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The Masters of Limitation: An ET's Observations of Earth

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"The Masters of An ET's Observations of Earth" offers not only a unique perspective of human society and our place in the universe, but also gifts us with life-changing information that can profoundly alter our view of reality.

88 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 25, 2020

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Darryl Anka

34 books206 followers
Darryl Anka is an internationally known channeller, speaker and author with sales of over 300,000 books in Japan.
Anka claims that he began to communicate, through trance-channeling, with an extra-terrestrial entity called Bashar in 1983. He describes Bashar as existing in a parallel reality, in a time frame that we perceive as the future. The monologues and dialogues with Bashar cover a wide range of topics including human psychology, planetary evolution, metaphysics, and extra-terrestrials. Occasionally, Anka will act as a guest speaker in conferences related to issues such as ET contact. Anka has also channeled other entities, and the entity Bashar has also been channeled by other mediums.
Anka appeared in the 2008 documentary Tuning In alongside other notable channels such as Lee Carroll.
Anka's channeling sessions, private and public, are usually recorded and many have been compiled into various books and audio-visual material. His first book, The New Metaphysics, includes Q&A sessions with Margot Chandler, Ph.D., and was edited by Rosemarie Hopf-Weichel, Ph.D.

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47 reviews2 followers
June 27, 2025
Absolutely outstanding book. Once you "get it" how life works, all the suffering and pain will fade away. Suddenly life becomes a joyous and exciting experience. There's nothing to lose, only to win.
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559 reviews41 followers
July 16, 2021
Bashar claims to be a human-hybrid ET from another locality in the multiverse.

Due to their own Prime Directive (aka non-interference principle), they extend contact in non-verifiable ways (such as via channeling) first to observe how we may respond.

Do we think, "if you truly exist, show yourselves, O interesting creatures"?

Or do we think, "yuck, this damn well better be bullshit :<"?

Bashar then gives a short primer on belief systems and multiversal existence.

There aren't so many judgments of Earth.

I like the insistence that 'positive' and 'negative' are not value judgments: one means unifying and the other means separating. 🤔
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34 reviews7 followers
July 10, 2020
It would be an understatement to say that I’ve transformed since discovering Bashar! There is so much we can learn from him. Darryl Anka himself is an admirable man. I’m very thankful that this book exists, although it’s mostly compiled of information that I’ve already become familiar with from Bashar’s many public speeches, it is a great way to memorize the information and stay on the path of clear consciousness.

Lots of love.
1 review
August 11, 2020
Great book great wisdom

It’s a great read lots of wisdom and some humor on a level with Abraham,The Seth books and Ra and the law of One.
2 reviews
September 18, 2025
Everyone should read this book at least once in their life

Everyone should read this book at least once in their life. The world is changing and we get to choose whether we tip toward the darkness---or the light
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January 5, 2025
I very much enjoyed this FICTIONAL work that speaks about entirely FICTIONAL matters. It truly is a great work of science FICTION. Well done to the author for having such a creative imagination. Wonderful.

INTRODUCTION

I’m what Earth humans usually refer to as an alien or an extraterrestrial.
My world is called E’sassani and I’ve chosen the word “Bashar” to be used as my “name” for convenience. It’s a word that means “messenger,” “human being” and “bringer of good news” in the Earth language known as Arabic; There are several reasons for choosing an Arabic word, one of which is that, hundreds of Earth years ago, a member of my people made an initial contact with members of your society in the region of your planet now known as the Middle East. The people in that culture came to know him by the general name for our people: Sassani, which was eventually shortened to “Sassan.”

The primary purpose of this book is to address my interactions with the humans of Earth, as well as provide my perspective on where humanity has come from, where it’s at presently, and where it appears to be heading based on the observations of my people and other ET races over the past few millennia.

Humans are, for the most part, unfamiliar with the underlying principles and “mechanics” of existence and, as a result, often make negative choices due to a lack of understanding and an adherence to a variety of limiting beliefs. This is the reason we affectionately refer to Earth humans as “The Masters of Limitation.” However, in our travels, we’ve encountered relatively few societies that experience negative limitations to the degree that most humans do on Earth. Paradoxically, this does not make you appear to be “less” than us in our eyes. From our perspective, it takes a very strong spirit to overcome and transform such deep darkness into light; such confining limitation into freedom; such despair into joy.

