Each and every life experience creates a permanent memory that is recorded forever…

• Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. William Ellery Channing
• Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed. Henri Bergson
• All creation is patterned according to an inner blueprint or arrangement that carries within it a genetic memory of everything that ever happens. Lawrence Kushner
• Every advance that we make in our awareness benefits unseen multitudes and strengthens the next step for others to follow. Every act of kindness is noticed by the universe and is preserved forever. David R. Hawkins
• Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the previous ones. Some of those old pictures fade, but the impressions they leave will never pass away. Diet Eman
• The Knower is all knowledge and there is no place for knowledge to go missing. Scott Owen
• And when the stream
  Which overflowed the soul was passed away,
  A consciousness remained that it had left
  Deposited upon the silent shore
  Of memory images and precious thoughts
  That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
  William Wordsworth
• Every thought, action, decision or feeling creates an eddy in the interlocking, interbalancing, ever-moving energy fields of life, leaving a permanent record for all of time. This realization can be intimidating when it first dawns on us, but it becomes a springboard for rapid evolution. David R. Hawkins
• Every word, deed, and intention creates a permanent record. Every thought is known and recorded forever. David R. Hawkins
• Every form, thought, motion that has been exhibited on the screen of time and space is recorded permanently. These cosmic motion pictures—and they were never more than that, portrayed by immortal souls—are preserved in the Infinite Archives. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Everything in the universe constantly gives off an energy pattern of a specific frequency that remains for all time and can be read by those who know how. Every word, deed, and intention creates a permanent record. Every thought is known and recorded forever. David R. Hawkins
• The energy of your thought never ever dies. Ever. It leaves your being and heads out into the universe, extending forever. A thought is forever. Neale Donald Walsch
• Every single action, feeling, or thought registers permanently beyond time and space in the all-encompassing contextual field of consciousness. Therefore, any event, whether a thought, feeling, or action, is forever identifiable and retrievable. David R. Hawkins
• Upon time and space is written the thoughts, the deeds, the activities of an entity… the record is God’s book of remembrance. Edgar Cayce
• The Akashic Record is a theosophical term referring to a universal filing system which records every occurring thought, word, and action. Zeteticus
• In turn, every advance that we make in our awareness benefits unseen multitudes and strengthens the next step for others to follow. Every act of kindness is noticed by the universe and is preserved forever. David Hawkins
• Every thought we have is a form of energy that continues to exist forever. Pim van Lommel

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…recorded in the unified, timeless field of conscious…

• Every single thing is an aspect of One Field of Consciousness. The Whole never loses contact with its parts, they are never lost or forgotten. Deepak Chopra
• Everything in the universe, including even a passing thought, is recorded forever in the timeless field of consciousness, which is everywhere equally present. All that has ever occurred, either physically or by thought, is equally available because the field is beyond time and space. There is no ‘here’ or ‘there’; there is no ‘now’ or ‘then’. The totality is equally and permanently present everywhere. David R. Hawkins
• Every act, thought, and choice adds to a permanent mosaic; our decisions ripple through the universe of consciousness to affect the lives of all. David Hawkin
• Everything in the universe radiates a specific frequency or minute energy field that remains in the field of consciousness permanently. Thus, every person or being that ever lived and anything about them, including any event, thought, deed, feeling, or attitude, is recorded forever and can be retrieved at any time in the present or the future. David Hawkins
• He who is dying merges in consciousness, and thus consciousness accompanies him when he departs, along with the impressions of all that he has done, experienced, and known. The Upanishad
• Mental states of every kind, – sensations, feelings, ideas, – which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist. Hermann Ebbinghaus
• Unlike the electrostatic field, the timeless field of consciousness is permanent and thereby records all that has occurred or existed from within time/space/evolution. The field itself stands beyond time, space, or any known dimension and instead includes all dimensions, without being altered by them. David R. Hawkins
• ‘Memory’ of qualia is not really memory as we normally define it, but simply an open-ended and cumulative permanence in consciousness of every experience that has ever occurred. Every new insight brought into unified consciousness will just add to the continuous experiencing already in it. Bernardo Kastrup
• In unified memory of qualia, by definition, there can be no neural correlates. Instead, it entails the permanence in consciousness of accumulated subjective experience. Imagine it as if you could concurrently hold in your consciousness every single experience you have ever had in your life, without getting tired or losing attention. This way, you could never forget anything simply because nothing would ever leave your consciousness; you would need no offline information storage for it. You would be in a state of pure, continuous and cumulative experiencing. It would be as if you were continuously and concurrently living every single moment of your life at once; as if all impressions and feelings you have ever had were being experienced by you now. Bernardo Kastrup

