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Hey, you. Welcome to Medium with a Mic. I'm really happy you're here with me today. And if you're returning, thanks, my friend. Today, I'm going to talk about the Akashic Records and I've been wanting to do a full deep dive episode on this for a long time because I feel like so much of what's out there is either too surface level just kind of scratching the top or it swings so far into the abstract that people walk away more confused when than, like, when they started.
Kari Bandle:So my goal today is to give you the real thing, the history, the science, the soul of it, and the actual practical tools to access your own records. By the end of the episode, you should feel like you genuinely understand what this is and you have real ways to explore it yourself. So let's go. Let's get let's start everything at the very beginning. The word Akashic.
Kari Bandle:It comes from the Sanskrit word Akasha, and it translates most closely to ether, sky, or space. In ancient Hindu and Vedic philosophy, Akasha was considered the fifth element alongside earth, water, fire, and air. But unlike those four, Akasha wasn't a physical substance. It was the invisible, all pervasive medium through which everything else existed. The connective tissue of the universe, if you will, the space that holds the space.
Kari Bandle:Now the Akashic records built on that foundation are understood to be a vast, infinite, energetic library existing in this etheric field that contains the complete recorded history of every soul that has ever existed. Every thought, every word, every emotion, every action, every experience across every lifetime, every dimension, every possible timeline. I want you to really sit with that for a second because it's almost too big to hold. We're not talking about a record of just this life. We're talking about your soul's entire journey.
Kari Bandle:Every lifetime you've lived before this one. Every agreement your soul made before incarnating into this body. The experiences you came here to have. The wounds you came here to heal. The gifts you carried in with you.
Kari Bandle:Here's what I find most beautiful about it. It's not a judgment file. There's no cosmic prosecutor up there going through your records looking for evidence against you. The record exists in a field of pure unconditional love. They are informational, not evaluative.
Kari Bandle:The soul doesn't get graded. It gets witnessed. So now I want to spend some time here because this is the part that I think changes everything for people who are skeptical or who need that bridge between the spiritual and the rational. And, honestly, I love that bridge. I live on that bridge.
Kari Bandle:Let's talk about the zero point field. In quantum physics, the zero point field is a concept that refers to the lowest possible energy state of a quantum mechanical system. And the fascinating thing is that even at absolute zero, even when you remove all possible energy from a system, there is still energy there. The field never goes completely quiet. It's still humming.
Kari Bandle:Physicists call this zero point energy, and the field it exists within is considered fundamental to the structure of reality itself. Physicist and systems theorist at, Irvin Laszlo, and this man has over 75 books to his name, so we're not talking about a fringe thinker. Laszlo proposed in his theory of the Akashic field that the zero point field doesn't just carry energy. It carries information that every event, every interaction, every experience that has ever occurred in the universe leaves an informational imprint in this field, a kind of cosmic memory. He called it the Akashic field, bridging the ancient Sanskrit concept with cutting edge physics.
Kari Bandle:And Laszlo isn't alone in this thinking. Physicist David Baum, who worked with Einstein, proposed the concept of the implicate order, the idea that there is this underlying reality, an enfolded order beneath the surface of what we can observe from which all manifest reality unfolds. Bohm believed that everything, matter, consciousness, information, is enfolded into this deeper field and that what we experience as reality is just the surface expression of something much vaster. Then there's Rupert Sheldrake. Controversial, yes, but fascinating.
Kari Bandle:In his theory of morphic resonance, Sheldrake proposed that nature has a kind of collective memory, that patterns of behavior and form are transmitted across time and space through what he calls morphic fields, not through DNA, not through physical inheritance, but through an energetic field that carries the memory of what has come before. Animals learning behaviors in one location, mysteriously making it easier for animals of the same species on the other side of the planet to learn the same same behavior. That's not physical. That's something else. And then there's the work being done in the field of consciousness studies.
Kari Bandle:Researchers like Dean Radden at the Institute of Noetic Sciences who has conducted rigorous controlled experiments on things like intuition, remote perception, and the effects of human intention on physical systems. His work has produced statistically significant results that mainstream science still doesn't quite know what to do with. But the data is there. The data keeps showing up. What all of this points to, what scientists across multiple disciplines keep bumping into from different directions, is that consciousness is not just a product of the brain.
