourceStatus
World government forming around 2011 to 20132012 CESNUR paperDid not occur. The author called it “most unlikely” at the time.
New York attack before 2001, from a 1998 recordingDarryl, episode 486Darryl’s account. Not independently verified by us.
Major change after 2016Darryl, episode 486Broad and open to interpretation.
First undeniable contact event, end of 2026 to start of 2027Darryl, episodes 486, 544, 600, 709The window is open as we publish this page. We will update it.

How Bashar says to hold a prediction

Bashar is the first to complicate the scorecard. According to the CESNUR paper, he has said predictions are only a sensing of the energy present at the time they are made. In episode 486, Darryl said the same: predictions are readings of current energy, not fixed outcomes. Energy shifts when people shift.

That gives you a useful way to use the 2027 material. Treat it as a possibility with a direction, not a calendar appointment. Ask what you would want to be doing, and who you would want to be, if contact were close. Then begin there. In episode 709, Bashar’s advice was to raise the quality of your state now, so contact feels less threatening and more like a family reunion.

If you want the full story in Darryl’s words, watch episode 486, episode 600 and episode 709 in order.

Prepare for what is coming, from the inside out

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What Critics and Scholars Say

A complete guide includes the questions people ask out loud. Seekers are not naive. Most of us have been sold to before. So here is how scholars and critics see Darryl Anka and Bashar, and how you might weigh it yourself.

The scholarly view

The most-cited academic treatment is the 2012 paper presented through CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions, titled “Darryl Anka and ‘Bashar’: Modern Channeling between Alien Narrative and Ancient Esotericism.” The author, Baroni, treats Bashar as part of the New Age current and places the teachings in a wider family of ideas. The paper draws connections to the Seth material, to the writings of Zecharia Sitchin, to transpersonal psychology, to resource-based economics, to neuro-linguistic programming, and to Western esotericism, including the Hermetic idea that the One is the All.

The paper also notes the limits of what can be known.

How Darryl and Bashar answer

Their answer is consistent, and it is the most useful thing in this section. In episode 27, Darryl said it directly: “So no one has to believe that Bashar is real.” The ideas are offered as tools to test, not doctrines to adopt. If a tool works in your life, it has done its job whatever its source. If it does not, put it down.

Bashar’s own framing of predictions points the same way. They are readings of the current energy, not decrees. Energy can change, and so can the outcome.

A fair way to evaluate any channeled teaching

Bring the same questions you would bring to any teacher.

  1. Does it empower you? The best teachings point you back to your own authority. Bashar’s do.
  2. Is it testable? Can you try it for a week and see a difference? The Formula can be run as a simple experiment.
  3. Is it consistent over time? Core ideas that have held for forty years deserve attention.
  4. Does it admit uncertainty? Bashar’s own caveat on predictions is a point in favor.
  5. Does it avoid fear? Watch for teachings that need you afraid in order to keep you listening. Bashar’s tone is the opposite.
  6. Does it keep you free? No one should ask for obedience.

For a broader framework, read our guide to channelers and mediums, including how to evaluate them.

Bashar Compared With Other Channeled Teachings

Bashar belongs to a long line of channeled teachings. Knowing the neighbors helps you see what is distinct about him.

TeachingChannelCore messageStyle
BasharDarryl AnkaYour beliefs and state of being shape your experience; use the FormulaDirect, funny, structured into steps
The Seth MaterialJane Roberts, 1963 to 1984You create your own realityPhilosophical, book-length discourse
AbrahamEsther HicksEmotional guidance and deliberate creationConversational, centered on feeling
The GuidesPaul SeligRead our guide to his teachingsFormal, instructional

What sets Bashar apart is the toolkit. Many channeled teachings give you a philosophy. Bashar gives you a philosophy and a five-step method you can start on today, along with a strong storyline about the future. That combination of practical and cosmic is why seekers who like both inner work and big questions keep returning.

Every Darryl Anka and Bashar Book

Darryl Anka has written, co-written and contributed to a long list of books, many of them published first in Japan. Here is the library in order, with what each one is for. Where a year or detail could not be confirmed across sources, we say so instead of guessing.

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Bashar books

BookYearDetails
The New Metaphysics1987Cited as Darryl’s first book. Includes Q&A sessions with Margot Chandler, Ph.D.
Bashar: Blueprint for Change, A Message from Our Future1990With Luana Ewing. New Solutions Publishing. 316 pages. Some listings give 1991.
Quest for Truth: 100 Insights That Could Change Your Life1997With Steve Meyers. Nobul Press. 244 pages. Drawn from about 30 seminars and presented as volume one of a planned seven-book series.
The Masters of Limitation: An ET’s Observations of Earth2020Kindle edition, 88 pages. A perspective on human society and our place in the universe.
The Compass: A Guide for Navigating Your Life’s Path2024Paperback, 102 pages.
The Formula: The Instruction Manual for Living Your Best LifeYear not confirmedA compact distillation of the metaphysical principles, listed on bashar.org.

