If There Is An Akashic Record…

If there is an Akashic record …
Akashic record: a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words, and emotions ever to have occurred.

and if there is reincarnation …
Reincarnation: the essence of consciousness begins a new life due to karma.

… that we put them together.
The idea that’s called the Akashic record is simply the accumulation of each individual’s countless lives. It’s not something ‘other’, something ‘out there’. And if we’ve had countless lives, this means that every sentient being has been our mother.

So the Akashic record is our own mind that, in theory, can be referenced for information using the messengers of the mind: Manas, Hermes, Mercury, Thoth … and whatever we reference is only relevant to us, to help us to recognise our reactions and patterns.

We often have innate feelings about things and people, but we’re too academic, too philosophical, too cluttered to see anything afresh as we’re fixated on our own ideas.

The main problem for Dharma people is their pride in what they think they know – in their stockpile of concepts. They can never deal with an ‘awkward’ customer and say, “How can I help?” – they just turn their backs (and through personal experience, I’ve found even Gurus and Lamas can do that).

This, in itself, teaches us everything, as clinging to words has no practicality. We’re not following the Buddha’s instruction – “Don’t take my words for the truth; test them.” When we do test them, our view changes and we’re willing to help others, rather than attack them.

The Akashic record is not a radio station,
broadcasting just for ‘special’ people.