What is the Akashic Field?

Philosopher and systems theorist Ervin Laszlo makes the case that science is finally
in a position to produce a theory of everything (ToE). Drawing on anomalies and
advances in cosmology, quantum physics, biology, and consciousness studies, he
shows how the discovery in physics of the zero point energy field (ZPE), is also the
discovery of a universal information field.
Mystics and sages have long maintained that an interconnecting cosmic field exists
at the roots of reality that conserves and conveys information, a field known as the
Akashic Record. The most notable mystic and psychic who routinely assessed the
Akashic records in the form of readings for individuals, was Edgar Cayce. Edgar
Cayce lived from 1877 to 1945 and during his lifetime performed thousands of such
readings for people all over the world.
Cayce was very well respected for all of his intuitive insights. He greatly influenced
the lives of his clients. He also influenced the holistic health field with some of the
natural remedies he brought from the Akashic Records. It is easy to study his work
because he carefully documented each person's reading and follow-up for many
years past a client's initial session with him. Because of this, he gained perhaps the
most concrete evidence and information about the way the Akashic Records work
for each of us.
Cayce believed that the Akashic Records contained a history of every soul since the
dawn of creation. These records connect us to each other he often said. They
contain the stimulus for every symbol, archetype or mythic story that has ever
heavily touched the patterns of human behavior.
When asked where the records reside, Cayce would say they exist within "the skein
of space and time" and told many people interested in his work that the "records
are everywhere". He further believed that the records are inscribed on some kind of
"etheric energy" similar in nature to the energy of thought. This could be correlated
to the "aether" of scientific interest.
The records are impressed or encoded into energy they are continually rewritten
based on our choices, thoughts and emotion. He believed that revealing the past for
a person in his readings was useful to bring about conscious awareness of the soul's
growth. He never stopped emphasizing that the records are written by each of us by
our own free will and choices made in the present. He reinforced also that our
choices in the present moment allow the future possibilities to unfold in our lives
from our Akashic Records.
Cayce explained that the Akashic records not only store everything in the past of an
individual but they also contain all the future possibilities and potentials for our
lives. He believed that we basically call into potential an array of possible futures as

we interact in our daily lives and learn subconsciously from the data that has
already been accumulated.
The theory Cayce had that all the future potentials for us already exist in the
Akashic Records simply waiting for our free will to call them into action, is strikingly
similar to a view that would emerge many decades later in the newest area of
science called Quantum Mechanics and then with Ervin Laszlos Theory of
Everything.
It also further supports that our thoughts do indeed create our reality and that it is
our perceptions that drive what is real for each of us.
Quantum scientists recently discovered a new area of time and space called the
Quantum vacuum. There are newly discovered properties of time and space
happening all the time but it seems clear now that this vacuum is a super dense
cosmic frictionless medium that carries light and all the universal forces of nature. A
well known scientist and philosopher named Ervin Laszlo, in his recently published
book, Science and the Akashic Field shows that it may not only be a super dense
sea of frictionless energy but also a sea of information conveying the historical
experience of matter.
These newest discoveries in the field of quantum physics now show that the Akashic
Field may indeed be real and have its equivalent in the zero-point field that
underlies space itself. Ervin Laszlo stated in his recent book that the quantum
vacuum essentially, "generates the holographic field that is the memory of the
universe."
This Quantum Field consists of a subtle sea of fluctuating energies from which all
things arise: atoms and galaxies, stars and planets, living beings, and even
consciousness. This zero-point Akashic -field-or "A-Field" as Laszlo calls it, is not only
the original source of all things that arise in time and space; it is also the constant
and enduring memory of the universe. The "A-Field" holds the record of all that has
ever happened in life, on Earth, and in the cosmos and relates it to all that has yet
to happen. It is essentially what helps a universe know how to become a universe,
how plants know how to be plants and so forth. It literally conveys all the
information of life itself.
Laszlo conveys the essential element of his vision of the "informed universe" in
language that is accessible and clear. The informed universe lends credence to our
deepest intuitions of the oneness of life and the whole of creation. In discussion of
the theory of the informed universe, it is interesting to note that Cayce also
believed that the records connected us to each other and that the universe was
indeed "orderly".

Laszlo further suggests that the A-Field is like a hologram that is imprinted with all
that has been or ever will be similar to Cayce's assertion that the Akashic Records
contained all that was and all the potentials for our future.
If the recent scientific theory of the Akashic Field is true, then all the ancient
knowledge written about the Akashic Records or "The Book of Life" are not merely
myths but an integral part of our world. If this universal energy field is written with
our thoughts and actions, then it would be reasonable to believe that it can be
accessed consciously. If it can be rewritten consciously, then much of the past and
traumatic events we hold in our A-Field could be liberated and thus increase the
energy for positive potentials in an individual's life.