The Sacral or Naval (Belly) Chakra is located just below the naval.
It has 6 petals.
It governs the organs of reproduction
The endocrine glands are the gonads
It is associated with the Etheric/Astral level.
Colour for this Chakra is Orange
Crystal for this Chakra is Orange Aventurine
The Sacral Chakra: It's located below the navel and above the pubic bone. This is where we find the energy to turn the desire into action. The blockages of this chakra are common to many in this modern age. Unless you had a nurturing and loving childhood and have not been influenced by the western world then maybe you will have balanced Sacral Chakra, but this is almost impossible to achieve these days. The Sacral chakra is the energy center that controls your passions, your sexual needs, and the abundance that you allow into your life.
This Chakra is a very feminine Chakra, a blocked Chakra will usually manifest in problems with reproduction, feminine identity problems, aggression issues, sexual dysfunctions, apathy, back pain, urinary tract problems, lack of control of physical desires, and feelings of creatively having been cut off, you can also tend to be stiff and unemotional.
This chakra deals with creativity sexuality and socialisation. It is the place of joy and the place where the inner child is located. It is associated with the testes in men and the ovaries in women. It is here that the will to procreate is located. Often when people who have relationship problems this is the chakra that will be out of balance. Most people's lives are driven by the desire for sex. Unfortunately People use sex to manipulate others, to get what they want. Although the sacral chakra is strongly related to misuse of sexual energies, its negative qualities also relate to power and money. There is a strong connection between the sacral and the solar plexus charkas. When healing the problems associated with sex, power and money. The sacral chakra transfers energy to the throat chakra. People use the power of speech to manipulate to get what they want. Those with an under active chakra do not express their desires and emotions.
Disorders that can be associated with an unbalanced Sacral Chakra are:
Bladder -Constipation-Endometriosis-Frigidity-Impotency-Irritable Bowel Syndrome - Lower Back Pain-Menstrual Problems-Mood Swings- Muscle Spasms -Ovarian Cysts-Sciatica-Testicular Disease-Urinary Problems.
The energy of the Sacral Chakra can help us to get moving, to grow and change. Emotional pleasures including intimacy are also governed by this Chakra. Things like self-respect, learning how to give and take, to pursue creative activities. The Sacral Chakra is also related to things like emotional ups and downs, empathy, guilt, obsession and manipulative natures.
POSITIVES: Creative – Emotionally Balanced – Independent – Joyful – Relates to Others Well- Sociable
NEGATIVES: Control Issues – Destructive – Despondent – Obsessive – Over-Dependent – Withdrawn.
A balanced Sacral Chakra enables us to accept and solve the challenges of life in a creative manner; to understand and incorporate our sexuality responsibly, and to feel and express our emotions and helps you to enjoy the pleasures of life. When in a state of balance the colour should be Vibrant Orange.
Colleen is the Author of 3 Crystal Healing Books and also a Crystal Healer and Teacher. She has been working with Crystals most of her life and want to pass on her knowledge to others. You can find out more about Colleen and her work with crystals and also purchase her books and crystals at Crystal Healing Vibrations
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Root Chakra
"Cultivate the Root and the Leaves & Branches Will Take Care of Themselves."
Confucius 551 - 479 BC Chinese philosopher
1st Chakra (Muladhara or Base) ~ EARTH ~ RUBY RED ~ STABILITY & SECURITY
Your First Chakra: The Muladhara (Base or Root) Chakra is situated at the perineum, between the genitals and the anus. The power of earth is to be awakened. From Sanskrit Muladhara can be translated as, "That which Holds the Base or Root." Its element is Earth and its color is Ruby Red. Here lies the call "to be" our destiny and realization of our potential. Your Kundalini Seed potential rests, slumbers, here awaiting activation.
The flowering of this chakra is the mature person who walks steadily towards their destiny. It is here you are awakened to your deepest and most profound potential in which all aspects of your body, mind and spirit are integrated and expressed.
Keywords: Stability, cohesion, self-reliance, personal boundaries, synthesis
Your survival instincts are centered here. This is the Root of your Kundalini energy, your Pranic or Life Force Energy. Your connection to nature, universal laws, and your physical body is located here.
BODY PARTS: Central Nervous Systems, Adrenals, Lymph System, Male Reproduction, Prostate, Large Intestines, Sacrum, bones, teeth, nails, legs, arms
Related physical imbalance, include: sciatica, constipation, ovarian, uterine, prostate and hemorrhoid conditions.
Emotional stagnation or blockage at your Base Chakra emits an energy frequency that resonates with feelings of being disconnected from one's tribe, community or family, or even from one's self. The sense of not belonging gives rise to feelings of frustration, rage and blocked passion, emotional instability, self indulgence, self-centeredness, insecurity, grief, loss, depression. There is conflict between attachment and letting go.
