Category: Science/Religion

Table of Contents

August 1st, 2025

This website contains the following nine posts. All posts except the first one are arranged from past to future and from earth to space:

Predictions of Wars, Economy and Pandemics in the 21^st Century

Before Creation

Before the Big Bang

The Other Side (Astral Realm)

Heaven (Paradise)

The Book of Life

The Akashic Records

Our Nearest Neighbors in Space

The Mechanisms of a UFO and the Principle of Faster-Than-Light Travel

To read successive posts, simply scroll down past the end of the previous post, including this one.
Before Creation

August 1st, 2023

The following passages have been taken from Thomas Sugrue (1942) The Story of Edgar Cayce (pronounced Kay’-see): There Is a River, A.R.E. Press, 1997, pp.306-307:

Philosophy

“Man demands a beginning and a boundary, so in the beginning there was a sea of spirit (energy), and it filled all space. It was static, content, aware of itself, a giant resting on the bosom of its thought, contemplating that which it was.

“Then it moved. It withdrew into itself, until all space was empty, and that which filled it was shining from its center, a restless, seething mind. This was the individuality of the spirit; this was what it discovered itself to be when it awakened; this was God.

“God desired to express Himself, and He desired companionship. Therefore, He projected from Himself the cosmos and souls (the Big Bang). The cosmos was built with the tools which man calls music, arithmetic, and geometry: harmony, system, and balance. The building blocks were all of the same material, which man calls the life essence. It was a power sent out from God, a primary ray, as man thinks of it, which by changing the length of its wave and the rate of its vibration became a pattern of differing forms, substance, and movement (string theory). This created the the law of diversity which supplied endless designs for the pattern. God played on this law of diversity as a person plays on a piano, producing melodies and arranging them in a symphony.

“Each design carried within it, inherently, the plan of its evolution, which was to be accompanied by movement, growth, or, as man calls it, change. This corresponds to the sound of a note struck on a piano. The sounds of several notes unite to make a chord; chords in turn become phrases; phrases become melodies; melodies intermingle and move back and forth, across and between and around each other, to make a symphony. The music ends as it began, leaving emptiness, but between the beginning and the finish there has been glorious beauty and a great experience.”
Before the Big Bang

July 1st, 2023

The following passages have been taken from Michio Kaku (1994) Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension, New York: Doubleday, pp.202, 209

“So far, the only theory that can claim to solve the mystery of what happened before the Big Bang is the ten-dimensional superstring theory. Scientists are just now (in 1994) conjecturing how the ten-dimensional universe split into a four- and a six-dimensional universe. What does our twin universe look like?

“At the beginning of time, the [ten-dimensional] universe was perfectly symmetrical. If anyone was around at that time, he could freely pass through any of the ten dimensions without [a] problem. At that time, gravity and the weak, the strong, and the electromagnetic forces were all unified by the superstring. All matter and all forces were part of the same string multiplet.

“However, this symmetry couldn’t last. The ten-dimensional universe, although perfectly symmetrical, was unstable… and in a false vacuum. Thus tunneling to a lower-energy state was inevitable. When tunneling finally occurred, a phase transition took place, and symmetry was lost. Because the universe began to split up into a four- and a six-dimensional universe, the universe was no longer symmetrical.”

The four-dimensional universe is the one in which we live, and because we can’t see the six-dimensional universe, physicists have assumed that the extra dimensions are curled up. But in 2005 a physicist named Lisa Randall, in a book titled Warped Passages: Unravelling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions, showed that hidden dimensions can be as large as the dimensions in the four-dimensional universe.

String theory has since been updated to include eleven dimensions, which means that the six-dimensional universe would have seven dimensions.

The four-dimensional universe corresponds to the physical universe in which we live, and the seven-dimensional universe corresponds to the metaphysical (beyond the physical) universe, or the astral realm, which we call heaven, that is superimposed upon the Earth. Most people are unable to perceive this realm with their five physical senses, but some gifted people, whom we call psychics or clairvoyants, who have a sixth sense, are able to perceive this realm and its inhabitants.

