The Universe Is Always Conspiring for Your Abundance

Somewhere along the way, abundance got shrunk down to a single number in a bank account. That’s the definition most of us inherited, and it’s a small, brittle definition for something that was never meant to be small or brittle.

Abundance is energy. It’s health. It’s a feeling you can recognize in your body before you can explain it. It’s synchronicity — the right person, the right information, the right opportunity arriving at the moment you needed it, not a moment before. It’s creativity. It’s communication. It’s joy. It’s the quiet security of knowing you’re not alone in what you’re carrying. Money is one form abundance can take. It was never the whole definition, and treating it as the whole definition is exactly what’s kept so many people feeling poor in the middle of lives that are actually full.

Abundance as Sovereignty

If I go all the way down to the root of what abundance actually means to me, it isn’t a number at all. It’s freedom — the freedom of a sovereign being to live out a life without the interference of controlling intervention. That’s not a throwaway line. It’s the synthesis of my own purpose, planetary and personal both, and it’s the same core I helped shape into the mission statement at Prepare for Change during my years there.

Sovereignty and abundance are the same conversation wearing two different names. A being who is free to direct their own energy, their own time, their own attention, without an external system skimming the top of it or dictating its terms, is a being living in abundance almost by definition — regardless of what their bank balance says on a given Tuesday. Planetary liberation, at the species scale, and personal abundance, at the scale of one life, are the same removal of controlling intervention viewed from two different altitudes.

Living in abundance and living as a sovereign being are the same thing, described from two different angles.

The Chaos at the Crossing Point

Here’s the part that’s harder to sit with: we are, right now, living through a period of genuine confusion and overlap. In the Hindu and yoga traditions, there’s a name for the transitional window between one great age and the next — the Sandhi — the twilight junction where the old age hasn’t fully released its grip and the new one hasn’t fully arrived. The waning era of darkness giving way to the waxing era of light doesn’t happen as a clean handoff. It happens as an overlap, and that overlap is where the maximum chaos concentrates.

That chaos isn’t proof that nothing is working. It’s what a Sandhi actually looks like from inside it. The distraction, the deception, the sense of being pulled off your path — that’s the friction of two ages occupying the same moment, not a verdict on your worthiness or your timing. Knowing that doesn’t remove the chaos. But it changes what the chaos means.

Contrast Is the Curriculum

When you’re off your path, you’re not living in a high vibration of love, joy, and ease — and that’s allowed. We are not required to be in constant residence with those emotions. Our experience here is the experience of polarity and duality: highs and lows, dark and light, joy and sorrow, day and night. That contrast is not a malfunction in the design. It’s the actual lesson.

Contrast gives us perspective, and perspective is most of what we’re here to develop. The people raising their own frequency aren’t the ones who’ve eliminated contrast from their lives. They’re the ones who’ve learned to read it correctly — as information rather than injury — and who work in synchronicity with a universe that is, in a very real sense, always conspiring to hand you what you actually want. Not what you’re told to want. What you actually want, underneath the noise: peace, happiness, ease, connection, a healthy body and a healthy mind, the ability to be your true self without constantly managing other people’s discomfort with that self.

What Cynicism Actually Costs

Think back to childhood, if you can get there — the naive trust, the willingness to experience things directly instead of filtering them first through what could go wrong. That trust erodes as we’re taught cynicism, and the cynicism doesn’t arrive neutral. It arrives as programming, and its function is to pull us away from our true selves by convincing us that lack, rather than abundance, is the default setting of reality.

That’s the actual inversion worth naming: fooling us into seeing everything through a lens of lack is the precise opposite of abundance, and it’s the lesson most of adult life is spent quietly unlearning. Abundant living isn’t a reward you receive once conditions are perfect. It’s what happens while you’re pursuing your joy, living your passions, creating, experiencing, and staying in the moment you’re actually in rather than the one you’re braced for. The present is a present — a gift — precisely because it’s the only place any of this is available to you.

Bashar’s Framework

This is where Bashar’s teaching on abundance lines up almost exactly with what I’ve come to on my own, from a completely different angle and a completely different set of years. He defines abundance simply as the ability to do what you need to do, when you need to do it — no form required, no single channel mandated. He teaches that abundance moves along the path of least resistance, the same way electricity does, and that the moment you loosen your grip on the idea that it can only arrive as money, you open the door to the other forms it’s already been trying to reach you through: synchronicity bringing exactly what you need exactly when you need it, imagination handing you a way around a problem you thought only cash could solve, a gift or a trade arriving from a direction you never would have scripted, communication itself functioning as a form of wealth.

