# Akashic Record

Explore the Akashic Record through a Mormon transhumanist lens—where cosmic memory, divine record-keeping, and Restoration theology converge on one profound question: is anything truly lost?

[Image: According to Hindu and Jain cosmology, memory is woven into the fabric of reality. Nothing is ever truly lost.

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The Akashic Record is a concept drawn from Theosophical and esoteric traditions, referring to a cosmic repository of all knowledge, experience, and events—every thought, action, and moment in the history of the universe preserved in some kind of metaphysical medium that permeates all existence. Although the original Sanskrit concept of *akasha* has no connection to cosmic libraries, early occultists developed the idea that the universe was a celestial hard drive of sorts accessible to clairvoyants. By 1927, writers like Alice A. Bailey were already trying to ground the mysticism in modern terms, comparing the record to an “immense photographic film.”

The concept is not canonical in Mormon theology. It belongs to a different tradition entirely. Yet the question it is trying to answer—whether anything is truly lost—is a question the Restoration takes seriously on its own terms and answers with unusual directness.

## The Books Were Opened

[Image: Scriptural visions of open books describe a universe with total recall, where human actions persist as recoverable data.]

Scripture returns repeatedly to the image of divine record-keeping. Daniel sees the Ancient of Days seated while books are opened (Daniel 7:10). John’s Revelation describes the dead judged out of the things written in the books (Revelation 20:12). The Doctrine and Covenants adds a Mormon-specific elaboration: records kept on earth are sealed in heaven, and what is recorded by proper authority is recorded in the Lamb’s Book of Life (D&C 128:7).

## Toward a Naturalist Account of Total Recall

[Image: For Mormon transhumanists, recovering the past ceases to be a passive waiting game, resolving instead into a rigorous exercise in information theory.]

Mormon transhumanism finds the underlying intuition of the Akashic Record far more interesting than its occult origins. If the universe is composed of information—if physical processes are, at a fundamental level, computational—then the question of whether experience is preserved becomes an empirical one rather than purely a mystical assertion. Cosmologists and information theorists have proposed that the laws of physics may not permit the complete erasure of information; what appears to be lost may be encoded in forms not yet recoverable.

Some cosmologists locate this conservation principle in the architecture of spacetime itself. The holographic principle, motivated by string theory and the mathematics of black holes, suggests that information falling into a black hole may be encoded on its two-dimensional horizon rather than destroyed—one proposed resolution to what physicists call the black hole information paradox. String theory’s extra dimensions, six or seven beyond the four of ordinary spacetime and curled too small to detect directly, offer additional room where information could in principle be stored in forms not yet measurable. None of this is experimentally confirmed, and none of it describes a literal library of human thought. It does suggest that erasure may not be the simple, final thing forgetting assumes it to be.

Time travel theories occupy similar territory: mathematically permitted, not demonstrated as physically buildable. General relativity’s equations admit exotic solutions, such as closed timelike curves and traversable wormholes, that would let an observer revisit an earlier moment rather than infer it from surviving traces. Most physicists doubt these solutions describe anything achievable; Stephen Hawking proposed a chronology protection conjecture, suggesting some deeper law forbids the universe from permitting such loops. A civilization capable of building stable wormholes or manipulating spacetime’s geometry directly would have less need of a record. It could go and look.

[Project Lazarus](https://www.transfigurism.org/what-we-re-building/project-lazarus), the Mormon Transhumanist Association’s initiative exploring genealogical, genomic, and archival reconstruction, takes this intuition in a practical direction: the recovery of persons from records is a very real possibility. The Akashic Record, stripped of its occult framing, points toward something the tradition already affirms—nothing is ever truly lost, and with the right technology, resurrection becomes a matter of data retrieval.

*See also*: [Knowledge](/topical-guide/knowledge), [Mind](/topical-guide/mind), [Mysticism](/topical-guide/mysticism), [Quantum Archaeology](/topical-guide/quantum-archaeology), [Revelation](/topical-guide/revelation), [Simulation Hypothesis](/topical-guide/simulation-hypothesis), [Soul](/topical-guide/soul), [Uploading](/topical-guide/uploading)