The word Akasha is a Sanskrit word that means, variously, “primordial substance:, “ether, “sky,, or “cosmos”. The Akashic Records hold the records of all circumstances and actions concerning consciousness in all realities. They hold the story of your soul’s evolution from its inception up until the present time.
They are the sum of all knowledge, past and present, and they contain the possibility of the unfolding of all future events (based on the choices that we make). The Akashic Records are, essentially a compendium of all knowledge of the human experience encoded and stored in a non-physical (i.e., spiritual) , plane of existence called Akasha. I like to think of them as the Library of Congress of the soul. They are the recordings of your progression of lives, inscribed in your own personal Book of Life.
Every experience, thought, and emotion of every living thing, human and animal, is kept in this cosmic library. Every life form both contributes to and has access to the Records. Some philosophers, psychics, mystics, and spiritual practitioners believe that the events recorded upon Akasha can be accessed in only certain states of consciousness.
Many of us, especially those of us living in the Western world, have created a life of comfort and ease. We work for our money, but we are not going through the bitter and endless struggle that many people around the world go through in order to have even their most basic needs met. As such, our lives are like a beautiful green hill, fertile and well-tended. Occasionally we have the misfortune of stepping in something nasty, and we get irritated because we have to clean it up. If this happens again and again, if we keep cleaning things up only to encounter another unwanted pile, if we are wise we realize that Spirit is pushing us to enter a deeper inner space. At this point, the inner archeologist wakes up and says, Okay, I cannot continue stepping in messes anymore; I need to look deep within and find out what is triggering all of this confusion, dissatisfaction, and turmoil in my life. Our higher self actually creates the conditions and circumstances that enable the inner archeologist to step in. In this way, we begin the journey of self-discovery. I like to see this adventure as tilling land that is green and fertile-something tells us we must dig.
As we do, we come across skeletons, the remains of old memories of past traumas. We rediscover these past events and we feel them once again. Perhaps we have worked on this particular issue before, but for whatever reason we have not gotten to a point of complete resolution, so the energetic and emotional charges-the residue that comes from our interactions with others are still there, staring us in the face.
Archeologists often discover that one tribe or culture conquered and built on the ruins of the previous occupants. We, too, build experiences one on top of the other; if we don’t reach complete resolution for an event or circumstance, we simply move on and bury it in the depths of our psyche. Eventually, these corpses from the past start decomposing, and little by little they create a stench at affects everything in our lives At some point, we just can’t stand it anymore and we know we need to do something about It.
Fortunately, we now have the opportunity to dig with the right tools and the right help, making this journey much more effective and rewarding.
As we uncover these corpses from the past, we will also discover the treasures, the true gems. We will be able to place them back on the altar of our heart. These are the merits we have gained, not only in this life, but those accumulated from many lifetimes. We can view it as our good karma that has brought us to this place and time to exposed to the teachings of the Akashic Records.
– The Akashic Records – Ernesto Ortiz