SASSANI BACKGROUND

Let me start by sharing a bit of my own background. We are a hybrid race, created from the DNA of Earth humans, parallel-reality beings you call the “Greys” and a mix of other genetic material from various interstellar species. Thus, being related to Earth humans, we call Earth “E’nani-ka,” which, loosely translated, means “Place of the ancestors.” My planet is mostly left in a natural state, covered with vast forests, jungles and fields fed by many streams and lakes. There are no large cities and very few permanent structures of any kind. Our spaceships are our cities, some of which are miles long and can comfortably accommodate thousands of our people. Our population is low compared to Earth’s: at any given time, there are generally no more than about three hundred million individuals on the entire planet, although many millions more might be in space aboard our ships.

The story of our origin as a hybrid species is a long and complex tale. The short version is that the humans on that parallel Earth destroyed their world through blind negligence and warfare that created a toxic atmosphere that brought about droughts, famine, pestilence and that eventually rendered them sterile. Their society moved underground and, after many failed attempts to clone their people, they ultimately adapted to their post-apocalyptic environment by mutating themselves into the Gray beings. However, still unable to reproduce, they knew that without an infusion of viable human DNA, their culture would die out. Using their most advanced technology, they discovered a way to “tunnel” into other parallel realities, such as yours, where humans still thrived. They began to secretly extract DNA from your people in a long-term process that came to be known as “alien abduction” by your people. Through trial and error, the Greys finally succeeded in creating four hybrid species besides themselves, each infused with varying degrees of human DNA. The Greys are considered the first hybrid race since they started with normal human DNA. The fifth and final species are human-looking enough to walk among you without detection and some of them do now and then to observe and learn your ways. The Sassani people are the third hybrid race created in this way and thus, our general appearance is a fifty-fifty blend between a typical Grey and an Earth human. We average about five feet in height, are slender with very pale skin, slightly larger heads and eyes than you, but smaller mouths, noses and ears. Males, like myself, have no hair. Females have hair and it tends to be white, although there are exceptions depending on the genetic “recipe.”

HISTORY OF HUMANITY

We learned that Earth humans were, in fact, a hybrid mix of several star-faring races due to interactions that took place several hundreds of thousands of years ago with an extraterrestrial species called the “Anu.” The Anu infused their DNA with a species of hominid you call “Homo Erectus” that evolved naturally on your planet. We were told the Anu did this to create a race of workers that could help them with the herculean task of mining gold and other elements that the Anu needed to correct an imbalance in their home world’s atmosphere and reverse the destructive weather patterns that had been caused by massive solar storms in their star system. Since the Anu themselves were already a mix of various humanoid species, the blending of their DNA with Earth’s early hominids, which resulted in the creation of “Homo Sapiens,” means that Earth humans are, by definition, a hybrid race.

Based on our vantage point outside your culture, and combined with our incarnational experience within your society, we know that, not only are many of Earth’s inhabitants open and willing to have open contact with beings from the stars, but that there are even a few isolated locations on your planet where contact with ETs has been happening for thousands of years. These brief, limited interactions mostly happen between certain indigenous cultures on Earth and a few specific groups of extraterrestrials with whom the human cultures have a genetic connection from ancient times. Generally, such contact is essentially an exchange between “family members,” with the native people being at least partially descended from their star-people ancestors.

ON LIMITATIONS

Limitations can be used to create both negative and positive experiences. Consciousness itself is eternal and infinite. To experience anything less requires that consciousness impose limits upon its awareness. Thus, the dimension you know as “physical reality,” defined by the laws of physics that govern all phenomena from the sub-atomic realm to the vast reaches of the cosmos, can only be experienced if consciousness perceives its “reflection” filtered through a self-imposed, space-time framework that limits its perspective.

With this “mechanism” in place, a conscious being can experience itself in different states depending on the degree of limitation or “focus.” However, a high degree of limitation can cross a Rubicon into a state where the being can forget that it’s responsible for imposing the limitations it now experiences. Even though the being may desire to “undo” the limiting parameters, it may have forgotten how to do so.

The fact that our civilization has evolved to the point where we’ve divested ourselves of most non-relevant limitations allows us to also perceive the greater reality in a manner similar to spirits, or other non-physical expressions of consciousness. Thus, the information we share with Earth forms a type of “instruction manual” that’s designed to guide humans out of forgetfulness and offers a practical “tool kit” that your society can use to remove any layers of limitation that no longer serve to move you along your preferred path in life.

