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The Magic of Akasha - The Space in Between
May 27, 2026
Explore the ancient Vedic concept of Akasha - not as empty space, but as a living field of memory, connection, and becoming.
This piece blends philosophy, poetry, and music to explore the idea that nothing truly disappears. Every thought, sound, emotion, and experience leaves a trace within the fabric of reality itself. Rather than being separate from the universe, we are expressions of it - participating in an interconnected field where silence is not empty, and loss is transformation.
"Space Is Not Empty, It Remembers" is a reflection on consciousness, continuity, and the illusion of separation between ourselves and the world around us.
Full song + article:
https://lancelhoff.com/akasha-space-is-not-empty-it-remembers/
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So imagine you're just standing in a
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room right after someone finishes
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speaking. The conversation is totally
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over. The audio stops, but is the
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vibration of that voice actually gone?
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Welcome to this custom deep dive. Today
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we're unpacking a really fascinating
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article about accasha.
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>> Yeah, it's this ancient Vadic
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philosophy. It basically asserts that
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space is um not just some empty void but
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a living field of continuity that
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actually remembers,
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>> right? It remembers. And our mission
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today is to fundamentally shift how you
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perceive the physical space around you
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>> because the immediate instinct is to
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think that you know when a sound stops
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or an object is moved the space just
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goes back to being empty.
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>> Exactly.
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>> But the concept of accasha suggests that
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energy and information they just change
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form. So a spoken word becomes a
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vibration which then becomes a physical
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movement
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>> which turns into interaction. Right.
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>> Right. And eventually it settles as a
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memory.
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>> The source text actually has this great
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poetic line for this. I think it says
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nothing leaves, it only shifts. But I
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mean, mechanically, what does it
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literally mean for a physical space to
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like settle as memory?
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>> Well, think about the physics of sound.
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When someone speaks, they release
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acoustic energy.
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>> Mhm.
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>> And that energy doesn't just vanish when
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you stop hearing it. It travels outward.
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It hits the walls and it physically
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vibrates the atomic structure of the
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room itself.
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>> Wow. So, it actually alters the room.
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>> Exactly. It generates these microscopic
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amounts of heat. So the physical
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environment is permanently altered on a
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subatomic level by that exact soundwave.
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>> That is wild.
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>> The space has essentially memorized the
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event just by absorbing its energy.
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>> Which ties so perfectly into that
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analogy the author uses the whole fish
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and water thing. Yeah.
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>> Like a fish doesn't realize it's
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swimming in a medium because the water
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is just a given.
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>> Yeah. It's just always there,
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>> right? And we look at an empty room and
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we totally ignore the medium of space
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because we're constantly swimming in it.
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We just assume that because we don't see
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a solid object, there's nothing there.
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>> We treat space like it's just a
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container rather than a connector. But
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if space is actively holding and
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transmitting all of these physical
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interactions, it completely blurs the
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lines of well individual isolation.
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>> Wait, so if we pull on that thread a
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bit, if I am constantly interacting with
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this medium, you know, exchanging energy
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and heat and vibration, where do I
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actually stop and the room begins? like
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does my physical boundary really just
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end at my skin?
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>> According to this philosophy, no, it
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doesn't. There's this constant
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reciprocity happening.
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>> Okay.
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>> The text describes this ongoing cycle of
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inside out and outside in.
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>> What does that mean exactly?
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>> Basically, your internal thoughts shape
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how you perceive the world. And that
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perception drives your physical
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behavior, which in turn reshapes the
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environment around you.
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>> Oh, I see. And then that newly altered
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environment pushes back in.
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>> Exactly. It influences your thoughts all
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over again in this constant loop.
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>> The article captures this with another
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lyric that I loved that says, "You are
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not separate from the air. You are the
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way it knows you're there."
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>> I really love that line. And translating
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that poetry into practice just means we
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aren't isolated observers trapped inside
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these, you know, meat suits,
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>> right? Totally.
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>> We are actual expressions of the
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universe interacting with itself. So the
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air, the space, the environment, they
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are defined by how we move through them,
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>> just as we're defined by what we breathe
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in. But okay, if space is holding
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everything together like that, what
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happens when those interactions are
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permanently severed? The text brings up
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silence and even physical loss.
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>> Yeah, it frames silence not just as an
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absence of noise, but as receptivity. It
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is the canvas that allows sound to exist
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in the first place.
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>> And then it applies that exact same
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logic to death, which is a heavy shift.
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>> It is. Yeah,
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>> it calls physical loss a transformation
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rather than absolute erasure mainly
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because influence continues through
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memory, genetics, and our actions.
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>> Because the energy shifts, it doesn't
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just leave the system entirely.
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>> I have to say, I struggle with this part
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a little. Doesn't viewing loss as merely
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a transformation risk minimizing human
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grief?
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>> How so? I mean, telling someone who is
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actively mourning that their loved one
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just shifted form, that feels incredibly
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dismissive of the brutal pain of losing
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someone's physical presence.
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>> I mean, it definitely would be
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dismissive if the philosophy used it to
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bypass pain, but the text is very
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careful here.
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>> Okay. So, it acknowledges the pain.
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>> Yes. It doesn't argue that understanding
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accasha just magically removes grief.
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Grief is the visceral human experience
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of that massive shift in form.
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>> Right. What this perspective does is it
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just changes the frame holding that
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grief
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>> by suggesting that the person hasn't
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vanished from the universe.
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>> Exactly. The text actually notes that
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every ending is a doorway. The structure
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of a person's life, their actions, their
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genetics, the memories they created,
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those have already permanently altered
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the atomic structure of the world.
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>> Just like the soundwave altering the
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room.
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>> Precisely. They become a permanent part
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of the ongoing structure of experience.
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>> So it doesn't erase the void. It just
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proves the void isn't entirely empty.
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Which I guess brings us to what this
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means for you listening right now,
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>> right? Because you are an active
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participant in what the text calls the
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accasha breathing.
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>> The accasha breathing. I love that.
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>> Yeah. Every single thought, every
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emotion and every action becomes a trace
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in the turning of space. You know, you
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are constantly imprinting on the world
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around you. So if physical space truly
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remembers everything we put into it,
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what does that mean for the non-physical
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spaces we spend so much of our time in
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today?
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>> Like the internet.
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>> Exactly. Does the internet have an
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accasha of its own? I mean to think
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about that for a second. If every click,
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every single comment and every digital
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interaction leaves a permanent trace,
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>> which we know they do,
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>> right? What invisible lasting footprints
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are your thoughts leaving in the digital
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space right beside
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