The next two posts describe the astral realm and its inhabitants.
The Other Side (Astral Realm)

June 1st, 2023

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” (Bible, Matthew 6:19-21, New International Version)

The following passages have been taken from Sylvia Browne (2000), Life on The Other Side: A psychic’s Tour of the Afterlife, New York: Dutton pp.97-100

“Don’t you get a little bit tired of hearing that The Other Side is “more beautiful than you can imagine,” as if that will somehow help us picture it? First of all, if it’s more beautiful than we can imagine, why bother trying to imagine it? Second of all, with a vague description like that, no wonder it’s tempting to think that maybe The Other Side is really nothing but a pretty fairy tale after all.

“The truth is, The Other Side is exquisitely beautiful. But we don’t have to imagine it, any more than we have to imagine our own hometowns. Its stunning images are indelibly etched in our spirit memories. We all came from The Other Side, we’ve returned there many times between lives, and we’ll joyfully live there again when this life ends. And, believe it or not, we’re all so homesick for The Other Side that every one of us travels there astrally, during sleep, at least two or three times a week, we just don’t consciously remember it.

“If any detail in this chapter, no matter how seemingly trivial, resonates in you in some odd, distant way, please don’t shrug it off as something you must be mistaken about. Instead, open your mind to the possibility that it’s your soul whispering to you, begging you to notice and celebrate the reassuring familiarity of this road map of Home.

“As we discussed in chapter 2, The Other Side is not some mythical place “out there somewhere.” It is really right here among us, a mere three feet above our ground level.

“It is also a perfect mirror image of earth’s natural topography. Our seven continents; our mountain ranges, plains, and deserts; our oceans, seas, and rivers; our forests, jungles, islands, foothills, and every other work of nature on earth all exist in their original perfection on The Other Side. Because there is no erosion, pollution, or destruction there, the mountain ranges are as sharp and soaring, the bodies of water are as pure and azure blue, and the coastlines are as ruggedly intact as they were thousands and thousands of years ago. On The Other Side, where time does not exist, where every living thing always was and always will be, nothing ages, nothing rots, nothing corrodes. Every square inch of land and water is magnificently, eternally new.

“That includes earth’s two lost continents. Atlantis thrives on the ocean on The Other Side that corresponds to our Atlantic, and in their Pacific lies the huge, flourishing continent of LeMuria.

“The familiarity of Home isn’t limited to natural wonders. Many of the human-made wonders on earth actually existed on The Other Side first and were subconsciously remembered and re-created here. It is no coincidence that such breathtaking marvels as the Pyramids, the Sphinx, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Great Wall of China, and the Taj Mahal grace the landscape of The Other Side, as uncompromised as if they were just completed this morning. The Parthenon is intact and lovingly tended. The original Venus de Milo and all other great works of art over the centuries, which were so beautifully duplicated here, have not been even slightly touched by the cruelty of vandals, thieves, wars, time, or the elements. The great libraries of Alexandria, destroyed by fire on earth, are perfectly preserved there, and the Dead Sea Scrolls not only look brand-new but are also as fondly read and understood on The Other Side as a child’s storybook. Even the Greco-Roman style of architecture was originated at Home and then lovingly paid tribute to on earth. In fact, as we’ll see shortly, the first buildings that greet us beyond the tunnel are built in that classic style we associate here with graceful, understated grandeur.

“There is actually a constant reciprocity of beauty between The Other Side and earth. While great artists, architects, and builders continue to reproduce on earth some of the most beloved wonders of Home through infused memories, there are cherished earthly sites that been reproduced on The Other Side as well, for their beauty, holiness, and the comforting continuity they create between the two dimensions. The Garden of Gethsemane, for example, which Christ’s presence made sacred, is identically replicated on The Other Side, as are such other revered places as Mecca, the Vatican, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral. So whether we’re on earth or at Home, we can always find our way to a familiar place to worship God and celebrate His presence.

The Weather

“There is no precipitation on The Other Side, no rain, snow, sleet or hail. There is no wind stronger than an occasional gentle breeze, no heat waves, and no cold fronts. Instead, the weather there is an eternally calm, clear seventy-eight degrees [fahrenheit].