Kari Bandle:That information is not limited to physical storage, that there is something vast and connective underlying our reality that we are only just beginning to find the language for. The mystics have had the language for thousands of years. They called it Akashic. I think it matters enormously that this is not a new age invention. In ancient Vedic tradition, we're talking texts that were anywhere from 3,500 to 5,000 years old.
Kari Bandle:The Akashic was understood as the primordial substance from which all creation emerged. The the Rigveda, though one of the oldest known texts in any Indo European language references this concept of an all pervading cosmic intelligence that holds all knowledge. In the Bible, specifically in the book of Revelation, in Psalms, and in Exodus, there are repeated references to a book of life, a divine record in which all deeds, all souls, all events are written. The book of life shows up in Jewish mystical tradition as well. In the Kabbalah as part of the understanding that nothing is lost, nothing goes unrecorded in the eyes of the divine.
Kari Bandle:In Islamic tradition, there is the concept of the tablet. The belief that everything that has ever happened and everything that will ever happen is recorded in this divine tablet held in the presence of God. This is not peripheral to Islamic teaching. It is one of the pillars of the faith's cosmology. The ancient Egyptians had the concept of the hall of two truths where the soul after death would have its heart weighed against the feather of Ma'at representing truth and cosmic order.
Kari Bandle:The idea that the soul's entire record would be reviewed and evaluated after death. Everything known, nothing hidden. The Maya had the Chillimbalum sacred books that functioned as records of cosmic time cycles, prophetic information, and the memory of the people reaching back across stages. And the Mayan calendar itself reflects a sophisticated understanding of time as something layered and recorded, not just linear. In Hermetic tradition, the mystery schools of ancient Greece and Alexandria, there was the concept of the Amina Mundi, the world soul, the field of consciousness that connects and contains all living things and holds the memory of all experience.
Kari Bandle:And then in more recent history, the nineteenth century saw a resurgence of interest in this concept through the Theosophical Society. Helena Blavatsky wrote about the Akashic Records in her monumental work The Secret Doctrine in 1888. Rudolf Steiner, who had an extraordinary mind, trained as a scientist and philosopher who, before becoming one of the most significant esoteric thinkers of the twentieth century wrote extensively about the Akashic Chronicles and described assessing them through concentrated spiritual perception. Okay. You've stuck with me this long.
Kari Bandle:So there's one one more. Edgar Cayce. If you don't know who Edgar Cayce is, let me just give you the quick version. He was born really close to where I grew up in Kentucky, and he is obviously American man born in 1877, who from a relatively young age demonstrated an ability to put himself into a self induced trance state and access extraordinarily detailed medical and spiritual information on behalf of people he'd never met who were sometimes hundreds of miles away. He gave over 14,000 documented readings over his lifetime.
Kari Bandle:He consistently described what he was accessing as a kind of universal record, what he called the universal memory of nature and what others recognized as the Akashic Records. His accuracy rate in medical readings was documented and studies studied. The the man is not easy to dismiss. So when I say the Akashic Records are ancient and cross cultural, I mean that literally. This is one of the most consistent threads in the entire spiritual history of humanity.
Kari Bandle:That feels significant to me. It feels like more than a coincidence. So let's bring all of this way down to you because as vast and cosmic as all of this is, the part that really matters is what's in your records. Your Akashic records contain your soul's complete blueprint. Think of it as the most comprehensive, compassionate, detailed file ever compiled, not just on who you are in this lifetime, but on who your soul is across all of its its experiences.
Kari Bandle:In your records, you'll find your soul's origin, where your soul began, so to speak, and the early experiences that shaped its essential character. You'll find the record of your other lives as genuine context for understanding why you are the way you are, why certain things terrify you without logical cause, why you're inexplicably drawn to certain places, certain eras, certain types of people, why you're extraordinarily gifted in areas you've never formally studied. Past life memory is stored in the records, and when you access it, things that have never made sense about yourself suddenly do. Your records hold your soul contracts, the agreements you made before incarnating, who you agreed to meet, what relationships you agreed to enter into for the purpose of mutual growth and healing. This doesn't mean you have no free will.
