Akashic Records FAQ
Q: What is an Akashic reading like?
A: We start with a conversation to clarify your focus. Then we do a grounding meditation, to move from your head into your body and ground your roots in nurturing Earth energies.
At a point, the guides ‘PING!’ me to your open your Records. As they “log in,” I say a prayer of respect and gratitude to ask for wisdom, insight and upliftment. As your records open, I relate what comes through.
Sessions are interactive. You can ask questions. I will continuously bring the reading back to you and ask you what you are sensing and feeling in your body. You may feel expanded, as if you’re in a trance. Be prepared to receive and to go deep. Plan on quiet time alone after.
Q: How does a session start?
A: Every session follows its own right-brain logic. We start with a check-in. You share your concerns and bring me up to date on changes that have occurred since your last session.
During the grounding and centering process, we make any needed adjustments in your energy body to prepare you to receive healing. This includes clearing energetic debris, working with colored light or sound.
Q: How do I know when the reading is over?
A: The energy changes when the Records start to close. I’ll read a prayer to ceremonially close your records and seal them until another time. At that point, I will no longer have access to your Records, until you have another reading.
Q: Do I ask a general question, or does it need to be more specific?
A: The more specific, the better. Provide basic background information. Being succinct, specific and open about what you need saves time, and supports receptivity and shared trust. Try not to play hide and seek with your issues.
Q: Can I ask what’s going to happen in my relationship? Or if I’m going to find a new job?
A: Avoid asking yes or no questions or questions about predicting the future. The Akashic doesn’t predict the future, though at times, you’ll get indications about where you’re headed, more like a probability than a prediction.
Q: Once the Records are open, do you just talk, or do I talk too?
A: We are co-creating your experience together. As the reading progresses, I’ll check in with you. I’ll ask how you feel and guide you to tune in to sensations in your body and share them with me. This helps you receive healing in a grounded way that is sustainable and steady.
Q: How can energy get blocked in my body?
A: Here are some ways energy can get blocked in your body:
- Suppressed emotions
- Shock
- Trauma
- Surgery under general anesthesia
- Drugs and addictions
- Blocked nadis or meridian flows
- Residue of emotions imprinted from past events, past lives, epigenetic factors from our ancestors.
- Energy cysts—encapsulated suppressed emotions stored in a specific place, causing pain or dis-ease in your body
Q: How does an Akashic Healing help me release blocked energy?
A: Hidden, denied or suppressed emotions are dense and create stagnation. Akashic Healings opens space to address discomfort in a spacious way, with greater ease and grace. As you align with your Higher Self, you can bear witness to your situation with wisdom and compassion. You’re able to be present with feelings that have felt too big or too deep to reach.
You’re not going into the shadow alone. Like a deep sea diving partner, I’m with you, holding a space of safety and support, while the guides work with you. As powerful as it is, the process is gentle and kind.
We live in a culture where we’re mostly alone with our deep emotions. In an Akashic Healing, your emotions surface in a safe, supported, respectful ways. You are held and witnessed without judgment, fear or resistance. The reading helps move emotions out of density into space. You feel lighter, freer and more loving. You may need to rest afterward, as if you’d had emotional surgery. Or you may need to DANCE, to help ground the changes in your nervous system.
It’s common to feel a sense of rebirth and renewal after your healing.
Q: I’ve heard that opening the Akashic Record is like opening Pandora’s Box, that bad things may come out. Is it safe to have a reading?
A: Yes, you will be kept safe safe. “Bad things” are a slang term for shadow work. I have written extensively about shadow work below.
Readings address both how you feel and what you need. If you feel anxious before a reading, tell me. The first time I had a reading, I was afraid of what might come out. Instead, my reading was loving and kind.
Q: Do I have to believe in past lives to benefit from a reading?
A: No. You don’t have to believe in the literal existence of past lives. Patterns from past lives come forward when we carry unfinished business that aren’t rooted in the current lifetime.
Whether or not reincarnation is literally true, past life work is valuable, even if you see it as metaphor. Unfinished business of the soul can create “problems,” whose causal effects are not found in this life. I have personally experienced tremendous benefit from healing misunderstandings and unresolved pain from past lives. This is true for my clients as well.
I recommend keeping an open mind.
Q: Can the Akashic Record help me with unfinished business from THIS lifetime?
A: Yes! Most of us have plenty of material in our present life to work with. We may have unfinished business from times times when our needs went unmet. These events may occur in adulthood, adolescence, childhood, birth or even our time in the womb.
