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In This Article:

• What the Akashic Records are and how they function as a cosmic guide
• Common myths and misconceptions about accessing the Records
• Practical ways to connect with your Akashic Record anytime
• How the Records can support personal growth and intuitive wisdom
• The Records’ role in helping you shape your potential future
     

The Akashic Records: Unlocking Your Personal Cosmic Compass

by Theresa Cheung, author of the book "The Akashic Records"

Rather like a cosmic compass, your Akashic Record can provide guidance at exactly the time you need it. This is because it is not just a passive memory bank – recording the energetic or spiritual counterpart of your every thought, feeling, word and action – it also has a transformative influence on your daily life.

Viewing it can show you how like-energy seeks like-energy. The energy of your current thoughts, intentions, feelings and actions are always creating your present and attracting a potential future.

Interest in the Akashic Records has surged in recent years. In the past, accessing the Akashic Records was believed to be a gift reserved for saints, scholars, mystics and psychics, but this is no longer the case. Due to changing times, more and more individuals have become attuned to the existence of their inner world, meaning they can confidently access their Records without an intermediary.

Note: Akashic Record work is not a substitute for psychotherapy or other kinds of traditional support. If you are dealing with depression, anxiety or trauma of any kind. If you are struggling with your mental health, please do also seek professional help.

An Unseen Dimension of Existence

Your Akashic Record is encoded in a non-material, unseen dimension of existence, which is known as the etheric Akash plane. It is an endless energetic library – or storehouse, log or archive depending on the term you prefer – that records the energy vibration of your soul and its journey through life.

Your past-life experiences and all that has led to your present identity are written in your Akashic Record, along with your potential futures, the possibilities waiting to be energized or changed by you.

Brimming with infinite knowing and all-seeing insight into your past, present and future, there you can find the answers to every question you’ve ever wanted to ask about yourself, life, the Universe and everyone and everything. You see, it is not just personal insight you can access in the Akashic Records, as it also contains knowledge of the entirety of the human experience and – way beyond that – of other universes and dimensions.

The Akashic Records are a vibrating information field that record the energetic vibrations of your soul and every other soul across time. They span eternity and catalogue everything, from the wisdom of the ancients to discoveries yet to come.

You can access the Akashic Records any time you wish. Reading your Akashic Record is a deeply sacred experience that can radically change your life for the better. It can aid personal growth and bring you healing, deep wisdom and a sense of purpose. It can help you live your best life.

Common misconceptions about the Akashic Records

1. You can only see them when close to death or dead

This falsehood likely originates from stories of near-death experiences, or NDEs, which have become more common in recent years as increasing numbers of people are brought back from the brink of death by advances in resuscitation techniques.

The life review is a phenomenon widely reported by people who have had a near- death experience. In the few moments they are medically ‘dead’, or close to death, they allegedly ‘see’ their entire life history in an instantaneous and rapid manifestation of autobiographical memory. It is typically described by these people as ‘having their life flash before their eyes’.

It is entirely possible that the NDE ‘life review’ is from the Akashic Realm, but whether this is true is of no consequence. You don’t have to nearly die, or experience trauma, to gain Akashic awareness.

The countless numbers of people, healthy in body and mind, who access the Records on a regular basis suggests that you too can successfully access them when alive and well.  The whole purpose of the Akashic Records is to help you see the bigger picture of your life, so you can improve it while you are still alive!

2. You can only access them in a trance state

Yes, you can connect to the Akashic Records in your dreams, through trance and meditation and other techniques. However, you don’t need to be in a semi-conscious state or take psychedelics to do this.You can access them in simple, natural ways both when your eyes are wide shut and when they’re wide open.

3. Access is for the gifted few

Not at all. You do not need the advice of a ‘chosen one’ to access the Book of Your Life. Absolutely anyone over the age of 18 can access their Akashic Record without an intermediary – once they know how. Indeed, reading it your way – rather than following someone else’s method – is by far the most empowering. Your direct personal experience is your greatest Akashic teacher and guide.

4. Fear of discovering negative things

Feeling anxious that you might discover negative things about yourself and your life in the Records is understandable. But repressing or denying negative impulses is the enemy of personal growth and healing. There is the potential for good and evil within us all.

Strength of character is having the self-awareness to acknowledge that negative impulses exist within you, to understand why they are there and what they are trying to teach you, and to then choose the right path.

The Akashic Records will show you exactly what you need to acknowledge and master within yourself for personal growth. Sometimes, what you discover may make you feel uneasy, bu the Records exist to help you face and overcome your fears so you can grow in wisdom.

