Goines On: Sacred scrolling

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Goines noticed one morning how particularly closely he seemed to be following the wanderings of his mind. Sometimes the felt compelled to scroll along, as though he weren‘t in charge of where his mind was taking him. But he seemed to be doing the noting, the mental recording, the ticking off, as though creating an account of something singular and important, however trivial it might actually be.
    He was reminded of something called the Akashic records. He thought it was from the Old Testament, an eternal record of everything that happened. He wondered whether some ancient Goines had conceived of (or invented) Akashic records?
    This ancient Goines probably thought of “events” as external events, happenings that could be observed from the outside, like world history. Much of the Old Testament was, after all, a telling of the history of the Jewish people.
    Contemporary Goines, Goines thought, included private events within a person’s own mind as well, events in the minds of everyone who had a mind
    But he thought the Old Testament said the eternal record was of everything God saw, and surely God was privy to everyone’s mind. So maybe the ancient Goines shared contemporary Goines’ concept of the eternal records.
    Goines googled to find out where in the Old Testament the Akashic records were explained.
    What!? He quickly discovered that the concept was fairly recent, and it apparently had nothing to do with the Bible. Wikipedia said about Akashic records that

In the religion of theosophy and the philosophical school called anthroposophy, the Akashic records are a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future in terms of all entities and life forms, not just human. They are believed by theosophists to be encoded in a non-physical plane of existence known as the mental plane.

    Wikipedia’s next sentence, of course, said, “There is no scientific evidence for the existence of the Akashic records.”
    Still, Goines thought with a smile, it was fun to think about such things. He had probably been having fun 30-35 years earlier, when he was dabbling in New Age philosophy, reading about Austrian theosophist/anthroposophist Rudolf Steiner and esotericist Edgar Cayce, perhaps looking for something to help him escape from whatever dissatisfaction he was feeling in his final years at IBM.
    And was the reason he was observing his mind intently these mornings simply that grinding coffee beans and cleaning up after breakfast weren’t satisfying enough by themselves?

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