We mentioned that limitations are experienced via a space-time framework that allows a being to “forget” that the limitations are self-imposed. The specific “device” that generates and perpetuates this forgetfulness is called a belief, or a definition. Installing a belief that physical reality is actually real is, by definition, a finite experience, and makes a being capable of “ignoring” the infinite nature of its greater self. Definitions, and belief in them, form the basis of the physical persona and thus, are the fundamental components that generate every experience of physical reality. Simply put, it’s not actually “seeing is believing,” it’s “believing is seeing.” While it’s true that “seeing” or experiencing an event will reinforce an existing belief, the belief (whether conscious or unconscious) that such an event has the highest probability of occurring is what allows a person to see and experience the event in the first place.

The primary method beliefs use to get people to “buy into” the reality that the belief is “selling” is to create a specific vibration or frequency in a person’s energy field. This frequency pattern is called a “feeling” or an emotion (e-motion: energy in motion). This way, a person doesn’t merely believe a particular definition to be true, they also strongly “feel” that it’s true. The next level of reinforcement comes from the “thought patterns” that the feeling induces within the brain. The emotion rewires the neurological pathways so that a person’s patterns of thought conform to the emotional resonance and thus, to the specific belief or definition that generated the feeling. At this point, the belief, emotion and thought pattern are aligned.It’s a simple thing to demonstrate that definitions generate emotions. Find a word that you don’t know the definition of in your language and ask yourself how you feel about the word. It’s likely that, without a definition, you won’t know how to feel. But once the definition is revealed, you’ll start to experience how you feel about what the word means. Thus, emotions don’t exist on their own in a “vacuum,” so to speak. The definition must come first or there are no feelings at all. The next level of reinforcement is behavior. The person will now act according to their beliefs, emotions and thoughts. This generates their experience of the world, which is a reflection of their behavior, and the experience provides the final reinforcing “block” to their self-generated perspective that makes the physical realm seem so real. Thus, the “physical mind” is a triad structure, similar to a prism, built from beliefs, emotions and thoughts.

ON THE MULTIVERSE

All things throughout the multiverse exist simultaneously, but are experienced as a continuous series of discrete “moments” from a space-time oriented perspective. As such, all possible parallel versions of Earth already exist. This means that, although it may appear that your world changes over time, the truth is that each version never changes. But when you shift your perspective to another frequency, it allows you to experience another, already- existing version of Earth, along with another, already-existing version of you on that parallel Earth. The Earth you’re on at this moment never changes. It cannot change. It is what it is. But as you adopt new beliefs and thus, shift your frequency of energy, your consciousness “jumps” to another version of Earth that’s in harmonic alignment with the shift in frequency.

The “structure” of existence never changes; it’s your perspective of the structure that shifts and generates an experience of physical and temporal change, personal growth and expansion of consciousness. The following analogy may help to illustrate the point. You all know that, while you’re watching one of your television shows, dozens of other programs are playing at the same time. However, you only see the show on the channel you’ve “tuned” your TV to display. When you change the channel, you’re changing frequencies and, of course, you see a different program. Your original show may even still be playing. It hasn’t “changed” into another program; the structure of the TV hasn’t altered. You’ve changed what you prefer to see and so you begin to enjoy another show; a “different reality,” so to speak.

the Earth you’re perceiving now, as you read this, is not experiencing open contact and, since each version of Earth never changes, it never will experience contact. If you become more energetically aligned with the frequency of contact, your consciousness will then begin to shift its focus to another version of Earth that already exists “side-by-side” with your present version and on which open contact is already happening.

The simplest way to align with that reality is to act on your passion as often as possible. This is because the sensations you refer to as passion, excitement, love, creativity and inner peace are your physical body’s “translation” of the frequency of your core “signature vibration.” In other words, your true, essential being. To go back to the film and TV analogy for a moment, imagine that you poke your head into various theaters and watch a few minutes of each film as you search for the theater playing the one you wish to see. Or imagine you’re “channel surfing,” as you call it, flipping past a multitude of shows until you settle on your favorite program. Once you choose which one you’re going to experience, the fleeting views of the other shows fade to the background of your consciousness as you become engrossed in the story you chose.

What you experience as a series of space-time moments is an emergent property, or “side effect” of your consciousness shifting its focus through billions of perspectives of that same, single moment of existence. Therefore, as your people begin to let go of limitations and allow their consciousness to expand, they may experience certain “symptoms” of increased awareness. Since all parallel realities exist “here and now,” you may begin to feel a “thickening” of physical reality due to your newfound ability to sense more of the multiverse. Thus, even though a person’s energy frequency is rising, he or she may paradoxically experience their momentum slowing down in the initial phase of parallel-reality awareness, as if they’re moving through molasses. A crude analogy of why this happens would be to imagine that, if you were able to move at infinite speed, it would mean you could be everywhere at the same time. Thus, being everywhere would actually feel like you were staying perfectly still, since you would no longer perceive yourself to be “traveling.”

