In my opinion this month's treat is 'Hacking the Akashic Records: The Next Domain for Military Intelligence Operations?' by Jeff Levin in (2020) 76(2) World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research 102-117.
Levin comments
This paper outlines a hypothetical six-dimension doctrine for military intelligence-gathering in the Akashic domain. The Akashic records are described by esotericists and mystics as a permanent record of all thoughts, feelings, and actions, stored in a kind of cosmic memory bank outside of space and time. Psychics, clairvoyants, and other intuitives purport to read the records, suggesting that development of an operational strategy for accessing such information may be possible. Command oversight, however, would present significant moral challenges, as “hacking” into this information would be a personally intrusive invasion of privacy with serious repercussions for the operators and state sponsors.Levin goes on to state
Not so long ago, cyber/information was introduced as a new paradigm for a military accustomed to a four-dimension land-sea-air-space doctrine. Accordingly, cyber would seem to be the ultimate domain of warfare operations. After transitioning from the physical planet (land and sea) to the atmosphere (air) and beyond (space), the virtual information domain (cyber) must presumably be the final frontier. This five-dimension doctrine has been operational for a quarter of a century (see Fogelman, 1995), and is a cutting edge of the U.S. military’s strategic plans moving forward (Card and Rogers, 2012; Department of Defense, 2015). But, according to the publications cited above, perhaps it is time to consider a sixth domain of operations.We simply can't have too many dimensions.
In the present paper, material is presented which cautiously reviews the possibility of a post-cyber domain for intelligence operations, founded on the esoteric concept of the Akashic records—a repository of information and sensory/thought impressions “located” in the nonphysical realms akin to Jung’s collective unconscious—thus moving quite beyond the present five-dimension doctrine. A new doctrine, made operational, would draw on human resources that would seem to surpass current consensus definitions of human capabilities, and would interface with (meta-)physical realities that would seem to surpass current consensus definitions of physical reality. An Akashic domain for military intelligence would thus represent a substantial expansion of the concept of battlespace to include a “dimension” that is located, apparently, outside of space—and time—as conventionally understood.After a quick stop that cites authorities such as Madame Blavatsky and Ervin Lazslo - alas, no citation of peers such as the Comte de St Germain, Cagliostro, Lobsang Rampa, Aleister Crowley or Obi-Wan Kenobi - we are presented with -
Unlike much of conventional remote reviewing, Akashic readings may be more suited to reading the mind and consciousness of enemy targets and clairvoyantly viewing the future behavior and collective action of such individuals. The targets would not be military installations, geographic or geological features, or other natural or man-made structures, but rather the psyche and life course of persons of interest. The operational objectives would involve understanding targets’ presumptions and motivations and discerning their likely decision-making calculus and future (and past) actions. Engaging in such readings and tasking subordinates to do so would, for sure, be considerably more complex than conventional behavioral profiling, involving a much more invasive probe of the personal space of one’s targets. Such tasking may potentially present moral red flags cautioning against the use and misuse of information gleaned from Akashic readings that were intended for strategic and tactical purposes (more on this later).That is only partly redeemed by -
The past history of military and intelligence explorations into the world of psi and psychotronic technologies suggests that restoration of R and D funds may be a tall order, especially in the present political environment, unless such funding would originate in off-the-books or black-budget sources. At one time, according to Charles Tart, “a lot of research money was spent …. but it has all pretty much disappeared” (Tart, 2002, p. 33). The present author is not qualified to opine whether the odds of its restoration are growing higher or lower.I will risk a guess - we won't be spending a lot of money on astral travel or reading the akashic tea leaves to offset flight cancellations attributable to COVID-19.
Undeterred, Levin states -
Once engaged, hacking the Akashic domain would seem to cross a line that is sacrosanct, setting in motion retributive cosmic or spiritual forces from which there may be no turning back, in the sense of a karmic backlash. ...
Because the Akashic realm is said to exist outside of the physical universe, ops that seek to breach the target space presumably cannot be prevented or defended against by naturalistic means, that is by any three-dimensional, physical, mechanical technology. Akashic hacking thus would not require technology, strictly speaking, but rather a developed paranormal or spiritual gift that enables one to “read” this substrate of reality. Another consideration: the Akashic realm may be accessible through the dream state (Krippner, 2006). As noted, this does not really involve hacking, as the term is generally understood. Information is presumably available to anyone with the requisite skillset and karmic balance sheet to enable accessing the Akashic records, through whatever conscious, subconscious, or unconscious means.