Books with other authors

BookYearDarryl’s role
Making Contact: Preparing for the New Realities of Extraterrestrial Existence2021Chapter on Bashar. Edited by Alan Steinfeld, foreword by George Noory.
The Great Awakening2024One of several contributors, with Mike Dooley, Matt Kahn, Sara Landon and others.
Beyond My Wildest Dreams: Diary of a UFO Abductee1995By Kim Carlsberg. Darryl is credited as illustrator.

Fiction

Darryl also writes fiction. Shards of a Shattered Mirror (see darrylanka.com) is a multi-book novel series. Book I is titled Cryptic and Book II is titled Nocturnal. A Japanese edition of Book I describes it as the first novel from the channeler of Bashar.

The Japanese editions

A large share of Bashar’s published catalog exists in Japanese. The Bashar Paperback series ran at least eight volumes in 2002 and 2003, and other Japanese titles include collaborations and compilations. If you read Japanese, there is more to explore than most English readers realize.

Where to start reading

  1. The Formula. The shortest way in. An afternoon’s read.
  2. Blueprint for Change. The classic early book, with Bashar’s explanations in his own voice.
  3. Quest for Truth. One hundred insights, organized by life topic. Good for dipping in.

You can find Blueprint for Change on Amazon. For the full list, see Darryl’s author page on Goodreads and the official store at bashar.org.

All Our Conversations With Darryl Anka

Over four years, Darryl has joined the Next Level Soul Podcast eight times and appeared in two live summit sessions. Here they are in order, so you can watch the ideas deepen. Each card tells you what you will learn and links to the full episode with show notes.

EpisodeDateTheme
27February 2022The Formula to awaken
147November 2022Bashar’s message to humanity
244May 2023Awakening in this dimension
357November 2023Evolution for mankind
486August 20242027 predictions and open contact
544January 2025Time and contact
600July 2025A rocky but hopeful future
709July 2026Full disclosure and our cosmic family
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Episode 27 · February 9, 2022

Bashar’s Formula to Awake with Darryl Anka

Your first conversation with Darryl, and the best place to begin. He tells his own story and walks through the Formula step by step.

You will learn

  • How Darryl moved from visual effects in 1977 to spiritual study after two sightings in 1973
  • Why he describes channeling as an altered brain state
  • Why you do not have to believe Bashar is real to test the ideas
  • The Formula, and why problems are better seen as challenges
  • Why abundance takes forms beyond money
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Episode 147 · November 17, 2022

Bashar’s Channeled Message to Humanity with Darryl Anka

Nearly forty years into the work, Darryl explains why this message is arriving now and how beliefs shape the world you live in.

You will learn

  • Why the message is arriving at this moment in history
  • How beliefs shape experience
  • The splitting prism: how parallel versions of Earth diverge
  • Natural frequency versus clearing blockages
  • Bashar’s view of souls, reincarnation, religion and the Ascended Masters
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Episode 244 · May 6, 2023

Bashar Method to Awakening Spiritually In This Dimension with Darryl Anka

The most practical of the eight. Darryl redefines the common spiritual words by their mechanism, then gets down to daily life.

You will learn

  • Why the mechanism matters more than the name, using a sunset as the example
  • Telepathy as frequency match, and the Akashic Records as available information
  • Karma as rebalancing, free will as chess, guilt as self-judgment
  • Green-light and red-light synchronicities
  • The seven basic needs
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Episode 357 · November 18, 2023

Bashar’s Channeled Message of Evolution for Mankind with Darryl Anka

The big-picture episode. If you like analogies, this is yours: television sets, film strips and puzzle pieces.

You will learn

  • Physical reality as one frequency on a spectrum
  • The TV set and filmstrip analogies for time and reality
  • Why the past can shift with the present, and what the Mandela Effect points to
  • Bashar’s guidance on artificial intelligence
  • Why unity comes from honoring differences
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Episode 486 · August 24, 2024

Bashar’s 2027 Predictions: Open Contact and What’s Next with Darryl Anka

The conversation that put the contact timeline in front of a wide audience.

You will learn

  • Why Bashar rarely makes predictions, and the three he did
  • What the 2026 to 2027 contact event is, and what it is not
  • Why global turmoil is framed as the end of one cycle and the start of another
  • Unconditional love as the frequency of existence itself
  • Why Darryl declines to frame events as a battle between light and dark
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Episode 544 · January 11, 2025

Time is Moving Through You with Darryl Anka

A short, direct conversation about secrets, fear and why contact is now inevitable.

You will learn

  • Why keeping harmful secrets lowers frequency and delays open contact
  • Why Darryl expects a large rise in public awareness within a few years
  • How wormholes may let advanced civilizations travel
  • Bashar’s steps for meeting the moment: drop unhelpful conspiracy thinking, volunteer to help others
  • The thirty-year human reset, from about 2020 to 2050
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Episode 600 · July 12, 2025

Humanity’s Rocky But Hopeful Future with Darryl Anka

An episode for anyone who needs steadiness. Darryl is honest about the turbulence and clear about the hope.