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… stored as an astral imprint…

• All things that ever were, that are, or that will be, having; their record upon the astral light, or tablet of the unseen universe, the initiated adept, by using the vision of his own spirit, can know all that has been known or can be known. P. Blavatsky
• The holographic theory suggests that our past, instead of fading into oblivion, it too remains recorded in the cosmic hologram and can always be accessed once again. Michael Talbot
• If all subatomic matter in the world is interacting constantly with this ambient ground-state energy field, the subatomic waves of The Field are constantly imprinting a record of the shape of everything. As the harbinger and imprinter of all wavelengths and all frequencies, the Zero Point Field is a kind of shadow of the universe for all time, a mirror image and record of everything that ever was. In a sense, the vacuum is the beginning and the end of everything in the universe. Lynne McTaggart
• Although it appears solid, in the last count, matter is energy bound in quantized wave-packets and these packets are further bound together to create the vast and harmonious architecture that makes up the world. However, these wave packets, also called the A-Field, don’t only store information occurring in the present moment, they contain all information, every thought every deed, every development that has ever happened since this universe’s existence. Ervin Laszlo

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…a permanent akashic record…

• Just as the words and music of a song are preserved on audio tape, or a compact disc, so is the story of your life saved in the Akashic Records. Robert Cheney
• The akashic record is like an immense photographic film, registering all the desires and earth experiences of our planet. Those who perceive it will see pictured thereon: The life experiences of every human being since time began, the reactions to experience of the entire animal kingdom, the aggregation of the thought-forms of a karmic nature (based on desire) of every human unit throughout time. Herein lies the great deception of the records. Only a trained occultist can distinguish between actual experience and those astral pictures created by imagination and keen desire. Alice A. Bailey
• The Akashic Records, or “The Book of Life,” can be equated to the universe’s super-computer system. It is this system that acts as the central storehouse of all information for every individual who has ever lived upon the earth. More than just a reservoir of events, the Akashic Records contain every deed, word, feeling, thought, and intent that has ever occurred at any time in the history of the world. Much more than simply a memory storehouse, however, these Akashic Records are interactive in that they have a tremendous influence upon our everyday lives, our relationships, our feelings and belief systems, and the potential realities we draw toward us. Kevin J. Todeschi
• The Akashic Records are the recordings of one’s Soul’s experiences since inception. It is its past, present, and the possibility of its unfoldment in the future events. Ernesto Ortiz
• The Akashic Records are the recorded memory of every Soul in the Universe. Everything that was chosen, experienced, and felt, is recorded and kept forever in the Akashic Records, for each and every Soul. Nuno Alves
• The Akashic Record is an astral light that functions as a film on which everything, wherever it is, that happens, is indelibly imprinted. Thus, nobody can retract anything of what he has done, because it has been recorded for eternity. Each action of every human is an important part of the evolution of humanity, and according to the principle of chain reaction, can have unforeseen consequences. Daniel Meurois-Givaudan
• …man can penetrate to the eternal origins of the things which vanish with time. A man broadens his power of cognition in this way if he is no longer limited to external evidence where knowledge of the past is concerned. Then he can see in events what is not perceptible to the senses, that part which time cannot destroy. He penetrates from transitory to non-transitory history. It is a fact that this history is written in other characters than is ordinary history. In gnosis and in theosophy it is called the “Akasha Chronicle”…To the uninitiated, who cannot yet convince himself of the reality of a separate spiritual world through his own experience, the initiate easily appears to be a visionary, if not something worse. The one who has acquired the ability to perceive in the spiritual world comes to know past events in their eternal character. They do not stand before him like the dead testimony of history, but appear in full life. In a certain sense, what has happened takes place before him. Rudolf Steiner
• Akasha is the subtle supersensuous spiritual essence which pervades all space; the primordial substance …the Universal Space in which lies inherent the eternal Ideation of the Universe …and from which radiates the First Logos. Elena P. Blavataskiy
