Lesson One

Your Journey Begins

Affirmation:
I am ready to begin my journey in my Akashic Records.
I am open to learn.
I am open to deepening my ability to trust myself.

Welcome to Lesson One!

This is where you begin your journey to connecting with your Akashic Records.

In the video for this lesson, I talk a little bit about the journey aspect of opening your Akashic Records .

Then I share what I consider the three benefits of opening the Akashic Records.

The Akashic Records as a source of knowing.

The Akashic Records as a process of healing.

The Akashic Records as spiritual practice.

Opening the Akashic Records from the soul’s perspective, as we do, means that this all combines into one primary idea:

The Akashic Records is the soul’s spiritual practice.

Please listen with an open heart and an open mind to get the most from what I share.

The Three Core Experiences of Opening the Akashic Records

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When you begin to engage with the Akashic Records, there are three primary experiences that begin to emerge. You could think of them as benefits — because yes, something shifts. But more than benefit, these are the foundational experiences that shape how the Records work with you and how you begin to understand yourself through them.

To explain these three experiences, I want to lean gently into something I call Soul Energy Dynamics. This is the energetic framework I use to understand the Akashic Records — not just as a metaphysical concept, but as a living interaction with energy itself. Later in the course, I’ll share more about this through the Circle Diagram, which came to me directly from the Records when I first began asking the deeper questions.

For now, let’s begin at the beginning:

Everything is energy.

Twenty-five years ago, I received this insight, and it changed everything. You’ve likely heard the phrase before — but within the Akashic Records, this isn’t just a concept, it’s a lived reality. Everything — animate or inanimate, seen or unseen — is energy. All that is flows along an infinite continuum from potential to form. Energy begins in potential, takes shape through intention as form, and eventually releases to return to potential once more. This motion — potential to form to potential — is eternal and unending.

As beings with form, we carry potential within us. We are both. And when we open the Akashic Records, we are consciously entering the realm of pure, 100% potential. You might call it Source, God, the Eternal, the Infinite, or simply the Divine. 

In essence, we are reaching into the origin of the soul and looking from that vantage point — beyond physical form, beyond even the quantum potential — into the heart of becoming.

And from this profound space, three core experiences arise:

1. Knowing

Many people describe the Akashic Records as a storehouse of information — past, present, and future. And while that’s not wrong, it’s also not the whole truth.

Information is form. It’s energy shaped into something graspable, defined, and known. But at the other end of the continuum, before anything takes shape, there is knowing — a dynamic, intrinsic awareness that exists before form. This is the first experience of the Akashic Records: the presence of knowing.

Knowing is not something you gather — it’s something you are. It’s the capacity to receive the energy of all that is and to be aware of what is present. When you open the Records, you’re not just accessing facts or data; you’re stepping into a living process of remembering and recognizing your innate capacity to know beyond logic, beyond proof. Knowing is both the source and the practice of the Records.

2. Healing

The second experience of the Akashic Records is healing — but not in the way you might typically imagine it.

When your conscious awareness enters the Records, it comes into relationship with pure potential. And whenever two flows of energy meet, a shared field emerges. In this case, your personal energy field — held in form — comes into contact with the field of 100% potential. That interaction creates a shift.

Unlike water that finds equilibrium between hot and cold, potential doesn’t move — you do. You rise into resonance with that field. You shift. You balance. And it’s this return to balance that we recognize as healing.

Energetically, healing is the movement into equilibrium. It’s not about fixing what’s broken — it’s about remembering wholeness. Often, this shift happens beyond conscious awareness, and many of the blocks you might feel as you begin your practice are actually connected to this energetic recalibration.

So healing in the Records isn’t something that’s done to you — it’s something you allow. It happens in the balance between your willingness to enter and the Records’ unwavering presence of potential.

3. Spiritual Practice

And then, there’s the third experience: the Akashic Records as spiritual practice.

When I first began, I didn’t think of it this way. But over time, I realized that everything I was doing in the Records was helping me understand myself — deeply, honestly, and often in ways that changed me. That’s the essence of spiritual practice: a conscious path into truth.

Spiritual practice isn’t just prayer or meditation — it’s any intentional effort to live in alignment with both your physical presence and your spiritual awareness. It’s the act of becoming. Of letting go. Of learning to live from the inside out.

Opening the Akashic Records, again and again, becomes a practice of integration. It invites you to release what no longer serves, even when those things once felt like truth. Often, it’s the ideas that worked beautifully yesterday that must be surrendered today. The Records make space for that letting go.

The questions I offer in this course reflect that journey. They aren’t about finding the “right” answer. They’re about uncovering what is true for you, now — and stepping into the sacred work of transformation.

To open the Akashic Records is to enter into a space where you are witnessed, supported, and invited to evolve. Through knowing, healing, and spiritual practice, you begin to remember who you truly are — and allow that truth to shape how you live.

This is the work.

This is the path.

And this is just the beginning.

Reading Assignment

Akashic Records Masterclass, pages1-21; also What are the Akashic Records?, page 5-24.

Akashic Records Masterclass, pages 77-95. This is also Open Your Akashic Records, Introduction, Lesson 1 & Lesson 2.

Expansion Path:

Read all of What are the Akashic Records?

How to Navigate the Five Steps of Your Spiritual Journey: Author Note & Introduction — here is more wisdom about beginning a spiritual journey.

Five Steps of the Spiritual Journey: https://www.cherylmarlene.com/five-steps-of-the-spiritual-journey/

The Journey, Not the Destination: https://www.cherylmarlene.com/the-journey-not-the-destination/