The History of the Akashic Records: The oldest new fad there is…

3 Part Series: From the Ancients to Quantum Mechanics

The awareness of, and belief in the existence of a cosmic information field that conserves information is something that mystics, sages, shamans, and priests have long held to be true. Throughout the history of mankind, across a variety of peoples and civilizations, including ancient civilizations, there are indications of and references to this field, what we now call the Akashic field. Today, this belief continues but is now in the shape of scientific theories of quantum holography, morphic resonance fields, and universal consciousness.

Are the Akashic Records a New Idea?

Haven’t heard of the ‘Akashic Records’ before? You actually might have but under another name… It is referred to as the ‘Book of Life’ in the Bible, the ‘Book of God’s Remembrance’by Hebrew Masters and, ‘The Hall of Two Truths’ by the ancient Egyptians.

The concept of a form of ‘celestial tablet’ that contains the history of humankind can be traced as far back as the Semitic peoples, Arabs, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Babylonians. Ancient people of various cultures, including Mayans, Egyptians, Persians, Chaldeans, Greeks, Chinese, Christians, Celtic Druids, Himalayans, Tibetan Lamas, and Indians, have accessed them. Let’s start at the beginning…

Ancient References to the Akashic Records:

• Earliest records that make refer to such a ‘body of information’ can be found in the Babylonians, Phoenicians, and Semitics who believed that celestial tablets exist which contain information on both everything that has occurred in the physical world and chronicles of spiritual data.

• Ancient Indian sages of the Himalayas believed that each soul (or ‘Atma’) had every moment of its existence recorded in a ‘record’ or ‘book’ that they were able to access with proper attunement.

• It was highly regarded as true that the Vedas of Hinduism and the actual Sanskrit language itself were extracted from an otherworldly realm, which contained all known and unknown information. 

• The Hindu seers (rishis) specified this as a whole cosmological concept, that there are five elements, not four, and that Akasha (‘space’) is the fundamental element that holds the others in itself but is also outside of them, beyond space and time. 

• In ancient Egypt, citizens who were believed to be able to access ‘another realm’ of information were held in high regard and would be given positions of ‘advisor’ to the Pharaohs, guiding them through the trials and tribulations of their role and helping them to interpret their own dreams and visions. And, to blot out anyone’s name from a record was thought to be equivalent to eliminating the fact that the person had ever existed. A name, or record entry, was thought to be symbolic of a person’s existence. 

• There are many claims that the Druid cultures of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales were able to access some form of ‘chronicle’ from which they would gain their wisdom.

• In the Mayan codices there are accounts of mathematician priests leaving their bodies and traveling to the heart of the galaxy to ‘receive’ information regarding calculations for their calendars.

• The priestesses at the Delphi Oracle in Greece would go into an altered state or trance to retrieve ‘answers’.

• In the Old Testament, people received instruction from Yahweh after being ‘taken up in spirit.’

Reference to the Akashic Records in the Bible:

The first actual reference in scripture can be found in the Bible, wherein this unearthly volume is referred to as the ‘Book of Life’. The first mention is in Exodus 32:32 where Moses offered to take sole responsibility for the sins of the Israelites by having his own name removed “out of thy book which thou hast written”.

“And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.” Revelation 20:12

“Rejoice that your names are recorded in Heaven” Luke 10:20

The Term ‘Akashic Record’:

The term “Akashic Record’ only came into being in the 19th Century with the movement of Theosophy (a metaphysical philosophy), taking inspiration from the Hindu word ‘Akasha”.

Theosophy was developed by Helena Blavatsky (1831-1891); a Russian immigrant, mystic, and founder of the Theosophical society. She was the first person to popularize many ideas that are prevalent in today’s thinking about consciousness and spirituality: reincarnation, karma, the presence of a higher self, and the idea of universal consciousness. She introduced the term ‘Akasha’, characterizing it as a life force, which recorded both the past and the future of human thought and action. She referred to “indestructible tablets of the astral light [with] the impression of every thought we think, and every act we perform.”

Continue reading parts 2 and 3 to find out more…