Essassani and Bashar

Anka's own site states he 'has been channeling publicly since that time in 1983' the entity known as Bashar, and that 1983 start date is independently corroborated by an academic conference paper on the phenomenon. One wrinkle is worth flagging rather than hiding: some secondary aggregator summaries instead give 1984. The gap is small and the difference is trivial to the larger story, but the date is not fully settled across sources, so we mark it rather than quietly pick one.

Per Anka's channeled material, Bashar is a part-human, part-'Grey' hybrid extraterrestrial from a civilization on a planet called Essassani, said to lie roughly 500 light-years away in the direction of the Orion constellation, and to exist in a 'parallel reality' identified with a possible future of Earth. There is no independent evidence of any kind for the planet's existence.

The wider lore nests Essassani inside a system of five claimed human/Grey 'hybrid races', built on a deliberate 50/50 genetic balance, with the Essassani counted as the third. Present-day humanity, the story goes, is in the process of becoming a future 'sixth hybrid race' as hybrid children are gradually reintegrated to Earth. It is an internally elaborate cosmology, and it rests entirely on the sessions that describe it.

There is not even agreement on what Bashar is supposed to be. Community and devotee sites present Bashar as a wholly separate alien personality, an independent being who happens to speak through Anka. The scholarly paraphrase is stranger and more interesting: the CESNUR conference paper describes Bashar as presenting itself as 'a future self of the channeler,' a temporally displaced aspect of Anka's own consciousness rather than an unrelated ET. Those are two very different claims wearing the same name, and the sources do not reconcile them.

The consistently repeated core teaching attributed to Bashar is a single line: 'follow your highest excitement, with zero insistence on outcome.' It is presented as a three-part 'Formula' of excitement, action, and non-attachment to result. This is a Tier 1 fact in a careful, specific sense: it is well documented that this is what the teaching says, repeated in near-identical wording across independent collections of the material. It is not, and we are not claiming it is, evidence that the being delivering it is real.

Anka's earliest widely distributed Bashar book, Bashar: Blueprint for Change: A Message from Our Future, was published in 1990 by New Solutions Publishing as a paperback, credited as material channeled by Darryl Anka and 'Compiled, Edited and Arranged by Luana Ewing,' drawn from taped sessions recorded between 1986 and 1989. The book is a real, catalogued object with an ISBN. Whatever one makes of its contents, its existence is not in question.

Secondary biographical summaries claim Anka's books have sold 'over 300,000' copies in Japan specifically, pointing to an unusually strong following there. The figure is repeated across promotional and bio sources, but it traces back to self-description and has never been independently audited, so we carry it as a plausible but unverified number rather than a settled fact.

In 2016 Anka wrote, directed, and produced a feature documentary titled First Contact, released on September 16, 2016, recounting his UFO encounter and channeling career. The film was narrated by the actor James Woods. It is listed in the standard film databases; the documentary plainly exists, independent of any claim it makes.

In June 2015, Anka's organization filed DMCA takedown notices against Tumblr users, claiming ownership of 'hundreds' of Bashar-related images and GIFs under a notice reading 'Copyright 1984 to 2015. All Rights Reserved.' Tumblr complied and removed the content. The episode drew pointed criticism from skeptic commentators over the oddity of a human organization asserting earthly copyright on material it attributes to an alleged alien entity.

The phenomenon has received at least one piece of genuine scholarly attention. Mariachiara Gasparini's conference paper for CESNUR (the Center for Studies on New Religions) situates Bashar's cosmology within older Western esoteric motifs, the unity of creation and the creative power of imagination, and treats it as a sociological case study. Crucially, it does this without endorsing the extraterrestrial claims as factual. It studies the belief, not the being.

One more tell about how mainstream sources treat all this: there is no English Wikipedia article for Bashar as a channeled entity (the likely title returns a 404). Reference-level coverage of the phenomenon is otherwise confined to a skeptic wiki, RationalWiki, and the single CESNUR paper, rather than mainstream encyclopedic or journalistic sources. Absence of an encyclopedia entry disproves nothing, but it is an honest measure of how little independent, verifiable material exists.

Across a decentralized channeling subculture, the Yahyel are described as a hybrid human-alien race slated to make humanity's first officially acknowledged open contact. The hub site, The Yahyel News Network (theyahyel.com), says it was 'originally set up in 2011' in preparation, and projects that contact will come 'sometime between 2025 and 2033.' It is a prediction with a built-in expiry, and no external evidence supports it.

In Bashar's own channeled material, the Yahyel carry a second name, 'Shalanaya,' which Bashar states means 'those who will come first': the hybrid race expected to achieve open public contact with humanity ahead of the others. The term ties the Yahyel network back to the Bashar cosmology, but it does nothing to corroborate either. It is one strand of channeling citing another.

One specific book pushes the lore into testable territory and promptly fails the test. Avatars of the Phoenix Lights UFO: Ishuwa and the Yahyel (Shaun Swanson and Jefferson Viscardi, 2012) presents twelve channeled conversations in which the channeler relays messages from an entity named 'Ishuwa,' identified as a Yahyel pilot allegedly responsible for the real, well-documented Phoenix Lights mass sighting of March 13, 1997 over Arizona. The Phoenix Lights genuinely happened and were seen by thousands; the attribution to a Yahyel pilot is unique to this one self-published book and is backed by nothing outside it, unsupported by any actual investigation of the event.

Contactee-derived descriptions give the Yahyel a specific look, distinct from Bashar's Essassani: roughly 150 cm (about 5 feet) tall, with grey-toned skin, sparse or absent body and head hair, and an androgynous build. Every detail here comes from channeled or contactee material, with no independent physical evidence of any kind behind it. It is a portrait drawn entirely from testimony.