THE WEB OF LIFE

by John Davidson

Part 6b - Memory and the Akashic Record

This series of articles is derived from the authors book,

The Web of Life (publ. C.W. Daniel, 1988)

John Davidson is the author of a series of six books on

Science and Mysticism which look at the natural world from a mystical perspective.

The author is a Cambridge science graduate with a

life-long interest in mysticism.
8 Copyright 1988, 2015
John Davidson
www.johndavidson.org

Memory and the Akashic Record

I am unsure where the term akashic record originated. In Sanskrit, it is possibly within the
yogic texts, but it is certainly one which the theosophists coined, in the English language, and
which has captured the imagination of occult-minded people ever since. So let us see if we can
shed some light upon it.
Akash, it has been said - at the dense physical level - is the vacuum state. But in general, this
akashic state is found as the energetic gateway or threshold between all the inner regions. In all
cases, it is an energetic divider of region from region, upon the vertical, inward energy
spectrum. In some writings, akash is also called gagan, which means 'sky'. But this is a sky,
not in the sense of our earthly sky, but as a barrier in the ascent of the soul, a point requiring a
tremendous degree of inward concentration and purity in order to pierce the veil and move into
the next higher state.
Now these gateways are points or levels of creative potential. They manifest from within-out
as the reality of the next lower level and they are also impressed from 'without' by the
happenings in that lower level. The two are really part and parcel of the same process of
creation.
In terms of the gross physical vacuum, what this means is that every event that takes place,
together with every thought and mood in the minds of the observers, is impressed upon this
vacuum state and remains there afterwards. The degree of intensity of this impression will
vary, depending upon the intensity - emotional or physical - of the activity.
It is this that sensitive folk, of whom there are many, register as the atmosphere of a place. It is
the general trend in the thoughts of a myriad worshippers which give a church, a mosque, a

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synagogue or a temple their characteristic atmosphere of devotion and prayer. It is an energetic

aspect of association, but far more than something which is 'just psychological'. It is the mind
and manner of living which is impressed upon a home and tells the observant soul a great deal
concerning what goes on therein.
It reflects the love with which an artist or craftsman imbues his creation and it is the vibration
that a loving (or otherwise) cook unconsciously injects into his or her food, and which helps
determine its flavour, as well as the mood induced in those who partake of it.
This vibrational record arises, as does all manifestation, from the inward mechanism by which
the mind patterns the vacuum or akashic state from within in the process of creating physical
reality. It is this which also constitutes the subatomic fingerprint.
Similarly, within our human physical constitution, lies what mystics call the sky of our body, a
more subtle inward akash. It is here that a memory of our whole life is etched - every thought,
emotion, word and deed. It is this very black box which provides the patterning energy for
future incarnations. We draw on parts of this as our normally rather poor memory of events.
We remember very little concerning the details of our days. But it is this subtle pattern which
patterns the more gross vacuum state, with the consequent creation of the physical world we
take so seriously as a 'hard' reality.
This creative principle becomes more universal as we progress within and the akash of the
astral and causal zones will contain within them an imprint of all that has happened, as well as
all that will happen, in the worlds below. This is a part of the creative mechanism. It is, no
doubt, these akashic skies that are being referred to as the akashic records. So the atmosphere
and vibration of places encoded into the vacuum state, our own memory as well as the more
inward skies, are all essentially different levels or reflections of this akashic record.

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