“The constancy of the temperature and the perpetual absence of any precipitation at all, rather than becoming tedious, provides the residents of The Other Side with an infinite source of refreshing steadfastness and uninterrupted beauty. The universally consistent climate makes every location at home equally comfortable – no one ever has to worry about being too hot or too cold, or about floods, tornadoes, or any other weather-related disruption in perfection.

“The sun, moon, and stars are not visible on The Other Side, and day and night do not exist. The light there is a constant blend of soft, reassuring pastels, like a freeze frame of the quiet rosy violet of earth’s most vibrant summer dawn or dusk.”
Heaven (Paradise)

May 1st, 2023

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had, and bought that field.” (Bible, Matthew 13:44, New International Version)

The following passages have been taken from James Van Praagh (1999) Reaching to Heaven: A spiritual Journey Through Life and Death, Harmondsworth: Dutton pp.46-65

The Spiritual Realms

“As Wordsworth so beautifully expresses, we are on an endless journey between [earth] and heaven. As with any journey on which we embark, there is always the anticipation of having an exciting adventure. Wouldn’t it be nice to look upon our life’s last journey as nothing short of the same? The truth is that we have taken the journey many times before and will take it many times again.

“When an individual leaves the physical world, she leaves behind a heavy, dense body that has inhabited an equally dense, heavy world. Such a transition can be compared to removing a winter overcoat, or a snake sloughing off its outer skin. In essence, we do the same. When we die, we are finished using our human form, and so we let it go. Nothing is lost except the physical body. The complete soul self remains intact; the astral, mental and physical bodies are still alive and well. Even our personality, with all its feelings, likes, dislikes, emotions, and desires, stays the same.

Entering a New World

“No matter how spiritually evolved a person has become, he begins a new existence in what is known as the astral world. In many ways the astral world is as solid and as real as the physical earth – a kind of etheric counterpart to the earth. This invisible (to our physical eyes) interpenetrates and extends around the earth and is made of etheric energy that vibrates at frequencies beyond the physical spectrum. The astral world is composed of a number of levels, and each level corresponds to a particular etheric frequency.

“The level of the astral world that is closest to the physical earth can be described as a type of reception area. This region is significant to newly arriving souls for two very important reasons. First, it provides an environment that duplicates the earth in every way possible. As a multi-dimensional existence it possesses houses, buildings, universities, concert halls, gardens, lakes, and everything that is recognizable to our material minds. This eases the shock of passing out of a solid, physical world. Second, it is a place that allows a spirit to become accustomed to the afterlife slowly. In the astral world, a spirit begins to live a more rarified, spiritual existence and must eventually cast off its past earthly memory patterns, behaviours, and desires.

“A newly arriving spirit will gravitate to the particular level of the astral world that corresponds to the frequency of its astral body’s vibration. It will enter encased in a very real and tangible astral body, and will be as real there as it was here.

The Astral World

“The world Molly’s mother described (in a previous section) is sometimes referred to as The Summerland. This astral world is in many ways as solid as the physical earth, although its energy is light and ethereal. When an individual soul makes the transition to the astral level of existence, it enters with its astral body. Like the etheric body that is shed at the time of death, the astral body is an exact copy of the physical body, complete with arms, legs, fingers, toes, etc. However, it does not contain any illness or infirmity. For instance, anyone who is blind or deaf, or in a wheelchair, or has a terrible illness that leaves the body in a deteriorated condition, will not bring these disabilities into the spiritual realms. No matter if an arm or leg is lost in an explosion, or a body is totally annihilated by disaster or war, a spirit arrives in perfect form. These afflictions are purely the effects of a physical body in a physical world. They are not the conditions of the spirit world or the spirit body.

The spirit body is whole and perfect and can never by destroyed or harmed!

“Although our spirit bodies arrive in perfect condition, our personalites, composed of accumulated memories, prejudices, yearnings, and sensibilities, do not change. In fact, our entire mental and emotional outlook remains completely unaltered. Everything we have ever experienced in the physical world is inscribed in our soul pattern. It is ironic, in a way. On earth we spend so much time making sure our bodies look good and spend so little time on things that matter, such as improving our relationships or being true to ourselves. After we die, all the effort we put into taking care of our bodies won’t matter because they will look great anyway. However, we will still be stuck with all the same problems and uncertainties that we thought would vanish with death.

