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Akasha is the Hindi/Sanskrit word meaning "aether" in both it's elemental and mythological senses. In Hinduism it is one of the Panchamahabhuta, or "five great elements." In paganism and Wicca, it is the unifying energy inherent in every living creature on the planet, and in all four elements (earth, air, water, and fire) in nature. On the pentagram, akasha is assigned to the fifth top point, and the "other" element. Essentially it is spirit: and soul,the all-encompassing spirit energy of the Goddess and God. Hindi (हिन्दी hindī) is an Indo-European language spoken mainly in North and Central India. ... Sanskrit ( संस्कृतम्) is a classical language of India and a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. ... The aether is the fifth classical element in ancient Greek philosophy and science. ... Aether (upper air), in Greek mythology, was the personification of the upper sky, space and heaven. ... Basic beliefs What can be said to be common to all Hindus is the belief in Dharma (duties and obligations), Samsara (Reincarnation/rebirth), Karma (actions, leading to a cause and effect relationship), and Moksha (salvation) of every soul through a variety of paths, such as Bhakti (devotion), Karma (action) and... Many ancient philosophies use a set of archetypal classical elements to explain patterns in nature. ... Paganism (from Latin paganus) and Heathenry are catch-all terms which have come to connote a broad set of spiritual/religious beliefs and practices of a natural religion, as opposed to the Abrahamic religions. ... A Neopagan pentagram (circumscribed): a symbol used by many Wiccans. ... A planet is generally considered to be a relatively large mass of accreted matter in orbit around a star that is not a star itself. ... Many ancient philosophies use a set of archetypal classical elements to explain patterns in nature. ... A pentagram, pentacle, pentalpha, or pentangle A pentagram is a five-pointed star drawn with five straight strokes. ... The English word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus, meaning breath. ... The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the ethereal substance — spirit (Hebrew:rooah or nefesh) — particular to a unique living being. ... Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture A goddess is a female deity, in contrast with a male deity known as a god. A great many cultures have goddesses, sometimes alone, but more often as part of a larger pantheon that includes both of the conventional genders and in some cases... God is the term used to denote the Supreme Being believed by many people, and especially followers of monotheistic religions, to be the creator, ruler and/or the sum total of, existence. ...


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  • Akashic Records
  • Ervin László
  • A Texas power trio (heavy metal) based in Brownsville (then later Memphis, TN) who operated in 1989-1992.

The Akashic Records (Akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning sky, space or aether) are said to be a collection of mystical knowledge that is stored in the aether; i. ... Ervin László is a Hungarian philosopher of science, systems theorist, integral theorist, founder of the Club of Budapest, and editor of World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution. ...

References

Indian Physics Outline of Early History, S. Kak (2003)

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