Kari Bandle:You absolutely do. But it does mean that some of the most significant relationships and experiences in your life were agreed to at a soul level before you got here. That perspective changes everything about how you hold those relationships. Your records hold your karmic patterns, the energetic themes that have followed your soul across lifetimes and that are asking for resolution in this one. I want to be careful here because karma is so misunderstood.
Kari Bandle:Karma is not punishment. It's not the universe getting back at you. Karma is simply the soul's unfinished business. The lessons that weren't completed, the wounds that weren't healed, the patterns that want to be transformed. When you access your records and see the karmic thread, where it started, how it's played out, what it's asking of you, you have the opportunity to actually complete it, to put it down, and that's profound healing.
Kari Bandle:Your records hold your gifts, the abilities, the sensitivities, the knowing that you came into this lifetime carrying. Some of those gifts might be things you've leaned into. Others might be things you've been afraid of or that the people around you didn't understand. The records will show you what you brought with you and why. Okay.
Kari Bandle:This is the heart of it. Let's let's really dig in. First, I want to repeat what I said earlier, and I want you to hear it. You do not have to be psychic to access your records. The records are not reserved for those who have developed their psychic abilities, and we all are born with psychic abilities.
Kari Bandle:They are your records. Access is your birthright as a soul. What accessing them does require is intention, receptivity, and a willingness to trust what comes. Those things you've got. Let me walk you through each method in some depth.
Kari Bandle:Method one is working with a trained reader. This is the most straightforward entry point, especially for people who are brand new or who are going through something significant and want clear deep information quickly. A trained Akashic Records reader, and I want to emphasize trained because not everyone who claims to read the records has done the proper work, will open your records using a specific prayer or sacred intention, Attune to your soul's energy and then navigate your records on your behalf. A good reader will ask you what you want to explore and will relay what they receive honestly even when it's not what you were hoping to hear. What makes a good reader?
Kari Bandle:Authentic, integrity, humility. They should be clear that they're a messenger, not the authority. They should be able to tell you when they're uncertain. They should not be telling you only what you want to hear, and they should approach the work with genuine reverence. This is sacred territory.
Kari Bandle:When you work with a reader, you can ask about anything relationships, life purpose, past blocks, other lives, health, career, current blocks. The records hold it all, but the most transformative questions tend to be the deeper ones. Not, Will I get the job? But What is my soul here to learn through my relationship with work and security? Method two: The Pathway Prayer Process Linda Howe is one of the foremost teachers of Akashic Records access in the world and she developed what she calls the Pathway Prayer Process, a specific structured prayer that functions as a key to open the records.
Kari Bandle:The prayer itself is in her book, How to Read the Akashic Records, and I recommend getting that book. It's accessible, practical, and genuinely powerful. Here's essentially how the process works. You speak the prayer aloud slowly and intentionally with your full attention on what you're saying. You include your legal name, the name that's on your birth certificate, because that name carries a specific energetic signature that helps attune the prayer to your records specifically.
Kari Bandle:You set the intention that only the highest, most loving, most accurate information come through and then you open the records and you ask. The prayer format creates a kind of sacred container. It signals to your own consciousness and to the field that you are entering this space with reverence and clear intention. That signal matters. After the prayer, you ask your questions out loud or internally, and you receive.
Kari Bandle:Then when you're done, you close the records also with an intention or closing prayer, and you return fully to your ordinary awareness. Linda Howe's approach is particularly beautiful because it's systematic enough to feel accessible and real without stripping away the sacredness of it. People have had genuinely life changing experiences using this process on their very first try. It might not work for you the very first time. Just try it again.
Kari Bandle:Method three: Meditation and Visualization. This is probably the most widely used access method, and there's a reason for that. It works, and it's available to anyone, anytime with nothing but themselves. Here's a more detailed walkthrough than what you'd usually get. Start by grounding, and this is not optional.
Kari Bandle:Sit with your feet flat on the floor. Take several slow deep breaths, Not the kind where you're monitoring yourself, but the kind where you actually let your nervous system settle. Take inventory of your feet all the way up to your head and feel each area relax. Feel your body in the chair. Feel the weight of yourself.
