Once the domain of Indian mysticism, the Akashic Record has become the basis of modern field theory. In his book, Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2004), Ervin Laszlo claims that the Akashic Record is the mythological equivalent of the zero-point field that permeates space. Science and Mysticism meet in his “rediscovery” of the A-Field which points to the existence of a Metaverse, a” vaster, more fundamental universe behind and beyond the universe” (29) known to man. This A-Field is an informed source universe active in all domains of life, from cells to galaxies, human to cosmic consciousness.
Akasha and the Akashic Record
Akasha is the Sanskrit word for “sky,” “space” or “ether.” It is the ether that was once believed to be the pervasive essence of the universe. According to Indian mythology, Akasha is the womb that births physical manifestations and the womb to which such manifestations return. Indian mystics refer to this womb as the Akashic Record, a universal field of information similar to Jung’s concept of the Collective Unconscious, often described as a universal museum of human and proto-human memories.
The Akashic Field
In the early 1900s, science met the Akashic Record through Nicola Tesla, father of modern communications technologies. He identified an information field at the heart of the universe. Comparing this field to Akasha, the sky-space ether, he claimed that this force field was fundamentally creative, creating matter when prana or cosmic energy acted on it. This early encounter between science and Myth was short lived. Tesla’s force field fell out of favor when physicists adopted Einstein’s four-dimensional curved space-time as the preferred model of the universe. Recently, however, a resurgence of interest in Tesla has revived his field of ether which Laszlo calls the A-Field, placing it among the fundamental fields of the universe—the G-field (gravitational field), EM-field (electromagnetic field) and various nuclear and quantum fields.
The Metaverse and Cosmic Consciousness
According to Laszlo, the concept of the Metaverse deserves serious attention; it is the only coherent explanation of the birth of a universe supportive of human life. He claims that the existence of life-supporting conditions in the early days of the universe is not a matter of chance, but the dynamics of a mother or source universe seeding information beyond itself. Such seeding suggests that earth is not the only planet capable of sustaining life. The number of stars and planets in the cosmos is astronomical. Harvard astronomer Harlow Shapley conservatively estimates that at least 100 million planets are capable of supporting life in the cosmos, which means that “extraterrestrial civilizations are likely to exist, created by complex organisms on life-bearing planets” (136).
The A-field opens up the possibility that man is by nature rooted in source intelligence and that multidimensional, cosmic consciousness is part of his heritage. It also opens up the possibility that information or consciousness exists beyond death and the human form; most of all, it confirms that man is part of a cosmic drama that transcends space and time. Ervin Laszlo’s Akashic Field is a strong testimony of science “catching up” with myth.
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