Tapping Into the Cosmic Memory of the Akashic Field
There’s an interesting phenomenon, which has been commonly referred to as the Astral or Akashic field of cosmic memory, that we can tap into and access using the proper methods. It took me a while to understand how this process worked, even though I began doing it automatically throughout my life, because it came in a completely natural way without any conscious effort on my part. It simply took me a while to realize what it was. I’m not going to try and glorify this idea as something that’s only available to certain people or through extensive processes designed to purify the mind and soul, but more as a law and principle that can be accessed mentally and engaged in as a means of learning and acquiring deeper, hidden knowledge, through a purely internal mental process.
I felt a bit frustrated when I came across what I knew was profound knowledge held by the priesthood of certain traditions, like the Druids, Native Americans, and Hermetic Sciences, which were never written down but attained through teachers and required memorization. Not memorization in terms of theoretical ideas, but memory formed out of application of knowledge through rituals, practices, and direct experience. All knowledge was held in the memory and imagination of the individual and was seldom written down or transcribed through one person’s interpretation. Of course, there’s the obvious reason of not wanting it to fall into the wrong hands or be stolen, as true wisdom is the greatest power there is, or being confiscated and hidden away while massacring the ones who lived it, but I soon came to realize an even more significant reason for only maintaining spiritual knowledge through practice and memory. This is because memory, attained through application as a ritual and practice of daily living, is recorded permanently within the astral light of the Earth’s atmosphere or soul.
Memory, in general, is created by the higher, conscious (electric) mind as a record of experiences, actions, and deeds. This isn’t the same type of memory that forms instinct and comes as notions and impulses that drive unconscious behavior in an automated fashion, this memory is of higher or deeper realms of the intellect. Not intellect as we have come to think of it in our modern world, book-learned and theoretical where there’s a right and wrong answer, but intelligence that works in the world to direct and utilize the natural forces of Nature, called spirits, angels, and demons. This basic process is represented by the Pentagram, the number 5 (Phi), the Quintessence or fifth element of the aether, and mind over matter, so to speak. The pentagram is a symbol of power over the natural forces of the material world, and our ability to create our own memories as a record of our self-produced experiences. Whatever knowledge we apply through a ritual, ceremony, or daily practice of some kind, where we “attain” the knowledge through experience, is shaped into a memory by our higher conscious mind, becoming a permanent part of our soul’s constitution.
Once an idea that’s understood as an archetypal principle is “built into our nature”, we recognize it through resonance anytime we come across it, watch it play out in a situation, or consider it. It comes as an inner knowing, where it stands out as being significant somehow, causing us to continue thinking about it while wondering why it stood out. It elicits a pervading desire to know or understand it, and we continue to investigate or research it to find its deeper meaning. You can be reading an article or book, relating to everything it’s saying, and suddenly one sentence or idea jumps out and strikes you with a feeling of being deeply significant somehow. Though you’re not quite sure why, it’s very compelling.
As you continue to think about it, it becomes a form of guidance system that either breeds a series of coincidences, where you see signs, symbols, or ideas that relate to it and remind you of it, bringing it to mind in relation with it, or signs that give you deeper insights as a form of clue that warrants further inquiry or investigation. If you follow up on the signs and clues which seem to form a chain of correspondences, it expands the idea, elaborating on it in ways you didn’t consider before. Sometimes these findings and new awareness are profound and groundbreaking, taking time to process and properly integrate, and other times they’re subtle, producing a kind of ripple effect that expands through time, gently changing how you think about things. The new awareness formed around certain ideas can act to upgrade and evolve your mental model through the realizations they bring.
I began learning about this at a young age, probably like many, where it came as my conscience. Many relate our conscience to being what guides us morally in terms of right and wrong or good and bad, but in my experience, it’s also what lets us know truth from false, and accurate from inaccurate. This is the part of our mind associated with our morality and eternal soul, where we sense what’s true for us and what’s not, or what is a blatant misinterpretation of a universal principle illustrated through symbols, archetypes, and allegory. This is the part of us that looks past outer appearances and the shape of things and recognizes the law or principle that’s actively involved. We tune into the pattern and natural forces operating in an idea or type of activity. I started experiencing this without realizing how or why, by simply knowing if something was true or not, by whether it resonated with what I already felt was true. I knew whether something was right or true by how I felt when considering it. This isn’t based on our mental paradigm, which is formed of memory we created in this lifetime, but is an awareness or familiarity that exists outside of our model, where even though we sense something isn’t true, we don’t necessarily know what the truth is, or what it is that makes it not true.