“A newly arrived soul finds itself on a spiritual level that is made up of the accumulation of character traits and various earthly experiences that it had created before death. In other words, a soul gravitates to a state of existence that contains its interests. Souls with matching interests join together on a similar spiritual level.

Earthly Illusions

“One of the first illuminations that touches spirits upon entering the astral world is an absence of time.

There is no time in the spirit world.

“However, since a spirit has so recently passed from a world of clocks and calendars, the memory of time has a strong hold in its thought processes, and its natural inclination is to wonder what day it is. A spirit might think it has been out of the physical body for just a few moments when in actual earth time it has been gone for three days.

“Realizing this discrepancy confirms to a spirit that it is no longer bound by the limitations of the physical world. In the spirit regions time is not measured by the position of the sun and stars but by involvement in experience. A spirit literally has all the time it needs; it is more concerned with what it wants to do rather than the time it takes to do it.

“Equally confusing to arriving spirits is the fact that in the physical world physical laws and boundaries, such as gravity and sound and speed, no longer apply. Spirits find out very quickly that they are not limited by a fixed world. In the fourth [spatial] dimension and beyond, spirits are able to be in several places at the same time, and the mode of transportation is thought. Spirits have no need to speak because they can read each other’s thoughts. As I have said before, all situations are created by our thoughts even in the life beyond.

“Family members on earth assume that their deceased loved ones on the other side are privy to the entire plan of creation, and they expect all of heaven’s secrets to be revealed. Often I am asked, “Why can’t a spirit tell me the answers?” Or, “If she loves me, she would certainly help me out.” The truth is that spirits love us enough not to give us the answers. They know that for a loved one to grow and advance, he must go through experiences without any sort of psychic hints. Spirits will not hinder our spiritual growth by telling us answers that rob us of the need to understand certain situations. We must live through our experiences in order to gain wisdom and fly higher.

“While a newly arrived spirit does possess a keener awareness or an expansion of consciousness, its knowledge is limited to the spiritual level at which it finds itself. And as its consciousness expands, the most significant insight a spirit will gain is a broader realization of the harmonic oneness to everything. A spirit realizes that it is united by a common denominator to every other expression of life. The ingredient that makes all things possible is the unyielding and never-ending element of love.

A Time to Reflect

“Along with this perception of unity, a spirit becomes cognizant of its entire soul composition. It knows clearly the complete history of all of its lifetimes of experiences. There is a point when a spirit begins to judge and examine every experience, moment and instant of its recently departed life. It probes every thought, feeling and action taken, and views what has been a contribution to its soul’s growth and what has been an impairment. In other words, it does a comparison report. It measures how well it has fulfilled the original soul plan.

“In this re-evaluation process a soul might realize that in order to gain the most wisdom from a certain experience, it might need to repeat a similar situation in a future existence on earth. This initiates what is referred to as the karmic process, i.e., a carryover of an experience from one life to another in order to gain spiritual awareness. This process is not meant as punishment for doing something “wrong.” It is merely a spiritual evaluation of the experience. If a soul believes it can redo the experience in a better way, it will return to do it over. A spiritual being recognizes its immortality; it knows that it is responsible for all conditions it has caused in the past and all those it will create in the future.

The World You Create

“There is a view that heaven is filled with winged angels playing harps and floating on clouds. This is purely a myth. A spirit’s home in the spirit realms is a precise reflection of its life achievements and/or transgressions while on earth. After it has adapted to its new world, it is quite common for a newly arrived soul to be greeted by a spirit teacher and taken on a tour, so to speak, to witness the various levels and expressions of spiritual life. This excursion demonstrates how far a spirit has risen in soul consciousness as well as how it can attain a higher level of spiritual growth. There are as many levels of spiritual regions as there are mind-sets. So many times I tell people in my lectures, “You are responsible for creating your own heaven or your hell based on your thoughts, words, and deeds.” The environment is within each person. Ordinary people who attempt to live a decent life by respecting one another and demonstrating love whenever they can have no need to worry about their afterlife existence. They will gravitate to a wonderful level of unlimited peace, joy, and love. Based on the multitude of readings I have done, let’s look at what the average good-hearted person’s environment might look like after she passes into spirit.

