What enables psychics to read the akashic records of others? Is that a direct exploration by their nonlocal consciousness of the records, or are they tuning into cords within the client?

In the case of those with good intuitive ability, their nonlocal consciousness can indeed go out to the akashic records and do a targeted review with practice, and that is how people can read the past lives of others and give them an account of things that took place. The average person will not be able to do so. Yet, there is a high frequency of seeming success using past life regression hypnotherapy to unearth useful information. In a sense, that is not a terrible approach because if there is a past life trauma or series of trauma episodes causing symptoms currently, there will be cordings present about those events. And those are able to be reviewed by the upper levels of the mind under suitable circumstances with a good facilitator to guide the process. And because there are problems known to the person, the upper subconscious will be able to review existing cordings and see what hurts that has a link to the symptoms. So it can be a useful process, it is just that it will be incomplete. It will help connect to and remove the low hanging fruit, so to speak, but cannot do a thorough cleanup and cleanout. Deeper trauma episodes that may be a watershed event starting a whole period of vulnerability covering multiple lifetimes may need to be healed, which are from long, long, ago and not necessarily connected directly to the client anymore via cordings. So there will need to be a deeper process to reach those trauma events for healing. That is what DSMR can accomplish with Creator's guidance and makes the process much more thorough and effective than any alternative.