Edgar Cayce on the Akashic Records. Kevin J. Todeschi

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СКАЧАТЬ make time in her life for personal reflection and contemplation. From an incarnation as Persian nobility, she had acquired the desire to be surrounded by finery and beauty. Her interest in religious thought was traced to a similar work she had begun in ancient Egypt. Each of these traits simply acted as influences in the woman’s current life. Nothing was fixed; instead, the woman could use, abuse, or even ignore these inclinations in her life right now.

      For example, the woman’s impulse to be alone could be used in the present as times for personal rejuvenation in order to better assist those around her; however, it might just as easily be directed into a sense of aloofness or the selfish desire to always put her own needs first. In Cayce’s understanding, influences from the past are always molded and shaped by an individual’s will, desires, and purposes in the present.

      In addition to the past-life material, interesting insights presented themselves in this woman’s case. During the course of the reading, Cayce described what manner of information was written upon the Akashic Records, how that information made its impression, as well as the influence this type of material could have upon an individual in the present. After putting himself into the trance state and journeying in consciousness to the Akashic Records, Cayce began his discourse. The woman’s reading states in part:

      Yes, we have the entity and those relations with the universe and universal forces, that are latent and manifested in the personalities of the entity now known as—or called—[757], as recorded by the experiences in the soul’s activity and journey through the environs that make for those impressions—or those that become manifested influences or forces in the experience of an entity in its present sojourn in the earth.

      Questions naturally arise in this particular experience of this entity as to how or in what manner the records are made of an entity’s sojourn or activity in a sphere or space, so that there are the abilities of one to read or interpret same. Are they as letters written? Are they as pictures of the experiences of an entity? Are they in forms as of omens or characters that represent certain influences or activities about the earth? Yea, all of these, my friend, and more; for they are as but the skein of life itself, the expression of a divine force from the God-Father itself, making manifestations in forms that become manifestations in a material experience. For truly to be absent from the body is to be present with those infinite influences and forces that may act upon and be acted upon, from the emanations of divine influences that may be either visions as picturized, written as thought in characterizations from the various influences through which such entities make for the communication—whether in ideas or in characters that represent those ideas in their expressions as one to another. As in all forms of communicative influences from one entity or soul to another—in a look, in an expression of some portion of the anatomical influences or form, or from word, or from the turn as from the cut or form of eye, shape or form of mouth, the rising of the brow, or in any communicative influences—these either bespeak of those things that are for the aggrandizement of self’s own motives or impulses, or are the expressions of that purpose, that desire, whereunto such a soul or expression or entity has been called. These are forms or manners through which such are written, as in the Book of Life; and may be read and known of men.

      757-8

      In essence, life is an adventure of experiences whereby an individual is challenged to become a better person for having had those experiences. An experience alone doesn’t determine who the individual is as a person, rather it is how the individual chooses to face those experiences. From the perspective of reincarnation, an individual’s growth is predicated primarily upon how well he or she deals with the opportunities and circumstances that present themselves in daily life.

      Unfortunately, rather than seeing that individuals are very much active “cocreators” in the unfoldment of their life journeys, too often reincarnation has been misinterpreted as a fatalistic journey through experiences and relationships that belong to an individual because of her or his “karma.” With this approach, choices made in the past have somehow etched in stone the future, and life is simply a process of going through the motions. This is definitely not the Cayce approach to reincarnation and karma in which each lifetime is one of nearly limitless opportunities. At one point, Edgar Cayce stated that approaches to reincarnation that do not take into account the importance of free will, created what he called a karmic “bugaboo” (136-18)—a total misunderstanding of the laws at work. From his perspective, individuals are very much active participants in their life journeys and not simply sometime-reluctant observers.

      The word karma is a Sanskrit term that means work, deed, or act. It can also be interpreted to mean “cause and effect.” Although agreeing with this concept, the Edgar Cayce readings make perhaps one of the most intriguing and unique philosophical contributions: the idea that karma can be defined as memory. It is not really a debt that must be paid, nor is it necessarily a set of specific circumstances that must be experienced because of deeds or misdeeds from the past. Karma is simply patterns of memory. It is a pool of information stored in the Akashic Records that the subconscious draws upon in the present. It has elements that are positive as well as those which seem negative. For example, an immediate affability toward an individual just met is as likely to be “karmic” as is an immediate animosity toward someone else. To be sure, this subconscious memory has an effect and an influence upon how we think, how we react, what we choose, even how we look! But the component of free will is ever within our grasp.

      In one respect, this idea of “karma as memory” can be broken down even further so that we possess memory in terms of desires that we’ve brought with us from the past, memory in terms of situations that may still need to be learned, and even memory in terms of patterns that we keep choosing to experience, but in simplest terms it can be understood as memory. Although the memory is there, freedom of choice allows an individual to determine the path he or she takes in this present life. In practical terms, we may not always be able to understand why a certain situation was drawn to us, and in fact the why may not be of primary importance; what is important is how we choose to respond.

      In 1944, while giving a reading to a forty-year-old fireman, Cayce discussed the fact that the past-life information he was drawing upon was specifically related to the life cycle that the individual presently faced. The suggestion given by Gertrude Cayce for accessing the information from the Akashic Records and a portion of the reading follows:

      Gertrude Cayce: You will give the relations of this entity and the universe, and the universal forces; giving the conditions which are as personalities, latent and exhibited in the present life; also the former appearances in the earth plane, giving time, place and the name, and that in each life which built or retarded the development for the entity; giving the abilities of the present entity, that to which it may attain, and how. You will answer the questions, as I ask them:

      Edgar Cayce: Yes, we have the records here of that entity now known as or called [3902].

      In giving the interpretations of the records, written or imposed or impressed upon the skein of time and space, or the Akashic records in God’s book of remembrances, these we find:

      We would choose from these records that which if applied in the experience will bring a better interpretation of the how and why that there are certain latent and manifested urges in the abilities of the entity in the present, which if applied in a constructive, creative way may bring a better ability of the entity to apply itself in being a channel, a manifestation of those divine influences that are the cause and purpose of the entity’s appearance in the earth in the present . . .

      As to the appearances in the earth, we find that these have been quite varied. Not all may be given by any means but these that are a part of the awareness or consciousness of the entity in the present cycle of its experience. And these are at that period that they may be applied. As indicated the mental is to be applied for the development of the material as well as the mental and spiritual self. Keep self from condemnation ever. [Author’s СКАЧАТЬ