Kari Bandle:You want to be in your body before you try to expand your consciousness. A lot of people skip this and then wonder why they can't get anything. Grounding is the foundation. Once you feel genuinely settled, just sitting still, but actually quiet inside, Set your intention out loud. Say something like I intend to access my Akashic Records for my highest good and the highest good of all.
Kari Bandle:I ask that only loving accurate helpful information come through. Saying it out loud is more powerful than just thinking it. Sound carries intention in a way that thought alone doesn't. Now and this is where I want you to really listen. Don't try to go somewhere.
Kari Bandle:A lot of people imagine they need to have some dramatic out of body experience or see vivid visions. That's not what this looks like at all. Instead, just allow your awareness to expand. Imagine it softening at the edges. If it helps, visualize yourself in a library, infinitely beautiful, full of warm golden light or a hall or a garden, whatever feels right.
Kari Bandle:This visualization isn't just imagination. It's a bridge your mind uses to cross from ordinary awareness into the field. Once you feel that expanded open state, ask your question out loud or internally. And the most important part is receive. Don't reach.
Kari Bandle:Don't analyze. Don't immediately judge whether what's coming is real or just your imagination. Just receive. Let impressions come, images, feelings, words, sudden knowings, memories. Let them come without grabbing at them or pushing them away.
Kari Bandle:When you feel complete, express gratitude for what came through and gently bring your awareness back. Wiggle your fingers and your toes. Take a breath, drink some water, and then immediately write down everything you received before your analytical mind has a chance to edit it. The more you practice this, the clearer the channel becomes. The first few times it might feel like nothing is happening, but keep going.
Kari Bandle:The static clears. Method four is automatic writing. Set your intention, same as with meditation. Ground yourself. Get quiet.
Kari Bandle:Now pick up a pen and journal, actual pen and paper if at all possible. There's something about the physical act of writing by hand that creates a different channel and then write without stopping, without reading what you're writing as you write it, without editing, without judging, without pausing to think. You might start with garbage, the grocery list your brain wants to throw out. Keep writing through it because at some point and and for most people it happens faster than they expect, Something shifts. The quality of what's coming through changes.
Kari Bandle:The words don't feel like yours anymore, or they feel more like you than your usual conscious thoughts do. Like the most honest, wise, clear part of you is finally getting a word in edgewise. That's the records. Write until you feel complete and then stop. Set down the pen, shake out your hand, take a breath, and then read what you wrote.
Kari Bandle:Give yourself time to receive it. Don't rush through it. Some of it might not make sense immediately. Sit with it. Let it land.
Kari Bandle:Automatic writing is particularly good for emotional processing, for getting unstuck, and for receiving guidance on specific questions. Some people do it daily and describe it as the most transformative practice in their lives. If you have trouble with it, try it in a different way, a different place, time, or different medium. Method five is dream work. Your conscious mind is like a bouncer.
Kari Bandle:It stands at the door all day deciding what gets in and what gets sent away. When you sleep, that bouncer goes on break and your soul which has been trying to get in a word all day finally gets access. The veil between ordinary consciousness and the Akashic field is extremely thin during sleep particularly during the hypnagogic state when you're falling asleep and during REM sleep when dreaming is most vivid. But here's how to work with this intentionally. Before you go to sleep, not while you're already half asleep, but while you're still fully conscious, speak your intention out loud.
Kari Bandle:Something like, tonight, I ask my Akashic Records to reveal and then enter your question or theme. I ask that I receive this information clearly and that I remember it upon waking and then go to sleep. Keep a journal and a pen on your nightstand. And when you wake, before you check your phone or go to the bathroom, before you do anything, write. Write everything you remember from your dreams, feelings, images, fragments, even things that seem completely nonsensical.
Kari Bandle:How it makes you makes you feel, whether it was black and white or in color. There... Anything that you get. Write it all. Don't try to interpret it immediately.
Kari Bandle:Get it all down first, and then you can sit with it and let the meaning surface. And sometimes this takes a while. So Dream Records Access tends to be more symbolic than direct. Your records speaking through the language of unconscious. So the interpretation is part of the work, but over time, patterns emerge, reoccurring imagery, themes that connect to your waking life questions.
Kari Bandle:The records are consistent. They keep coming back to what your soul needs until you receive it. Method six, nature and body based access. I want to add this one because it doesn't get talked about very much. So some people, particularly those who are highly kinesthetic, who who feel most spiritually alive when they're in nature, the Akashic field most easily through the body and through the natural world.