KG Stiles, LMT, CAT, RBT, CBP, NCTMB (OR License #2313, HI License #6351) is an Aromatic Plant and Energy Medicine Specialist and a Licensed and Accredited Mind Body Therapist and Health Educator for more than 30 years. She is the owner of Springhill Wellness Center in Ashland, OR USA and the founder and director of PurePlant Essentials organic fair trade aromatherapy. KG specializes in formulating aromatic remedies for healthy living, including individual signature blends and blends for chakra care, colds and flu, insomnia, stress, anxiety, depression, menopause, anti-aging, skin care and more. KG is the author of the Chakra Guidebook and audio CD "Healing Your Rainbow Bridge."
http://www.kgstiles.com/chakraprogram.htm
http://www.kgstiles.com/chakraoils.htm
http://www.kgstiles.com/chakracd.htm
More Info? Contact: KG Stiles at Springhill Wellness Center, Ashland, OR (541) 941-7315. Mahalo!
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=KG_Stiles
Confucius 551 - 479 BC Chinese philosopher
1st Chakra (Muladhara or Base) ~ EARTH ~ RUBY RED ~ STABILITY & SECURITY
Your First Chakra: The Muladhara (Base or Root) Chakra is situated at the perineum, between the genitals and the anus. The power of earth is to be awakened. From Sanskrit Muladhara can be translated as, "That which Holds the Base or Root." Its element is Earth and its color is Ruby Red. Here lies the call "to be" our destiny and realization of our potential. Your Kundalini Seed potential rests, slumbers, here awaiting activation.
The flowering of this chakra is the mature person who walks steadily towards their destiny. It is here you are awakened to your deepest and most profound potential in which all aspects of your body, mind and spirit are integrated and expressed.
Keywords: Stability, cohesion, self-reliance, personal boundaries, synthesis
Your survival instincts are centered here. This is the Root of your Kundalini energy, your Pranic or Life Force Energy. Your connection to nature, universal laws, and your physical body is located here.
BODY PARTS: Central Nervous Systems, Adrenals, Lymph System, Male Reproduction, Prostate, Large Intestines, Sacrum, bones, teeth, nails, legs, arms
Related physical imbalance, include: sciatica, constipation, ovarian, uterine, prostate and hemorrhoid conditions.
Emotional stagnation or blockage at your Base Chakra emits an energy frequency that resonates with feelings of being disconnected from one's tribe, community or family, or even from one's self. The sense of not belonging gives rise to feelings of frustration, rage and blocked passion, emotional instability, self indulgence, self-centeredness, insecurity, grief, loss, depression. There is conflict between attachment and letting go.
KG Stiles, LMT, CAT, RBT, CBP, NCTMB (OR License #2313, HI License #6351) is an Aromatic Plant and Energy Medicine Specialist and a Licensed and Accredited Mind Body Therapist and Health Educator for more than 30 years. She is the owner of Springhill Wellness Center in Ashland, OR USA and the founder and director of PurePlant Essentials organic fair trade aromatherapy. KG specializes in formulating aromatic remedies for healthy living, including individual signature blends and blends for chakra care, colds and flu, insomnia, stress, anxiety, depression, menopause, anti-aging, skin care and more. KG is the author of the Chakra Guidebook and audio CD "Healing Your Rainbow Bridge."
http://www.kgstiles.com/chakraprogram.htm
http://www.kgstiles.com/chakraoils.htm
http://www.kgstiles.com/chakracd.htm
More Info? Contact: KG Stiles at Springhill Wellness Center, Ashland, OR (541) 941-7315. Mahalo!
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=KG_Stiles
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Astral Projection
Soul Travel—a.k.a Astral projection (astral travel) is an interpretation of out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and is one of the practices of Echanka, Religion of the Light and Sound of God. Eckankar is ancient wisdom. Its teachings, emphasize the value of personal experiences as the most natural way back to God. Whatever your religious beliefs, Eckanka shows how to look and listen within yourself—to expand your consciousness and enjoy spiritual freedom. Learning, perhaps for the first time, how to lead a happy, balanced, and productive life and put daily concerns into loving perspective. OBEs are achieved either via deep meditation, awake and aware transitions, lucid dreaming or use of psychotropics. Those who believe in Soul Travel maintain that their consciousness or soul has transferred into an astral body (or ‘double’) which moves in tandem with the physical body in a parallel world known as the astral plane.
The understanding of Soul Travel dates back to ancient China. There are two schools of thought on the nature of Soul Travel, these are defined as the mystical model and the phasing model.