• Early Buddhism, then, clearly held to a permanency of records in the Akasa and the potential capacity of man to read the same, when he was evoluted to the stage of true individual enlightenment. Henry Steel Olcott
• In theosophy and anthroposophy, the Akashic records are a compendium of all human events, thoughts, words, emotions, and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future. Wikipedia
• It is no exaggeration to state that the computer has transformed (and is still in the process of transforming) the entire planet. Whether it’s technology, transportation, communication, education, or entertainment, the computer age has revolutionized the globe and the ways in which we understand and interact with one another. No segment of modern society has gone unaffected. The amount of information now stored in computer memory and crossing the Internet highway daily is literally unfathomable. And yet, this vast complex of computer systems and collective databases cannot begin to come close to the power, the memory, or the omniscient recording capacity of the Akashic Records. Kevin J. Todeschi
• Some people speak of the Akashic Records as if they were on an IBM mainframe that’s out there somewhere near the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Frederick Lenz
• Some sources say that there is a repository of information, which exists outside of the individual; in fact, this repository exists outside the rendered world. It is referred to as the Akashic records, and it stores not just our karma but the actual events of every single past life. According to Twitchell, “these soul records consist of the past incarnations on the physical, astral, causal planes.” Rizwan Virk
• The Akasha is the mightiest, the highest, the most unimaginable, the primordial existence, the original cause of all things created; it is the casual sphere. Therefore the Akasha is spaceless and timeless; it is uncreated, incomprehensible and indefinable. Franz Bardon
• The Akashic Records contain the entire history of every soul since the dawn of Creation. These records connect each one of us to one another. They contain the stimulus for every archetypal symbol or mythic story which has ever deeply touched patterns of human behavior and experience. They have been the inspiration for dreams and invention. They draw us toward or repel us from one another. They mold and shape levels of human consciousness. They are a portion of Divine Mind. They are the unbiased judge and jury that attempt to guide, educate, and transform every individual to become the very best that she or he can be. They embody an ever-changing fluid array of possible futures that are called into potential as we humans interact and learn from the data that has already been accumulated. Kevin J. Todeschi
• The Akashic Records is actually an opening into the collective experience of All That Is and is also the beginning of understanding the experience of Unity. Cheryl Trine
• The idea of a universal memory of qualia is somewhat related to the mystical concept of ‘Akashic records.’ The Akashic records are postulated to be a non-physical, universal ‘filing system’ of all human experience, as well as the experiences of other conscious entities. Mystics believe that humans can access the Akashic records through altered states of consciousness, thereby gaining knowledge otherwise impossible to reach through ordinary physical means. Bernardo Kastrup
• The quantum hologram is a mechanism to explain this concept of the ancients of the Akashic Records. It also explains Rupert Sheldrake’s work among animals [his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, leading to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory]. Edgar Mitchell
• Theosophy also teaches the existence of a universal diffused and highly ethereal medium, which has been called the “Astral Light” and “Akasha.” It is the repository of all past, present, and future events, and in it are recorded the effects of spiritual causes, and of all acts and thoughts from the direction of either spirit or matter.  William Quan
• Today, modern science is recognizing there is something called as akashic intelligence. That is, empty space has a certain intelligence. Sadhguru
• What is the Akasha Chronicle? We can form the truest conception of it by realising that what comes to pass on our earth makes a lasting impression upon certain delicate essences, an impression which can be discovered by a seer who has attained Initiation. It is not an ordinary but a living Chronicle.   Suppose a human being lived in the first century after Christ; what he thought, felt and willed in those days, what passed into deeds — this is not obliterated but preserved in this delicate essence. The seer can behold it-not as if it were recorded in a history book, but as it actually happened.  How a man moved, what he did, a journey he took-it can all be seen in these spiritual pictures; the impulses of will, the feelings, the thoughts, can also be seen.  Rudolph Steiner

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…eternal entries in the “Book of Life”…