As I went along in life, continuing to study and develop ideas by writing about them, acquiring new ideas that expanded my mental model and knowledge base, while also realizing how ideas played out in my daily life, I began practicing deep forms of concentration as a form of meditation. Either on a symbol, an archetype, or principle, and as I concentrated without distraction, it began developing in my mind, revealing a series of ideas that were all correlated, where one emerged spontaneously out of another, forming a train of thought that showed me things about it that I didn’t know before. I literally started learning about the deeper nature of ideas through a purely internal mental process, set in motion by a desire to know and understand. But this process only works through an inherent understanding of the principles a symbol or geometric concept or archetype represents. It’s the principle the symbol represents that unfolds through a chain of correlating ideas, tying ideas of a similar nature together, regardless of their outer appearance or shape. It’s based on tuning into and resonating with the inner nature that the outer form encases and conceals. Just as this is done through a purely internal process, it works through connecting with the internal nature of ideas and things, rather than their outer appearance and form.
Whatever we’re naturally attracted to and are always gravitating towards with a desire to know and steadily learning more about, develops our knowledge base, which forms the basis for our normal activities and how we live our life. The more knowledge we acquire by successfully incorporating new ideas into our mental model, upgrading and evolving it to a greater understanding, the more we “tune ourselves” to a higher and more extensive level of knowledge that simultaneously allows us to “tune into” the preexisting memory inherent in that level of knowledge. We must develop ourselves to a higher level of understanding through inquiry and practice, where we apply knowledge attained in theoretical form within our daily life somehow, and thereby acquire it through experience, which brings deeper and more meaningful insight into its true significance. Once we apply it through a practice of some kind, forming an experience of it as a reality, it’s translated into an actual memory and becomes a permanent part of us, while also becoming a permanent part of the memory stored in the Earth’s instinctual field. Experience is the most natural form of synthesis, where an idea is acquired through sensation and molded into our existing memory base, altering its vibratory frequency. This allows us to tune into (resonate with) all the memory recorded in the Earth’s atmosphere that’s of a similar nature, idea, practice, or principle (vibratory frequency). Once knowledge is acquired through application and experience, it becomes wisdom. All permanent records, impressed on the astral light, are based on wisdom rather than opinion.
Ancient traditions knew this and recorded their knowledge and practices in the astral light of the higher mind, where it could only be accessed by someone who already had memory within their soul (ancestral), or who had developed themselves (their soul’s memory) to an equivalent level of understanding, making them capable of conceiving it through purely mental means. Just as we can only perceive in our daily life what can be processed and understood using our mental paradigm, we can only access and absorb from the aether what resonates harmoniously with our mental frequency. Our mental paradigm or model of the world is formed entirely out of memory that we create using our higher mind. Our soul’s constitution (essential makeup) is formed exclusively out of memory. In terms of our lower nature or animal soul, it’s comprised of instinct and genetic memory, which we didn’t play a part in creating by using our will and intellect. The memory of instinct isn’t personal or self-created; it exists in the Earth’s memory and functions through our connection to our environment as a natural force. In terms of our higher mind and divine soul, which creates all our personal memories, it’s comprised of the memory formed by interpreting our self-produced experiences to give them meaning. It’s only by developing our mental model by learning and consistently incorporating new knowledge that we advance ourselves and learn how to work by way of universal principles rather than dogmatic ideas born out of what we were taught to believe.
The ancients recognized this and used it as a means of permanently recording knowledge that could only be accessed by those who share the memories as a part of their nature, or who developed themselves to a high enough level they could access the knowledge-base through various forms of concentration and meditation motivated by an attraction and deep seated desire to merge into it through an inner knowing. This idea is represented by the significance of “bloodlines”, because blood carries our soul’s essence as memory of our experiences, and ancestral wisdom is known internally by those who were the ancestors at a previous point in time. This is a perfect safety mechanism that resides at the etheric (mental) level, rather than the material level. Only those of a correlating frequency can gain access to the memory recorded on the higher plane, which is archetypal in nature and based on universal principles. We must have a correlating inner nature and memory base in order to access equivalent levels of wisdom (knowledge attained through experience) on the airwaves of the astral plane of illumination. It’s based on a frequency produced by memory as a base of knowledge understood in practical terms and is a fail-safe process that prevents those of a lower frequency (deficient mental model) from accessing it. Those who live primarily out of their lower nature, driven by impulse, emotions, and instinctual urges that breed delusions, don’t have the ability to access this level of knowledge.
