A question I get asked a lot is: so what actually is the Akashic Records?
It’s a fair question.
For something that comes up more and more these days, it’s rarely explained in a way that feels clear, or grounded.
Usually it’s described as a spiritual place that holds the records of every soul, which is true to the tradition, but if you’re hearing it for the first time, it can sound abstract, or a little untethered.
So I’d like to try explaining it more simply.
So what are the Akashic Records?
The name itself suggests a library. A vast record of every soul’s journey, held somewhere beyond the physical world. And that image isn’t wrong, exactly. It’s intuitive, and it’s where the name comes from.
But I find a slightly different metaphor more helpful.
Rather than a room full of books, imagine something more like a field of information. A kind of non-physical internet. Not a place with shelves, but a space that holds the imprint of experiences, choices, relationships, and patterns, and that a reader learns to attune to.
In that sense, the word “records” is really a metaphor. Nothing is being pulled off a shelf. Attention is being directed toward information that isn’t coming through the ordinary five senses.
An old idea, and a more recent one
It’s worth being honest about where this comes from, because there’s a common oversimplification.
The word Akasha has deep roots in Indian philosophy, where it points to space, or a subtle underlying element. But the modern idea of a cosmic library holding the record of every soul is not simply an ancient teaching. It took much of its current shape more recently, through a blend of those older ideas with Western esoteric thought over the last couple of centuries.
I mention this not to diminish it, but because I’d rather offer you something honest than something dressed up as older or more certain than it is.
People often draw a parallel here to Carl Jung.
Jung wrote about the collective unconscious: a shared layer of the psyche, beneath the personal one, holding patterns and images that appear again and again across cultures and lifetimes.
It’s easy to see why the two ideas get linked. Both suggest that we’re connected to something beyond our individual selves.
But they’re not quite the same. Jung’s collective unconscious is mostly about what is shared, the universal patterns common to all of us. The Akashic Records, as they’re understood, hold something more individual: the particular journey of each particular soul.
And yet, even there, the two meet at an interesting point.
Because although each soul’s record is its own, no soul walks entirely alone. A human life brings us into contact with countless others, each carrying their own path, their own story, the journey they came here to live.
Our records may be separate. But our lives are woven together.
How I work with the Records
There are many ways people reach the Akashic Records. Different traditions, different methods, different protocols. No single approach owns this space, and I think it’s only fair to be clear about that.
I work with a specific modality called Soul Realignment®, developed by Andrea Hess.
What I love about it is that it isn’t loose or improvised. Rather than relying on intuition alone, it follows a clear, structured protocol, a careful framework for accessing the information held within your Records. There’s something protective about that structure. It keeps the work grounded, respectful, and focused on what genuinely serves you.
Every reading follows the same framework. What makes each one unique is what the Records reveal about you.
For me, the purpose was never simply to receive information.
It’s to take you on a journey of coming to know yourself at the level of the soul. A deep and honest acquaintance with who you are, the gifts you came here to express, and the patterns that may be quietly keeping you from expressing them more fully.
If you’d like to know what a reading actually looks like, step by step, I’ve written about that separately, in what happens during an Akashic Records Reading.
You don’t have to believe any of it in advance. You’re welcome to arrive simply curious, and notice for yourself what resonates.
Because whatever we call it, the invitation is the same.
To meet yourself from a wider view.
And to see your story with a little more clarity, and a little more compassion.
With curiosity and an open heart.
