# Agreements > Agreements at the collective soul and civilization levels coordinate participation while coexisting with individual perspective consent and choice. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/agreements # Agreements *Several fiber strands cross a shared woven bridge then continue separately* In Bashar's teaching, reality is structured by agreement at every level. There are collective agreements that make a shared Earth experience possible, soul-level agreements made before incarnation that set the themes of a life, and agreements between civilizations — including the controversial "abduction" agreements — that are entered into on a level the physical personality usually does not remember. This chapter draws together what the transcripts say about each kind of agreement and the single principle that unifies them: nothing in your experience happens to you outside of agreement, even when you are not consciously aware of having made it. ## The collective agreement that makes the Earth game possible Bashar frames the shared Earth experience as a collective agreement that supplies a common game board so that each individual does not have to re-create every condition from scratch. He uses the chess analogy: to play chess, everyone must agree on the board, the pieces, and the rules; once those are fixed, each player can play the game in a multitude of individual combinations. > — Earth Game collective Agreements Counterpart Lives (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/earth-game-collective-agreements-counterpart-lives) The collective agreement supplies things like gravity and breathing as shared background conditions, freeing each person to focus on their individual transformation within that framework. > — Earth Game collective Agreements Counterpart Lives (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/earth-game-collective-agreements-counterpart-lives) This is why, even though everyone is shifting all the time, certain similarities persist and make reality seem collectively shared — the underlying agreement holds the shared "game" in place while each individual makes their own choices. > — Earth Game collective Agreements Counterpart Lives (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/earth-game-collective-agreements-counterpart-lives) ## Pre-birth and theme agreements *Three unequal shore paths begin beneath one distant shared weather pattern* Before incarnation, Bashar says, you agree with others on general themes of exploration rather than specific locked-in events. Asked whether we have contractual agreements with each other when we come into physical life, he answers that there are "general themes you agree to explore with the individuals that figure strongly in your life, but it doesn't always extend into specifics." > — Perth Workshop (qa-4), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/perth-workshop) Those themes are themes of reflectivity — arranged to allow you to become the individual you prefer to be — and the specific partner is often a multiple-choice question rather than a single fixed person. > — Perth Workshop (qa-4), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/perth-workshop) The same principle appears in Bashar's teaching on astrology. A natal planet, he says, is not affecting you but reflecting the themes you chose to explore in this incarnation. The greatest challenges you face reveal those chosen themes, and a planet whose energy you carry easily (such as Venus for someone whose love flows) mirrors an area of life you came in to express with natural ease. > — Astrology Symbolically Reflects The Agreements You Chose (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/astrology-symbolically-reflects-the-agreements-you-chose) ## The "toe in the water" agreements A striking application of the agreement principle appears in Bashar's teaching on abortion. He tells a woman who chose to abort that the being representing her child "knew what your decision would be, and only wanted to stick its toe in the water of physical reality." > — Abortion And The Aborted Souls Choice In The Experience (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/abortion-and-the-aborted-souls-choice-in-the-experience) Nothing happens by accident; the incarnation was arranged so that the being could participate briefly in physical reality without requiring a full physical life, and the experience was chosen to give the mother an opportunity to go through whatever she was examining. > — Abortion And The Aborted Souls Choice In The Experience (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/abortion-and-the-aborted-souls-choice-in-the-experience) The same teaching appears even more directly in a second exchange: "everything happens by agreement. And many times, because such a thing can exist on your planet, because such a decision can be made, then there are those spirits and souls who realize that what they would like to do is simply stick their little toe in the water for a minute. So they will connect themselves to someone who will not necessarily bring the body to full term." > — Abortion Can Serve As A Positive Experience (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/abortion-can-serve-as-a-positive-experience) The implication is that even experiences that look like disruption from the physical personality's point of view are, in Bashar's framing, orchestrated by agreement at the soul level. ## Agreements between civilizations: the grey abduction case *Two taut fiber currents stop at a protected shoreline boundary* Bashar extends the agreement principle to the most unlikely territory: the "alien abduction" scenario. He states that the greys are not actually alien but a mutated race of humans from a parallel Earth who destroyed their reality and can no longer perpetuate their society without viable human DNA. They have "tunneled into your parallel reality, taken with agreement on a higher level, genetic material that allows them to blend with their own to create a new species, a hybrid species between you and them, of which we are one of the results." > — Alien Abductions101Who Are The Greys (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/alien-abductions101who-are-the-greys) When pressed on the obvious objection — that abductions seem to be done against human will — Bashar's answer is that humans are simply not consciously aware of having made the agreement at the spirit level: the idea of humans simply not being consciously aware of the fact that they have, on a spirit level, made an agreement for this to occur to aid and assist this civilization in perpetuating itself.