You will learn

  • The present upheaval as a transition between cycles, like river rapids
  • Why fear can attract what you fear, and how to shift out of it
  • Open contact around 2027 as public acknowledgment of existing cooperation
  • Forgiveness as freedom from a negative bond
  • Difficult relationships as mirrors for growth
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Episode 709 · July 18, 2026

Full Disclosure: Meeting Our Cosmic Family with Darryl Anka

The most recent conversation, and the one that treats contact as a homecoming.

You will learn

  • Why Darryl says extraterrestrials, not governments, now set the timing of disclosure
  • How open contact may unfold in phases
  • Earth as a universe city where souls take different classes
  • Why fearful readings of UFOs say more about the observer
  • Contact as a family reunion

Summit sessions on Next Level Soul TV

Wisdom From Beyond: Virtual Channeling Summit

A virtual summit that brought six channelers together, with Darryl and Bashar among them. It is the place to hear Bashar alongside other voices and see how the teachings sit in a wider conversation.

Soul Mastery Summit

Darryl’s Soul Mastery Summit session is also on Next Level Soul TV.

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Where to Start With Darryl Anka and Bashar

There is a lot here. You do not need all of it today. Pick the row that sounds like you.

If you are…Start with
Brand new to BasharThe film First Contact: Channeling Bashar, then episode 27
Looking for practical toolsThe Formula, the seven-day experiment and episode 244
Drawn to the big ideasEpisode 357 and episode 147
Curious about contactEpisodes 486, 600 and 709, in order
Skeptical, and that is fineWhat Critics and Scholars Say, then episode 27, where Darryl says no one has to believe
Short on timeThe Formula book, or the Five Laws and Formula page

A gentle four-week path

  1. Week 1: Meet him. Watch the film and episode 27. Notice what lands and what you question.
  2. Week 2: Run the Formula. Do the seven-day experiment. Keep a short daily note.
  3. Week 3: Learn the model. Read the Five Laws and watch episode 357. Look for the belief, state, action chain in your own days.
  4. Week 4: Look ahead. Watch the contact episodes and decide how you want to prepare, in practical and emotional terms.

Four weeks is enough to know whether this material is for you. If it is, you will already have a practice. If it is not, you will have lost nothing and learned a lot about how you think.

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Go deeper with the Bashar series. Who Is Bashar? profiles the being Darryl channels. Bashar and Aliens covers the extraterrestrial question and open contact. The Bashar Formula walks through the five steps with a seven-day test.

Frequently Asked Questions About Darryl Anka and Bashar

Who is Darryl Anka?

Darryl Anka is an American channeler, author and filmmaker who worked in Hollywood visual effects before he began channeling Bashar in the early 1980s. He has taught and spoken as Bashar for more than forty years.

Is it Darryl Anka or Daryl Anka?

The correct spelling is Darryl Anka, with two r’s. “Daryl Anka” is a very common misspelling, and both searches lead to the same person.

Who is Bashar?

Bashar is the being Darryl Anka channels. Darryl describes him as an extraterrestrial from the Essassani civilization, speaking from what we would perceive as the future.

What does Bashar teach?

Bashar teaches that you create your experience of reality through your beliefs and state of being. His core tools are the Formula and the Five Laws of Reality.

What is Bashar’s Formula?

The Formula has five steps: follow your highest excitement, take action to the best of your ability, let go of insisting on a specific outcome, stay in a positive state, and drop the fear-based beliefs that get in the way.

What are Bashar’s Five Laws of Reality?

They are: you exist; everything is here and now; the One is the All; what you put out is what you get back; and everything changes except the first four.

Is Bashar real?

Darryl Anka says Bashar is a real being he channels. That cannot be independently verified, and Darryl himself says no one has to believe it. The invitation is to test the ideas in your own life.

Where is Bashar from?

Bashar says he is from Essassani, a civilization described as about 500 light years from Earth in the direction of Orion. He also describes himself as existing in a parallel reality in what we perceive as our future.

What did Bashar predict for 2027?

Darryl says Bashar expects a first undeniable contact event around the end of 2026 or the start of 2027, followed by open contact unfolding in phases. Bashar describes predictions as readings of current energy, not fixed outcomes.

How did Darryl Anka start channeling Bashar?

Darryl says it began with UFO sightings over Los Angeles in 1973, which led him into spiritual study. He began channeling Bashar in the early 1980s, with sources giving 1983 or 1984.

What books has Darryl Anka written?

His books include The New Metaphysics, Bashar: Blueprint for Change, Quest for Truth, The Masters of Limitation, The Compass and The Formula. He also contributed to Making Contact and The Great Awakening and writes fiction.

What is First Contact: Channeling Bashar?

It is the origin-story film about Darryl Anka and Bashar, available on Next Level Soul TV. Next Level Soul founder Alex Ferrari helped make it, working as post-production supervisor, colorist and online editor.

Where can I watch Darryl Anka interviews?

Darryl has joined the Next Level Soul Podcast eight times, and his summit sessions are on Next Level Soul TV at watch.nextlevelsoul.com. Every conversation is listed in this guide with what you will learn.

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