• In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the idea of a universal memory of qualia may bear some resemblance to the ‘Book of Life,’ where God records the lives of human beings. Bernardo Kastrup
• Information about these Akashic Records – this Book of Life – can be found in folklore, in myth, and throughout the Old and New Testaments. It is traceable at least as far back as the Semitic peoples and includes the Arabs, the Assyrians, the Phoenicians, the Babylonians, and the Hebrews. Among each of these peoples was the belief that there was in existence some kind of celestial tablets which contained the history of humankind as well as all manner of spiritual information. Kevin J. Todeschi
• This age will comprehend but little of the works of Purity and Love; but not a word is lost, for in the Book of God’s Remembrance a registry is made of every thought and word and deed.   Levi H. Dowling
• Upon time and space is written the thoughts, the deeds, the activities of an entity – as in relationships to its environs, its hereditary influence; as directed – or judgment drawn by or according to what the entity’s ideal is. Hence, as it has been oft called, the record is God’s book of remembrance; and each entity, each soul – as the activities of a single day of an entity in the material world – either makes same good or bad or indifferent, depending upon the entity’s application of self towards that which is the ideal manner for the use of time, opportunity and the expression of that for which each soul enters a material manifestation. The interpretation then as drawn here is with the desire and hope that, in opening this for the entity, the experience may be one of helpfulness and hopefulness. Edgar Cayce
• When discussing the Book of Life, he stated it that it was, “The record of God, of thee, thy soul within and the knowledge of same. Edgar Cayce

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…eternal memories in the mind of God…

• God can dissolve these dreams any time and bring them back again in better forms. But nothing is erased from the Infinite Mind; every dream is eternally imprinted there. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Once you know that the body alone dies and not the continuity of memory and the sense of ‘I am’ reflected in it, you are afraid no longer. Nisargadatta Maharaja
• I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble the life of a man? Where do I live, in the memory of God? Catherynne M. Valente
• The cumulative nature of the evolutionary process, the fact that memory is preserved, means that life grows not just through a random proliferation of new forms, but there’s a kind of cumulative quality… Rupert Sheldrake
• The past is not lost, but still exists in some form accessible to human perception. Our normal view of the universe makes no allowance for such a state of affairs, but the holographic model does. Bohm’s notion that the flow of time is the product of a constant series of unfoldings and enfoldings suggests that as the present enfolds and becomes part of the past, it does not cease to exist, but simply returns to the cosmic storehouse of the implicate. Or as Bohm puts it, The past is active in the present as a kind of implicate order. Talbot
• All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle’s or the squirrel’s or the sparrow’s. All are held together. Daniel Quinn
• And when the stream
  Which overflowed the soul was passed away,
  A consciousness remained that it had left
  Deposited upon the silent shore
  Of memory images and precious thoughts
  That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
  William Wordsworth
• The mind of God has perfect memory and no experience is ever forgotten. Anthony Lambert
• Questioner: With the disappearance of the body, does the knower disappear? Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: Just as the knower of the body appears at birth, so he disappears at death. Questioner: And nothing remains? Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: Life remains. Consciousness needs a vehicle and an instrument for its manifestation. When life produces another body, another knower comes into being, Questioner:  Is there a causal link between the successive body-knowers, or body-minds?  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj: Yes, there is something that may be called the memory body, or causal body, a record of all that was thought, wanted and done. It is like a cloud of images held together.

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…part of a “memory bank” that becomes more and more complete with time…

• Each conscious being, throughout its existence, contributes certain insights of understanding to the universal memory of qualia. A record of those contributed insights survives the lifetime of any individual entity. It grows over time, becoming richer and richer in impressions, insights, understanding and self-awareness. Eventually, in a cosmological future, it may become complete. Bernardo Kastrup

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…thus expanding and enriching the contents and understanding of consciousness

• There seems to be no other logical way for there to be a universal process of enrichment of consciousness other than through something like universal memory of qualia. Bernardo Kastrup
• The ultimate purpose of existence is an enrichment of consciousness with understanding and self-awareness. Bernardo Kastrup
• The meaning of life is a gradual return to a unified, boundless state of consciousness enriched by the understanding and self-awareness accumulated during material experience through the transceivers of consciousness. Bernardo Kastrup
• Once all potentials are ultimately realized, the illusion of individualization will have served its purpose. At that moment—it is logical to infer—the illusion of fragmentation, individuality and limits will be lifted. The universe will be complete in its comprehension and awareness of itself. Consciousness will return to its intrinsic, boundless state of unity, but now enriched with complete understanding and recursive self-awareness. Bernardo Kastrup
• Unified memory of qualia allows the universal process of enrichment to take place over time, in a staged, evolutionary manner. Bernardo Kastrup

