“I think that we’re at the helm of life’s ship. I think we navigate our lives in the natural based on how we think about things, and I believe that our consciousness is actually our compass versus how we think about things.”
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Toni Reece: Welcome to the Get Inspired! Project. I’m Toni Reece, and today I am joined by Peter Baska. Peter, welcome to the Get Inspired! Project.
Peter Baska: Thank you very much. Pleasure to be here.
Toni: Peter, take a moment and tell us a little bit about yourself.
Peter: I’m from Chicago, Illinois – a Midwesterner. I wrote two books recently; one is The Point of Power, and the second one is coming out in about week, and it’s called It’s None of My Business What You Think of Me.
Toni: I like that. Peter, thank you for being here. Let’s go into the first question of the Project. What does inspiration mean to you?
Peter: Inspiration I think is when one is in spirit, meaning we’re not in ego. I believe it’s when we approach a human transaction with the consciousness of love versus fear, from a consciousness of spirit versus ego. I believe that it’s the quality of your consciousness in the moment that creates the quality of the moments in the next life situation, if you will.
Toni: I’m going to take you back to the human transaction. Inspiration occurs during a human transaction – and what happens?
Peter: Inspiration is something where I believe you’re inspired to act in a certain way. Your consciousness inspires an action. I believe we have two choices; one is to come from a place of ego, and oftentimes ego is fear, or we have a choice to come from inspiration, meaning in spirit, which means we’re going to approach a life situation from a point of love, trust, and faith.
Toni: How do you put that meaning into practice?
Peter: I’m not great at it, but I try to listen more than talk. I think loving versus telling, I think being versus doing, and most importantly I think trusting in yourself in a higher power versus being in fear or doubting.
Toni: Is there a specific example, because these are wonderful ways to put inspiration into practice – can you give a specific example of how that was used to move into action for you?
Peter: Can you be a little bit more clear?
Toni: Absolutely. Listen more than talk, and to be loving and to trust, and being versus doing – give us an example of how you do that either on a work level or a personal level.
Peter: I think the consciousness that I attempt to come from when I talk about listening versus talking and loving versus telling, I think it’s a host mentality that I suggest coming to a transaction with. How can I be of service to the people or organizations that I’m involved with?
I think that’s the consciousness and the mentality versus “What am I going to get out of this? I’m afraid that they’re going to take advantage of me. I’m concerned about the future, because this happened to me in the past.”
The key is the quality of your consciousness, and obviously if you read my books, that’s really what these books are about. It’s about how do you manifest life situations that are in alignment with your desires? Oftentimes, we’re our own worst enemy.
Toni: That leads me to the next thought – have you always had this state of consciousness, and have you always been aware that this is what inspiration means to you?
Peter: No, not at all. In fact, I would say that my beginnings were very humble. I had no idea what was going on. I was thrust into a situation where there was familial trauma. I definitely struggled early on. I was in a parochial situation where religion was thrust upon me, and I think I was somewhat precocious in that the questions I asked didn’t get answered; yet again, I saw a light beneath the human misinterpretation or interpretations that I thought were contradictory, and it’s that truth that even then, I was really interested in determining what it was. That’s what I talk about in The Point of Power, and even in the next book.
Toni: What has been your greatest life lesson to date?
Peter: I think again it’s from a perspective from the way that I’m looking at a situation is crucial, and I think that one of the most important things for me was to determine that there’s more to me than what I do. My body, my personality. I think more importantly, there’s a set of laws and principles that are all encompassing that I can count on; that I’m a spirit essentially having human experiences.
Some people call this God, and then I bring the idea of “What is God?” I think some people like Steven Hawking and Richard Feynman who are Nobel laureates that studied quantum physics, which is basically the most contemporary, cutting edge view of the Universe; they call this M theory, and they explain some of it using something called String Theory and Quantum Mechanics.