The piece of his teaching I find most useful, especially set against the chaos of the Sandhi we’re living inside, is his insistence that accepting where you are right now is what accelerates getting where you want to be — not resisting it, not treating your current circumstance as evidence of failure. Resistance to your own position is what creates the tension that slows everything down. Allowing your present situation to be all right, even mid-transition, even inside contrast, is what lets the path of least resistance actually open up in front of you.

Excitement, in Bashar’s framework, isn’t a distraction from the work. It’s the signal telling you which direction is already aligned — which is a very different relationship to joy than the one most of us were trained into.

The Forms It Actually Takes

Bashar breaks this down further than most of us bother to, and it’s worth walking through his list directly, because each form on it is something you likely already have more of than you’re crediting yourself for. Money is one form — a valid one, but only one. Beyond it: a gift, received without a transaction attached, is abundance. A trade or a barter, where your skill meets someone else’s need without money ever entering the exchange, is abundance. Synchronicity — the right person, the right resource, the right door opening at precisely the moment you needed it and not before — is abundance moving in its purest form, because it required no effort to manufacture, only enough openness to notice it. Imagination is abundance, because a genuinely new way of solving a problem can make an old, expensive solution unnecessary overnight. And communication, which I’ll come back to in a moment, is abundance because it is quite literally the exchange of value between two people who have nothing to trade but attention and honesty.

None of these forms are lesser than money. They’re simply less visible on a balance sheet, which is exactly why a culture organized around balance sheets trains people to overlook them. The moment you start counting them, the ledger looks very different.

Friends and Community

Of everything on that list, friends and community might be the form most consistently undervalued, because they don’t show up as a line item anywhere. A genuine friendship provides witness, memory, a place to be known without performance, help that shows up uninvited and asks for nothing in return. Community does the same thing at scale — a distributed reserve of skill, attention, and care that no individual could stockpile alone. This platform, and the readers who’ve gathered around it, function as exactly that kind of reserve, flowing in both directions at once.

Communication Is Abundance

For me, personally, communication has been one of the clearest forms abundance has ever taken. Being in ongoing communication with a lot of people has expanded my own sense of security and well-being. It’s expanded the mission itself. It provides feedback, and it builds a community of like-minded people around work that would otherwise happen in isolation.

A handful of readers and subscribers have reached out over time to say, in their own words, thank you for detailing this, for connecting dots they had already half-seen on their own but couldn’t quite name. Some of them are further along this path than I am in certain respects; some say I helped them move a few steps further along their own. Either way, the fact that we’re finding each other — that they’re reading these words and recognizing something true in them — means this platform is doing exactly what it was built to do: healing, and bringing people together across distances that used to feel unbridgeable.

That reach doesn’t stop when I close the laptop. Even in the dream state, a great deal gets communicated to me about the work I’m doing and have been doing, and I’ve noticed I am more productive, in the fullest sense of that word, precisely because I’m inspired and genuinely happy fulfilling the purpose in front of me. That’s not a coincidence. That’s what abundance looks like when it’s actually flowing — not forced, not extracted, just moving along the path of least resistance toward the person who’s ready to receive it.

Where This Leaves You

So if you take one thing from this piece, let it be a wider definition of the word you’ve been measuring your life against. Abundance was never only the number in the account. It’s the energy in your body, the health you’re tending, the synchronicities you’re noticing instead of dismissing, the creativity you’re allowing yourself to act on, the people you’re in real communication with, the joy you’re not postponing until some future condition is met, and — underneath all of it — the sovereignty to live your life without someone else’s hand on the wheel.

The universe is always conspiring to give you what you want. Widen your definition of abundance, and you widen every door it can walk through.

None of this requires you to resolve the chaos of the moment first. It requires the opposite — letting where you are be all right, even mid-Sandhi, even inside contrast, so that the next form abundance is already trying to take can actually reach you. That’s the whole practice. Not manifesting harder. Noticing wider.

— Gerry

Gerry Gomez is an investigative journalist, creative director, and hybrid war correspondent who has spent a decade documenting the convergence of financial, media, and geopolitical forces shaping the current global transition.