— Bashar, He does not excuse the curt or uncaring behavior of the greys; he attributes it to their having lost the ability to emotionally relate to humans as they once were, comparing it to a veterinarian treating a frightened animal that does not understand the procedure is for its benefit. The agenda, he says, is becoming more mutual as humans develop more spiritual and telepathic awareness and can participate more consciously. > — Msbecka3 Alien Abduction (qa-4), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/msbecka3-alien-abduction) The beings a person often interacts with in those experiences are, Bashar adds, often different versions of themselves in a different reality — in essence the same soul — which is why the agreement could be made in the first place. > — Alien Abductions101Who Are The Greys (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/alien-abductions101who-are-the-greys) ## Agreements that interrupt self-limitation Agreements are not only grand metaphysical structures; Bashar describes highly practical pre-birth agreements between friends. He tells a questioner who was terrified by a childhood sighting of an entity that the visit was not unfriendly and was, in fact, the honoring of a specific prior agreement: You had arranged with that friend by a prior agreement: friend, I'm going to go into this physical life; if at any time you find that I am going to limit myself a little bit too much, well do step in and knock me out of it, won't you? They were only doing as you had agreed.— Bashar, This reframes an apparent haunting as a kept promise — a friend honoring a mutual agreement to interrupt self-limitation. The instruction is to open, in sleep, to the understanding that the event occurred by agreement, and to begin dream dialogues that acclimate the person to the being. > — Turning On The Lights (qa-3), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/turning-on-the-lights) ## Collective template agreements *Separate water channels pass through an organic root lattice and emerge distinct* At the largest scale, Bashar describes collective templates or grids of consciousness — such as Christ consciousness, Buddha nature, Krishna spirit — as expressions of the collective consciousness of the world. To connect with such a vibration is to make contact with "the collective grid, the collective consciousness, the collective template, the collective agreement." > — Christ Consciousness Collective Template Grid (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/christ-consciousness-collective-template-grid) Contact with the collective agreement then illuminates one's personal agreement relative to it. > — Christ Consciousness Collective Template Grid (qa-2), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/christ-consciousness-collective-template-grid) ## Practical implications Notice the two layers of will in any strong situation. Bashar's model always holds two layers together: the higher-mind or soul level that made the agreement (which can feel like fate or predestination), and the physical personality's free will, which decides how to live the theme now. The higher fixes the broad theme; the personality fills in the specifics. > — Perth Workshop (qa-4), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/perth-workshop) Read your strongest challenges as chosen themes, not random cruelties. The astrology teaching is a practical reframe: the greatest challenges you face are "representative of the themes you chose to explore in this life." > — Astrology Symbolically Reflects The Agreements You Chose (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/astrology-symbolically-reflects-the-agreements-you-chose) This is a lens for interpretation, not a directive to accept harm; nothing here overrides medical, legal, or safety boundaries. Revisit a frightening or unexplained event as a possible kept promise. The childhood-entity teaching suggests that some such events may be a friend honoring a prior agreement to interrupt your self-limitation. Bashar's instruction is to open dream dialogues with the being from that stance. > — Turning On The Lights (qa-3), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/turning-on-the-lights) Treat brief or painful encounters as potentially agreed, not accidental. The "toe in the water" teaching on abortion, and the spirit-level agreement teaching on abductions, both propose that experiences which appear truncated or unwanted from the physical view are arranged at the soul level. This is offered as a reframing for peace of mind, not as a clinical or medical directive. > — Abortion And The Aborted Souls Choice In The Experience (qa-1), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/abortion-and-the-aborted-souls-choice-in-the-experience) Don't confuse the agreement with the specific person. Because agreements are typically general themes of reflectivity, Bashar says there are usually multiple possible partners who could serve the same theme. Fixating on one specific person as "the" agreement can mistake the theme for its carrier. > — Perth Workshop (qa-4), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/perth-workshop) ## Representative passages You all have the idea of a collective agreement when you decide to play the Earth game. You create that collective agreement so that you won't have to think about certain things all the time, like gravity and breathing and so on and so forth.— Bashar, there are general themes you agree to explore with the individuals that figure strongly in your life, but it doesn't always extend into specifics. Some specifics are there, but they are usually general themes of reflectivity to allow you to become the individuals you prefer to be.— Bashar, The greatest challenges you face are representative of the themes you chose to explore in this life.— Bashar, that being that was representative of your child, knew what your decision would be, and only wanted to stick its toe in the water of physical reality. Nothing happens by accident. It's an orchestration.— Bashar, They have tunneled into your parallel reality, taken with agreement on a higher level, genetic material that allows them to blend with their own to create a new species, a hybrid species between you and them, of which we are one of the results.— Bashar, You had arranged with that friend by a prior agreement: friend, I'm going to go into this physical life; if at any time you find that I am going to limit myself a little bit too much, well do step in and knock me out of it, won't you? They were only doing as you had agreed.— Bashar, Additional sources > — Msbecka3 Alien Abduction (qa-3), [Source](https://sassani.app/source-transmissions/msbecka3-alien-abduction) ## Related - [Contracts & Agreements](https://sassani.app/topic/contracts-and-agreements) - [Reincarnation](https://sassani.app/topic/reincarnation) - [Parallel Realities](https://sassani.app/topic/parallel-realities) - [Greys And Hybrids](https://sassani.app/topic/greys-and-hybrids) - [Hybridization](https://sassani.app/topic/hybridization) - [Astrology](https://sassani.app/topic/astrology) - [Counterparts & Cross-Connections](https://sassani.app/topic/counterpart) - [Soul](https://sassani.app/topic/soul) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/agreements. The HTML page is the source of truth.