In the religion of theosophy and the philosophical school called anthroposophy, the Akashic records are a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future in terms of all entities and life forms, not just human. They are believed by theosophists to be encoded in a non-physical plane of existence known as the mental plane. There are

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accounts but no scientific evidence for the existence of the Akashic records. ''

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'' (' ) is the Sanskrit word for "

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", "sky", or "atmosphere".

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The Sanskrit term ''akasha'' was introduced to the language of theosophy through H. P. Blavatsky (1831–1891), who characterized it as a sort of life force; she also referred to "indestructible tablets of the astral light" recording both the past and future of human thought and action, but she did not use the term "akashic". The notion of an akashic ''record'' was further disseminated by Alfred Percy Sinnett in his book ''Esoteric Buddhism'' (1883) when he cites Henry Steel Olcott's ''A Buddhist Catechism'' (1881). Olcott wrote that "Buddha taught two things are eternal, viz, 'Akasa' and 'Nirvana': everything has come out of Akasa in obedience to a law of motion inherent in it, and, passes away. No thing ever comes out of nothing." By

C. W. Leadbeater Charles Webster Leadbeater (; 16 February 1854 – 1 March 1934) was a member of the Theosophical Society, Co-Freemasonry, author on occult subjects and co-initiator with J. I. Wedgwood of the Liberal Catholic Church. Originally a p ...

's ''Clairvoyance'' (1899) the association of the term with the idea was complete, and he identified the akashic records by name as something a clairvoyant could read. In his 1913 '' Man: Whence, How and Whither'', Leadbeater claims to record the history of Atlantis and other civilizations as well as the future society of Earth in the 28th century.

Alice A. Bailey Alice Ann Bailey (June 16, 1880 – December 15, 1949) was a writer of more than twenty-four books on theosophical subjects, and was one of the first writers to use the term New Age. Bailey was born as Alice La Trobe-Bateman, in Manchest ...

wrote in her book ''Light of the Soul'' on ''The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – Book 3 – Union achieved and its Results'' (1927):

Rudolf Steiner

The

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theosophist, and later founder of Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner used the Akashic records concept mainly in a series of articles in his journal '' Lucifer-Gnosis'' from 1904 to 1908, where he wrote about Atlantis and

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, topics related to their purported history and civilization. Besides this, he used the term in the title of lectures on a ''Fifth Gospel'' held in 1913 and 1914, shortly after the foundation of the Anthroposophical Society and Steiner's exclusion from the Theosophical Society Adyar.

Other

Edgar Cayce Edgar Cayce (; 18 March 1877 – 3 January 1945) was an American clairvoyant who claimed to channel his higher self while in a trance-like state. His words were recorded by his friend, Al Layne; his wife, Gertrude Evans, and later by his s ...

claimed to be able to access the Akashic records.

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