Working with your Akashic Record will help you become comfortable with your weaknesses, because facing and understanding them is where all personal growth starts. It will also repeatedly reinforce that just because you think or feel something does not make it so.

You are not a victim of your thoughts or your feelings. The Book of Your Life will clearly reveal that you are the one in charge of your thoughts and feelings, as well as the words and actions you choose.

5. It’s complicated and requires special training

Reading the Akashic Records is not complicated and doesn’t require intensive training. You don’t need to go on a retreat or set aside two hours a day to meditate (who has the time?) or learn difficult new skills.

Perhaps the most beautiful thing about Akashic work is that you let go of the idea of ‘struggle’. You learn to relax and simply trust the guiding wisdom in the Book of Your Life to carry you forward.

6. The Akashic Records can give you instant solutions

Not typically. The Records can help you brainstorm and see things objectively, which can sometimes yield quick solutions. But rather than providing instant answers, their main purpose is to help you grow in self-awareness, so you understand why you are experiencing a certain challenge in your life and what you need to learn from it for your evolution.

This understanding can then help you resolve the challenge, grow in self-knowledge and make wiser decisions going forward.

The Records teach that everything that happens to you is either a lesson or a blessing. Ironically, Akashic work will also help you relax about not knowing and not having all the answers.

7. The Akashic Records will awaken dangerous ‘occult’ powers

The word ‘occult’ has had a bad press, largely due to horror books and movies, but it simply means hidden, concealed or secret psychic powers.

We all have those within us, but they only become dangerous if used negatively. And the absolute truth of Akashic Record work is that you just can’t access them from a negative or fear-based mindset.

All of us are born with intuition or sixth sense – the ‘psychic’ ability to inexplicably sense what is unseen – but many of us lose our connection to and belief in it.

Akashic work will awaken your intuition because the more you access your Records, the more your self-awareness and trust in yourself and all your untapped potential grows. In other words, the stronger your self-awareness and self-belief, the more ‘psychic’ you are likely to become – and you will make better decisions and predict likely future outcomes.

In my opinion, being ‘psychic’ is interchangeable with believing deeply in yourself. And what on Earth is wrong with that?

The Akashic Records are not dangerous. They are your best and wisest friend and guide. It is your book and your life and you always have the power of choice, whatever the Book of Your Life reveals.

8. The Records are not real

Just because you can’t see something doesn’t mean it is not real. You cannot see or touch love, for example, but you know it to be a real connecting and transformative force. The same goes for electricity and sound waves. And, according to physics, what you see as real or solid matter is actually over 90 per cent empty space!

9. They will show you the future

The Akashic Records might show you potential futures, but their primary concern is to reveal who you are, who you believe yourself to be, and who you are in the process of becoming.

Everything your Record reveals is to help you examine your motives and actions and their consequences, so you can remove abundance blocks and let your soul’s natural goodness attract success and happiness.

Until it manifests in real time, your Akashic future only ever exists in the realm of potential.

If you don’t like the future you glimpse, you have free will and the ability to change that future through the decisions you make in your present. Change your mindset and your energy will shift and attract a different future.

And if you glimpse a future you want, this is a clear sign it is possible for you. When you have that level of self-belief, you are so very close to manifesting it in your daily life.

10. You can only access your Record with a special prayer

Prayer is one tried-and-tested way to access your Akashic Record, but it is not the definitive or only way. There are other effective pathways to the Book of Your Life..

11. The Akashic Records are controlling

There is a bizarre belief that the Akashic Records can be used to manipulate people – that if someone else reads your Record they can control your mind. But this is not only inaccurate, it is also insulting. No one – and I repeat no one – can ever control your mind and/or your life without your consent.

12. They are for the religious

The Akashic Records do not support or contradict any one religion or culture. They belong to the cosmos.

In short, you can access the Records whether you’re religious or not. And they especially resonate with the increasing numbers of people who are spiritual but not religious.

13. It’s navel-gazing

Although Akashic work calls for self-reflection, this isn’t self-indulgent because every time you become more self-aware you grow in humility and empathy towards others. You understand that everyone is just another book in the infinite Akashic library. Everyone, like you, has their own struggles and lessons to learn along the way.

In addition, the Akashic Records contain the entire history of every soul, and these Records connect each of us to one another. In the Akashic tradition of embracing opposites, we understand that we are all energetically connected. And what you think, feel and do creates energy vibrations that contribute to the collective energy of the cosmos. 

You are both the ocean and the drop, everything and nothing at the same time.

Adapted with permission from he book: The Akashic Records.
Copyright 2025, Theresa Cheung. All Rights Reserved.

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