# Template Universe > The template is the underlying nonphysical substructure with tetrahedral crystalline geometry through which consciousness translates into physical matter as the border between nonphysical and physical. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/template-universe # Template Universe The template is the underlying, non-physical substructure upon which any particular physical reality derives its existence and shape. Bashar presents it as the borderline between the non-physical intangible and the physical tangible universe — the implied, "implicate order" scaffolding through which consciousness trickles down into physical manifestation. It is not itself a physical field; your scientists, once they allow consciousness into their equations, will one day recognize it as the final unifying reference beneath the four known forces. ## The template as border between non-physical and physical In Bashar's account the template sits at the exact edge where non-physical consciousness crosses into physical energy. It has a tetrahedral crystalline structure that acts as the filter translating non-physical consciousness into the energy vibratory patterns that give rise to the first manifestations of physical matter. Those patterns then slow into subatomic particles, atoms, molecules, and the encoded shifts of the DNA that drive evolutionary mutation. In this framing the template is the literal mechanism by which consciousness becomes matter — consciousness passes itself through the tetrahedral prism, encodes itself in energy, and that energy slows its vibration down into material form. The "New Metaphysics" chapter sharpens this into an explicit equation and geometry. The template's linear equation is X + Y + Z + T, plus the negatives (-X, -Y, -Z, -T), summing to zero — the "nothingness" out of which all is created. Its geometric form is a double tetrahedron base-to-base, one apex up (T), one down (-T), sharing the X/Y/Z base plane, with a zero rest point at the center. The five apexes and six facets give rise to the eleven dimensionality physicists describe; the faces embody the uncertainty principle, because any measurable face contains at most two position components and the time component, never all three of X, Y, and Z at once. Space-time itself — the idea of location — is described as more fundamental than the quark, the one quasi-real bridge between physicality and non-physicality. "Crystalline," in Bashar's lexicon, is the order or pattern consciousness imposes on the homogeneous energy field out of which physical reality arises; the crystal is the ultimate definition of that imposed order, which is why crystals function as symbols for communicating with the higher self that does the imposing. ## The template level in an incarnation The template is not only a cosmic substructure; it is also a level within each incarnation. The soul divides itself for every incarnation into a higher mind, a template reality, and a physical mind. The template reality is the blueprint level in which the physical reality is laid out to be experienced and the theme to be explored is set; the physical mind then actually has the experience, taking what Bashar calls the "unfired clay" of the soul and firing it into the "ceramic" of the spirit specific to that incarnation, which adds to the perspectives of the soul and the over-soul. In the Sirian-triad session this blueprint function is extended to reality building at scale: the non-physical Sirius consciousness is described as interacting with your higher minds, coordinating template blueprint building for thematic experiences that spirit may need to undergo in physical reality — "literally lay[ing] out the foundations of blueprints for a variety of reality experiences." A collective template is named as well: the Christ-consciousness / Buddha-nature / Krishna-spirit vibration is described as contact with a collective grid, collective consciousness, and collective template — the shared agreement through which you can illuminate your personal agreement relative to the collective one. ## Ice, water, steam: where you design physical reality The Physics of Intention session gives the template a felt location between two states of matter. Physical reality is akin to ice, your non-physical higher-mind reality is akin to steam, and in the middle is the template-level reality, akin to water — where you design your physical reality. Your energy melts the physical reality so it becomes fluid, the higher levels of steam penetrate and heat it, and as you impose on it a vibration of intention representative of your true self, that energy creates new patterns in the water that then crystallize down into physical reality as the new configuration. Every single thing you imagine that is now in the template-level reality happens instantly and always automatically crystallizes into physical manifestation — it is already manifest all around you. You are not manifesting from scratch; you are refining your senses to perceive what is already there. This reframes the Akashic records as well. Because everything exists here and now, nothing needs to be recorded; all events always exist, so accessing information is simply tuning yourself to the frequency of a particular concept, time, and space, not traveling to a mysterious archive. Enduring music and language carry weight across the ages for the same reason: they synchronize with the template's own standing waves, the resonant harmonies that already represent the foundational structure of the reality you are experiencing. ## Practical implications Bashar's template framing is metaphysical cosmology, not a scientific model of matter or genetics; it is offered as attributed teaching rather than verified physics. The practical lever it gives a learner is perceptual: if the template already holds the design, then the work is not to force reality into shape from the outside but to allow the imagination to impose a vibration representative of your true self on the fluid "water" between physical and non-physical, and then to refine your senses so you can perceive what has already crystallized. This aligns with Bashar's broader emphasis on acting from excitement and revising definitions rather than struggling against circumstances. The incarnation blueprint framing also reframes how to regard a life theme: the theme is set at the template level and then experienced by the physical mind, which means the conscious personality's job is to live and interpret the theme, not to redesign the blueprint from inside the physical focus. The model cautions against treating this as medical, genetic, or deterministic instruction; it is presented as a way to understand experience, not as a basis for diagnosis or prediction. ## Representative passages Template reality is the blueprint level in which the physical reality is laid out to be experienced and the theme to be explored is set. The physical mind then actually has the experience, taking the unfired clay of the soul and firing it into the ceramic of the spirit that is specific to the experience of the incarnation.— Bashar, Cosmology Questions Mindboggling Experience (cosmology-questions-mindboggling-experience#qa-3) There is what we call a template universe — to some degree the borderline between the non-physical intangible and the physical, tangible universe. The template has a tetrahedral crystalline structure. This tetrahedral crystalline structure is responsible for functioning as the filter that translates non-physical consciousness into the energy vibratory patterns that give rise to the first manifestations of physical matter.— Bashar, The Same Road (the-same-road#qa-8) Physical reality is akin to ice, your non-physical higher-mind reality is akin to steam, and in the middle is the template-level reality, the border, akin to water — where you design your physical reality. … Every single thing you imagine that is now in the template-level reality happens instantly and always automatically crystallizes into physical manifestation — it is already manifest all around you. 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