Where Do Psychics Get Their Information? Inside the Akashic Records and the Collective Consciousness
Curious where psychics actually pull their information from, or how anyone claims to peek at the afterlife? The answer sounds complicated, then simplifies into two familiar ideas: the collective consciousness and the Akashic records. Picture an ethereal iCloud quietly storing the blueprints of every life, past, present, and possible future.
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What Are the Akashic Records?
Picture a cosmic iCloud with no storage limit.
Akasha is the Sanskrit word for aether, sky, or atmosphere, the subtle space said to hold everything within it. Stretch that idea far enough and you land on the Akashic records, a concept popularized within Theosophy and Anthroposophy. Basically, an iCloud with better branding.
Believers describe the records as an exhaustive archive of every event, thought, word, emotion, and intent across time. The scope reaches past humanity too, holding the imprint of all entities and life forms in existence. Nothing, in this framing, goes unrecorded.
Theosophy places these records on a non-physical plane rather than any physical location, often called the mental plane. The way that vast reservoir supposedly encodes information gets compared to holography, as if each fragment contains the whole. Woven into the very fabric of space and time, the records simply wait to be accessed and interpreted.
The clairvoyant Edgar Cayce did more than anyone to bring this idea into modern spiritual language, delivering thousands of readings he claimed to draw straight from the records, as his documented body of work shows. Worth stating plainly, though: no concrete scientific evidence supports the existence of the Akashic records. Intrigue aside, mainstream science has not embraced the concept, which keeps it a subject of contemplation and debate rather than proof.
For psychics and mediums, the records offer a working metaphor for where information seems to arrive from during a reading. Whether the true source is a literal cosmic archive or the deep patterning of the human mind, the felt experience runs the same: knowing something you had no ordinary way of knowing. That sensation is exactly what draws so many people to a psychic reading in the first place.
How Do You Access the Akashic Records? A Step-by-Step Guide
Five steps, zero incense required.
Eager to dive into that cosmic vault yourself? Accessing the Akashic records is less about special powers and more about intention, focus, and a willingness to listen. Follow this simple five-step guide and the whole process gets far less intimidating.
Step 1: Formulate Your Inquiry
Start by getting honest about why you’re here. Before you open the records, sit with the real reason pulling you toward them, since a fuzzy question tends to produce a fuzzy answer. You might be tracing the root of a short temper you want to manage, seeking clarity on a career move, or working to align with your core values and the people who share them.
Pro tip: the sharper your question, the richer the response. Try free writing, talking it through with someone you trust, or reading around the topic until your intention comes into clear focus.
Step 2: Find Your Zen
Settle in and drop into a meditative state. Give yourself at least five minutes with nothing but your breath and a quieting mind. Mental clarity is the whole foundation here, so resist the urge to rush it.
Step 3: Seek Permission
Once you feel calm and centered, ask permission to enter the records. Pose your question aloud or silently, telepathically if that feels right, with intention and a little respect for what you’re reaching toward.
Step 4: Keep Your Focus
Hold steady on your primary question as you go. Let it act as your guiding light through what can feel like an endless expanse of information.
Step 5: Record Your Discoveries
Take your time exploring, and gather what you came for without grasping at it. When the insight feels complete, gently close the metaphysical book of the records and write down everything you noticed. Transcribing your findings turns a fleeting impression into something you can reflect on later, and for a fuller walkthrough, Gaia’s Akashic Records 101 guide makes a useful companion.
What Is the Collective Consciousness?
One giant shared mind, minus the group chat.
A theory that rhymes with all of this is morphic resonance, the idea that memory and behavior can echo across a species through unseen fields. Biologist Rupert Sheldrake, who coined the term, frames morphic resonance as nature’s own habit-forming memory, where each repetition makes the next one easier.
The most famous illustration is the anecdotal 100th monkey effect. As the story goes, monkeys on one Pacific island learned a new behavior, and once a critical number had it, monkeys on distant islands seemed to pick it up without contact. Skeptics have poked serious holes in the hundredth monkey effect, though the underlying question still fascinates: does knowledge get easier for a whole species as more of its members learn?
These ideas trace back to Carl Jung and his concept of the collective unconscious, a shared reservoir of archetypes running beneath every individual psyche. Jung called it a psychic system that is collective, universal, and impersonal, identical in all of us, a definition later reference works like Britannica still echo. Could our species be growing collectively wiser over time, and is the internet a literal, humming extension of the very thing Jung described?
Is There Any Science Behind the Akashic Records?
Science shrugs, mystics lean in.
Consider the honest state of play. As a comprehensive archive of thoughts, emotions, and events beyond humanity, the Akashic records remain a captivating concept with no concrete scientific evidence behind them. Parapsychology has probed the edges of psychic phenomena for over a century, yet firm, repeatable proof stays out of reach.
Morphic resonance and the collective unconscious sit in a similar spot, compelling to many, unproven to most researchers. Sheldrake’s work still draws sharp debate in scientific circles, and the 100th monkey story is widely treated as folklore rather than data. None of that erases the pull these ideas have on people trying to make sense of intuition, synchronicity, and connection.
My own take is simple. You don’t have to prove the records exist to benefit from the practice of sitting quietly, asking a clear question, and listening for what rises. Whether you call it the Akashic records, the collective consciousness, or plain old intuition, the value shows up in the clarity you carry back into your actual life.
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Chris Bennett is an internationally recognized psychic medium and tarot reader, widely considered one of the best in the world. Through The Tarot Medium, he reads exclusively online for clients across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, with more than 200 published articles and hundreds of five-star reviews to his name. His work blends evidential mediumship with the grounded symbolism of Tarot, always as a supplement to good therapy rather than a replacement for it.
