The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field [Paperback]

Ervin Laszlo (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 12, 2009

Firsthand testimonies by 20 leaders in culture and science of their interactions with the Akashic field

• Provides important evidence for the authenticity of nonmaterial contact that human beings have with each other and with the cosmos

• Demonstrates that the increasing frequency and intensity of these experiences is evidence of a widespread spiritual resurgence

• Includes contributions by Alex Grey, Stanislav Grof, Stanley Krippner, Swami Kriyananda, Edgar Mitchell, and others

Knowing or feeling that we are all connected to each other and to the cosmos by more than our eyes and ears is not a new notion but one as old as humanity. Traditional indigenous societies were fully aware of nonmaterial connections and incorporated them into their daily life. The modern world, however, continues to dismiss and even deny these intangible links--taking as real only that which is physically manifest or proved “scientifically.” Consequently our mainstream culture is spiritually impoverished, and the world we live in has become disenchanted.

In The Akashic Experience, 20 leading authorities in fields such as psychiatry, physics, philosophy, anthropology, natural healing, near death experience, and spirituality offer firsthand accounts of interactions with a cosmic memory field that can transmit information to people without having to go through the senses. Their experiences with the Akashic field are now validated and supported by evidence from cutting-edge sciences that shows that there is a cosmic memory field that contains all information--past, present, and future. The increasing frequency and intensity of these Akashic experiences are an integral part of a large-scale spiritual resurgence and evolution of human consciousness that is under way today.

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"The 20 accounts make fascinating reading, testifying to the fact that we are subtly yet effectively linked with each other, with nature, and with the cosmos. It inspires solidarity, love, empathy, and a sense of responsibility for each other and the environment. These are ineluctable elements of the mind-set we need to pull out of the global crisis that threatens our world and to create peace and sustainability on this perilously ravaged planet."
(SirReadaLot.org, March 2009 )

" . . . truly ground breaking in its attempt to give a measure of organization to the known and some sense of identity to the unknown. The human language, as it presently exists, simply does not have the eloquence to deal with the 'thought downloads' that we are dealing with in this sphere of experience."
(Zareen Khan, New Age Journal, May 2009 )

"Laszlo sees hope in the expanding horizons of scientific research and adds a note on his own experience of the infinite Akasha."
(Nexus New Times Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 4, June-July, 2009 )

"Laszlo has really delivered with this collection of varied experiences of the Akashic Field. It is reassuring to know that there are a lot of people out there willing to open their minds to new methods of thinking and perception, guiding us along the uncertain path we now walk, on the one side faith in the unknown, the uncertain; onthe other, solid scientific evidence. Up ahead the two shall meet and become one, and this reviewer hopes humanity one day comes to bathe in the shining light."
(Chard Currie, New Dawn, No. 116, Sep/Oct 2009 )

"Laszlo provides thought-provoking material as he continues to explore the nature of the universe and the field of awareness that connects us all."
(Alice R. Berntson, New Connexion, Sep/Oct 2009 )

“. . . Laszlo remains an intriguing and inspiring ambassador from the domain of Akashic advenutreland.”
(The Scientific & Medical Network, UK, December 2010 )

“The Akashic Experience is a collection of essays by twenty noted cultural and scientific leaders, each describing their experiences with what the book terms Akashic Field - a cosmic memory field that contains all information, past, present and future. . . The authors note the increasing frequency and intensity with which experiences with the Akashic Field are being reported, and which are forming part of the large-scale spiritual resurgence and evolution in human consciousness taking place today.”
(The Beacon, July 2011 )

From the Back Cover

SCIENCE / NEW THOUGHT

Knowing or feeling that we are all connected to each other and to the cosmos by more than our eyes and ears is not a new notion but one as old as humanity. Traditional indigenous societies were fully aware of nonmaterial connections and incorporated them into their daily life. The modern world, however, continues to dismiss and even deny these intangible links--taking as real only that which is physically manifest or proved “scientifically.” Consequently our mainstream culture is spiritually impoverished, and the world we live in has become disenchanted.
     In The Akashic Experience, 20 leading authorities in fields such as psychiatry, physics, philosophy, anthropology, natural healing, near-death experience, and spirituality offer firsthand accounts of interactions with a cosmic memory field that can transmit information to people without having to go through the senses. Their experiences with the Akashic field are now validated and supported by evidence from cutting-edge sciences that shows there is a cosmic memory field that contains all information--past, present, and future. The increasing frequency and intensity of these Akashic experiences are an integral part of a large-scale spiritual resurgence and evolution of human consciousness that is under way today.

ERVIN LASZLO, a leading systems theorist who was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, is editor of the international periodical World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution and chancellor-designate of the newly formed GlobalShift University. He is the founder and president of the international think tanks the Club of Budapest and the General Evolution Research Group and the author of 83 books, translated into 23 languages. He lives in Italy.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Inner Traditions; 3rd Printing edition (February 12, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594772983
• ISBN-13: 978-1594772986
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,491 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #16 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Theosophy

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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Primer on Consciousness, Metaphysical & Psi Phenomena, February 24, 2009

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Jed Shlackman (Miami, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field (Paperback)

Ervin Laszlo, author of The Akashic Field, follows up that excellent book with "The Akashic Experience," which consists of 4 parts - Living the Experience, Working With the Experience, Researching the Experience, and Reviewing and Assessing the Experience. This offers a wide overview of psi phenomena and research, including shared insights and experiences from luminaries in related fields - including visionary artist Alex Grey, healer Eric Pearl, Stan Grof, Marilyn Schlitz, Edgar Mitchell, Larry Dossey, Stanley Krippner, Swami Kriyananda, and others.