ON PURPOSE IN LIFE

Your people often ask “What is my purpose in life?” or “What’s my mission?” While each individual may express their purpose or “mission” in myriad ways, everyone’s fundamental purpose is the same: To be yourself as fully as you can. When you follow your passion by acting on it to the best you are able with no assumption or insistence of what the outcome should look like, you will always be perfectly aligned with your essence, your purpose and your mission in life.

The reason it’s crucial to drop any insistence about the outcome of acting on your passion is because your limited physical mind, in most cases, isn’t capable of determining the best possible outcome, although most of you have been “trained” to think you know better.

ON LIFE AFTER DEATH

Speaking of death, we notice that, due to the multitude of belief systems on Earth, various humans have very different, and often opposing ideas of what happens after physical death. We can assure you of this: Your consciousness will survive after you die. Why? Because consciousness isn’t produced by the physical world. The physical world is produced by consciousness.

How do we know this to be true? Well, for my people, it’s an experiential fact. At this point in our evolution, we are what might be called “quasi-physical.”

But how can humans on Earth know that your consciousness survives physical death rather than simply hoping or believing that it does? It comes down to understanding exactly what consciousness is. What is meant by consciousness? From our perspective, consciousness is equal to self-awareness. In other words, you recognize that whatever makes you you as distinctly different from everything else. While it’s true that everything, including you, issues from one, single fundamental Source (hence your physicists’ ongoing search for a Unified Theory of Everything), the critical point here is that you, as an individual aspect of Source, perceive the other aspects to not be you.

This perception of something “other” than you is the key factor that generates consciousness or self-awareness. If everything is actually one thing at its core, how is this perception of “otherness” created? Through reflections. Allow us to explain using the analogy of a mirror. When you see your reflection in a glass mirror, you don’t consider the reflection to be you. You understand that it’s merely a representation of your body. Thus, this perception of yourself from a location other than that which you physically occupy establishes the “difference” between the “real” you and the reflection of you, thus reinforcing awareness of your “actual” self. Thus, if everything stems from a single Source, yet aspects of Source, such as you and me, can perceive themselves as seemingly individuated from Source, then Source (existence) must innately contain a self-reflective quality that, like an infinite hall of mirrors, produces a multitude of reflections, each of which also contains that self-reflective quality. As such, self-awareness permeates all of existence on both the macroscopic (holistic) and microscopic (individual) scale. Being a “built-in” quality of existence itself, it’s not possible for consciousness to cease to exist.

Consciousness continues beyond physical death, because death is nothing more than your self-aware identity transforming from one level of existence to another and that your consciousness, being intrinsic to existence, is indestructible.

Finally, the simplest explanation is the recognition that whatever exists cannot cease to exist. Why? Because, by definition, non-existence doesn’t exist. This isn’t just word play. Think about it.
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8 reviews
April 9, 2023
mind blowing!

I’ve been a reader of spiritual books and channeling for quite a while, and never stumbled upon a more coherent way to describe our reality and how to navigate it. What I liked most about Bashar’s teachings I’d that it’s very matter of fact, without the spiritual embellishments that is sometimes a little too much for me. It’s very non-judgmental, and low pressure material. Highly recommended!
1 review
December 16, 2023
A must read

Bashar (and Darryl) bring so much insight into who we truly are and how to navigate letting go of limited belief systems. There is so much more to us and to our existence. If you want a sneak peek into true reality and how to understand it, get your hands on this book and anything Darryl / Bashar related.
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16 reviews
April 4, 2024
Have seen countless videos of Darryl channeling Bashar so this was a nice introduction to his origins and an interesting glimpse to how humanity is perceived through their eyes. Easy to read, finished it within hours. Resonated with this book on a soul level.
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13 reviews
June 13, 2022
I love this book!

Since I've read the concepts of parallel realities and no-time in the book Super Accelerated Living by Bentinho Massaro, it was easy for me to digest them as I read them here. But in case you require more time to really wrap your head around it (cause it's reality shattering), I suggest you do take that time because it changes everything!
Suffering starts to fade away and a lot of things start to make sense once you do.

We are creating our reality consciously or unconsciously, and our unconscious recycling of limiting beliefs has been used as a tool by some, so what if we deliberately choose a reality we prefer more and be the *masters* of limitation!

Bashar explains these concepts in simple words, and the rest of the information is very exciting as well for curious seekers of ET truths!

Unlike most other UFO disclosure information I've come across, this book has a good spiritual framework to it, which I love.

