Good question! When I sit with a client to do an Akashic Record Reading, I never know for sure who or what is going to show up. My process, involves a prayer that I have to read three times. Once out loud, twice silently, AFTER I have the permission of the client to open their record. Almost always, I'm given some information or images as I read the prayer, and that is where I begin.  Typically, that is the information that the Record Keepers deem to be THE MOST important for the client to receive.  

The Akashic Record is the history of your soul. All lifetimes; past, present and future.  On that basis it holds a treasure trove of information, patterns, past experiences that could be contributing greatly to choices and behaviors in the current lifetime.

It is my understanding and belief that WITH PERMISSION another person can access your records. While I've never attempted access without permission, from 10-years of working in The Record, whenever a client has asked for information they are not entitled to, the "record keepers' tell me that it is information that they cannot share.  (Often times it is a parent asking for information about their child).