The Akashic Field: It Makes Every Place in the Universe Part of the Neighborhood

By Sheldon Stoff

From The Akashic Field: It Makes Every Place in the Universe Part of the Neighborhood

It is easy to entertain the idea that religions and spirituality make sense only when we consider the probability of the Akashic Field. What we call Heaven, the Other Side, and even Nirvana, are inconceivable without an Akashic Field. In using this concept, we are able, for the first time, to provide rational answers to where the soul goes between so-called death and rebirth. As if by magic so many of lifes questions can now find answers, even the concept of the existence of the soul coming from the unseen universe and returning to it periodically. It is only the physical body that perishes as eventually all material mustwhen it is no longer needed.

This field even makes the appearance and disappearance of photons possible. The actions of photons provide answers to non-locality in communication. We can communicate over long distances only because our thoughts enter and emerge from this stated Akashic Field. As Einstein said, There is no space between souls.

The actual appearance of the universe can now also be explained.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Dec 12, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452543086

Sheldon Stoff

DR. SHELDON STOFF is professor emeritus at Adelphi University. During his years as educator and spokesperson for humanistic education, he established the International Center for Studies in Dialogue. BARBARA SMITH STOFF, poet, artist, and producer of Emmy Award–winning Poems of Wonder and Magic, has received multiple academic awards, taught English, comparative literature, and art at various academic levels. They are currently writing a book on evolution and the Akashic Field.

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Contents

Chapter 1

Understanding Akasha And Prana

Chapter 2

Evolution And The Akashic

Chapter 3

Meditation And The Akashic

Chapter 4

A Long Footnote For This Book

Chapter 5

Reincarnation And The Akashic Field

Chapter 6

Consciousness And The Akasha

Chapter 7

Love And Compassion In The Akashic

Chapter 8

The Akashic Field And Our Future On Earth

To all those friends and teachers

who are familiar companions on our journey,

and especially to our patient and loving family members,

we wish to offer our thanks.

BOOKS BY THESE AUTHORS

Conscious Evolution: The Dance of Intuition and Intellect

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

Universal Kabbalah: Dawn of a New Consciousness

The Two Way Street

The Human Encounter: Vols. I and II

The Pumpkin Quest

There is a primal essence that is all-inclusive and undifferentiated and which existed before there was any appearance of heaven and earth. It may be regarded as the Mother of the Universe.

Lao Tzu

George B. Benner

What Barbara and Sheldon Stoff offer to humankind is a lovely jewel, a many faceted diamond. In this work they show the process of polishing the various facets of this diamond in order to reflect the light, the inner light, with which they are so conversant. The AKASHA is indeed a diamond with all its facets formed from lifetimes of experiences but often its meaning is hidden from us. Therefore we require a guide—in this case two of them! As each explains from a particular view, the reader will discover a sort of blending, a three part blending…two parts from the authors, and another from the readers’ own experiences.

We can learn from this blending the meaning of the Akashic Record in our lives which enables us to see with a clearer vision the tasks that will lead us to the peace and brotherly love described here. I have known these two initiates and worked beside them for many years; it is always a spiritually uplifting experience, just as is reading these thoughts concerning what has been written since the beginning of our time and as contained in those heavenly records. –– Rev. George B. Benner, Author of Footprints, and A Guide to Contemplative Prayer; Producer of the documentary Upper Spectacle Pond; Bishop, Church of Illumination, Quakertown,PA

Kingsley L. Dennis

Sheldon and Barbara Stoff’s book The Akashic Field is full-packed with information about the Akashic Field. The investigations on the Akashic are some of the most dense I have come across, and so well-explained in so few pages. The range of material is impressive—everything from the holographic universe; quantum physics and non-local fields; to inter-planetary travel; reincarnation and karma; the energy of love; death & conversations with the other side; conscious and spiritual evolution, and more. And yet, finally, as they tell us—in the end it is all about love! This book is a wonderful mix of the scientific, the spiritual, the metaphysical, with the creative and loving soul. — Kingsley L. Dennis, Ph.D., Author of After the Car and New Consciousness for a New World: How to Thrive in Transitional Times and Participate in the Coming Renaissance, is a sociologist, and cofounder of WorldShift International, and author of numerous articles on complexity theory, technologies, new media communications, and consciousness. He spends his time between Andalusia, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

Prologue

Some might think of the Akashic Field as the ground which produces visible tangible flowers blossoming from the within to the without—blossoming into the outer world of form, time and duration. Sheldon and I like to picture roses bursting forth in beauty and symmetry. Human consciousness can do much to help the field blossom beautifully. Down through the ages, varying cultures have used interesting terms in reference to the figure-ground dynamic. Since the days of the Sanskrit, what we call the Akasha has been known by many names. Here we list only some of them:

