I appreciate both the skepticism and the experiential perspectives shared here.
Historically, the idea of Akashic Records as we know it today was strongly developed in modern esoteric thought, but there are some interesting bridges with psychology and consciousness studies.
For example, Edgar Cayce, the American psychic, described accessing information while in a self-induced trance state — a condition that today could be interpreted as an altered state of consciousness rather than a literal “cosmic library”.
From a psychological perspective, Carl Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious offers a less mystical but still profound framework: a shared layer of psyche containing archetypes, symbols, and universal patterns beyond the individual mind.
From a neuroscientific point of view, altered states such as hypnagogia, deep meditation, or trance are known to reduce the filtering activity of the default mode network, allowing unusual associations, symbolic imagery, and non-linear memory access to emerge. In these states, the brain seems less focused on maintaining a coherent ego narrative and more open to distributed or implicit information.
There are also hypotheses — still speculative — about non-local memory or consciousness, explored in fields like transpersonal psychology and some interpretations of quantum cognition, suggesting that information may not be entirely confined to the individual brain.
Personally, I resonate with the idea — found in many spiritual traditions — that past, present, and future coexist in an “eternal now”. If time is not strictly linear, then accessing a broader field of information may depend on one’s ability to move beyond ordinary states of awareness.
Whether we call it Akashic Records, collective unconscious, or expanded consciousness, I see it as an interesting starting point to explore human perception, meaning, and our experience of life itself.