The mystical model includes a variety of belief systems and astral maps, but they are tied together by their belief that Soul Travel takes place outside of the actual physical body. A more subtle energy body is believed to carry the consciousness outside of the physical body, and as one progresses to more advanced levels of the astral plane, more subtle bodies are realized and consciousness is transferred in turn to each of them. (Other mystical models assume only one subtle body.) The subtle body is attached to the physical body by means of an energetic connection which usually takes the appearance of a silver cord 'plugging' into the chakras like an umbilical cord. I have seen this ‘silver cord.’ It has been suggested that the cord is related to etheric projection, not astral. If the cord was associated with just astral projection, then we would see it every time we astrally projected.
The phasing model, defined by Robert Monroe, contains the belief that it is impossible to actually leave the body in the truest sense of the word, and that the astral planes and the physical world are merely points on the long spectrum of consciousness. When a person projects, they actually "phase" into another area of consciousness and the locales it contains. This can be likened to tuning a radio to another station. One of the initial signposts representing a phase shift away from physical reality has been labeled the state of focus (mind awake/body asleep). This viewpoint can be seen as a logical progression of the philosophy that external reality is actually an internally created state.
There are four types of Soul Travel:
• Unconscious—Unintentional – a person is unaware and had no intention to Soul Travel – usually during sleep or sometimes a person is awake, but seems to be absent.
• Unconscious—Intentional – a person is unaware, but had no conscious intention to Soul Travel – does not remember the experience clearly, may have some images, but has no definitive recollection.
• Conscious—Unintentional – a person is aware, but had no conscious intention to Soul Travel
• Conscious—Intentional – a person is aware of the experience and intentionally created the Soul Travel experience.
“To perceive other realities, we have to use the Inner senses—methods of perception that belong to the inner self and operate whether or not we have a physical form. The Inner Senses expand normal consciousness and allow us to become aware of our own multidimensional existence.” Seth, from The Seth material.
One of my Conscious—Unintentional Soul Travel experience occurred while mindlessly dusting. Being in nature is a passion. As I dusted I found myself standing on a path near the Bell Rock vortex in Sedona, AZ. The experience was magnificant as I was living in NJ and missed the beautiful skies full of Love, Spirit energy and awesome beauty of the red rocks jutting high into the sky in all directions.
Another Conscious—Unintentional Soul Travel experience occurred while I meditated. I saw myself looking back at myself sitting in the chair meditating.
Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD, author, hypnotheraist, motivatinal speaker and inspirational leader specializes in: Mind, Body, Spirit healing and Physical/Sexual Abuse Prevention and Recovery. Dr. Neddermeyer empowers people to view life's challenges as an opportunity for Personal/Professional Growth and Spiritual Awakening. http://www.drdorothy.net
The understanding of Soul Travel dates back to ancient China. There are two schools of thought on the nature of Soul Travel, these are defined as the mystical model and the phasing model.
The mystical model includes a variety of belief systems and astral maps, but they are tied together by their belief that Soul Travel takes place outside of the actual physical body. A more subtle energy body is believed to carry the consciousness outside of the physical body, and as one progresses to more advanced levels of the astral plane, more subtle bodies are realized and consciousness is transferred in turn to each of them. (Other mystical models assume only one subtle body.) The subtle body is attached to the physical body by means of an energetic connection which usually takes the appearance of a silver cord 'plugging' into the chakras like an umbilical cord. I have seen this ‘silver cord.’ It has been suggested that the cord is related to etheric projection, not astral. If the cord was associated with just astral projection, then we would see it every time we astrally projected.
The phasing model, defined by Robert Monroe, contains the belief that it is impossible to actually leave the body in the truest sense of the word, and that the astral planes and the physical world are merely points on the long spectrum of consciousness. When a person projects, they actually "phase" into another area of consciousness and the locales it contains. This can be likened to tuning a radio to another station. One of the initial signposts representing a phase shift away from physical reality has been labeled the state of focus (mind awake/body asleep). This viewpoint can be seen as a logical progression of the philosophy that external reality is actually an internally created state.
There are four types of Soul Travel:
• Unconscious—Unintentional – a person is unaware and had no intention to Soul Travel – usually during sleep or sometimes a person is awake, but seems to be absent.
• Unconscious—Intentional – a person is unaware, but had no conscious intention to Soul Travel – does not remember the experience clearly, may have some images, but has no definitive recollection.
• Conscious—Unintentional – a person is aware, but had no conscious intention to Soul Travel
• Conscious—Intentional – a person is aware of the experience and intentionally created the Soul Travel experience.
“To perceive other realities, we have to use the Inner senses—methods of perception that belong to the inner self and operate whether or not we have a physical form. The Inner Senses expand normal consciousness and allow us to become aware of our own multidimensional existence.” Seth, from The Seth material.