NOT THE ROSE BUT THE NAME OF THE ROSE

The Akasha

The Akasa

Holographic Consciousness

The Divine Matrix

The Divine Milieu

The Akashic Chronicle

The A Field

The Akashic Field

The A Record

The Tao

The Unseen Universe

The Invisible Universe

The Hidden Universe

The Unified Field of Energy

Ether

The Fifth Element of Creation

The Great Net

The Web

The Cosmic Mind

The Theory of Everything

The Universal Field of Energy

Ha Shamayim

Cosmic Consciousness

The Divine Mind

The Mind of God

The Attractor

Divine Imagination

Possibilities Located Somewhere

Gaian Mind

The Omega Point

The Cosmic Christ

Gaian Unconscious

The World Soul

The Soul of All Things

The Mystical Body

The Within

The Soul of the Universe

The Collective Field of Co-herence

Imagination

Esse

Kabalistic Astral Light

The Universal Soul

Kutastha Chaitanya

The One

The Life Force

The Universal Agent

Universal Life

The Great Magical Agent

Universal Light

The Body of God

The Logos

Atman

The Burning Bush

The Zoroastrian Sacred Fire

The Egyptian Ra

Abram’s Burning Lamp

The Spiritual Life-Principle

The Wind

The Breath

The External Hard Drive

The Spirit of Light

The Living Fire

The Universal Mind

The Yajna

The Astral Light

The Chaos

The Hermes Fire

The Matrix of the Universe

Mysterium Magnum

The Spiritual Womb of the Universe

Source

And we like to think about the rose itself—or the essence of the rose. So we have included some poetry in part two—ESSENCE OF ROSE: TALISMAN AND TRANSIT.

I can read road maps—and do—when I need to get from point A to point B, but it is only from way in there that the world makes sense to me. That is where the poetry comes from—way in there. The most current and commonly recommended name for that now is the Akashic Field.

For me, writing a poem is where the making sense of the outer world happens—and where transformation sometimes happens. For instance, with the writing of Black Holes: Space in Time – the line ‘Dante’s deepest center emits no light’ was critical for me. The line just came, from where I knew not, and when it did, everything changed. The pain ceased and all became radiant. A poem can always be a talisman for the transit.

Sheldon says:

Since we talk about poetry quite a lot, Barbara has asked me to write down some of my thoughts about her poems here. We both believe that there is always communication between the physical and the spiritual, between earth and heaven. We can always be open to that Two Way Street.

She believes that writing a poem always involves a partnership with the other side. I believe that is the way the great works of humankind are done. They are intuitive-intellectual endeavors. Barbara has chosen poetry as but one way of outing the partnership.

In her writing she never believed it to be a solo adventure. The concept of working with a muse readily comes to mind, yet defining the muse can become quite a journey on its own.

When I enter into the experience of reading her poems, the door into greater realms opens for me. I hope this happens for you too. Also, you will share some of Barbara’s fondest memories. We hope they become yours also.

Barbara says:

And now, Sheldon has asked me to write a narrative, if you will, of how the concerted work on this book began. Although historically he has been a reader and researcher among ancient texts of many genre, I noticed that a concentrated focus upon the Akashic began as he was reading, copiously underlining and marginally notating, Ervin Laszlo’s Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything - Inner Traditions, 2004.

Through the inter-library loan program and with the help of patient librarians, he brought in stacks of old tomes and was at the table for months and months, either meditating or reading. After each table session he would go to work in the garden. Good balance.

When asked what he was doing, he explained his process to a friend in this way:Prior to writing, I meditate on the scope of the book and ask for help so that it might aid many. I spend many weeks involved in this process of meditation. I then write a table of contents (again, much meditation) and then a chapter outline for the whole book. Once I have a chapter outline, I proceed to outline each chapter with key thoughts. I begin again with Chapter One—writing perhaps twenty pages. I then seek authentication and look for verification, from sociological sources (published research texts), and experiential sources (published spiritual writings, some VERY old and available only through inter-library loan). If I cannot find any I don’t use my material. Having first written chapter outlines, I am able to keep on track. (During the actual writing, I condensed Chapters 1 and 2 into Chapter 1.)

For my part, I know we will need to work on clarity here, because this book is also a mix of our readings and ponderings over the years. Yes, I can see this is an important opportunity for working on clarity of expression. As for the ‘mix’…how does one sum up and express a life? For years, I actually believed that I had a special communication with Teilhard de Chardin—that famed paleontologist/futurist in the same incarnation. It seemed Teilhard answered a lot of questions for me. Although he died in 1955, I did not learn of him until 1961, when a friend brought me a copy of The Divine Milieu. As I began to read him, he became a kind of Rosetta Stone for studying a lot of other