well, i do personally belive that all energy has a collective consiousness (which is what a believe the God of the Abrehamic religions is: His Will is the Collective Consiousness, much like term "Namaste" would refer to.), and that since all energy effects all other energy, and all things are energy, anything we do or think or feel or are effects everything ele, on all three levels.
i have also been researching lately (and that and my business on moving to California next year have been keeping me from this forum for a while, i appologize for my absence) on some deep things that just popped up in front of me since my Baptization at my church. i have started delving into the Lore behin Christianity, discovered that it overlaps and intwemingles with the conspiracy over the Necronomicon and the Ending Days War... adding not only several more layers of intrigue, but also opening my eye sup to the newest concept i have ever imagined -- the Bag-of-Onions Effect! this conspiracy holds numerous Sub-Conspiracies within itself, which in turn are made up of increasingly smaller and smaller plots and schemes and goals and motives.
but i have tottaly digressed.
point being, i was looking up Akasha in my encyclopedia of Magic and Alchemy, and discovered that it has roots in the Tattvas (which are the five properties of the Alchemical Elements Fire, Air, Water, Earth, and Spirit/Quintessence). Akasha IS the Quintessence, or Astral Ether. it is also thought to be part of a trifold forceof all existance, alongside Prana and Creative Thought. further, the Akasha records every event that ever has happened, is happening, or will happen. it is equatible to the Astral Light, or the Akashik Record...the Tower of Knowledge if you will. if Einstein were an occultist this would probably be what he would have expounded on in order to further understand his own Theory of Relativity.
in any case, this alignment of Trifolds found so often in various paths can only lead me to believe that they all mean the same thing. ^_^ it is only a matter of identifying it however you will.