• Monad and Spiritual Essence

    THE MEMORY OF MATTER Before the circle,before measure,before matter—there was the Point: Unity without division. The Monad did not become the many;rather, the many becamethe unfolding question of the One. Spirit moved from Unitywithout leaving its source,and where Spirit became individual,the Soul appeared— the One looking througha particular window of existence. The Mind became its…

  • The House That Memory Keeps

    Why this structure aids memory retention ————————————————————————————————— Why this structure aids memory retention The composition intentionally uses: These elements improve: The song is designed less as entertainment alone and more as mnemonic atmosphere — where meaning, repetition, and emotion reinforce one another neurologically and psychologically. See Also: AIDS in Memory Retention Memory as a Living…

  • Aids in Memory Retention?

    Can we understand the relationship between music and written context as a form of memory containment, much like the olfactory experience of a mother’s home cooking evokes deeply embedded memories — for example, the distinct scent of a mother’s apple pie serving as a powerful trigger for remembrance and emotional association? What you are pointing…

  • Memory as a Living Network.

    SOCRATES: You have brought before us something extraordinary, friend — and I confess it disturbs me pleasantly, the way a stone in a sandal disturbs the foot into wakefulness. You say memory is not archival but relational. But let us press this. When the smell of that kitchen returns you to childhood — are you remembering…

  • New Ways of Looking at Things

    I am having some  problems defining the way in which some concepts have been presented for consideration. So it may seem a little frazzled but it’s one of those things that sits just below the surface waiting to be explained clearly and concisely. As a scientist you may not care.  I had thought then how…

  • Ruminations on Alchemy of Sir Isaac Newton

    Newton’s Translation of the Emerald Tablet It is true without lying, certain and most true. That which is Below is like that which is Above and that which is Above is like that which is Below to do the miracles of the Only Thing. And as all things have been and arose from One by…

  • The Colour of our Emotions

    “The worst disease afflicting human kind is hardening of the categories.” – Artist Bob Miller. Intuition RBM: On Castaneda There are some people here who think that Castaneda’s work maps quite well to [it]. Specifically, the nagual and NPMR are conceptual perfect matches, along with the tonal and PMR. Tom has used the metaphor of…

  • What Is Déjà Vu?

    *** Déjà vu (French pronunciation: [deʒa vy] ( listen), literally “already seen”) is the experience of feeling sure that one has already witnessed or experienced a current situation, even though the exact circumstances of the prior encounter are uncertain and were perhaps imagined. The term was coined by a French psychic researcher, Émile Boirac (1851–1917) in his…

  • Igniting Neurons:Time Travel

    Life must be understood backwards; but… it must be lived forward.Soren Kierkegaard The image illustrates the Wayback machine from the Mr. Peabody and Sherman segment of the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon. The image supports the article on the subject: Wayback machine. The screen shot was selected to illustrate the nature and size of the Wayback…

  • On Memory

    Today is my 1000th post. I began here in November of 2004. It has been a good time of learning and being propelled forward by other blog posters and blog commentators.  It has been a wonderful journey in terms of the education I have received. Again too, within each of our conversations with who ever…

  • What are Memories made up of ?

    Illustration by The New York Times Some do indeed understand the fuzzy logic. These images are pixel orientated. They describe a process of thinking that is quite impermeable to the everyday biological function of the thinking brain that we have devised a way in which to represent the process of marketing for the populace at…