“As you begin to look around, the first thing you would observe is incredible beauty. You would discover radiant, manicured gardens as far as the eye can see with each flower bursting forth in brilliant color. The vivid colors in the spirit world are beyond our natural, earthly spectrum. Everything in this environment is literally ‘lit up’ and crystal clear. The light of the realm does not originate from any sun or star; it is known as the Astral Light. This illumination causes the colors to change in order to complement a particular type of environment. Because all things are harmoniously connected, you might think of this glowing effervescence as a reflection of the light that shines within each spirit.

“The next thing you would notice is the scent. The rarified atmosphere together with the sweet, flowered perfume of each bloom creates an angelic aroma. So often the spirits have said that they instantly possessed a heightened sensitivity to the exquisitely sweet smell of their environment. The unyielding scent and beauty of this heavenly expanse is beyond words to describe. It is a perfect world filled with rolling emerald meadows and magnificent forests. These bountiful trees need no pruning or care; there are no falling leaves. Everything is so alive and in harmony with every other part. This bit of heaven is a place where nothing is out of order, where everything is in accord.

“Besides the beauty, there exist schools of knowledge housed in extraordinary buildings created with materials unfamiliar to our earthly minds. In fact, the buildings appear to have a translucent, opalescent quality. Perhaps that is where the term pearly gates derived.

“Every type of education and instruction can be found in these great buildings – art, music, languages, philosophy, the sciences, or theatrical arts. Each hall of learning has its own thought atmosphere. This thought ambience is created from the feelings of the people enjoying their interests, and the love of the architect who used his expertise to design the building. Everyone shares in the intent of the building and the vision of the one who created it.

The Dark Land

“Although it would be impossible to describe in detail all the levels that exist in the astral world, suffice it to say, there are some less exalted ones. In order to give you an overall view, I think it would be beneficial to describe one extreme condition of the astral level that has been called hell. This lower astral region is not a place of beauty and sweetness. Rather, it is a condition brought into existence by the thoughts, words and actions of those who have produced pain and suffering on earth. All of us will reap what we have sowed. No one is exempt. So a spirit that has lived an earthly life of injustice, cruelty and hate might find itself here.

“This lower region vibrates at a much slower rate than the upper regions. Here the light is dim and fades almost to a faint darkness. The atmosphere in this region resembles a scene right out of a Dickens novel. A pungent and unpleasant odour pervades it. Shadowy figures squirm from place to place in what seems to be an endless dance of restlessness. There is no safe refuge for a tormented soul when it is trying to flee from its own baseness. The astral body of a spirit in the lower regions is not the same as in the heavenly spheres. Sometimes it is misshapen or missing parts and appears to be destroyed or miserable. The dwellings on this level are not made of marble and stone but stacks of rotting wood.

“Spirits in such a dark realm harbor mental attitudes of hate, malice and the need for control over others; they are ruled by the lowest elements of the physical world. The inhabitants can be murders, rapists, thieves, swindlers, cheaters, assassins, or anyone who has harmed another human being. We often think of these types of people as lost souls, and in a way they are, for they wander aimlessly and prey on one another. A soul remains in this darkened hole until all of its lowest desires are lived out. Only when it comes into spiritual awareness can it move to the upper portions of the astral plane. When such a depraved soul has the slightest inkling of wrongdoing, a spirit guide immediately appears to help it. No one is ever really lost because the God Force energy is within each soul.

“There are many other caliginous places where spirits reside. They may not be as physically repellent as the one I have just describe; nevertheless they are bleak. Like hell, these dwellings are molded out of negative mental attitudes and the darkness of spiritual ignorance.

