Let’s start by asking: why are the universes so full of every kind of gossip when we have the akashic records? After all, the records were set up just for beings across the cosmos to find all knowledge about literally everything, everywhere. There should be no need to guess or make up lies.
Ah, but there is a catch.
Access to the akashic records is annoyingly limited. You will only be shown information that enhances your soul growth during this lifetime’s journey, and only information that can be viewed without changing the future. Different species and different individuals have different amounts of access, depending on their futures.
When we were teenagers, my friends and I tried to beat the information limitations by looking up records about each other’s lives. We thought we’d be able to combine bits of knowledge to get hints of what lay ahead in our group’s future. No matter what we tried, the akashic records would only give us information to the edge of what could change the future, or what could change us for the future. We would marvel at how precisely it showed information that could be safely shared, and no more.
Surprisingly, even the creator gods, who are responsible for forming living beings, planets and solar systems, can’t access all the information about the universes. Only a very few cosmic beings in top positions have unrestricted access to all knowledge.
There are various ways to access the akashic records. Most beings can access the records through deep meditation. Many beings have permission to access the akashic records on the glass tablet computers that are so commonly used across the galaxies. Some humanoids even have computer chip implants fitted into their brains to psychically access the records. The records don’t just include books and scrolls, there are also holographic still images and videos to view.
This means that it usually isn’t necessary to travel in person to the akashic records campus. Personally, I love to visit the akashic records. I think going to the hall of records makes research easier and it is a lot of fun.
I often transport directly to the akashic library when I am doing serious research. Complex questions require access to a lot of information, and I find that reading physical copies of original documents is much easier than peering at electronic versions. I always feel like I have gone back in time to gnome college, with books and publications piled all around me on a big library table. It’s a relaxing and comforting arrangement that brings back echoes of my youth.
Any subject you want to access is contained within one or more halls of knowledge. The library itself has a cyber brain that tries to simplify your questions and anticipate which archives you would prefer to view. For beginners, it’s not enough. A librarian or assistants are crucial to help with the difficult task of looking through the collections.
As a visitor looks around the library, the huge and almost endless interconnecting rooms are astonishing and intimidating. It’s even hard to notice what color the walls are, since every vertical surface is filled with bookshelves and millions of original, physical books. Most volumes can be touched and opened, but some of the earliest fragile scrolls or books would crumble if handled, so they can only be accessed electronically. There is also an infinity of electronic volumes that can be given temporary holographic form so you too can contentedly surround yourself with stacks of books.
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I don’t research many topics these days. I am usually studying information on florae that exist throughout many universes, to help in developing new plants for worlds that are being terraformed. Sometimes I am researching historical accounts and want to look through ancient gnomic scrolls. And sometimes I look up my own contributions to science, just to make sure they appear in the books of knowledge. I never actually believe my writings are there until I see them.
The building itself is the most massive and fascinating structure you could ever imagine. It started as an elegant Greek style building with a classic columned entrance. The building has gradually been made bigger and has become disorderly in design. It now has large haphazard additions with many levels, seemingly endless marble walls, gabled roofs, stairways and occasional large glass windows.
The unbelievably massive structure is set on lovely wide lawns with plenty of benches to rest both mind and body. The akashic records campus is open for walking, so I always spend some time outdoors when I’m there. The entire campus is quiet and hushed, with visiting beings appropriately in awe of both the infinite knowledge and mythical reputation of the library.
When I step outside for some fresh air and sunshine, I always amuse myself by looking around to see if there are any earthlings or similarly bewildered humanoids stumbling around looking dazed. They are forbidden admittance into the akashic records building because they are not meant to see into the future at all. Nevertheless, they and other species sometimes suddenly appear on the grounds outside.
How do beings from around the universes just randomly show up? The secret of how to activate ancient planetary portals, which are usually doorways carved into natural rock formations, has gotten lost on many planets. But the doorways are still there and it is possible to accidentally trigger them. If you don’t specify where you want to go when traveling through an interstellar portal, you usually end up at the akashic records.
There are always a few life forms on the campus who accidentally fell into a portal and ended up at the records. These lost and startled souls are an interesting diversion from my serious research.
The library attendants would help if asked, but since these unauthorized beings can’t get into the library, they can’t ask. I usually help these accidental visitors rather than let any lurking evil presence get hold of them. After all, I’m the friendliest face around them. Everybody recognizes a gnome when they see one. I can physically talk to humanoids through a translation device, which is more comforting than many species who only communicate psychically.
I can tell where they came from by their energy readings. This is fortunate because they are often too frightened to speak coherently. Instead of making them search for a nearby planetary portal, I lead them to it and send them back to their own place and time. It amuses me that they will have a good story to tell when they get home.
A few of these beings beg to travel the universes with me, but I refuse. Transporting unauthorized life forms would be a serious breach of intergalactic law. I would no doubt be found out and get into trouble. Besides, the various life forms are not so very entertaining that I want to spend lots of time with them.
I have been to the akashic records many times, and always enjoy my visit. However, I still find the experience overly stimulating and exhausting. I am always ready to go home after a long day, taking a generous amount of holographic reading matter to ponder during quiet evenings at home.