Here’s my opinion on the Akashic Records.
The concept is just one cultural tradition’s way of articulating a rather universal concept,
this idea that a Big Data of all knowledge of all time in all dimensions exists out there
and that there is some mystical technological way to gain access to it.
When we use the specific terminology of angels, light beings, ascended masters that are guardians
of the gates to the Records, we’re personifying ideas so that we can wrap our human minds
around those ideas.
So I do actually encourage personification of these abstract mystical ideas, because
it really helps you to connect to those ideas and resonate with them in a way that facilitates
connection.
Now whether there is literally, in some objective and physical sense, some guardian angel over
an Akashic Records, I think that’s up to your religious beliefs and there is this tenuous
gray area where science and religion intersect.
Basically, my way to explain the Records is it’s Big Data.
It’s this massive compendium of data sets that’s so massive, normal computing software,
like our human brains, at human capacity, can’t process with all that info, can’t
handle all that info.
And so by our own physiological and mental limitations, are blocked from access to that
Big Data.
I don’t believe the Akashic Records is this very special, exclusive library that you need
to be ordained in some special way to gain access to.
I don’t think you need to even be consciously aware you’re gaining access.
For a lot of tarot readers who’ve been working with tarot divination for years, even decades,
I think they’re already automatically dialing in to the Records.
They might not be using those words in their vocabulary and they might not even be consciously
trying to.
I think you can develop a certain unknowing physiology that connects you into it.
What mystics believe is that there are ways, or technologies and sophisticated processes
we can implement to access that Big Data consciously, knowingly, and intentionally should we want
to.
By visualizing that Big Data as the Akashic Records, we can work with established formulas
from Eastern traditions to access that Big Data.
We can then use that Big Data to better understand ourselves, to spot behavioral patterns in
ourselves or in others, and also for predictive analytics.
You’re going to find some concrete instructions in The Book of Maps on how to use the Spirit
Keeper’s Tarot to access the Akashic Records and how to do an Akashic Records reading with
your tarot deck.
Too many of us don’t trust ourselves enough to believe we can do something extraordinary
if we don’t get trained and certified or if someone of authority puts a stamp of approval
on us.
That shadow side of us can easily get capitalized and exploited by charismatic spiritualists
who set up expensive certification or training programs or claim to have abilities that far
surpass your own.
My personal opinion is you do not need a “master
spiritualist” or someone super duper special to certify and train you in Akashic Records
access if—if you are willing to do the work and if—if you know how to temper yourself,
how to self-audit.
What I want you to do is give my step by step instructions for accessing the Akasha a try,
just give it a try.
And you can find that in the Book of Maps.
But before you start, take a moment to coach yourself into a place of openness, receptivity,
calm constitution, and confidence.
I like beginning with an Invocation Prayer, which the Book provides, because a well-crafted
Invocation is going to open you up to be more receptive, calm you down, and boost your own
confidence, infuse you with that assurance that yeah, you can totally do this.
You’re going to want to focus on pages 77 to 88 in The Book of Maps if you’re interested
in using the Spirit Keeper’s Tarot to access the Akasha.
I’ve also created a meditative video for a guided tarot reading that uses the methodology
I instruct in the book.
So if you’re interested, watch the next video in this course series, “Guided Akashic
Tarot Reading.”
Finally, I’m going to end on some tenuous beliefs that often orbit conversations about
the Akashic Records and also some of my own beliefs, which are based on my experiences.
There’s a belief that not anyone can gain access or you need to be granted access by
someone else.
I…so I tend to dismiss that belief.
I think there are gatekeepers who have a personal incentive to convince you that you can’t
do it without them.
And so I tend to dismiss that notion, not to mention I have not found it to be true,
at all.
Tutelage absolutely gives you discipline and a structured framework for mentored, tempered,
dare I say “safe” access to the Records and training will absolutely teach you how
to download Big Data into your limited physical body “safely.”
But just be wary of gatekeepers who say you must rely on them or you must be certified
or initiated into their super duper special and exclusive, ancient secrets club to have
access.
There’s also a belief that it can be dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing.
I mean, I think anything can be dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Here’s what I will say.
Using the tarot to divine information taps into different sets or subsets of data, in
a sense.
So you can use the tarot kind of the way you might try to independently process information
based on what knowledge you actually possess in your brain, right now, right?
Or you can go online and access the Internet reservoir of information.
Or you can look in just one specific book or encyclopedia to research information.
The Akashic Records, if we’re using this analogy, would be tapping in to Big Data.
So you’d be using the tarot to tap in to Big Data, which is a very specialized exercise
of tarot reading distinct and different from using the tarot to access smaller subsets
of data.
I hope that makes sense.
Because it’s this huge, wild, unchecked
frontier of data, personally, what I’ve found is frequent access brings on migraines
and really bad headaches.
I’ve also speculated that psychics who are inadvertently or unwittingly tapping in to
the Akashic Records, or Big Data, all the time for their psychic readings, rather than
limiting their readings to accessing smaller subsets of divinatory data, are the types
of psychics who tend to experience a lot of headaches and migraines.
Just…just a thought.
I think you will know you’ve successfully or maybe unwittingly, inadvertently tapped
in to the Records or that Big Data during a reading when it leaves you utterly drained,
I don’t mean regular drained from doing a day’s worth of professional tarot readings
or marathon tarot readings, I mean this level of exhaustion that you’re almost at the
point of shaking and crying.
That level of exhaustion.
So.
I wonder if it’s not so much that accessing the Records is dangerous as it is that doing
so takes a lot out of you, so if you’re not careful and you don’t do it in a regulated
way of moderation, it can have its physical and mental ramifications on you.
I was always taught that those types of readers who access the Records should also be keeping
up with a regular meditation or qi gong practice, where you’re keeping the balance of your
personal energies in routine check.
In Eastern esoteric traditions, many of the schools of these Akashic practices also have
dietary restrictions, where they really watch what they eat to ensure that their diets are
nourishing and not in some way toxic or weakening to their constitutions.
Again, the analogy to computing systems: It’s like have you ever used a crappy old computer
to try to edit video production that’s a massive file size?
The crappy old computer inevitably freezes and shuts down.
It can’t take the operation because it isn’t equipped to handle that kind of massive operation.
So the mystic theory goes that as a practitioner, you have to improve your body and mental constitution
on the regular so that you become equipped to handle a massive download of information.
The “Guided Akashic Tarot Reading” is intended for you to play the video and follow
along while you do the tarot reading, as instructed, step by step.
The reason it’s step by step, where I’m in effect hand-holding you, is because there’s
a guided meditation in the beginning to expand your capacity momentarily and it ends with
healing meditation.
The pacing of the guided tarot reading is also intentional, so as long as you follow
the guided pace, you won’t go at it too fast or too hastily.
And you’re really accessing Big Data in a way that your physiology and mental wellness
can take.