The Evolving Spirit

“The astral world is like an intermediary step in a spirit’s progression, a place where all the basic and lower emotional needs are lived out in their totality. As a spirit continues its journey, sooner or later it will become disenchanted with earthly dreams and longings and will begin to awaken to a higher aspect of its consciousness. When a soul is ready to lift higher, there will be a complete sloughing off of the old earthly memories and patterns of thinking.

The Higher Life

“This releasing of the earthly patterns and lower elements of the emotional body refines and lightens a personality. As these old remnants are left behind to disintegrate in the lower astral regions, a spirit goes through another death of a sort. Hinduism and spiritualism actually call this a second death, when the lower bodies of an individual’s spirit are cast off. This death enables a soul to advance to a higher spiritual sphere and become a more enlightened being. A spirit moves into the true Heaven world.

“This ‘Heaven’ is not a different ‘place,’ for there are no physical borders in the spiritual world. The ‘geography’ is not delineated as it is on earth. Instead, there are different vibratory rates, and more evolved spirits gravitate to higher etheric frequencies. The higher the frequency, the brighter and purer the light of the land. When I say ‘land,’ I am actually referring to a state of consciousness. When spirits reach this higher frequency, they resonate with and reflect the glory of the divine harmonic essence (God).”
The Book of Life

April 1st, 2023

“And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which was the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books.” (Bible, Revelation 20:12, New International Version)

The following passage has been taken from Richard Laurence (1995) The Book of Enoch the Prophet, San Diego: Wizards Bookshelf, 80:1-3

“[The angel Uriel] said, O Enoch, look on the book which heaven has gradually dropped down (distilled); and, reading that which is written in it, understand every part of it.

“Then I looked on all which was written, and [I] understood all, reading the book and everything written in it, all the works of man;

“And of all the children of flesh upon earth, during the generations of the world.”
The Akashic Records

March 1st, 2023

The following passages have been taken from Gina Cerminara (1950) Many Mansions: The Edgar Cayce (pronounced Kay’-see) Story On Reincarnation, New York: Penguin Books, 1991, pp.42-44

“Akasha is a Sanskrit word that refers to the fundamental etheric substance of the universe, electro-spiritual (energetic) in composition. Upon this Akasha there remains impressed an indelible record of every sound, light, movement or thought since the beginning of the manifest (perceived by the senses) universe. The existence of this record accounts for the ability of clairvoyants and seers literally to see the past, no matter how remote it may be and no matter how inaccessible to ordinary human knowledge. Akasha registers impressions like a sensitive plate, and can almost be regarded as a huge candid-camera of the cosmos. The ability to read these vibratory records lies inherent within each of us, dependent upon the sensitivity of our organization, and consists in attuning to the proper degree of consciousness – much like tuning a radio to the proper wavelength. In his normal waking state, Edgar Cayce was unable to subjugate his physical consciousness sufficiently to make this attunement; under hypnosis, however, he was able to do so.

“Of all the strange statements that had come from his sleeping lips, this, to Cayce, seemed the most utterly strange. Yet by repeated incredulous questioning the same explanation always came through, sometimes in the same words, sometimes with elaborations. Frequently the readings indicated that the “Akashic Records” could also be called the “Universal Memory of Nature” or “The Book of Life.” They also advanced the point taught about the reality of Akasha many centuries ago [by the Hindus]. In view of the fact that several other Hindu notions – namely the illusory, non-solid nature of “matter”; the interchangeability of matter and force; and the reality of thought transference through telepathic means – had only recently been confirmed by Western science, why not be open-minded at least as to the possibility of this other Hindu idea, Akasha, as well?

“Cayce suspended judgement on the point for a long time. The unconscious-mind explanation might conceivably cover past-life individual histories, but how account for the ready, copious, and detailed material that flowed from him in “research readings” on past eras of history, such as Atlantis, Egypt, or the times of Jesus? Could it be that this information was being drawn from the unconscious mind of somebody who had lived in those eras, even though the individual was not ostensibly the subject of the reading? Or was he really reading some vast tapestry of history, preserved in an unknown and tenuous dimension of the universe?¹

¹ Editor’s note: The Akashic Records, like the Hall of Records, exist in one or more dimensions of the astral realm (the seven-dimensional universe), and not in a dimension of the four-dimensional physical universe.