One of my Conscious—Unintentional Soul Travel experience occurred while mindlessly dusting. Being in nature is a passion. As I dusted I found myself standing on a path near the Bell Rock vortex in Sedona, AZ. The experience was magnificant as I was living in NJ and missed the beautiful skies full of Love, Spirit energy and awesome beauty of the red rocks jutting high into the sky in all directions.
Another Conscious—Unintentional Soul Travel experience occurred while I meditated. I saw myself looking back at myself sitting in the chair meditating.
Dorothy M. Neddermeyer, PhD, author, hypnotheraist, motivatinal speaker and inspirational leader specializes in: Mind, Body, Spirit healing and Physical/Sexual Abuse Prevention and Recovery. Dr. Neddermeyer empowers people to view life's challenges as an opportunity for Personal/Professional Growth and Spiritual Awakening. http://www.drdorothy.net
The word akashic comes from the ancient Tibetan words aka meaning place, and sa meaning unseen in the sky. When the soul emerges from the source (or the creating life force, or God), it begins its travel through time and space. Along its travels, it incarnates many times, growing spiritually and at the same time, fulfilling its purpose.
The soul emits energy with every thought, action or event that it engages in. This energy does not just disappear, instead, it leaves a permanent energetic blueprint. This blueprint is in the form of a multi dimensional holographic recording of the actual events, thoughts, feelings and actions of life that the soul experienced. This hologram is a continuous cinematic display that continues through time and space. Because every activity of the soul leaves its energy blueprint, the history of the whole universe is recorded in this hologram - including the history of our past lives and present life. This is the akashic record of our life.
The akashic records are located in the Hall of Records, located in the akashic plane of the universe, one of the 7 planes. These planes are distant energy fields that we can access through the depths of our minds. Our inner mind can access them because we, along with these fields, are made up of the same cosmic energy. However, it takes work and training from the slower 3 dimensional physical reality we are in today to access the higher vibrational frequencies of these states of reality. Brief experiences of intuition are subconscious forms of momentary awareness of our akashic records (without us aware of the "viewing") leading us to making the right choice or decision (if we follow our intuition).
There are two ways to access the akashic records. One is to use the help of an experienced psychic who is able to view the records. The other way is to slowly train yourself to access the records through meditation and increased awareness. It is important to remember that one must begin this procedure with a prayer to ask permission and to give thanks to God (or the divine source), for allowing us to receive this help. Then we must also thank the Keepers of the Akashic Records for allowing us access, assuring them that we come with love in our heart and for a good purpose.
When we want to access the akashic records, we can not just view our life inordinately. We can only view what is given to us to see, by asking specific questions to the keepers, or our spirit guide, about our past and present. Then we are given access to a "window" through which we see relevant scenes of our past life or present life happening before us. Our future life is available for us to understand only as a potential outcome of decisions we make for ourselves in the present. There are many potential outcomes for our future. Our future manifests from our present thoughts. Our present thoughts directly influence the immediate future, thus determining the future outcome of our present life. Each thought we have, has an attracting force which attract specific energies.
These energies manifest into events and experiences. When we have the" right" thoughts, we attract the right potential events for us. We can choose from a number of potential outcomes according to the energies we release from our present thoughts, which will attract a series of future events. One of these potential outcomes is the fulfillment of our purpose in this lifetime. Once we achieve an understanding of why we are here this time around, we can put ourselves on the right road, manifesting the appropriate future life we need to experience. Therefore, the akashic records provide us with the reasons why our feelings, experiences, relationships and actions in this lifetime happen - and the akashic records give us insight as to what we should manifest through our thoughts for our future. Some interesting facts about akashic records:
It is widely believed that the Sanskrit language has been given to us through the akashic records.
Jesus refers to the akashic records when He speaks of the "many mansions in His Father's House" (referring to the many portals of the mind including the Hall of Records). The akashic records have also been described as the Book of Ages, and the Book of the Lamb. St. Peter, keeper of the Gates of Heaven, in the Christian tradition, kept the book of life, through which the events of ones soul are recorded.
Susanna Kompogiorgas
Aromatherapist, Reflexologist, Feng Shui Consultant
http://www.new-age-realms.com
http://www.themetaphysicaljournal.blogspot.com
http://www.vibrationalessence.blogspot.com
The soul emits energy with every thought, action or event that it engages in. This energy does not just disappear, instead, it leaves a permanent energetic blueprint. This blueprint is in the form of a multi dimensional holographic recording of the actual events, thoughts, feelings and actions of life that the soul experienced. This hologram is a continuous cinematic display that continues through time and space. Because every activity of the soul leaves its energy blueprint, the history of the whole universe is recorded in this hologram - including the history of our past lives and present life. This is the akashic record of our life.