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Every experience and detail is noticed and remembered by the divine mind

• Even the hairs on your head are counted. So don’t be afraid! Jesus
• Not a sparrow drops unnoticed by the Mind of THE ALL—  even the hairs on our head are numbered as the scriptures have said. The Kybalian
• We forget; God remembers. Charles R. Swindoll
• In the Musaf Amidah, the prayer at the heart of the Rosh Hashanah service, we refer to God as “zokher kol hanishkahot” (the One who remembers what has been forgotten). The essential remembering is done by God. While we do our share, each according to our ability, God is the one who remembers even that which is forgotten, “for there is no forgetting in your realm”. We are safe in God’s memory. Mychal Springer
• After all, God is God because he remembers. Elie Wiesel
• The Thoughts of God are far beyond all change, and shine forever. They await not birth. They wait for welcome and remembering. A Course in Miracles
• Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl’d, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.  Alexander Pope

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We have access to the memories in consciousness via the collective unconscious…

• Nature herself has a memory. There is some indefinable psychic element in the earth’s atmosphere upon which all human and physical actions or phenomena are photographed or impressed. Under certain inexplicable conditions, normal persons who are not seers may observe Nature’s mental records like pictures cast upon a screen — often like moving pictures. Evans-Wentz
• Such a database, comprising all of the information ever available to human consciousness, implies stunning inherent capabilities; it’s far more than just a giant storehouse of information awaiting a retrieval process. The great promise of the database is its capacity to “know” virtually anything the moment it’s “asked,” for it’s able to tap into all that has ever been experienced anywhere in time. David R. Hawkins
• Carl Jung coined the phrase “collective unconscious”—which refers to the bottomless, subconscious pool of all of the shared experiences of the human race. We may think of it as a vast, hidden database of human awareness, which is characterized by powerful, universal organizing patterns. Such a database, comprising all of the information ever available to human consciousness, implies stunning inherent capabilities; it’s far more than just a giant storehouse of information awaiting a retrieval process. The great promise of the database is its capacity to “know” virtually anything the moment it’s “asked,” for it’s able to tap into all that has ever been experienced anywhere in time. This database is the origin of all information obtained sub- or suprarationally—by intuition or premonition; by divination or dream; or simply by “lucky” guess. It’s the foundation of genius, the well of inspiration, and the source of “uncanny” psychic knowledge, including “foreknowledge.” David R. Hawkins
• This database is the origin of all information obtained sub- or suprarationally—by intuition or premonition; by divination or dream; or simply by “lucky” guess. It’s the foundation of genius, the well of inspiration, and the source of “uncanny” psychic knowledge, including “foreknowledge.” David R. Hawkins
• The ancients had a term in the mystical tradition called the Akashic Records, which was suggestive that nature didn’t lose its experience, that the information accumulated was available forever. Edgar Mitchell
• One’s inner life is actually a public document that can be accessed by anyone, anywhere, at any time. No secrets are possible; all stands revealed… It is a certainty that in both this world and the next, all stands revealed and accountability is a certainty. For it to be otherwise, the universe would have to have been created as unjust, which is not possible as an expression of the nature of Divinity. David Hawkins

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…especially those psychically attuned to it