This book is engaging to read and is valuable for anyone exploring the fields of consciousness research, transpersonal psychology, parapsychology, metaphysics, and spiritual healing. If you are interested in past-life regression, remote viewing, near death and out-of-body experiences, psychics and mediums, distance healing, and other subjects that challenge paradigms of material-minded science, there is a lot of thought-provoking material here... though you might wish to allow your thinking mind to rest and allow you to access the Akashic Experiences yourself!

Laszlo continues to provide a medium in which science and spirituality merge, as genuine seekers from all disciplines explore the nature of the Universe and the field of awareness that connects us all. If his books were made essential reading for all those entering studies in college in the arts and sciences then we would have a more en-light-ened society. Until that happens, I encourage people to obtain Laszlo's books at their own initiative and reap the benefits of being aware of this greater understanding of Creation and the Universe.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best yet from Laszlo: profound but accessible, December 26, 2009

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This review is from: The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field (Paperback)

Ervin Laszlo published what he subtitled "An Integral Theory of Everything" in his book: Science and the Akashic Field in 2004. He followed this up with "Quantum Shift in the Global Brain" in 2008 and I have reviewed both of these excellent books. Now he has published "The Akashic Experience" subtitled "Science and the Cosmic Memory Field", which adds to the ideas presented in the earlier volumes by presenting accounts by some twenty individuals of widely forms of what Laszlo has dubbed the Akashic Experience: near-death experiences (NDE); premonition; remote viewing and healing; and many other psi phenomena. "An Akashic experience is a real, lived experience that conveys a thought, an image, or an intuition that was not, and very likely could not have been, transmitted by our senses either at the time it happened or at any time beforehand - at least not in our current lifetime."

Laszlo's ideas integrate ideas such as those of Talbot (The Holographic Universe); Dean Radin (Entangled Minds); Russell Targ (Limitless Mind); and concepts from Buddhism, all forms of spirituality and modern research into quantum physics and into the nature of consciousness. What others have called the matrix, the implicate order, tao or the zero point field, Laszlo integrates into the concept of the Akashic Field: "The Akashic Field contains not merely a passive record of a person's consciousness, created during that person's lifetime and then persisting unchanged, but also harbors a dynamic bundle of information based on the experiences accumulated in that lifetime. Under suitable conditions this bundle of information - a quantum hologram - is capable of development even in the absence of the living brain and body that created it."

I reject materialism because it trivializes aspects of reality for no better reason than that science cannot currently explain them; but science has served us very well and provides satisfactory answers to most problems in the physical domain. Laszlo is not presenting an alternative to modern science, rather he is illustrating what might be possible if mainstream science were to embrace the knights-move thinking of visionaries such as David Bohm and Laszlo himself. He expresses the relationship between mind and matter rather eloquently: "psyche and physis, mind and matter, are not separate realities, or even separate elements of the same reality. They are the same reality. The difference is in the eye of the beholder: viewed in one way - with one variety of presuppositions - reality appears physical; viewed in another way, it appears mental. In fact, it's both."

It is not necessary to read Laszlo's previous works to understand this one; familiarity with concepts of entanglement and psy phenomena would be useful, but this is not a difficult book to read and does not require any prior scientific understanding. It is very thought-provoking; because it enters into such a wide range of fields it is likely to arouse skepticism in all but the most open of minds, but for anyone who enjoyed books such as the ones I referenced above (by Talbot, Radin, Targ et al) this is going to be a favorite read.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS BOOK IS A WONDERFUL PACKAGE, March 15, 2009

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This review is from: The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field (Paperback)

Sheldon Stoff The Western Book of Crossing Over: Conversations with the Other Side

The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field is a remarkable book of Ervin Laszlo's own commentary combined with lengthy statements by individuals who have had insightful "Akashic experiences." Laszlo has succeeded in accomplishing two objectives. He has provided a basic definition of what the Akashic experience is by bringing to the fore the latest scientific information on the subject. And he has provided us with many detailed personal stories of the experience by skilled individuals, thus bringing theory, science and daily life together.

The book is a wonderful package which includes recognition of the Akashic, whose existence was recognized by Hindu sages 5,000 years ago and by the Kabbalah, also thousands of years ago. Science finally turns to authenticate what has been a major part of our lives since before the dawn of the universe. Laszlo has done even more. He has shown us conclusively that the Akashic is the originator of all that is and the source of information of all that has occurred.

If humankind can utilize this information positively and productively, a new age of enlightenment will follow.
--Sheldon Stoff

Barbara's Comment:
Opening the Akashic door into what Jonas Salk called "The Anatomy of Reality," twenty distinguished writers offer their own perspectives on living the akashic experience, on working with the experience, on researching the experience, and on reviewing and assessing the experience--all this eloquently bracketed front and back with the integrative thinking of Laszlo himself, who is often referred to as the father of systems theory science.

I find that reading this book brings to me deep personal validation. It nourishes my lifelong need to find the deeper meaning in everyday life. A validation still needed, although I am seventy-six years old and have, during more than fifty of those years, read deeply in the fields of ancient, as well as modern, esoterica, have taught literature and the arts--especially poetry--and I have had some akashic, or mystical experiences of my own. Yet, always there has been the need to find vocabularies that bridge between the deep psyche, or what might be called the deep within--a way of being and working in the world while balancing the intuitive with the intellectual--and somehow to render to the outer world a glimpse of the consummate beauty and design of the inner world, indeed to be brave enough to persevere in this endeavor. This book gives me great joy. Bring the book to your table and read with an open mind. Read for what a shaman might call "soul retrieval." Read this book for insight. Read this book for joy.

Like pebbles in water
the words settle
through layers of selves
to deep center and silence...
then Self says:
Love is the ground of being.
--Barbara Smith Stoff