Am I Making It Up? Learning to Trust What You Get in the Akashic Records
Written by Reese Maskwa, Entrepreneur
Reese Maskwa is an entrepreneur, visionary, and founder of Quanta-versity and Sacred Roots. Her ventures explore human potential, consciousness, business energetics, and quantum energetics, while creating transformational education and immersive travel experiences in Costa Rica, with a long-term vision for global expansion.
Every student I have ever taught has asked me the same question, usually in the first week, usually with an embarrassed little laugh. "How do I know I am not just making this up?" I asked it too. I learned to read the Akashic Records at 27, and I was good at doubting what I got. A name would arrive, or a picture, or a sentence in my head that I had not planned to think, and within seconds, my mind would start cross-examining it. Did I invent that? Do I just want it to be true? Is this whole thing my imagination in a fancy outfit?
Seven years of teaching practitioners later, here is what I tell every beginner on day one. The doubt is not a sign you cannot do this. The doubt is where everybody starts. Trust in the Records is a skill, and like every skill, it gets built through practice and proof, not through hoping you will suddenly feel certain.
First, let me say plainly what I mean by the Akashic Records. Think of them as the record of your soul, every pattern you carry, every tendency you repeat, every lesson your life keeps handing you in different packaging. When I open the Records for someone, I am reading those patterns. When I teach students to open their own, they learn to read themselves with the same clarity they usually save for reading other people.
So how do you tell a real hit from your imagination? Start with how the information arrives.
Everyone receives through their strongest channel first. For some people, it is energy and feeling, a heaviness, a lift, a knowing in the body before any words show up. For others, it is images, quick pictures or scenes. For others, it is words, phrases that land fully formed. Most beginners are waiting for the channel they have seen in movies, usually vivid pictures, while their own strongest channel is quietly delivering the goods in feelings, and they dismiss it because it feels too ordinary. The first step of trust is learning which channel is yours and letting it lead.
The second step is testing. I teach my students a simple practice. When you get something in the Records, write it down exactly as it came, date it, and close the notebook. No editing, no polishing it into something prettier. Then live your week. You will be surprised how often the thing you wrote shows up. A conversation confirms it, a situation repeats the pattern it named, a decision gets easy because you already know. Imagination is slippery. It changes every time you remember it. What comes from the Records stays steady, and life keeps cosigning it. Three months of that notebook will do more for your confidence than any amount of me reassuring you.
There are also mistakes that make the Records feel silent, and they are worth naming. Asking yes or no questions is the big one. The Records answer in patterns and pictures, and a yes or no question starves them. Ask open questions instead. What is this pattern teaching me? What am I not seeing about this situation? What is mine to do next? The second mistake is fishing. If you open the Records already knowing the answer you want, you will hear your own wanting at full volume. Go in curious instead of certain. The third is testing the Records like a slot machine, asking the same question six ways in one sitting. Ask once, write it down, and let life answer.
I know what this work can do because I have watched it rebuild a life at close range, mine. In 2010, I was disabled and in chronic pain, and my world had narrowed down to watching other people live. Reading my own patterns, layer by layer, and choosing differently in small moments over and over is what gave me my health, my work, and my home back. Today, I live in Costa Rica, and I run a school, Quanta-Versity, where I train practitioners from my kitchen table to the world. Nothing about that started with me feeling gifted. It started with me asking whether I was making it up and deciding to find out properly.
So if you are sitting there with a notebook, wondering whether the sentence that just landed in your head means anything, here is my honest answer. Write it down. Date it. Watch what your life does with it. Trust is earned, and the Records are patient teachers. They will keep showing up until you believe your own notebook.
Reese Maskwa is the founder of Quanta-Versity, where science, consciousness, and metaphysics meet. Seven years into working with the Akashic Records, metaphysics, and quantum energetics, she trains practitioners and teaches business owners to read the energy of their business. She is a Brainz Magazine featured contributor and lives in Costa Rica.
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Reese Maskwa, Entrepreneur
Reese Maskwa's entrepreneurial journey grew from transforming her own life in ways she once believed were almost impossible and discovering just how capable humans can be. Through Quanta-Versity, she is reimagining education around consciousness, human potential, and the forces that shape our reality, while Sacred Roots brings education into the real world through immersive experiences in Costa Rica. Her vision is to create education that doesn't simply teach, but changes what people believe is possible. Her ultimate goal is to use education and experience as catalysts for personal and global transformation, and she believes we're only beginning to understand what humans are truly capable of.
