Here is an interesting question...

When you read books for the purposes of learning a new subject, are you "filling" an empty vessel with knowledge that was "outside" of you that you didn't have, as we have been traditionally taught?

OR...

Are you using the text in the book as codified representations or indicators of knowledge that you actually already have inside of you in a massive sub-conscious database... visually expressed on a printed page in terms of context, application and relevance to the author and circumstance rather than the actual knowledge itself? 

Thus, when you read the book, you are making a connection not to the knowledge but actually to the author, so that you can

A) Find how the author's context, relevance and application of that knowledge could be the SAME as your own, and

B) Find out how YOUR own context, relevance and application of that knowledge could be DIFFERENT from the author for the same "knowledge"

The two steps are a part of a powerful concept in learning which I would call "RELATIVITY" and/or "CREATING RELEVANCE".

Yet the salient point is that you innately already possess "KNOWLEDGE".

It is merely the application and relevance that changes. With every human life, "KNOWLEDGE" is combined with human experience to create "packets" that represent the same knowledge within the eyeglass of a unique mental framework and paradigm, a set of experiences, an application, a perspective, a context.

This is why knowledge stays the "same"... and yet it "changes". Indeed, the knowledge EVOLVES.

Surely, this "knowledge" which gets stored in these reshaped "packets" of sorts is "stored" somewhere? And that is "massive database" of sorts is accessible to humans on some deep level?

I believe that the answer is YES.

I am not alone in this view. Many hold this view and have done so for centuries.

Yet I believe that Rupert Sheldrake is possibly the only person that has been able to prove and articulate just how a species like homo sapiens is able to "tap" into a species specific knowledge base that drives the evolution of that species.

Read over here for some more. Look specifically at Mr. Sheldrake's work on "Morphic Resonance"

http://www.sheldrake.org/homepage.html
 

I am not sure if he is finding "proof" of the Sanskrit Akashic Records per sé, because if my understanding of those records is correct (and I am open to correction on this); they are transcendental of species, all encompassing and hold the DNA of the universe in the form of recorded actions, motions, activities, feelings, memories, perceptions, etc of every being - sentient or otherwise.

I was reluctant to mention the Akashic records for fear of stepping into religious/philosophical territory and inadvertently upsetting or offending someone.

Having said that, I am of the opinion that what Mr Sheldrake is referring to is actually NOT the Akashic records, because what he talks about is the development of patterns, knowlege and understanding that is specific to each species within the physical dimension of Earth - which other species (presumably) cannot tap into. Remember that Sheldrake is a biologist.

Read about the study of the "BlueTit" bird and about Morphic or "pattern" resonance that develops according to specific things such as crystals, animals, beings, etc. In this context, our brains act as transformers which tune into morphogenetic fields the way you would tune into a radio. (Does this principle sound vaguely familiar, all of you BrainEv users?)

http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-moreonmorphgnicflds.html

Think of the electro magnetic spectrum. You have a wide frequency band which includes things like Radio Waves, Microwaves, Infrared, Visible light, UV, X-Rays and Gamma Rays which are all distincly different from one another and have specific frequencies. You can't have Gamma rays crossing over into the realm occupied by Radio Waves for example. Yet all of the different things form part of the wider electro magnetic spectrum.

In similar fashion, all physical life on earth forms part of some major vibrational frequency band, but there are sub-ranges of frequencies which are dedicated to different species, for example.

On a much higher level which transcends the physical realm, the collective knowledge, experiences, knowing, awareness, etc would make up a small part of what is stored in the Akashic records. Yet there are distinc differences between Morphic resonance and the Akashic records and these should not be confused with one another.