What Are the Akashic Records?

The Akashic Records are an energy field coded and patterned by information—our experience.  While some perceive them as a kind of cosmic book or a great library, both images I must admit I like, this is not how I experience or perceive the Records.  Instead, trained as a scholar of religion in multiple religious traditions, I find myself searching for other names, other terms that get closer to my experience, as well as terms that might better place this experience in the context of other frames and theories of how we know and how we are.

In this light, the Records are an altered state of consciousness, a manifestation of multidimensional being, a field of intersubjective, intimate and pure responsiveness, a kind of freedom, a play of the innate dynamism of our own beings, an intensely somatic engagement with emotion across times, places, and lifetimes, a point of access to other disincarnate and incarnate entities, an experience of multiplicity and yet also of wholeness, and an ultimate kind of truth that is also a way of being, even if I would hesitate to call it or any other state of awareness the ultimate.  From a psychoanalytic perspective, the Records might be characterized as an opportunity for a kind of intermodal exchange and experience of pre-object relatedness, as a facilitating environment, a place of holding and interpretation, or as container for the therapeutic play of dream and fantasy. Being in the Akashic Records, it is certainly possible to experience ourselves as much more vast, complex, and multifaceted than our more ordinary modes of knowing and being might have us believe.

In sum, the Akashic Records are themselves and have their own flavor. This flavor is how I imagine the widest, clearest night sky might taste, or the deepest ocean.  It is profound, natural, and full of possibility.  It is space—and yet also something, to use Winnicott’s term, like an infinite, good-enough mother. It is perhaps even like a whole crowd of beings, of all kinds of shapes, sizes, energies, realms, and genders, each of whom knows us intimately, holds us close, and has chosen to work with us particularly. Akashic work, at its spacious heart, is to learn to receive this love and knowledge from these vast, complex, and multifaceted dimensions of ourselves and other beings, and in doing so, to rediscover our own extraordinary capacity to feel, to love, and to know. It is also to realize that, from an Akashic perspective, this capacity has always been native to us simply by virtue of our being here.

How Did I Learn to Read the Akashic Records?

In the first year of my graduate work at Rice University, I began to go to Nancy Kern (http://www.nancykern.com/) for work with Flower Essences and eventually work in the Akashic Records.  Nancy first learned this work from a woman named Mary Parker (of no relation to me) many years previously, though Nancy has spontaneously experienced states she later understood as Akashic since childhood.  It became clear to me after working with Nancy that reading my Records was something I would like to do for myself.  In 2016 I was initiated by Nancy into this practice, and in January 2019 begun training with her to read the Records for other people.  Reading my Records and resting in the Akasha are my two primary Akashic meditative practices, though I also engage in other practices which are of immense importance to me.

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