This is also the significance of knowledge being communicated through symbols and glyphs carved into stone – which retains memory and intention. Memory, in the most basic sense, is recorded on surfaces and planes, and is embedded in the walls of buildings, rooms, and places surrounded by trees and large rock outcroppings. The only people who can attain this knowledge by touching and tracing out the symbols used to represent ideas and the principles involved, are those of an equivalent mental and moral frequency. Those who don’t have the proper constitution and morality, don’t understand the meaning they contain, and when they touch the stone, nothing happens. They’re not stimulated in a way that sets a prolific chain reaction in motion, where the principles and ideas the symbols or glyphs represent begin unfolding as a chain of correlating ideas in the person’s mind. This occurs through a process that’s remarkably similar to telepathy. Communication as ideas in their original state that begins unfolding automatically through a series of correspondences, occurs by purely mental means. It’s all done internally from what seems like an external source that resonates internally, stimulating us in a way that causes us to access the memory associated with it.
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All knowledge, whether latent or practiced to the point of being redundant and habitual, exists as a memory in the cosmic mind and can be accessed telepathically through the faculty of the imagination, which spans and binds together complementary (polarized) planes and levels of the mind. When we contemplate an idea through our existing knowledge of it, while residing in a passive and receptive state imbued with a desire to know, we tune into that idea in the atmosphere around us, drawing in ideas of a similar nature, which comes as an expansion or synchronized unfolding that shows us deeper and normally hidden aspects of it.
We acquire higher knowledge as memory in a completely personal and original manner through internal processes. This is what can make it difficult to understand or accept, because it comes as an inner knowing, that often contradicts or exists outside of common knowledge or accepted consensus. This is the basis of genius, where ideas come in an original form that’s unique to us, and outside of the general consensus of the group mind. Ideas are original and born within us as our own ideas and realizations about common topics and subjects. Most people operate almost exclusively out of what they’ve been taught and accepted as true, and when ideas come to them naturally through an imaginary process formed through an inquiry or while meditating on a symbol or archetype, they chalk it up to fantasy or illusion, which, of course, sometimes that’s exactly what it is, instead of a realization born out of inspiration that comes as a result of inquiry, questioning, or wondering about something. The first challenge is in knowing the difference. A fantasy or idea you’re making up or fabricating out of nowhere, is something you are actually creating. You’re aware that you’re making it up as an imaginary idea about something. Knowledge acquired from the cosmic mind, which also forms in the imagination, isn’t something you make up. It doesn’t come from your mental paradigm, but from what seems like a source that exists outside of your paradigm. You’re not facilitating how it develops; it comes of its own volition in a completely spontaneous manner while you simply watch and observe it from a passive mindset. All you knowingly do is fashion the inquiry as an intention to know more about an idea.
This same process of tuning into the cosmic mind as a way of attaining new insights and information about ideas comes as a higher form of intuition. Intuition – “in-tuit” – means a circular motion of being “reminded” of something by remembering it. We know something by remembering it, not by acquiring outside information regarding it. We obtain knowledge or information directly through an inner experience and awareness, rather than indirectly from an outside source. This works in a similar way to our normal perception, where we can only see and comprehend in the world around us what can be processed through our mental paradigm. We can only access and acquire what our knowledge-memory base can resonate with and mentally absorb and assimilate as a result. As we develop ourselves by learning and acquiring new knowledge that we apply to our daily life through practice of some kind, or by forming an awareness of the principles operating in ordinary situations, we increase and raise our mental frequency, making us capable of tuning into and accessing correlating memory in the Akashic Field.
The Akashic Field is where all memories formed in previous lives are stored, along with memories of an archetypal nature, which are based on an inner constitution and the behaviors and activities that naturally result from it. This is the field commonly referred to as “ancestral memory”, not only of our own past memories and deeds, but of all memories born out of the same archetype (on the higher plane of the divine mind, we’re an archetypal matrix). This is a self-perpetuating process of development where we facilitate our own evolution on a lower level of existence, born out of the group mind of humanity, to a higher level, where we’re self-created as an individual of our own making. Those who reside in their lower nature, formed through their conditioning and governed by their emotions and appetites, who fail to grow themselves to a higher level of understanding, are not capable of accessing higher wisdom, and don’t even recognize it as the principles that underlie and form the patterns played out unconsciously themselves and the masses.
Transpersonal Psychologist, Personal Transformation Coach, and Spiritual Teacher