• The record that the individual entity itself writes upon the skein of time and space, through patience – and is opened when self has attuned to the infinite, and may be read by those attuning to that consciousness… Kevin J. Todeschi
• The past is not lost, but still exists in some form accessible to human perception. This is why archaeologists sometime use psychics. Michael Talbot
• The individual human psyche has – at least potentially – the capacity of accessing all the information stored in the akashic field. It can do it not only in the role of an uninvolved observer, but also as a protagonist, identifying experientially with all the people, animals, plants, and even inorganic objects and processes that are part of this field. Stanislav Grof M.D.
• …man can penetrate to the eternal origins of the things which vanish with time… he can see in events what is not perceptible to the senses, that part which time cannot destroy. He penetrates from transitory to non-transitory history… In gnosis and in theosophy it is called the “Akasha Chronicle”… The one who has acquired the ability to perceive in the spiritual world comes to know past events in their eternal character. They do not stand before him like the dead testimony of history, but appear in full life. In a certain sense, what has happened takes place before him. Rudolf Steiner
• A great deal of contemporary information on the Akashic Records has been made available by both reputable psychics and modern-day mystics – individuals who have somehow perceived beyond the limits of three dimensions. Kevin J. Todeschi
• For forty-three years of his adult life, Edgar Cayce possessed the uncanny ability to lie down on a couch, close his eyes, fold his hands over his stomach, and put himself into some kind of an altered state in which virtually any type of information was available. Edgar Cayce
• If one is able to access life through the akashic mind, not through the individual mind, if you see the akashic mind clearly, you not only see possible situations for yourself, you see possible situations for just about anything. Sadhguru
• I believe the fabled akashic records are part of a medium that permeates all dimensions, on all levels, and has many different aspects. They are a permanent record of every thought, perception, and event that has ever occurred, like a huge and infinitely detailed history book, where past events can be accessed, viewed, and even experienced firsthand. The akashic records can be accessed and experienced within the astral planes (during Out-of-the-body-experiences) or with clairvoyance, remote viewing, and other psychic abilities. Robert Bruce
• Many individuals are aware of the fact that psychic Edgar Cayce attributed the source of much of his remarkable information as being the Akashic Records. Referred to in scripture as “the Book of Life,” these Akashic Records essentially keep track of each and every soul and that soul’s learning agenda through all time. Kevin J. Todeschi

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The memories in God’s mind have an ongoing creative effect on events unfolding in the present

• Most individuals have heard of the phenomena called the Near Death Experience in which people undergo a partial death transition and experience a personal life review. In a very real sense what is taking place during this life review is that the individual is tapping into her or his own Akashic Records. Ultimately, these records might be equated to the universe’s central computer storehouse, tracking all information for every individual who has ever lived upon the earth. However, much more than simply a memory storehouse, the Akashic Records are interactive in that they have a tremendous influence upon our everyday lives, our relationships, our feelings and belief systems, and the potential realities we are constantly drawing toward us. Kevin J. Todeschi
• The Akashic Records are much more than simply an account of static data which may be gleaned by a sensitive; instead, the records have an ongoing creative stimulus upon the present. Kevin J. Todeschi
• The akashic records also contain probability energies that are records of the future. Probability energies stem from and are generated by past and present events, actions, and thoughts. Robert Bruce
• According to Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), Russian immigrant, mystic, and founder of the Theosophical Society, the Akashic Records are much more than simply an account of static data which may be gleaned by a sensitive; instead, the records have an ongoing creative stimulus upon the present. Kevin J. Todeschi
• Bohm’s notion that the flow of time is the product of a constant series of unfoldings and enfoldings suggests that as the present enfolds and becomes part of the past, it does not cease to exist, but simply returns to the cosmic storehouse of the implicate. Or as Bohm puts it, “The past is active in the present as a kind of implicate order.” Michael Talbot

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If it is true that all experience is eternally recorded, then our lives, especially the best parts, vibrate for eternity

• Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• What we do in life ripples in eternity. Marcus Aurelius
• Every act of kindness is noticed by the universe and is preserved forever. David R. Hawkins
• All your past except its beauty is gone… and nothing is left but a blessing. A Course in Miracles

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Death is a remembering, not a forgetting

• Socrates claimed that death is remembering, not forgetting. Tim Freke
• The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. H. Lawrence
• There is no forgetting, even in death. H. Lawrence
• Those who have had near-death experiences often report total recall of what has happened in their lives, which they review from a detached perspective. Tim Freke
• The words that come out of our mouth do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time. Elif Safak
• The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body. Frederick Lenz
• Even if you rationally accept the above, you may still have a nagging feeling that something will change or be lost; that you will somehow not be quite yourself upon physical death. However, if you accept our argumentation up to this point, the very opposite must the true. Indeed, can you remember what it was like to be you when you were a baby or a toddler? Can you relive in your mind, with all its richness, textures and nuances, the sweetness and lightness of being a child? Can you remember and subjectively relive every intense experience you ever had in your life? Every moment, every person that made a mark on you as an individual? Probably not. Yet, all these feelings and perceptions are an inherent part of what it is to be you. In a certain way, you are not quite a complete version of yourself right now. But if your consciousness were to reach a state wherein all those feelings and perceptions would return and be relived at once, concurrently and continuously, you would be more you than ever before. Bernardo Kastrup
• Nobody ever truly dies and nobody is ever truly lost to others. Life is not ephemeral, as feared by Kundera. In fact, Nietzsche’s ‘eternal return’—the idea that everything that has ever happened will happen again, and again—seems to be true in the only way that really counts: the eternity of our subjective experiences. Bernardo Kastrup

