Not All Soul Contracts Are Sacred:

Adoption, the Akashic Records, and the Erasure of Consent

“If the Akashic Records are a library of truth, then adoption must be read as a redacted manuscript — mutilated by power, rewritten by systems that profit from forgetting.”

— Shane Bouel

In many spiritual communities, there’s a soothing narrative often offered to those of us born into pain: “You chose this.”

“You signed a soul contract.”
“You needed these lessons.”
“It’s all part of your spiritual growth.”

This is the theology of compliance disguised as wisdom. And for adoptees, it’s not just inaccurate — it’s violent.

Because when I open the psychic corridors of the Akashic Records — the so-called library of the soul — I don’t see a harmonious agreement made in a realm of light. I see forced signatures. Coerced surrender. Pages torn from ancestral books. I see falsified birth certificates not only in the human world, but mirrored in the soul’s own archive.

Adoption as Interruption, Not Assignment

The dominant myth around adoption, especially in spiritual circles, is that it’s a chosen path. That we, as souls, volunteered for abandonment, separation, and the severing of kinship in order to evolve. That we somehow agreed to be extracted from our mothers, renamed, displaced, and raised by strangers as a form of “soul development.”

But what if this isn’t a contract?
What if it’s a hijacking?

What if the soul’s original trajectory was interrupted by social engineering, by institutional logic, by a world that decided some mothers were unfit, some families disposable, some children better off erased?

Let me be clear: adoption is not just a family issue. It is not simply personal. It is spiritual violence with bureaucratic paperwork. It is identity trafficking sanctioned by law. It is colonial logic disguised as charity. And if the Akashic Records are to have any integrity, they must account for this.

Because true soul records cannot ignore power.

The Redacted Soul

For those of us who were adopted, the wound isn’t just emotional — it’s metaphysical. We carry an interruption in our knowing. A silence that was legislated. A forgetting that was enforced.

In earthly terms, we are handed a birth certificate that lies. It tells us we were born to strangers. That our name at birth was never ours. That our origin story was a blank page conveniently filled in with state-approved fiction.

In spiritual terms, it’s the same.

We are severed from the memory of where we come from — not by fate, but by force. Not by karma, but by capitalism. Not by some sacred soul plan, but by a systemic machinery that profits off disconnection and repackages it as “rescue.”

Not Every Record is Holy

The Akashic Records are often described as a neutral realm, where truth is stored without judgment, without distortion. But neutrality is not the same as justice. Neutrality without context can be another form of complicity.

If the records are truly complete, then they must contain not only the soul’s intentions but also the intrusions. The edits. The overwrites.

They must include the erasure of voice, the displacement of origin, and the violence of renaming.

So let’s abandon the fantasy that everything painful was chosen.
Let’s stop using soul contracts as spiritual anesthesia.
Let’s stop calling erasure divine.

Reclaiming the Original Record

Here’s what I believe now:
The Akashic Records are not fixed. They are alive.
And the most sacred work an adoptee can do is to reclaim the original manuscript.

To say: This was not the life I consented to.
To say: I remember what you tried to make me forget.
To say: I am not your blank slate — I am my ancestors’ return.

Reclaiming the Akashic Record is not a performance of enlightenment. It is a revolution of return. It is spiritual insurgency. It is soul repair.

And it begins the moment we stop confusing compliance with healing.

If You’ve Been Told You Chose This…

Ask yourself: Who benefits from that belief?
Whose systems stay intact when pain is framed as sacred growth?
Who remains unaccountable when trauma is spiritualized?

Not all pain is destiny.
Some pain is policy.
Some separation is not soul-designed, but state-enforced.

And if you were adopted, coerced, trafficked, renamed, or erased — your pain is not a cosmic lesson in disguise. It is a call to edit the record. To retrieve the truth that was stolen. To reclaim the self they told you never existed.

Because you were never lost.
You were hidden.
And now, you are remembering.

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