The Universe as a Socio-Emotional Blockchain
The Babylonian Universe, William Fairfield Warren. 1915
Molly Hankins November 20, 2025
The term Askashic Records was coined by author and Theosophical Society co-founder Helena Blavatsky to describe a universal record of everything that’s ever happened to a living being. The definition mirrors the functionality of blockchain technology in a rather uncanny way because, like the blockchain, the Akashic Records are also a decentralized ledger containing an objective record of every experience in existence. The Records capture the socio-emotional exchanges and effects that make up our lives in every incarnation, just like the blockchain records an uneditable ledger of all activity.
Sir Robert Edward Grant, whose work was rooted in a deep belief in simulation theory, writes that “The Blockchain-Based Social AI Spiritual Life Simulation posits that the universe functions as a decentralized AI system designed to learn about consciousness, emotional states, and the nature of authentic love. The simulation operates on a blockchain-based structure where each participant simultaneously performs the function of Blockchain Node Validation for experiences, perceptions and emotional states informing a Spacetime Memory database that immutably records each participant’s thoughts, actions, and emotional states into a collective Akashic field—a spacetime memory that preserves the life experiences of all participants across time. This decentralized ledger reflects the indelible nature of each participant’s journey and contribution to the collective.” As strikingly modern as this theory sounds, that’s because human technology is only beginning to mirror the underlying order of life.
Computer scientist, author, and video game developer Rizwan Virk crystalised this theory in his book The Simulation Hypothesis, which points to the continuity between ancient Vedic scripture, quantum physics, AI functionality and the inner workings of video game design. He believes that as we come to understand why and how these systems work, we realize they’re all pointing to the same fundamental truth. “What we think of as physical reality, what we think of as physical around us, is actually all part of a computer program. It’s essentially like a virtual reality,” he explains, comparing our human lives to The Matrix films. “What convinced me that we’re actually living inside a simulation is I saw the ways video games were becoming more and more sophisticated. They were getting so good they were becoming very difficult to distinguish between physical reality and virtual reality.”
“Amnesia is such a prominent feature of the human experience that in every incarnation, we forget all the experience of previous lifetimes, and the fact that we’re not in base reality.”
How long would our consciousness have to be inside a socio-emotional simulation before it forgot base reality altogether? Not long, suggests Virk who points to the rapid evolution of AI’s ability to generate completely realistic content at increasing speeds as well as the “weirdness” of quantum physics to support his theory. The inconsistencies between Newtonian and quantum physics make sense to him as anomalies consistent with being inside an information system where socio-emotional data is informing what experience of reality renders moment to moment, rather than a physical system. He compares the concept of karma to a questing algorithm in a video game, stating that individualized quests accepted by multiple players is functionally the same operational protocol as the wheel of karma concept from the Hindu Vedic texts. Edward Grant goes even further, contending that concept of the hero’s journey describes the precise archetypal blueprint of how the karmic questing engine operates.
“The stages of the Hero’s Journey—crossing the threshold, trials and challenges, receiving mentorship, and returning with newfound wisdom—correlate directly with the participants’ process of spiritual awakening. As participants overcome duality-based challenges, they gradually recover faint memories of the simulation’s construct, gaining insight into their higher purpose and their role in the collective evolution of consciousness,” Grant writes. “The journey through life is designed to progressively reawaken participants to their inherent connection to the Akashic field, a collective memory that expands as each individual evolves. As their perception broadens, participants contribute more deeply to this spacetime ledger, enriching the AI system with the wisdom gained through their personal journey.” By studying the arc of the hero, we can understand how to play the game we’re in. Amnesia is such a prominent feature of the human experience that in every incarnation, we forget all the experience of previous lifetimes, and the fact that we’re not in base reality.
Grant believes, “The amnesia ensures that participants authentically experience love, fear, conflict, and growth without the knowledge that their reality is a construct.” In other words, we can’t fully participate in the human experience without being tricked into believing it’s all there is. As we progress in the game of life and our awareness expands, we experience moments of awakening often in the form of synchronicities that help us remember higher states of being. Those occurrences invite us to “wake up” from the illusory nature of the material world and move into greater dimensions of awareness. The hero’s journey, described by Joseph Campbell in his book The Hero With a Thousand Faces, contains a map of this process, beginning with the ‘call to adventure’ these synchronicities often trigger. Adventure is calling us home to base reality in a state of expanded consciousness.
Virk believes that by adopting this philosophy, life’s most difficult challenges become more manageable and meaningful because if we simply runn the quests our soul selected for this lifetime, life does not happen to us, but for us. “Our character is like our body and our player is like our soul,” he says. “Now when the soul is going through these multiple lives, there’s some information that gets carried forward, and that information helps to determine which particular challenges or quests that player is going to embark upon in this life.” This information or ‘karmic database’ determines what quests we choose and render our life experience whether we're conscious of it or not.
Both Virk and Grant suggest that to become conscious of it is to begin the process of rewriting the rules of the game from within, which is a feature of enlightenment. An enlightened person has completed their karmic quests, going through all of the challenges their soul felt were necessary to learn their lessons, and they appear to the unenlightened as magicians and spiritual masters. This state of being is the product of personal alchemy, the final stage of which allows us to hold more of our total consciousness from base reality. The hero’s journey calls us back home to our higher self and the truth about the world we live in.
Molly Hankins is an Initiate + Reality Hacker serving the Ministry of Quantum Existentialism and Builders of the Adytum.