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After death, the memory of our life experiences merges with the memories of all other life experiences and lives on forever

• If your consciousness returns fully to its underlying boundless state, you will also be everybody else to the same extent that you will be more yourself. So there is no loss, but only an addition; and what an addition. Bernardo Kastrup
• You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. Khalil Gibran
• It is entirely logical to state, without any contradiction, that physical death may entail the lifting of the illusion of your individuality, or ego, without the loss of anything that has something to do with the experience of being you. Bernardo Kastrup
• Now take your visualization one step further and imagine that you could continuously and concurrently live every single moment of the lives of every conscious being that has ever lived in the universe, at once, in a timeless fashion. This would probably get you closer to the idea of unified memory of qualia. Bernardo Kastrup
• Once returned to its boundless state, thereby regaining access to the universal memory of qualia, your consciousness will likely be able to come in more intimate contact with other individualized ‘fragments’ of consciousness than ever possible when confined to a physical brain. These other individualized ‘fragments’ of consciousness could be those of living people as well as of people who have already passed away. After all, we have inferred that all past is present at the level of universal memory of qualia. In fact, to describe this as ‘intimate contact’ is an understatement: it must be more like being the other person, in every way that it means something to be another person while still being you. There can be no higher or more intense proximity or intimacy conceivable. Bernardo Kastrup

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Nothing about us is ever lost

• Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. William Ellery Channing
• Since every object that has ever been in your consciousness is inferred to stay in unified consciousness as a permanent experience—recall the ‘universal memory of qualia’—then there can never be anything about you, any aspect or property of you, that can ever be lost at a universal scale. The very subjective experience of being you, with all that it entails, including all the feelings, impressions and insights that you are having right now, as you read this, can never be lost. Bernardo Kastrup
• Since you are a manifestation of a unified consciousness, this entire collection of experiences with which you identify yourself must be, by default, forever preserved in the universal memory of qualia. Therefore, there is nothing about who or what you are that is lost upon the loss of coherence of your physical body; at least nothing fundamentally more than what is lost if you, for instance, throw some old clothes away.Bernardo Kastrup

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God’s great art work called Life is eternal

• Some believe that all life experiences are recorded by God, thus creating a permanent work of art that is kept for eternity. Anthony Lambert
• Art is primordially eternal. Egon Schiele
• Art is Eternal Wisdom; what is not Art soon perishes. Austin Osman Spare
• Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man. Martha Graham
• The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment. Tennessee Williams
• Art is eternal, but life is short. Evelyn De Morgan
• High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. Theophile Gautier
• Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal. Madeleine L’Engle
• Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life. Lawren Harris
• It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal. Clive Bell
• Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal. Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The Edgar Cayce readings suggest that each of us writes the story of our lives through our thoughts, our deeds, and our interactions with the rest of creation. Kevin J. Todeschi

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Some argue that not just the past, but the future too, exists in consciousness

• As disconcerting as having access to the entire past is, it pales beside the notion that the future is also accessible in the cosmic hologram. Still, there is an enormous body of evidence that proves at least some future events are as easy to see as past events. The holographic theory suggests that our past, instead of fading into oblivion, it too remains recorded in the cosmic hologram and can always be accessed once again. Michael Talbot
• The future thus exists as abstract probability energies, generated by past and present events, actions, and thoughts. The stronger the probability of a future event, the stronger the energies associated with it. Some probabilities, like big natural disasters, are so strong as to be virtually unchangeable by any possible human-precipitated modifying action. These events can thus aptly be called the inescapable energies of destiny. Robert Bruce