I also love what Bashar says - "Are you masters of *limitation* or *masters* of limitation?

Thank you Darryl Anka and thank you Bashar! 🥰
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2 reviews1 follower
September 6, 2024
I have no way of knowing or verifying whether or not the contents of this book are true. I'm open-minded, but you always have to be skeptical of what you read, especially when it's on such abstract topics as this. Here is a man who is supposedly channeling the word of an extraterrestrial with great insight and wisdom, who has literally otherworldly knowledge, which sounds a lot like a priest who is "specially" chosen to channel the word of God. Despite this, I think there are some very profound insights and wisdom that is well written. The book heavily focuses on our self-imposed limitations and how this greatly affects the outcome of our life. Whether or not the metaphysical aspect of these claims is true, I do think in terms of human psychology that this is accurate. The author writes intelligently, and I liked his writing style. I do feel inspired to allow myself to be more open to positive experiences and to allow myself to change out of old habits of thinking, behaving, and being.
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18 reviews2 followers
February 23, 2025
Such an interesting journey.
So in one version of reality I absolutely believe that it’s all true. For sure there are many other realities where I think differently or even quite opposite.

Current me (even though according to the book it’s very hard to cate such moment) is just very happy that it was possible for me to read this book with open heart without any judging, denying and other negativities. With understanding that I just want to increase my inner space of understanding life without necessity to choose the one and the only explanation
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1 review
May 10, 2025
Bashar would be much more believable as our more advanced, future relative if he didn’t charge people money to share his ‘knowledge’. I get behind his message and perspective 100% but charging people for this honor (and providing health recommendations, like he used to?!), is extremely questionable. He character is entertaining none the less and is a reflection of his years of work in the sci-fi film industry.
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20 reviews1 follower
May 22, 2021
Conscious expression simplified

The wisdom and understanding gained by considering our true nature and makeup in existence is refreshing and illuminating. Put forward in a simple way that can truly be integrated by those willing to expand in consciousness.
3 reviews
April 5, 2023
Knowledge transference

I really enjoyed reading all the knowledge given in this book it's valuable to all of us.

I'm ready to accept communication from our family and welcome the moment it comes in the here and now

Great thanks to Darryl and bishar and the essassani people
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10 reviews
July 22, 2020
Essential perspectives

Relevant information in a timeless and timely manner
Wisdom from our future hybridised selves giving us choices we never knew we had before
2 reviews
August 5, 2020
Excellent

Easy to understand. To the point with no filler. I’m very thankful for this information and to ALL involved in the creation and delivery of this manual. Thank you.
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7 reviews17 followers
February 5, 2021
Just read on, reflect and breath

Those who cease questioning, are blessed. The beauty is after all undeniable isn’t it? Just read on , reflect and breath.
1 review
March 21, 2021
Perfect

Absolutely love this material. So clear, concise, and life changing. Highly recommend this and anything else Bashar produces. I really can't praise this enough.
1 review
May 10, 2021
I absolutely love this incredible Book

Thank you xoxo so much for this incredible book it’s my absolute favorite book ever highly recommend so much unconditional love
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44 reviews
January 28, 2022
Feeling connected

I'm happy to live at this time, to be able to have a chance to reach something that is hidden inside all of us.
2 reviews
May 26, 2023
excepcional !

Lo leí en 2 horas !

Creo que usa un lenguaje adecuado para quienes empezamos a entender .

Recomendado 100%

Gracias Bashar
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15 reviews1 follower
December 22, 2023
Nueva biblia, tanta información que hay que revisitar sobre la existencia humana…
2 reviews
February 19, 2024
5/5

I love Darryl/Bashar. Quick read but enlightening and thought provoking. Complexity boiled down to a level almost understandable on a human level, and definitely at a soul level
Author 1 book
July 11, 2024
A good summary

The book includes all the core concepts of Bashar’s teachings which should resonate with anyone looking forward to open contact.
1 review
January 5, 2025
Great Read!

Although this is very basic introduction to his channeled messages, I still enjoyed reading the book. Looking forward to the next one hopefully coming out soon.
11 reviews
September 10, 2025
Thank you Darryl

A wonderful read, very eye opening. I had to stop occasionally and absorb the information. I've highlighted portions I want to go back and digest
1 review3 followers
November 27, 2025
Inspiring and captivating.

I plan to just perpetual read this to remind us what's truly going on. A great book for inquiring minds.
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72 reviews1 follower
January 4, 2025
Clear & to the point. Thank you Bashar & Daryl!
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