The akashic records are located in the Hall of Records, located in the akashic plane of the universe, one of the 7 planes. These planes are distant energy fields that we can access through the depths of our minds. Our inner mind can access them because we, along with these fields, are made up of the same cosmic energy. However, it takes work and training from the slower 3 dimensional physical reality we are in today to access the higher vibrational frequencies of these states of reality. Brief experiences of intuition are subconscious forms of momentary awareness of our akashic records (without us aware of the "viewing") leading us to making the right choice or decision (if we follow our intuition).
There are two ways to access the akashic records. One is to use the help of an experienced psychic who is able to view the records. The other way is to slowly train yourself to access the records through meditation and increased awareness. It is important to remember that one must begin this procedure with a prayer to ask permission and to give thanks to God (or the divine source), for allowing us to receive this help. Then we must also thank the Keepers of the Akashic Records for allowing us access, assuring them that we come with love in our heart and for a good purpose.
When we want to access the akashic records, we can not just view our life inordinately. We can only view what is given to us to see, by asking specific questions to the keepers, or our spirit guide, about our past and present. Then we are given access to a "window" through which we see relevant scenes of our past life or present life happening before us. Our future life is available for us to understand only as a potential outcome of decisions we make for ourselves in the present. There are many potential outcomes for our future. Our future manifests from our present thoughts. Our present thoughts directly influence the immediate future, thus determining the future outcome of our present life. Each thought we have, has an attracting force which attract specific energies.
These energies manifest into events and experiences. When we have the" right" thoughts, we attract the right potential events for us. We can choose from a number of potential outcomes according to the energies we release from our present thoughts, which will attract a series of future events. One of these potential outcomes is the fulfillment of our purpose in this lifetime. Once we achieve an understanding of why we are here this time around, we can put ourselves on the right road, manifesting the appropriate future life we need to experience. Therefore, the akashic records provide us with the reasons why our feelings, experiences, relationships and actions in this lifetime happen - and the akashic records give us insight as to what we should manifest through our thoughts for our future. Some interesting facts about akashic records:
It is widely believed that the Sanskrit language has been given to us through the akashic records.
Jesus refers to the akashic records when He speaks of the "many mansions in His Father's House" (referring to the many portals of the mind including the Hall of Records). The akashic records have also been described as the Book of Ages, and the Book of the Lamb. St. Peter, keeper of the Gates of Heaven, in the Christian tradition, kept the book of life, through which the events of ones soul are recorded.
Susanna Kompogiorgas
Aromatherapist, Reflexologist, Feng Shui Consultant
http://www.new-age-realms.com
http://www.themetaphysicaljournal.blogspot.com
http://www.vibrationalessence.blogspot.com
Akashic Records
The Akashic Records
The Akashic Records refer to the frequency gird programs that create our reality. The Akashic records (Akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning "sky", "space" or "aether") are collectively understood to be a collection of mystical knowledge that is encoded in the aether; i.e. on a non-physical plane of existence. The concept is prevalent in New Age discourse. The Akashic Records are understood to have existed since the beginning of The Creation and even before. Just as we have various specialty libraries (e.g., medical, law), there are said to exist various Akashic Records (e.g., human, animal, plant, mineral, etc) encoding Universal lore. Most writings refer to the Akashic Records in the area of human experience but it is understood that all phenomenal experience as well as transcendental knowledge is encoded therein.
History of Akashic Records
Those who champion the truth of the Akashic Records assert that they were accessed by ancient people of various cultures, including the Indians, Moors, Tibetans, Bönpo and other peoples of the Himalaya, Egyptians, Persians, Chaldeans, Greeks, Chinese, Hebrews, Christians, Druids and Mayans. It is held that the ancient Indian sages of the Himalayas knew that each soul, jiva, atma, or entity recorded every moment of its existence in a "book", and that if one attuned oneself properly then one could access that book (refer mindstream for example).
Nostradamus claimed to have gained access to the Akasha, using methods derived from the Greek oracles, Christian and Sufi mysticism, and the Kabbalah. Other individuals who claim to have consciously used the Akashic Records include: Charles Webster Leadbeater, Annie Besant, Alice Bailey, Samael Aun Weor, William Lilly, Manly P. Hall, Lilian Treemont, Dion Fortune, George Hunt Williamson, Rudolf Steiner, Max Heindel and Edgar Cayce amongst others.
A Chinese man named Sujujin was reported to need only the first name of anyone to access the Akasha and describe their life history. Another Chinese seer, named Tajao, explored a variety of topics in the Records which span over two thousand years.
In Surat Shabda Yoga cosmology, the Akashic Records would be located within the causal plane of Trikuti.
