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Who really said it

Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality

Not Albert Einstein — actually Darryl Anka, channeling ‘Bashar’ Darryl Anka b. 1951 · American–Canadian channeler & visual-effects artist
Disputed In copyright

This is a New Age channeling passage, not physics. Quote Investigator found the earliest version on bashar.org (page “The Ides of March,” archived 8 April 2000, copyright Darryl Anka 1996), where the words are credited to Anka’s claimed extraterrestrial entity “Bashar” — not to Einstein. It appears in none of Einstein’s writings and is absent from The Ultimate Quotable Einstein.

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“Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality” Not Albert Einstein. The wording comes from Darryl Anka's channeled "Bashar" material, copyright 1996 (per Quote Investigator).

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Still under copyright (rights held by Darryl Anka / Bashar Communications). A short, credited quote is generally fine for talks, teaching, and internal decks; for commercial, published, or large-scale reuse, get permission.

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Provenance

Where it really comes from

Real originator
Darryl Anka (as “Bashar”)
Earliest source
bashar.org, “The Ides of March”
Date
Copyright 1996; archived 8 Apr 2000
Attributed to
Albert Einstein (incorrectly)

Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics. The words are Darryl Anka’s, not Einstein’s

The Einstein-labeled version circulating online. The 1996 Bashar original is essentially identical but lacks the added sentence “This is not philosophy.”

Quote Investigator: full investigation

How we verified this

  • Quote Investigator concludes there is “no substantive evidence” Einstein said this and traces it to Darryl Anka’s “Bashar” channeling.
  • The earliest known copy is an Internet Archive capture of bashar.org from 8 April 2000, carrying a 1996 copyright in Darryl Anka’s name.
  • The line does not appear in Alice Calaprice’s The Ultimate Quotable Einstein, the standard reference for verifying Einstein quotations.
  • Anka, a Hollywood visual-effects artist, has publicly channeled “Bashar” since 1983; see his official bio.
In copyright

The wording originates in Darryl Anka’s “Bashar” material, published 1996 — well after 1931 and by an identifiable living author — so it is in copyright, held by Anka/Bashar Communications. It is in no sense an Einstein text and is not public domain.

Fact-check

How Einstein got the credit

A New Age channeling line acquired a physicist’s name because the passage ends with the word “physics” — and Einstein is the internet’s default authority for anything that sounds scientific and profound.

Albert Einstein Fabricated attribution

Quote Investigator found no substantive evidence Einstein ever said it, and it is absent from The Ultimate Quotable Einstein. The earliest copies credit Darryl Anka, not Einstein.

Later online embellishers Paraphrase drift

The 1996 Bashar original reads “…It can be no other way. This is physics.” The extra sentence “This is not philosophy” was inserted as the meme spread, per Quote Investigator.

The words are Darryl Anka’s “Bashar” channeling from 1996, not Einstein — and they describe no known physics, as Quote Investigator documents.

Context

Why the credit stuck

The line fuses two things people badly want to be compatible: hard science and the “law of attraction.” Ending on “This is physics” invites the reader to treat wishful thinking as a law of nature — and slapping Einstein’s name on top completes the illusion of authority.

In reality the passage is textbook New Age metaphysics from Darryl Anka’s Bashar sessions. “Matching frequencies” to summon a chosen reality is not a statement any physicist would recognize; energy and frequency in physics don’t work that way.

It ends with “This is physics” — which is exactly why it isn’t Einstein’s, and isn’t physics.

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Everything Is Energy — the investigationquoteinvestigator.com

Traces the exact wording to Darryl Anka’s Bashar material (1996) and debunks the Einstein credit.
About Darryl Ankabashar.org

Anka’s own site: VFX artist channeling the entity “Bashar” since 1983.
The Ultimate Quotable Einsteinpress.princeton.edu

Princeton’s definitive Einstein quotation reference; this line is absent from it.
Five Things Einstein Never Saidphysicsteacher.blog

Physics educator’s roundup of popular fake Einstein quotes.
Darryl Anka (RationalWiki)rationalwiki.org

Skeptical overview of Anka and the Bashar channeling claims.

The real source

Who actually wrote it

Darryl Anka

b. 1951, Ottawa · American–Canadian channeler & visual-effects artist

Darryl Anka is a Hollywood visual-effects artist (credits include Star Trek: The Motion Picture) who since 1983 has publicly “channeled” an entity he calls Bashar, described as an extraterrestrial from the future. The “everything is energy” passage comes from this New Age material, copyrighted in his name in 1996 — long before anyone pinned it on Einstein.

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Earliest documented source

Bashar (channeled by Darryl Anka), “The Ides of March,” bashar.org, copyright 1996 (earliest archived 8 April 2000). Attribution investigated in “Quote Origin: Everything Is Energy and That’s All There Is To It,” Quote Investigator, 16 May 2012.

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