Akashic Records - By Jessica Mayrer

Jessica Mayrer

Feature Story #4

Akashic Records



Crystals glint in the sunlight in the high-ceilinged room. An alter sits perched on a buffalo rug on the floor. Yarrow Grace closes her eyes and calls upon the Guardians to give guidance.

“Feel the question, whatever comes up in your heart,” Grace says.

“What can I do for my husband?” Toddy Perryman asks the reader of past lives.

Grace tells Perryman help build her husband’s self esteem.

“I think it really made a difference,” Perryman says today of her first reading nearly one and a half years ago.

Practitioners say that everything ever said or done is maintained in a celestial library, or the Akashic Records. Reincarnation is real, believers say, and emotional wounds incurred during past lives affect how people function in the present time. By opening the records and reading an individual’s emotional history, readers get clues about how to best heal clients in the present.

Grace has been reading past life experiences for about two years. In a typical $60 session, Grace asks the Guardians to open a client’s spiritual file for advice. She answer questions based on that file. From there, she proceeds using meditation, crystals or Reiki to energetically clear the client of subconscious wounds hindering present perceptions.

“Your lens of perception of how you view things is tainted by your wounded-ness,” Grace says.

Learning how to read the Akasha is like learning how to use the library’s Dewey Decimal System, says Shaun Martinz, owner of Flathead Valley business, Akashic Insights. In addition to publishing books on the subject, Martinz holds one-day workshops in which she teaches how to access and interpret the images and feelings that bubble up when reading the Akashic Records, she says.

“I have yet to have anyone who can’t do it,” she says. “Kids get the records real easy,” Martinz says.

Like a computer database, the records are constantly updated, Martinz said. While it’s tough to find reference specifically to the Akashic Records before the 19th Century, practitioners say the practice has been used since the beginning of time by cultures around the world under various names. Martinz points to the Oracle at Delphi as an early example of Akashic Reading.

Martinz, who many credit with bringing the practice to Montana, taught Grace the technique.

The toughest part of doing the work, Grace says, is translating emotions into words.

She can’t necessarily access specific names and dates from an individual’s past, Grace says. Once the records are opened, answers sometimes come in visions, words or just feelings.

“I get this really light feeling,” she says. While other times, when the news is not good, “I start to feel sick to my stomach.”

Even the planet has a file, she says. “It’s all in the records. It’s all energetically imprinted.”

Martinz, who holds a master’s degree in communication from The University of Montana, typically brings in about six people to her $220 per-person workshops, which she holds throughout the West.

“When I first open someone’s record, the answers literally pour into my head,” Martinz says. “I can feel it. I can smell it. I can taste it.”

But some say the practice is a bit far out.

“It’s a difficult sell for me and for most people schooled in Western tradition,” said Ken Welt counseling director for Curry Health Center at the University of Montana.

“There’s a risk that vulnerable people can be led by a hunger to believe,” he said.

There will always be an inherent danger using techniques that are not well understood, Welt says. But much of psychiatry is based on delving into the subconscious and the technique may be effective for some.

Perryman, a retired biochemist, says reincarnation just makes sense. Why are some people born wealthy while others suffer through poverty and war?

“The god that I believe in just doesn’t do that kind of stuff,” Perryman said. “It didn’t make any sense to me that we only get one shot at life.”

“Scientists are pretty particular about what they believe in, often because they want to know how it works,” she said. “I believe in it because I know that it works.”

She gets a reading every month or two.

“It’s clear that they (the Guardians) know me,” she said.

For thousands of years, priests and Gurus were left to decipher the mysteries of life, says Martinz. But the Akashic Records can help democratize spirituality.

“I would like everyone to do this,” Martinz said.

“We all can access that divinity,” she said. “It’s a right.”