Description and Explanation of the Akashic records
The Akasha is said to be the library of all events and responses concerning consciousness in all realities. Every lifeform therefore contributes and has access to the Akashic Records. It is asserted that to gain access into the Akashic Records, every individual human can become the physical medium, and various techniques and spiritual disciplines (e.g., yogic, pranayama, meditation, prayer, visualization) can be employed to quiet the mind, become a "witness", and achieve the focused, preconscious state necessary to access the Records.
While accessing the Akashic Records, both the events and responses are said to be perceived. This is analogous to having a meta-enhanced cinematic experience. When accessing the future, the events are known, but the responses are only probable. Based on an individual's responses in the past, the Akashic seer/reader can investigate probable future responses and give the highest future probability. A simple illustration of this might be witnessing several alternate endings to the main characters in a movie (e.g., Run, Lola, Run). At some point in the evolution of the Akashic reader, however, a state of unification and awareness can be achieved whereby even the future responses are known with absolute clarity instead of only as a probability.
Claims and Skepticism
Believers in the Akasha make many claims about how widely the Akasha was used, including:
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* The claim that in Egypt, those who could read the Akasha were held in high standing and would advise the Pharaohs on daily activities and dream interpretation.[citation needed]
* The claim that the Druid cultures of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England (???500 (est.)) demonstrated the ability to access the Akasha.[citation needed]
* The claim that the Bible refers to the Akasha records as the Book of Life in both the Old Testament (Psalm 69:28) and the New Testament (Philippians 4:3, Revelation 3:5, 13:8, 17:8, 20:12, 20:15 and Revelation 21:27 "Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.")
Despite claims that the Akashic Records have been used by mystics throughout history, there are not any direct references to the Akasha to be found in any of the historical documentation of the aforementioned groups. The term Akasha itself, along with the concept of an aetheric library, originated with the 19th century movement of Theosophy. Skeptics say that the concept of Akashic Records has been attributed indiscriminately and inappropriately to a wide range of historical religious figures and movements.
Traditionally the theory has also been rejected by the scientific community, due to a lack of any independently verifiable evidence. Interestingly, Ervin László (2004) explores science and the Akashic Records in the spirit of Occam's razor, and champions the theory of the Records as resolving many anomalies within history, science and experience with simplicity.
Specific Accounts of the Akashic Records
In Theosophy and New Age discourse the Akashic Records are records of all knowledge, including all human experience, held in the Universe. The Akashic Records are metaphorically described as a library and are also likened to a universal computer or the 'Mind of God'.
The Akashic Records are referred to by Edgar Cayce, who stated that each person is held to account after life and 'confronted' with their personal Akashic record of what they have or have not done in life in a karmic sense. The idea is comparable to the biblical Book of Life which is consulted to see whether or not the dead are admitted to heaven.
Jane Roberts in the Seth books describes a different version of a similar idea when Seth asserts that the fundamental stuff of the universe is ideas and consciousness, and that an idea once conceived exists forever. Seth argued that all ideas and knowledge are in principle accessible by "direct cognition". Direct cognition shares semantic congruency with intuition and allows for the possibility of direct knowing without time elapsing and without knowledge needing to be transferred e.g. in speech or text. This is similar to what Robert Monroe refers to as rotes in his out-of-body book trilogy.
Some writers believe that, free from and independent of all religions and faiths, there exist many libraries or record repositories such as the Akashic library throughout the universe, albeit on various planes of existence.
According to Max Heindel's Rosicrucian writings, the Memory of Nature (Akashic Records) may be read in three different inner worlds. In the reflecting ether of the Etheric region there are pictures of all that has happened in the world - at least several hundred years back, or much more in some cases - and they appear almost as the pictures on a screen, with the difference that the scene shifts backward.
The Memory of Nature may be read, in an entirely different manner covering the essence of a whole life or event, in a higher world, in the highest subdivision of the Region of Concrete Thought of the World of Thought, and, last, it may be read in the World of Life Spirit, covering events from the earliest dawn of our present manifestation, but only spiritual adepts, spiritual entities and through grace is access to the Records granted.
In Michel Desmarquet's book Thiaoouba Prophecy, the author claims to have been abducted by supreme alien beings, that in one part of the book guides him through something that is most likely the Akashic records. The term they are using is Psychosphere. The author's understanding is that the Psychosphere is like a "vibratory cocoon, which turns at a speed seven times that of light. This cocoon acts as a blotter, as it were, absorbing (and remembering) absolutely every event occurring on the planet. The contents of this cocoon are inaccessible to us on Earth - we have no way of Œreading the story¹"
Urantia Book
The Urantia Book confirms the validity and reality of these Living Records in several accounts. In Paper 25 is found the statement: "The recording angels of the inhabited planets are the source of all individual records. Throughout the universes other recorders function regarding both formal records and living records. From Urantia to Paradise, both recordings are encountered: in a local universe, more of the written records and less of the living; on Paradise, more of the living and less of the formal; on Uversa, both are equally available.
