Akashic Record readings tap into a soul-level archive spanning past, present, and potential futures—unfiltered by ego. Psychic readings, on the other hand, use intuitive senses, energy scanning, or tools to address current-life situations.
Many people who come to an Akashic Record reading for the first time are not quite sure what to expect. The word “reading” suggests that psychic gifts are involved. But how is getting an Akashic Record reading different from going to a psychic?
Is the information more accurate?
Is there some special knowledge that is not available to “common” psychics?
The difference between an Akashic Record reading and a psychic reading is the way we receive information.
From my perspective, a psychic is someone who reads the energy field of a person. Some psychics are very good at tuning into emotions and feelings. Others can channel thoughts. Others still are remote viewers. They may use a combination of all these methods plus tools, such as pendulum or Tarot cards.
One can also use these gifts to work with the Akashic Records. But the Records are separate from the energy and emotions of a person. They are a database of information. This database is outside time or space and has a higher frequency than the human energy field.
Importantly, higher vibration does not mean “better” or more “spiritual”. It just means that in their pure form, the Records are outside the physical reality. Our bodies and minds vibrate at lower frequencies than this quantum space.
The Akashic Records are not accessible to the human mind “as is” — with some exeptions, one would need to be outside their body to interact with the Records directly. The Records are a code, similar to light spectrum frequencies or the vibration of sound.
Ways in which Akashic Record Readings and Psychic Readings are Similar
What an Akashic Record reader receives is usually a channeled interpretation which is relevant in a given situation. This interpretation is a practical translation of the information received.
The way a reader delivers this interpretation will depend a great deal on their personality and level of consciousness. It will also depend on their inner “library” of images and experience. To use a silly example, if a reader has never heard the sound of thunder, they would not recognize it, and would only be able to describe their impressions (I hear a loud “boom” sound).
A reader’s own experience, knowledge and perceptions will color every interpretation they make. This is why we ask for our guides to step in and for our egos to be set aside before we access the Akashic Records. This is also why everyone’s style of reading the Records is different.
This is where the traditional psychic readings and Akashic Records readings converge — a reader still needs to use their intuitive faculties to interpret the information received. Humans are still involved in the process! Every human being is unique, and will have a unique interpretation of what they receive in the invisible realms.
Is an Akashic Record Reading only About Past Lives?
Many people believe that the Akashic Records are all about past lives. It makes sense in theory. If we have a dataset where all experience is recorded, then we can just open a soul record and read everything about it from the day it originated.
But it’s not as simple as that. The Records do have information about soul history, including past lives. We can go to the very first incarnation, as well as scan through incarnations that are currently affecting us.
But there are several other aspects to consider:
The Notion of Time
The universe has different “times,” and different ways of seeing time. The passing of time depends on the physics of an object or space. In certain locations and dimensions time simply ceases to exist.
Ultimately, time is not linear. My experience with time in the Akashic Records has been similar to being in the center of a spider web, where we can travel down different threads, be it past or future or parallel timelines.
Assuming We Can Demand Information from the Universe
Some traditions claim that full consciousness includes knowing all of our past lives. It also includes becoming conscious of the knowledge and skills learned in those lifetimes. While this may be true for those who follow these traditions, most will agree that we do not attain full consciousness by accumulating knowledge.
Full consciousness is a fruit of spiritual work, not of hearing past life stories. No reader, psychic, or any other external power can lead us into full consciousness. This only happens by Divine grace, to which we open through our inner work.
Capacity of the Receiver
We only receive what we are capable of receiving.
Let’s imagine you are not happy with everything that I said above, and demand information about all your past lives now. If an Akashic Record reader cannot give it to you, you go to someone who can. Eventually you find what you are looking for, make the deals you need to make, and sit with a lot of information.
Now you know your mother was your wife, and your son your father, and how you murdered your neighbor, and… Without the capacity to hold and integrate this information, the process of spiritual and emotional disintegration will begin for you.
Ways in Which the Akashic Records Can Help Access Past Lives
An Akashic Record reading may serve as a helpful tool in gaining insights into past lives or getting a general overview of a soul’s history. In my experience, the Records are best suited for looking into main patterns of your journey, such as disempowerment and trauma.
An Akashic Record reading can also help if a certain past life is influencing current situation.
For more in-depth work, I find that past or parallel life journey or a past life regression is a much more suitable option.
Can the Akashic Records Predict the Future?
Another major difference between an Akashic Record reading and a psychic reading is the issue of predicting the future. Many people expect to receive a future prediction from a psychic.
While this is very disempowering and karmically dubious, a lot of people associate psychics with predictions. As someone said on Quora, “They don’t predict anything, they are not psychics.”
But why would you want someone else to create your destiny?
When you access your Akashic Records, you push open the quantum doors of morphic fields that shape our reality. You begin to see how you can weave the threads of the past into the present and future. Like a quantum spider web, your reality expands into a non-linear, living field. Future is a living reality, a living field, that breathes and changes, like an ocean, in response to our present choices.
The Akashic Records and Quantum Reality
In the quantum reality, future is a potential until it is brought forth into existence by observing it.
Until the potential is observed, noted and verbalized, it is one in the infinite sea of many.
Once it has come to life, it becomes tangible, physical, real. This is why people who like to ask about their future all the time often live very chaotic lives. Tens, maybe hundreds of possibilities are competing to become the final outcome of their situation, pulling the person in many different directions, keeping them stuck and ultimately, disempowered.
Future as a Product of Daily Choices
Future is conditional on the choices we make.
As souls, we choose the main events and conditions of our life prior to incarnation. This includes our family and country of origin, the important people in our lives, the lessons to learn, our connection to certain places and professions, and so on.
But how we respond to those circumstances and lessons is entirely up to us. At any given moment, we have a choice to refuse to learn our lessons, to dig our heels in and get stuck — or to transcend our life circumstances and rise above them.
Contrary to what many believe, future is not written on stone tablets and stored in the Akashic Records. It exists as a multiplicity of options, which changes according to the choices of a person.
The Akashic Records are a Tool of Spiritual Growth, Not Predictions
Based on the above, we can say that the Akashic Records are only a predictive field if we speak from the perspective of statistics, not absolutes. They can tell you about probabilities. However, it is not productive to engage in future predictions using the Akashic Records.
It is also worth noting that the protective mechanism of the ego is to either remain in memories of the past, or to try and control the future. Releasing this desire to control and surrendering to the uncertainty is where true spiritual work begins. The Akashic Records will always guide a seeker to that beginning.
The Akashic Records: A Different Vantage Point than a Psychic Reading
To sum up, the main difference from a psychic reading is that the Akashic Records are not connected to our egos and emotions, nor to our concept of time. Therefore, we can say that an Akashic Record reading comes from a higher vantage point. Any information received from the Records is also healing in itself, precisely for that reason — it comes from a space of perfect clarity.
- We cannot “mine” the Akashic Records for information at our whim.
- They will never transmit any information that can be used to manipulate another person.
- They are not a tool for making future predictions.
But a good psychic can use this information to better tune in to the energy of their client and give more details, suggesting the best course of action.