“In the end Cayce came to accept even Akasha – not because there was absolute proof of it, but because the readings had said it was so, and the readings in all other provable respects had proved themselves honest. Perhaps investigators into extrasensory perception will demonstrate that on this point the Cayce information went off the beam; perhaps some other explanation will account for the facts of his clairvoyance into the past. Perhaps, on the other hand, some scientific mind of our era will be able to show that Akasha really does exist – no more fantastic a thing than radio waves, radium, atomic energy, or the memory engrams of the human nervous system.”

The following passages are taken from Sylvia Brown (1995) Phenomenon: Everything You Need to Know About the Paranormal, New York: Dutton, pp.5-7

“There seems to be general agreement among the majority of the world’s faiths, cultures and philosophies that the Akashic Records exist. What’s not quite so unanimously agreed upon is where they exist and how to describe exactly what they are.

“The Hindus, whose religion is thought to date back as far as 4000 BC, believe in a universal substance called “akasha,” from which the natural substances of fire, water, air and earth were created. Eternally imprinted on that substance is every thought, word and action in the history of the universe, collectively called the Akashic Records.

“The brilliant prophet and clairvoyant Edgar Cayce wasn’t as specific about the existence of an “akasha” substance. But he certainly believed in the existence of the Akashic records, which he perceived to be the collective memories and histories of every thought, sound, physical and emotional vibration, major event and incidental moment in eternity, an atmospheric presence that affects us all and [that] we all effect with every breath we take. In his “Reading 294-19 Report File,” Cayce detailed one of his visits to the Akashic Records:

“I see myself as a tiny dot out of my physical body, which lies inert before me. I find myself oppressed by darkness and there is a feeling of terrible loneliness. Suddenly, I am conscious of a white beam of light. As this tiny dot, I move upward following the light, knowing that I must follow it or be lost… I become conscious of sounds, at first indistinct rumblings, then music, laughter, and singing of birds. There is more and more light, the colors become very beautiful, and there is the sound of wonderful music… Quite suddenly I come upon a hall of records… I am conscious of seeing an old man who hands me a large book, a record of the individual for whom I seek information.”

“Carl Jung, the noted psychologist, preferred to describe the Akashic Records as a powerful, tangible force of nature throughout the universe that he called the Collective Unconscious, kind of an eternal and infinite embodiment of the principle that for every action there’s an equal but opposite reaction.

“My definition of the Akashic Records is consistent with those philosophies. The Akashic Records are the entire sacrosanct body of God’s knowledge, laws and memories. They’re absolutely imprinted on the ether of every planet, solar system and galaxy that God created. But they also very literally exist in written form, perfectly printed in the universal language of Aramaic, in a magnificent building on the Other Side called the Hall of Records.

“We have the honor of perpetual access to the Akashic Records when we’re at home on the Other Side. Our spirits, safely housed in our unconscious minds, have perpetual access to them as well during our fleeting incarnations here on earth. During sleep, hypnosis, meditations or physiological unconsciousness, when our noisy, chaotic, conscious minds are temporarily out of the way, our spirits know exactly where the Akashic Records are and how to get there. We turn to them more often than we consciously realize for answers, for clarity, for comfort and for the nourishment only God can provide.

“Please don’t let me create the mistaken impression that among the impossibly vast aisles of the Hall of Records, taking up an incomprehensible amount of space on shelves more endless than we can imagine, there are actual volumes entitled “Akashic Records.” Instead, let the correct impression wash over you that as you stand inside this very real, unimaginably infinite structure and try to take in scrolls upon scrolls upon scrolls, volumes upon volumes upon volumes, lined upon shelves upon shelves upon shelves far beyond what the eyes can begin to see, you’re gazing at a fraction of the entirety of the Akashic Records. They have no beginning. They have no end. They are being added to with every passing moment of every life, every new thought, every spirit entering a fetus, every spirit returning Home. The Hall of Records contains the Akashic Records, but it can also be said that every fluid word contained within the infinite Hall of Records is the Akashic Records, and that they’ve been added to considerably since you began reading this paragraph.