Again in Paper 28 in The Urantia book we find reference: "The Memory of Mercy is a living trial balance, a current statement of your account with the supernatural forces of the realms. These are the living records of mercy ministration which are read into the testimony of the courts of Uversa when each individual's right to unending life comes up for adjudication, when "thrones are cast up and the Ancients of Days are seated. The broadcasts of Uversa issue and come forth from before them; thousands upon thousands minister to them, and ten thousand times ten thousand stand before them. The judgment is set, and the books are opened." And the books which are opened on such a momentous occasion are the living records of the tertiary seconaphim of the superuniverses. The formal records are on file to corroborate the testimony of the Memories of Mercy if they are required."
Mention in "The Law of One"
In The Law of One, Book I, a book purported to contain conversations with a channeled "social memory complex" known to humans as "Ra," when the questioner asks where Edgar Cayce received his information, the answer received is, "We have explained before that the intelligent infinity is brought into intelligent energy from eighth density or octave. The one sound vibratory complex called Edgar used this gateway to view the present, which is not the continuum you experience but the potential social memory complex of this planetary sphere. The term your peoples have used for this is the "Akashic Record" or the Hall of Records.
The Akashic Records refer to the frequency gird programs that create our reality. The Akashic records (Akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning "sky", "space" or "aether") are collectively understood to be a collection of mystical knowledge that is encoded in the aether; i.e. on a non-physical plane of existence. The concept is prevalent in New Age discourse. The Akashic Records are understood to have existed since the beginning of The Creation and even before. Just as we have various specialty libraries (e.g., medical, law), there are said to exist various Akashic Records (e.g., human, animal, plant, mineral, etc) encoding Universal lore. Most writings refer to the Akashic Records in the area of human experience but it is understood that all phenomenal experience as well as transcendental knowledge is encoded therein.
History of Akashic Records
Those who champion the truth of the Akashic Records assert that they were accessed by ancient people of various cultures, including the Indians, Moors, Tibetans, Bönpo and other peoples of the Himalaya, Egyptians, Persians, Chaldeans, Greeks, Chinese, Hebrews, Christians, Druids and Mayans. It is held that the ancient Indian sages of the Himalayas knew that each soul, jiva, atma, or entity recorded every moment of its existence in a "book", and that if one attuned oneself properly then one could access that book (refer mindstream for example).
Nostradamus claimed to have gained access to the Akasha, using methods derived from the Greek oracles, Christian and Sufi mysticism, and the Kabbalah. Other individuals who claim to have consciously used the Akashic Records include: Charles Webster Leadbeater, Annie Besant, Alice Bailey, Samael Aun Weor, William Lilly, Manly P. Hall, Lilian Treemont, Dion Fortune, George Hunt Williamson, Rudolf Steiner, Max Heindel and Edgar Cayce amongst others.
A Chinese man named Sujujin was reported to need only the first name of anyone to access the Akasha and describe their life history. Another Chinese seer, named Tajao, explored a variety of topics in the Records which span over two thousand years.
In Surat Shabda Yoga cosmology, the Akashic Records would be located within the causal plane of Trikuti.
Description and Explanation of the Akashic records
The Akasha is said to be the library of all events and responses concerning consciousness in all realities. Every lifeform therefore contributes and has access to the Akashic Records. It is asserted that to gain access into the Akashic Records, every individual human can become the physical medium, and various techniques and spiritual disciplines (e.g., yogic, pranayama, meditation, prayer, visualization) can be employed to quiet the mind, become a "witness", and achieve the focused, preconscious state necessary to access the Records.
While accessing the Akashic Records, both the events and responses are said to be perceived. This is analogous to having a meta-enhanced cinematic experience. When accessing the future, the events are known, but the responses are only probable. Based on an individual's responses in the past, the Akashic seer/reader can investigate probable future responses and give the highest future probability. A simple illustration of this might be witnessing several alternate endings to the main characters in a movie (e.g., Run, Lola, Run). At some point in the evolution of the Akashic reader, however, a state of unification and awareness can be achieved whereby even the future responses are known with absolute clarity instead of only as a probability.
Claims and Skepticism
Believers in the Akasha make many claims about how widely the Akasha was used, including:
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* The claim that in Egypt, those who could read the Akasha were held in high standing and would advise the Pharaohs on daily activities and dream interpretation.[citation needed]
* The claim that the Druid cultures of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England (???500 (est.)) demonstrated the ability to access the Akasha.[citation needed]
* The claim that the Bible refers to the Akasha records as the Book of Life in both the Old Testament (Psalm 69:28) and the New Testament (Philippians 4:3, Revelation 3:5, 13:8, 17:8, 20:12, 20:15 and Revelation 21:27 "Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life.")
