THE AKASHIC RECORD
AN EXOTERIC POINT OF VIEW

by Tito Abao
.....The Akashic Records figure prominently in the transcribed discourses
of Edgar Cayce, “the Sleeping Prophet” and seem to have first been
postulated by Theosophists. They are said to hold the entire contents of historical events as a kind of cosmic Tivo or Internet Archives.
.....Although there is no documented teaching on the Akashic Records prior to nineteenth century Theosophy, Theosophists and other “New Age” teachers claim a broad and deep history for them including
Tibetan, Egyptian, Persian, Chaldean, Greek, Chinese, Judaic, Christian, Druid, and Mayan adepts skilled in divining the= past or predicting the future from this body of knowledge.
.....Can the Akashic Record be explained in the exoteric world?
..... The planarium is a primitive flatworm, shaped like an arrowhead with two eyespots on its head. Planaria exhibit amazing regenerative effects. Cut in two along nearly any axis you get two planaria. Cut the head in half to midway down the body, and a two-headed planarium results. Planaria have a nervous system, they can be conditioned like other animals to respond in particular ways to stimulus, just as Pavlov conditioned dogs.
..... Planaria were first conditioned by R.
Thompson and J.V. McConnell in 1955. When they cut conditioned planaria in two, both regenerated halves retained their conditioning. This indicated the memory was not being stored in the brain, else the tail half would be unconditioned and the head half conditioned after the
worm regenerated.
..... McConnell tested the hypothesis of a cellular memory base by feeding conditioned planaria to unconditioned ones. The conditioning was transferred along with the body of their fellow worms.
From there, attempts to isolate the active element in the conditioning by digestion resulted in the identification of RNA, the messenger molecule of DNA.
..... Planaria that injested RNA from conditioned planaria became conditioned. The idea that we might be able to learn through a purely chemical means is fascinating.
..... Although some researchers claimed to be able to pass conditioned learning through RNA in a species as complex as monkeys, others were unable to duplicate the results or offered different interpretations of what was happening. At present the jury seems to be out, with some authorities supporting McConnell’s work and others disputing it.
..... Now if McConnell was correct in his observation, a great many interesting possibilities arise, including a physical basis for the Akashic Records. Essentially experience could be imprinted on RNA, transcribed to DNA, and we would all be walking around with encoded memories in every cell of our bodies. For that to happen, of course, it would be necessary for the RNA-DNA conversation to work bi-directionally. In other words, we wouldn’t just have DNA imprinting information on RNA, but RNA would have to be capable of writing to DNA also, reverse transcription, in a word. Interestingly enough, reverse transcription does occur. Among other things it happens in HIV infections. So, if McConnell’s results are valid, we have a complete path going from the sensorium to RNA and from RNA to DNA.
......Things get even more interesting from here forward. It seems that in any given species DNA contains a great many repeated and redundant patterns. It’s as if the code to make a fingernail were repeated up to several thousand times when only one instance of it was required.
These redundant patterns are called family groupings and there is no known reason for their existence. Yet there they are.
..... But suppose that it is possible to imprint memories on DNA and suppose these memories were stored within these repetitive patterns. After some critical number of changes, there would be a shift in the code. It might come up randomly at first and very occasionally because there were few instances of the new code. But as the instances increased, the changed code that was active would also increase. At some point it would become the dominant code, and the species would change in some way.
..... A heuristic for evolution, a complete feedback loop with built-in intelligence; it counter-balances the problem of mutations being statistically negative to species survival and evolution, another mechanism for species evolution. It explains punctuated equilibrium much better than existent models. And it accounts for the 100th monkey phenomenon.
..... A different track, Dr. Timothy Leary made the claim that LSD unlocked the genetic code to consciousness. Certainly the experience of recapitulating evolution is common among subjects ingesting large doses of that drug. There is likewise a long tradition amongst shamanic peoples who use ethneogenic plants that the plant itself communicates to the person eating it.
All accounts of yage intoxication among indigenous peoples include experiences of temporary “incarnation” as an animal native to the locale where the yage was grown.
..... Are the Akashic Records our own genetic code imprinted with the experiences of billions of years? In the exoteric world, quantum mechanics explicitly states that individual electrons are simply
momentary instantiations of an electron wave that is non-dual. Since our own thought processes are the product of electrical activity, and since electrons qua electrons “exist” outside of time and space, this could explain the Akashic Records.

Tito Abao is the
author of the “roman
fleov” Seeds of
Heaven, a fictional
alternative historical
account of the fall of
Atlantis and its aftermath.
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Seeds of Heaven in
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