The Akashic Record takes Inner Child work to a whole new level. You learn self-parenting. You become the wise, wholesome parent your Inner Child didn’t have. You release fear, resistance and self-judgment when you learn to adore your inner child.
Q: I do believe in past lives. Can a reading help heal karmic influences?
A: Yes. All significant experiences you have ever had, in this or any lifetime, are encoded in the Akashic Record. Themes from past lives arise in a reading when you have unresolved emotions or unfinished lessons, which are affecting you in your life NOW.
For example, in a past life you may have died feeling guilty about a situation over which you had no control, such as war or a fire. Despite a deep desire to stop what was happening and save lives, you were unable to change things. In this lifetime you may take undue responsibility for people and situations over which you have no control. You may need to learn to release what you can’t control and to accept what you don’t want, or to forgive humanity or God. You may need to overcome issues around guilt and lack of trust, that show up in repeating patterns.
You may find the root cause of repeating patterns in your life. Clients have overcome limitations such as debilitating shyness due to being ostracized in a past life.
If you want detailed descriptions about the place and time where a past life is set, consider working with a hypnotherapist who specializes in PL regressions. In an Akashic reading, the focus is on the lessons and the healing.
Q: Can I get information about a specific past life about which I already have partial information?
A: Maybe. If you already know about a past life, you many not need to know more, even if your ego wants more of the story. Rather than asking about a specific past life, ask for help with an issue, challenge or need, or a place where you feel stuck. Trust that you will receive what is in your Highest Good. The focus is not on information, but on healing through energy transmission.
Q: How can a reading help me?
A: Here are three situations in which an Akashic reading is a great choice:
- You are trying to make a big decision.
- You have had losses or painful experiences from which you have not fully recovered.
- You want to understand the underlying patterns in your life.
Readings are akin to spiritual psychotherapy. Your questions will be answered from a higher perspective.
Q: What is shadow work?
A: The word “shadow” was used by Carl Jung to describe repressed or disowned parts of ourselves. Shadow emotions are ones we tend to avoid, such as anger, fear, grief and hurt. Most of us have had overwhelming experiences we were not equipped to deal with. Such experiences leave an imprint.
If buried emotions are causing you pain, the pain you already feel is as great as it can be. Numbness is a sign of pain that has become so intolerable, all feeling has shut down.This is a protective mechanism that we may need for short periods of time, but it is not meant to become a lifelong pattern.
The way out of pain is to pass from darkness to Light. I have trained in shadow work for many years. I can help you find the gift buried there and integrate it into your heart.
Journeying into your shadow to retrieve what is lost and restore it to wholeness is what shamans call Soul Retrieval. Soul Retrieval resolves karma, so lessons do not have to be repeated.
When you are ready to consciously connect with painful emotions, I hold the ground for you with reassurance, safety and unconditional love.
Q: Do I have to do shadow work?
A: No. There is never any “have to” in this work. Many sessions have no shadow work.
Q: When do you recommend email readings?
A: Email is the best option in situations that makes it hard to be on the phone. This can be due to travel, lack of privacy, illness or surgery. And some people simply prefer the written word as a means of transmission.
Q: How can an Akashic reading help me through surgery?
Through the Akashic record, we can “pre-pave” the way to a better outcome with ease and grace. I call this pre-paving. Walking your psyche step by step through the process to come creates energetic pathways in your field, and prepares your nervous system. Your subconscious mind has a powerful effect on your body and your health. It’s highly beneficial to prepare for big events, such as:
- surgery
- wedding
- PhD dissertation
- performance or public speaking
- divorce
- asking for a promotion
- optimizing your severance package
- preparing for birth
- preparing for death
- helping a loved one cross over during and after death has occurred
Further Resources
The books below may be of interest to you. If you’re curious about the scientific perspective on the Akashic Field and comfortable with technical writing, I recommend Ervin Laszlo’s work, especially his 2014 book The Self-Actualizing Cosmos.
Lumari, Akashic Records, Collective Keepers of Divine Expression, 2003.
Ernesto Ortiz, The Akashic Records, Sacred Wisdom for Transformation, 2012.
Ervin Laszlo, The Self-Actualizing Cosmos: The Akasha Revolution in Science and Human Consciousness, 2014; The Akashic Experience, Science and the Cosmic Memory Field, 2009; and Science and the Akashic Field, An Integral Theory of Everything, 2007.
Kevin J. Todeschi, Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records, 1998.
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