Kari Bandle:The body itself is a receiver, and nature, stripped of the noise of modern life, is one of the thinnest places between ordinary reality and the field. Walking barefoot on the earth, sitting with your back against a tree with your eyes closed and your question held in your heart, floating in natural water, standing in the wind. These are not lesser methods. For many people, are the most powerful access points because they bypass the analytical mind entirely and speak directly to the body's knowing. Pay attention to what arises, what thoughts, what feelings, what sudden knowing surfaces while you're out there.
Kari Bandle:The records don't only come through in formal sitting practice. They come through whenever we get quiet enough to receive. Getting information from your records is one thing. Knowing what to do with it is another. So first, honor it.
Kari Bandle:Whatever came through, even if it surprises you, even if it doesn't fit the story you've been telling yourself, honor it enough to sit with it. You don't have to immediately act on anything, but don't dismiss it either. Journal about it. Write your reflections. Let the meaning deepen over time.
Kari Bandle:Records work is not always instant clarity. Sometimes it's more like a seed that gets planted and then over days or weeks, something in your life suddenly makes sense in a way it never did before. In my case, I hear the same thing from different sources and I go, oh, that was for me. So pay attention to that. Bring curiosity rather than judgment to whatever you receive.
Kari Bandle:If you access a past life memory and it's uncomfortable, something you did, something done to you, approach it with compassion rather than shame or victimhood. The records are not there to make you feel bad. They're there to give you context so you can heal and move forward. Notice what changes after your session. People often report shifts in the days following records work, unexpected clarity, synchronicities, emotional releases, dreams that feel particularly significant.
Kari Bandle:Your soul knows when it's been heard and things move. And if you receive information you don't understand, just write it down and leave it. Don't force meaning. Sometimes information comes through that only makes sense six months later, so trust the timing. Now let me address a few things I hear a lot.
Kari Bandle:Can anyone access my records without my permission? Technically, other people's energies can brush up against your field, but your records, soul's deepest information are protected. A reputable reader with... Will always ask your permission before accessing your records. The records themselves have an integrity to them.
Kari Bandle:They are not a free for all for everyone with a little psychic ability to poke around in. Another question is, can I access someone else's records? You can access information about your relationships and how they're showing up in your records. Your contracts with others, your karmic connections, so to speak. But you cannot and should not attempt to access another person's individual records without their knowledge and consent.
Kari Bandle:That's an energetic boundary violation, just plain and simple. What if I get scary information? The Akashic Records exist in a field of love, Genuinely frightening information, doom, definitive predictions of terrible events is not characteristic of authentic Akashic access. If you're receiving that kind of information, something else is happening. Ground yourself, close your records, come back to ordinary awareness, and seek guidance from an experienced practitioner.
Kari Bandle:What if nothing comes through? Extremely common, especially for beginners. It doesn't mean you're doing it wrong or that you're not cut out for this. It often just means your analytical mind is still too loud. Keep practicing.
Kari Bandle:Use grounding. Try a different modality. If meditation isn't working, try automatic writing. Give it time. Is this against my religion?
Kari Bandle:Well, this is deeply personal, and I wanna honor that. What I will say is that the concept of a divine record of souls and deeds exists across nearly every major religious tradition. Whether you call it the book of life, the preserved tablet, the Akashic records, or the mind of God, the underlying reality many people are pointing to appears to be the same. You can explore their records through whatever spiritual framework feels aligned for you. Okay.
Kari Bandle:We covered a lot today, and I hope you feel it. I hope you feel that sense of something opening up even just a little because that's what this work does. It opens things. The Akashic Records are not a mystery that exists outside of you. They are part of you.
Kari Bandle:They are the story of you, the whole full story, the soul level story held in a field of love so complete and so unconditional that, honestly, just thinking about it makes me wanna cry a little in a good way. Whether you go looking for a reader, whether you pick up Linda Howe's book, whether you sit down tonight with a journal and a candle and try the automatic writing, I want you to know that whatever you access, you can handle it. Your soul wouldn't bring something to your awareness that you weren't ready to receive. You are ready. Thank you so much for being here with me today.
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