Despite claims that the Akashic Records have been used by mystics throughout history, there are not any direct references to the Akasha to be found in any of the historical documentation of the aforementioned groups. The term Akasha itself, along with the concept of an aetheric library, originated with the 19th century movement of Theosophy. Skeptics say that the concept of Akashic Records has been attributed indiscriminately and inappropriately to a wide range of historical religious figures and movements.
Traditionally the theory has also been rejected by the scientific community, due to a lack of any independently verifiable evidence. Interestingly, Ervin László (2004) explores science and the Akashic Records in the spirit of Occam's razor, and champions the theory of the Records as resolving many anomalies within history, science and experience with simplicity.
Specific Accounts of the Akashic Records
In Theosophy and New Age discourse the Akashic Records are records of all knowledge, including all human experience, held in the Universe. The Akashic Records are metaphorically described as a library and are also likened to a universal computer or the 'Mind of God'.
The Akashic Records are referred to by Edgar Cayce, who stated that each person is held to account after life and 'confronted' with their personal Akashic record of what they have or have not done in life in a karmic sense. The idea is comparable to the biblical Book of Life which is consulted to see whether or not the dead are admitted to heaven.
Jane Roberts in the Seth books describes a different version of a similar idea when Seth asserts that the fundamental stuff of the universe is ideas and consciousness, and that an idea once conceived exists forever. Seth argued that all ideas and knowledge are in principle accessible by "direct cognition". Direct cognition shares semantic congruency with intuition and allows for the possibility of direct knowing without time elapsing and without knowledge needing to be transferred e.g. in speech or text. This is similar to what Robert Monroe refers to as rotes in his out-of-body book trilogy.
Some writers believe that, free from and independent of all religions and faiths, there exist many libraries or record repositories such as the Akashic library throughout the universe, albeit on various planes of existence.
According to Max Heindel's Rosicrucian writings, the Memory of Nature (Akashic Records) may be read in three different inner worlds. In the reflecting ether of the Etheric region there are pictures of all that has happened in the world - at least several hundred years back, or much more in some cases - and they appear almost as the pictures on a screen, with the difference that the scene shifts backward.
The Memory of Nature may be read, in an entirely different manner covering the essence of a whole life or event, in a higher world, in the highest subdivision of the Region of Concrete Thought of the World of Thought, and, last, it may be read in the World of Life Spirit, covering events from the earliest dawn of our present manifestation, but only spiritual adepts, spiritual entities and through grace is access to the Records granted.
In Michel Desmarquet's book Thiaoouba Prophecy, the author claims to have been abducted by supreme alien beings, that in one part of the book guides him through something that is most likely the Akashic records. The term they are using is Psychosphere. The author's understanding is that the Psychosphere is like a "vibratory cocoon, which turns at a speed seven times that of light. This cocoon acts as a blotter, as it were, absorbing (and remembering) absolutely every event occurring on the planet. The contents of this cocoon are inaccessible to us on Earth - we have no way of Œreading the story¹"
Urantia Book
The Urantia Book confirms the validity and reality of these Living Records in several accounts. In Paper 25 is found the statement: "The recording angels of the inhabited planets are the source of all individual records. Throughout the universes other recorders function regarding both formal records and living records. From Urantia to Paradise, both recordings are encountered: in a local universe, more of the written records and less of the living; on Paradise, more of the living and less of the formal; on Uversa, both are equally available.
Again in Paper 28 in The Urantia book we find reference: "The Memory of Mercy is a living trial balance, a current statement of your account with the supernatural forces of the realms. These are the living records of mercy ministration which are read into the testimony of the courts of Uversa when each individual's right to unending life comes up for adjudication, when "thrones are cast up and the Ancients of Days are seated. The broadcasts of Uversa issue and come forth from before them; thousands upon thousands minister to them, and ten thousand times ten thousand stand before them. The judgment is set, and the books are opened." And the books which are opened on such a momentous occasion are the living records of the tertiary seconaphim of the superuniverses. The formal records are on file to corroborate the testimony of the Memories of Mercy if they are required."
Mention in "The Law of One"
In The Law of One, Book I, a book purported to contain conversations with a channeled "social memory complex" known to humans as "Ra," when the questioner asks where Edgar Cayce received his information, the answer received is, "We have explained before that the intelligent infinity is brought into intelligent energy from eighth density or octave. The one sound vibratory complex called Edgar used this gateway to view the present, which is not the continuum you experience but the potential social memory complex of this planetary sphere. The term your peoples have used for this is the "Akashic Record" or the Hall of Records.
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