Tapping into the Akasha
Ancient practices. Modern research. No spiritual gatekeeping.
By Rohini Moradi
I sometimes jokingly call this book my diss track on modern New Age spirituality.
Because I became frustrated.
So much of what gets presented as new spiritual wisdom isn't new at all. Practices are removed from their histories, renamed, repackaged, and sometimes dressed in scientific language that doesn't actually mean what people claim it means.
I wanted to do something different.
Tapping into the Akasha brings together ancient contemplative and spiritual practices, the traditions and ideas that shaped our understanding of the Akasha, and modern research relevant to many of the practices we use to alter attention, perception, and awareness.
Rather than asking you to believe everything I believe, the book invites you to experiment.
Try the practices.
Pay attention to what happens.
Question your assumptions.
Develop your own relationship with the unknown.
You don't need another guru.
You need tools, context, and your own curiosity.
Spirituality has a history.
Many practices we now encounter through modern spirituality have histories far older and more complicated than the language currently surrounding them.
Meditation didn't begin with an app.
Breathwork wasn't invented on Instagram.
Altered states of consciousness aren't a discovery of the wellness industry.
And ancient philosophical ideas don't become more legitimate simply because we attach words like quantum, frequency, or neuroscience to them.
I wrote Tapping into the Akasha because I wanted to go underneath the modern language.
The book draws from ancient practices and philosophical traditions while also examining modern research relevant to meditation, attention, visualization, consciousness, the nervous system, and other mechanisms involved in how we perceive and experience reality.
Science and spirituality don't have to prove one another to be interesting in conversation.
Where research exists, I want to talk about it.
Where we're dealing with philosophy, tradition, metaphysics, or personal experience, I want to call it that too.
For me, the mystery becomes more interesting when we don't have to pretend we know more than we do.
