September/October 2006

journey in our search for meaning

The Akashic Records
Your encyclopedic mind

BY ROZ BROWN

In the 1950s my parents, like most, were determined to educate their children to the best of their ability. This wasn’t an easy assignment in rural South Dakota, where recently abandoned one-room schools still stood like lighthouses watching over oceans of corn. So, they did the logical thing: they bought a set of encyclopedias.

Learning on the installment plan was common then, and by the time I was 10 years old and suddenly aware of those glossy-backed tomes in their special bookshelves, they had been joined by two additional sets: a daunting geography collection, and the very popular Book of Knowledge, a children’s encyclopedia.

For me, the Book of Knowledge covered anything that could possibly be important: literature and poetry, art, other countries, history, plant life, the earth and its neighbors. There were even picture atlases, and instructions on things you could make and do! It was a reservoir of information so vast it was other-worldly, overwhelming, much like the Internet. Which is similar to the concept behind the Akashic Records.

The Akashic Records have been called “the universe’s super computer system” and “The Book of Life,” a sort of lost hall of records where all past life (and future) information is stored. Often the terms Cosmic Mind, Universal Mind, collective unconscious, or collective subconscious are used interchangeably to mean the Akashic Records.

Akashic is a Sanskrit word meaning sky, space or ether—a word often used poetically to describe the space above the sphere of the moon, or the rarified air breathed by Olympians.

There are many claims that the Akashic Records have been accessed by mystics as celestial tablets since the dawn of time. It is said that Egyptians who could read the Akashic Records advised Pharaohs on their dreams. The Vedas of Hindus are said to derive from Akashic Records. But the term itself doesn’t appear until the theosophy movement of the 19th century. It was around that same time that Edgar Cayce (1877-1945), the famous mystic and psychic, said his clairvoyant readings were based on his ability to enter an altered state, and derive information from the subconscious mind of his client as well as the etheric source that he called the Akashic Records.

Casey wrote: “Upon time and space is written the thoughts, the deeds, the activities of an entity as in relationships to its environs, its hereditary influence; as directed or drawn by or according to what the entity’s ideal is. Hence, as it has been oft called, the record is God’s book of remembrance.”

At the official site of Casey’s Association for Research and Enlightenment, Inc., (A.R.E.), Akashic Records are described as containing “the entire history of every soul since the dawn of creation. These records connect each one of us to one another. They contain the stimulus for every archetypal symbol or mythic story that has ever deeply touched patterns of human behavior and experience. They have been the inspiration for dreams and invention. They draw us toward or repel us from one another. They mold and shape levels of human consciousness. They are a portion of the Divine Mind.”

So, how do we access this Divine Mind? There is not one right way. Certain states of consciousness—such as those induced by meditation, yogic breathing, astral journeying, dream work, stages of sleep, drugs, or even illness—can induce such a state. And the Akashic Records are not only the province of mystics, but are also available to ordinary people. If that seems out of your realm of imagination or abilities, spiritual counselors can assist.

Local psychic and spiritual coach Jafree describes his method. After saying a sacred prayer, Jafree uses a person's name and birth date to access the Records and conduct a reading. “The future is written in sand, not stone, so it’s like a blueprint or map,” he says. “I can dive beneath a person’s conscious mind and help them reveal what they most need to know in order to manifest what they want in their life.” He says the experience for him is probably something like channeling, though he’s channeling information from a person’s soul rather than from a third party entity.

Chris Sadhuta Liaguno, who refers to himself as an authentic response coach, says those who come to see him usually have one thing in common: they are interested in the esoteric. Most believe the experience of an Akashic reading improves their life. For example, those who have found themselves repeating an issue again and again experience a new perspective that helps alleviate suffering and promote healing. He says people who describe themselves as “always afraid”—afraid of failure, or disappointing others—report a dramatic transformation after reviewing their Records.

A session with an Akashic counselor or coach is much like a session with any psychic reader, who can take information and find its greater purpose for a client’s life. In this case, the Akashic reader asks for entry to the client’s Records, and proceeds from there.

Writing in his book, Living Your Divine Contract: How to Study the Akashic Records and Discover Your Heart’s Purpose (Nightingale/ Conant, audio series) Kevin Todeschi, a Cayce scholar, promises the Records can change your life.

“Revisit your [forgotten] past experiences—even those that took place in previous lifetimes. Find out the fascinating reasons behind your likes and dislikes, talents and skills, even why you’ve chosen certain people as your friends and romantic partners. See exactly what your life is going to be like, in detail, seven years from now. Avoid any painful, unpleasant future experiences you may discover you’re headed toward. Interpret your dream symbols and details with ease and accuracy so that you can recognize and use the astonishing prophetic information your dreams always contain.

As fascinating as Cayce might be, he also has his skeptics, who hold no truck with his prophecies and believe that while he was a kind man, he did not heal others as was claimed, and that he was no more clairvoyant than you or I. Which may be the point, as the Akashic Records are said to be available to all of us if we are open to our own clairvoyance. Of course, not all of us want to know our future, but according to Akashic readers, you'll only have access to information that you’re emotionally and spiritually ready to handle.

Whatever your conclusions, it’s interesting to note that through the Records, both past events and our responses to those events are said to be visible, allowing the individual to alter his or her future choices. I particularly liked an example used in an article in Wikipedia, the on-line encyclopedia, referencing the characters in the movie, Run Lola Run. If you haven't seen it, the audience is shown three different outcomes based on the main characters split-second decisions. It’s a neat trick, allowing us to grasp the magnitude of fate. If by accessing our personal Askashic Records we could see how our choices will influence our future, we might be compelled to make choices that better serve us and those around us.

Roz Brown is a regular contributor to Nexus on spiritual and metaphysical topics. By night she has authored two collections of ghost stories about Boulder, and by day writes about
celestial mysteries for an aerospace company.

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