I was just in Beijing, China; in fact, it was this last Sunday I was at the Lama Temple, and I met a Tibetan monk, and I interviewed him. What was interesting and the thing that came out of the interview was that bottom line, we must have faith in something beyond ourselves. All of the rituals and meditations that this man had been going through since he was a child were all about refining this thought and this belief and essentially improving his ability to communicate with the same source energy that creates worlds from nothingness. He would call that Buddha.
Toni: How would you correlate this life lesson to what inspires you?
Peter: That’s a tough question.
Toni: Maybe there isn’t, but I’m just wondering if there is a direct correlation between your life lesson that’s been learned to what you put into practice and what inspires you.
Peter: There’s absolutely a correlation. How I approach a transaction, whether it’s romantically or whether it’s in business by focusing on the idea of being of service and bringing that consciousness to the table versus coming to the table and saying, “What can I get out of this?” that manifests an entirely different quality of life for me.
I don’t know if that answers your question, but the inspiration comes from the knowledge that there is a source energy out there that will take what I send it and will take care of all the details for me. I have that faith, and I have that knowing, and I didn’t have that before. I didn’t have that before I did the research for the book. I haven’t had that all that long.
Toni: That’s interesting, because a lot of people are going to be listening to you right now and they might be saying to themselves, “How did you get there? How did you come to realize this?”
Peter: That’s a great question. The key element that I have is that I’m fairly introspective and open, and I struggled. I struggled and struggled and struggled, and nobody likes to struggle. Going back to the concept of contrast, when you come into a situation and you think it doesn’t feel right, what do you do? You begin to formulate another desire and then align your behaviors with that desire, and I followed that pattern really well.
A lot of the concepts that I talk about in the book I’ve been doing naturally from the age of six or seven years old; visualizations and things that like. I was an avid artist and musician starting at a very early age. I think that had something to do with motivation and having the building blocks to get to pursuing the truth further.
Toni: Plus the research that you did for the book helped to solidify that too, didn’t it?
Peter: Absolutely. In fact, I had a pivot consciousness and thought even after I finished my interview with this Tibetan monk – it was an amazing interview.
Toni: Peter, what do you want your legacy to be?
Peter: I’m just excited. I’m really excited about the research that I’ve done. I’ve gotten amazing feedback from people that I’ve shared the book with. I’ve done a couple of interviews and gotten emails from people that are thinking along the same lines, and they express their excitement that someone’s writing about it, and I’m just excited to share through my books and hope to do seminars.
I would like to be the bridge for all of us folks that are so educated through the process of becoming educated and becoming cynical of anything outside ourselves. I want to help those of us that are having difficulty in believing in love, people, and life.
For some, I think we’re using corrupt data. We believe it is true because some professor at Harvard, our parents, our teachers, our peers said it was true, then of course we had no choice other than to eat it up, and now we regurgitate it out in life situations that are hopefully good, some probably bad, some indifferent.
I want to show that it’s not what we see or even what we do, but most importantly, what we believe and the quality of our consciousness and thinking that has the most impact on our lives …
Toni: Peter … I’m sorry, go ahead …
Peter: I’m trying to think what else. I think that one of the key points that I want to get across is that each individual is responsible for their life and that they in fact have total control, that these things aren’t accidents. As you begin to become more present and you begin to observe your thoughts, you begin to see the connection, the synchronicities.
I think that we’re at the helm of life’s ship. I think we navigate our lives in the natural based on how we think about things, and I believe that our consciousness is actually our compass versus how we think about things; not what we do, but how we think about things, I should say.
Toni: We definitely will have your link at the bottom of this transcript so that people can check out your books and learn a little bit more about you. For taking time out of your busy schedule to be part of the Get Inspired! Project, we cannot thank you enough.
Peter: It’s been a pleasure. Thank you. It’s a great Project.
Toni: Thank you, Peter. Take care.
Thumbnail: Original Oil Painting by Peter Baksa
