Healing Work In The Akashic Records Through Dreaming

Today, I’d like to talk a bit about some interesting new experiences I’ve been having with working with the energy of the Akashic Records, made famous in the West in the early 1900s by the “Sleeping Psychic,” Edgar Cayce. While my approach, so far, has been somewhat experimental in limiting the practice exclusively to dream work, the results have been powerful enough that I think it’s worth sharing my initial impressions. Here is how it all started.

Some time ago, I was going through a very difficult period in my personal life, and frequently consulting with my guides about how to cope with the turmoil I was experiencing. One day, feeling out of options, I rather petulantly asked them if there was any way we could simply “fix” my situation through psychic means. I received an answer I didn’t expect. “Yes, but we would need to go into your Akashic Records in order to do that.” While I knew of their existence, this wasn’t a modality I had actively explored before, nor had the guides previously alluded to the records. I said, “OK. Can we please work on that, then?”  The guides agreed.

For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, the general consensus on the Akashic Records (from the Sanskrit “Akasha”), is that they are a cosmic archive, or energetic entity, in which information on every soul’s incarnation, past, present, and potential future, is recorded and can be accessed. Every action we take imprints itself there, and as such, the archives are constantly evolving. Certain other things, such as buildings, can also have their history recorded in the records. In addition to retrieving information, the archives can be used to heal toxic personal patterns and resolve relationships. Working on these issues through the records is especially useful when the problems are, supposedly, rooted in previous lives. The theory is that by revisiting certain events and “rewriting” them in the archive, we can change, or balance out, the ways in which the ripple effects of those events affect us in the present, therefore healing our futures. (While I generally prefer to work with methods that deal with information that can be easily verified, in the case of past life work in the Akashic Records, what matters to me is the practical healing and integration that can be achieved.) The records are said to operate with their own set of overseeing spirit guides, generally known as the Lords of The Records, and to provide their own energetic healing modality through lifting the individual into the vibration of their true, cosmic Self during the reading. Indeed, the distinction of working in the Records, as opposed to other psychic work, is that it is said to provide a perspective on an individual’s life that transcends their current personality or identity. The Lords of The Records oversee permissions to access the records, and act as facilitators in channeling the information contained therein. Many teachers of Akashic Record reading have alluded to the fact that humanity has recently been granted open access to the records, in the interest of supporting our collective spiritual evolution.

The night after my initial conversation with my guides about the records, for the first time in ages, I had a lucid dream - an experience that usually acts as a trigger for some of my most valuable psychic breakthroughs. In it, I was flying above a long, crowded procession of thousands pilgrims walking down a dirt path in a grassy landscape, dressed in maroon robes. They were all headed in the same direction, toward a kind of checkpoint at the base of a bridge, at the edge of a body of water. This bridge, I understood, would lead to the Akashic Records. I was also aware that for some reason unknown to me, I had been granted a “fast pass” past the throngs of pilgrims. When I arrived at the checkpoint, however, I was asked to pay a toll. To my chagrin, I realized that I hadn’t brought any money with me, and therefore, would not be able to cross over into the records. 

I wondered about the toll over the next few months. What did it stand for? In symbolic terms, a toll would usually mean either some kind of energetic exchange, an offering, personal sacrifice, or permission. If I had been given the “fast pass,” which already implicitly constituted permission, what was I missing?

I recently found what I was looking for, in the book, “How to Read The Akashic Records,” by Akashic reader and teacher Linda Howe. In it, she introduces a simple method of accessing and reading the records called the Pathway Prayer, channeled directly from the records themselves. What this prayer does, in her words, is literally build an energetic bridge to the heart of the archive, in collaboration with the keepers of the records. There it was! As my guide, Salvador, would shortly confirm, the missing “toll” had been the prayer itself. (While the Pathway Prayer can easily be found on the internet on its own, I highly recommend reading Linda’s book and learning the context of the prayer for yourself.)

Now, many Akashic Record readers are trained to channel information from the records to an effect that is nearly identical the kind of verbal channeling that I already do through clairaudient dictation. (Though, as I will elucidate in a later post, the guides have confirmed to me that there is a distinction between Akashic Record reading and work we do, the Pathway Prayer has many similarities to some of the opening meditations in my channeling preparations. It’s as if only a small tweak was needed to shift the modality to Akashic work.) While I do intend to apply Akashic reading to verbal channeling in the future, since my clairaudient sense has become so dominant of late, my primary interest in these first forays has been to use the records to support healing through a more clairvoyantly based experience - just like in the initial dream I had that led me to the bridge. What I have been moved to do is to experiment with using the Pathway Prayer in manner similar to the kinds methods one would employ in attempting to trigger lucid dreaming. So far, I have found it to be an extremely reliable way to inspire spontaneous, healing dream work. (Nearly fool-proof, in fact!)

Here is the very simple method I have used.

1. Before going to bed, on a night on which you have not consumed anything such as alcohol or drugs that would interfere with your energetic integrity within 24 hours, and are feeling calm, concentrate on an issue in your life that you would like to heal.

2. Recite the Pathway Prayer to open your Akashic Records. Then, allow yourself to drift off to sleep.

3. As soon as you begin to wake up, see if you can remember what you dreamed. Remain in the hypnagogic state for a while, if it helps. If the method has worked, you will have dreamed of something in your past, or something that seems like a past life memory, that is emotionally relevant to the issue you are working on healing.

4. Before getting out of bed, recite the prayer to close your Akashic Records. (Please remember to do this, as respecting the protocol is important in this tradition!)

5. Journal your experiences.

This method has been incredibly successful for me, so far. What I have found is that every time I recite the prayer before going to bed, my subsequent dreams, while not including any imagery specific to the archives in the sense of going into a “library,” will bring up a memory or relationship that is related, sometimes in unexpected ways, to the pattern I am trying to heal. The dream will either manifest as a balancing “mirror-image” of the remembered experience, or rewrite it in a way that heals its psychological effect. This has happened for several nights in a row. So far, I have expressed my anger to two different people whose behavior hurt me in the past (which I never did), held my grandfather’s hand as he died (I was not present during his death), and lived an alternative reality of a relationship in which, instead of being abandoned myself, I was the one who abandoned the other party. There have also been other signs of healing and integration in the dreams. My mood and outlook have tangibly improved since starting this practice, and every time I repeat the process, new layers of the healing process are uncovered.

I look forward to continuing to develop my practice through working with this new modality, and exploring its many applications. Salvador and Natalie are also quite excited about it, and I’ve even had a new guide pop up in readings, who has been drawn to me through the work I have started. In the near future, I’ll share an interview I conducted with my guides on how Akashic Record work compares to the other work we do together, what their differing advantages may be, and if there are any conflicts between working with different reading modalities. (The guides also told me a bit more about who they are in relation to me, and how they work with me to read people!)

Have you ever experimented with using established psychic protocols in new and exciting ways? What were your experiences like? Think about ways in which you can develop your practice by applying what you have learned creatively and expansively!