Image Credit: Andrew Johnstone done on June 25, 2026
In the spiritual teachings of Hinduism there is the concept of the
Akashic Records. This is the idea that all thoughts that have
ever been thought are recorded for all time in a place called the
Akash, translated as Space or the Ether.
In addition, all thoughts that ever will be thought in the future
are already in the Akashic Records, ready to be downloaded
when some mind in a human body is ready to receive them. And
not just all thoughts. All rhythms past, present and future are in
the Akashic Records, as well.
The thoughts recorded in the Akash exist independent of time
and space. They always will be there. They always were there,
before there was a world or people to have them. For this reason
Hindus refer to their belief systems as Sanatana Dharma, the
Eternal Way in harmony with the rhythms of the universe, the
always existent infinite truth.
All the worlds religions reference higher beings above human
consciousness. Polytheistic religions identify and pray to
numerous Gods and Goddesses with distinct powers and
knowledge. The monotheistic religions attribute all these powers
and knowledge to the one God, and yet identify seven levels of
angels having different degrees of higher consciousness and
venerate innumerable saints.
The worlds religions are inspired by or based on revelations as
result of an individual tuning in to Divine Consciousness. The
most sacred texts of Hinduism in verse form, the Vedas and the
Upanishads, were not composed or written. They were revealed
to or “heard” by a holy man sitting in meditation in a cave in the
Himalayas. In contemporary language this would be called
“channelling” or “downloading” the eternal wisdom from the
MetaCloud.
The Sacred words or mantras were memorized and passed on
orally from master to disciple. Only much later were they
written down. These verses that were heard emanating from the
akash, were and still are taken as absolute divine truth and are
the basis of all sects of Hinduism.
Similarly, the Holy Bible is considered the “Word of God”, the
unchallengeable total truth, internal inconsistencies not
withstanding. Believers claim Divine Authorship, saying that
God breathed the Bible to the prophets, especially Moses, Jesus
and Paul.
In like manner, the Koran was heard by Mohammad, spoken to
him by the Archangel Gabriel, and recorded in Arabic by a
Persian disciple, because Mohammed was illiterate. The Arabs
have a long tradition of reciting inspired original poetry around
the campfire on long caravan journeys.
Buddha realized the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path to
enlightenment after sitting under a Bodhi tree for long periods in
silent meditation.
We say, “A thought just popped in to my head.” Where did it
come from? We say, “I just had an inspiration.” meaning, it
seems, that a bit of spirit came into one’s field of awareness.
A Jesuit philosopher, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, wrote in The
Phenomenon of Man, of a Noossphere, or sphere of thought,
enveloping the planet. I read his book during freshman year in
college and it made a great impression on me. I remember
applying this idea to the other philosophers I was reading,
thinking that I was entering into their thought sphere.
It came to me that no one can ever fully communicate their ideas
or their understanding of a concept in words or pictures only.
However, when we read the words that someone wrote we can
actually tune-in to their state of mind, enter into their thought
bubble in the Noossphere, joining the wave length of their
thought, thereby getting a direct transmission from the “higher
mind”. And so become one with the very thought process which
the original author was following in the cosmic conceptual
repository.
I see this eternal repository of thought or ideas as an explanation
why more than one mind can have the same “original” thought
simultaneously in isolated places on the earth, as has happened
many times in cultural movements, in the zeitgeist of the
moment, and in mathematics and philosophy.
It seems to me that thoughts are not limited by space and time.
But do they have physicality? They carry information, but are
they a wave or a particle, as we say of light?
Is our atmosphere always full of thoughts, new and old, coursing
through it all the time like radio waves, light waves and all the
other wave lengths?
Now we have the Cloud and AI. Which seems to be kind of like
the Noossphere, except that it requires energy to maintain and it
costs money to access, therefore the Cloud and AI can generate a
profit.
While the akashic records are eternal, AI and the internet have a
beginning in history. There is a “time before internet”. There is
no exact date for the beginning of the web, but somewhere in the
early nineties it jumped from a few hundred to a few thousand to
billions today.
As I understand it, AI’s source of information is the entire
worldwide Netscape. That source, that knowledge base is
however, extremely time restricted. Basically just about
anything before 1985 is not easily accessible on the internet.
Further, AI is known to tailor answers to the prejudices of the
inquirer.
Whole libraries of millions of books are not uploaded yet. Like
the lost libraries of Alexandria, this information collected over
thousands of years, manuscripts, printed sources and photos is
not available to AI. Similarly, oral teachings passed from Guru
to disciple are not accessible.
The akashic records, aka the Noosphere, is free for the
downloading, if one knows how. Its store of knowledge is
infinite. It is not time bound and has no beginning or end. If all
thoughts are already present, eternally existing in the repository
of the akash, the only energy required on our part is the mental
effort from the person doing the downloading.
Yet what kind of eternal inexhaustible energy keeps the akashic
records from disappearing? Divine Consciousness is a self-
generating energy field.
If we simultaneously consider all the thoughts that all and every
human being is thinking now, ever did think and ever will think.
Then consider other all forms of thought. Imagine all forms of
consciousness or all forms of awareness that all the animals, all
the insects, all the plants, and even all the smallest forms of
microbial life have, and add that to human consciousness, it
would still only be a part of Divine Consciousness.
Even inanimate objects, such as minerals in crystal form, have
an atomic consciousness. known as the strong force and the
weak force that governs atomic relationships. Even rocks and
concrete have the awareness of like molecules bonding to one
another.
These are all earth bound. What kinds of consciousness exist in
outer space, in distant galaxies, in unknown time warps?
This totality of knowledge, wisdom, awareness is the ocean of
thought that we live in and are part of. As Divine Consciousness
necessarily includes our individual thoughts and emotions, we
are part of, not separate from Divine Consciousness. It is always
and forever accessible to us. We are it.
By: Swami Chaitanya
