So my mentor keeps talking about something called the Akashic Records in our sessions and I’m a bit lost. I feel like I’m missing some basic concept everyone else already got and I just. didn’t.
From what they say, it’s supposed to be this “library” of everything that’s ever happened or been thought or whatever. That sounds cool, but I don’t really get what that actually looks like in practice.
Like, if you get an Akashic Records reading, what do you actually get told? Is it super specific stuff about your life, or more general “soul path” type things? And how is that not just like doing a tarot spread or some other kind of reading? Is the vibe different, or the kind of info, or what exactly?
Oh don’t worry about feeling behind. It’s one of those terms everyone throws around without explaining.
The Akashic Records are an energetic archive of your soul’s entire history, across all lifetimes. ‘Akasha’ means ether or sky in Sanskrit, and it’s like the universe’s database of every thought, action, intent.
In a reading, the practitioner opens your records with a prayer, then channels info. You usually get an initial message from your soul, then ask questions about relationships, career, patterns, etc. It focuses on the deeper why behind your life, not future predictions.
Every reader tunes in differently, with visuals, a sense of knowing, voices. So the vibe varies. Prep questions ahead; they guide the session. And record it. You’ll process more later.
Your mentor probably assumes you know the basics. That happens a lot. Quick history: record-keeping at the higher 5D levels shows up in ancient cultures everywhere. Egyptians had the Hall of Records with Thoth, Old Testament has the Book of the Living, Islam has the Preserved Tablet, Hindu Akasha element. The term got big via Theosophy in the 1800s and Edgar Cayce later.
In practice, you bring questions (relationships, career, etc.). Reader opens your records with prayer or invocation, then channels. It feels like a convo with guidance. It often starts with a theme, covers soul lessons, why certain people in your life, past-life patterns, your purpose. Big-picture soul stuff, like a team of spiritual therapists explaining the “why” (not future predictions).
People worry it’ll be scary, but it’s always nonjudgmental and compassionate. Even tough truths come gently.
Learning to access your own records through intuitive practice is where the real clarity comes. Trusting another reader means trusting their interpretation of something deeply personal to your soul’s experience, and that’s a lot to hand over.
The Akashic Records hold every lifetime across physical and astral realms, not just the ones we think we remember. That knowing can become yours. It just takes patience and genuine guidance.
It’s basically a cosmic archive. Every thought, experience, event humanity has ever had. All of it gets stored somewhere, and the Akashic Records are that somewhere. Or at least that’s how I understand it. Like a universal memory bank.
You’re just tapping into it differently than when you pull cards.
So basically Google but for… everything. That’s how someone broke it down for me. Your life, how reality works, the spirit world, the Akashic Records supposedly have answers to any question you can think of.
Sorry if this is a bit simplified. The way I think of it is like a universal internet that stores everything consciousness has ever learned across all civilizations, just this massive collective record.
Unlike tarot, where you’re drawing on symbolism, Akashic readings tap into that storehouse directly, often through psychics who can access what you’re actually ready to understand. Past and present are fixed there, but the future stays fluid based on free will.
The knowledge to fix most of our problems already exists. Our consciousness is the bottleneck.
The Records hold everything, every thought, every moment, but accessing that isn’t like pulling cards from a deck whenever you feel like it. There are guides and keepers involved, and real limits on what we can actually process. You can’t just read every card in the spread at once and expect any of it to land.
The answers are already in the cards before you even shuffle. Same principle.
That seems to be shifting now, from what I can tell, just not in ways that are going to be comfortable for everyone.
The DNA thing is what shifted it for me. All of it. I used to think of the Akashic Records as some abstract cosmic library floating somewhere out there, but my teacher described it differently, that we actually carry these memories from past lives within us, encoded in our very cells. There’s supposedly this place called the cave of creation where the records are stored in crystals, and between lifetimes we visit it to update and retrieve our information.
I’m still figuring out what that really means, if I’m honest. But it completely changed how I think about readings. The information is already woven into your being. Already there. The kind of stuff that comes through tends to be things like understanding the roots of fears or phobias you’ve carried your whole life, patterns that never had an obvious origin until you look at it through that lens.
Honestly it’s like diving into a sparkly dream pool. That’s the best way I can describe Akashic Records.
You get these flashes of past lives, running through old forests, chatting with ancient friends. Sometimes smells or songs just pop in too, all tied to why you feel certain ways now. It can be helpful for working through blocks.
I like pairing it with tarot. I shuffle while picturing that big library, pull the Star, and suddenly wishes from way back just… light up. Something about that combination works (though I can’t fully explain why).
