About AKASHA

Why AKASHA exists

Much of what circulates online as “ancient wisdom” cannot be traced to any ancient source. Quotations are invented, modern books are passed off as old ones, and claims are repeated until they sound settled. AKASHA exists to do the opposite: to go back to the texts themselves, show where every statement comes from, and let you see the evidence for yourself.

Our motto is simple: primary sources, no gurus, no fake quotes.

Who runs it

My name is Tevin Brown, and I founded AKASHA. I am not an academic, and I do not hold a degree in religious studies or history. I say so plainly because this library is built so that you never have to take my word, or anyone's, for anything.

Every quotation names its translator, its edition and the page it comes from, and links to a scan of the printed book wherever one exists. Every date says what evidence it rests on. Where scholars disagree, the entry names them and says so. If something here is wrong, you can check it, and you can tell us.

What AKASHA is, and what it is not

AKASHA is a free research library of the world's wisdom traditions, built from their primary sources. Each entry gives the surviving sources and their dates, the texts in named public-domain translations, the native terms, and what later traditions made of them. Our own interpretation, the AKASHA Reading, is labelled and kept apart from what the sources say.

AKASHA is not a religion, a school or a teacher. It gives no medical advice and no instructions for practices, and it does not publish what living traditions keep closed to their initiates. It does not claim secret knowledge, and it does not claim that all traditions secretly say the same thing.

How the library is run

I run AKASHA myself. Entries are drafted with the help of an AI model, working from the primary sources. Every build of the site checks them against strict rules on sources and copyright. A separate reviewer that took no part in the drafting then checks every quotation, date and claim. I sign each entry off before it is published. The Methods page explains each step.

When we find a mistake, we fix it in the open: each entry keeps a dated revision history, and errors are never removed silently.

Contact

For corrections, questions, or to offer a specialist review of an entry, write to support@akashacodex.com. Scholars who review an entry are credited by name only with their written permission.