akashic records

Universal memory archive

Akashic records, in certain spiritual and theosophical traditions, are a cosmic compendium of all human thoughts, events, and experiences—past, present, and future—believed to exist on a nonphysical plane.

The term comes from Sanskrit *akasha*, meaning ether or sky.

Practitioners claim to access these records through meditation or psychic ability: She consulted the akashic records to understand her past lives.

The concept appears in New Age spirituality and some esoteric philosophies.

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