So resonantly true... We really are overwhelmingly unaware gods who have to trick ourselves into believing the things that are useful to manifest in our lives; and often being so unaware, we manifest what we don't wish to experience, simply because we don't even realize the power of manifestation we possess and thus focus so much on those outcomes. Bashar calls them "permission slips" that we create/manifest for ourselves to use kind of like crutches, because of this state of being so unaware. Things like what we need to heal ourselves or a specific "teacher" or "path". We are just so unaware and wired by this world that's generally they way we manifest for ourselves.