What Does Halloween Really Celebrate? Bashar Reveals Atlantis Connection on Grand Rising

What if the candy and costumes were just the surface—and Halloween actually marks something far more ancient? That's the question Ryan Stober and Sheela Rahman opened on Grand Rising, their Friday morning show that blends humor, metaphysics, and the pulse of Sedona's consciousness community.

"I assume that everybody watching this program knows who Bashar is," Ryan announced with a grin, preparing to play a clip that would reframe the entire holiday. "This is Bashar talking about the real genesis beginning idea behind why we celebrate Halloween."

What Did Bashar Reveal About Atlantis and Halloween?

The clip delivered a teaching that lands differently the day before Halloween: "Your transition from your October to November month is the anniversary of its destruction," Bashar explained. "This is the original reason why you have All Hallows' Eve, Halloween, and the idea of All Souls Day and All Saints Day, October 31st, November 1st, November 2nd. The day before the destruction, the day of the destruction, the day after the destruction of Atlantis."

Ryan and Sheela sat with the weight of it. "So number one, you've got to believe that Atlantis was real just anyways to start, right?" Ryan said. He placed the timeline around 12,000 to 13,000 years ago, though as their later guest Giselle would note, "time is a funny thing."

Sheela connected it to Day of the Dead traditions: "They claim that the veil between the spirit realm and the earthly realm is the thinnest it will ever be all year." The convergence made sense—a time when cultures worldwide honor those who've passed, now understood as an ancient remembrance of a catastrophic loss. Watch the full discussion to hear how this reframes our modern celebration.

How Do Ryan and Sheela Hold the Room?

What makes Grand Rising distinct is the way these two navigate between the cosmic and the comedic. Ryan brings the energy of someone who genuinely can't wait to share what he's discovered, often yelling enthusiastically right out of the gate. Sheela grounds the show with precision—whether she's explaining the physics of tuning forks or the iron content in Sedona's red rock that creates "a very specific type of electric current where waves are bouncing off constantly."

Their weekly call with book curator Giselle became a deep dive into the Mars-Earth enigma—"The face on Mars isn't just a face, it's a whole complex," Giselle explained, describing how the Martian structures mirror the Giza Plateau. But she also offered a warning: "They've culled this book. This book is no longer there" at the Sedona Public Library. Her message was clear: hold onto your physical books.

Ryan's been in Sedona since February, and he's noticed something physiological. "There is a weird hum, buzz I pick up when I'm at my house," he shared. "I leave town, and I'm walking around like, 'Oh, these symptoms are nonexistent.' And then I come back here, I'm like, 'Oh, they're back.'" Sheela confirmed what practitioners know: "A lot of us here in Sedona have that role—we're here to stabilize the frequencies on the planet."

What Can We Learn From Tiny Ponies?

In a moment that could only happen on Grand Rising, the hosts played footage of miniature Shetland ponies racing in slow, hypnotic circles with children on their backs. "This is not in slow motion. This is actual speed of these little ponies," Ryan marveled. The race ended anticlimactically—the ponies simply stopped and wandered to the center.

But Ryan found the teaching anyway: "Your good idea is like a pony. You tame that pony, and you ride the races." Sheela took it further, connecting horses to solar plexus energy, willpower, and motivation. "What does your pony represent?" she asked. It was a perfect encapsulation of the show's method—find the absurd, then mine it for wisdom.

The episode also previewed Humankind's packed calendar: Circo Bizzarro's Halloween circus experience, the 11:11 Portal Reiki Attunement starting at 2:22 PM, Little Fish and Govinda on Friday the 13th, and December's Accidental Truth UFO disclosure screening. "Your calendar is going to be full," Ryan promised.

As Sheela demonstrated her Blank of the Week—the 2222 and 3333 Hz tuning forks that create a five-pointed star geometry—she explained her work at Bradshaw Ranch "by request from upstairs to stabilize the grid a little bit." Ryan joked that her nine-to-five is "stabilizing the grid," but there was truth in it. Sedona amplifies everything, including the patterns we haven't dealt with. "It forces you to confront these patterns," Sheela said, "in order to take the next step."

"I always feel like I know so much less the older I get, which is great," Ryan reflected near the end. "You're like a kid again, you just want to explore everything." That spirit of curiosity—humble, playful, willing to sit with ancient mysteries and pony metaphors in the same breath—is what makes Grand Rising essential viewing for anyone navigating Sedona's consciousness community. Stream the full episode and let Ryan and Sheela remind you that the best research is done with laughter and an open heart.

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