Meme-ry

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Everybody knows that whatever they've experienced, possibly even from

before birth, but at least sometime thereafter, is in memory, and if

something is in memory, it can - though not always easily - be

recalled, re- " experienced " in consciousness.

 

For example: (and you can play along too...) I'm intentionally

recalling that day/hour/minute when I received my first bike, a

Schwinn Corvette with chrome fenders, and handlebar streamers, and

rode it to my best friend's house, to show it and myself off to him,

only to be snubbed by his total lack of interest... " Ho, hum, big

deal, look at what I got! " I " remember " that. I feel absolutely

CERTAIN it happened to me, and in that way. But, there is a

monster-fly in the ointment, I'm not positive of every detail, it's a

literal kluge.

 

Now, did you know that there are things in memory, that you did NOT

experience? And when they are intentionally or accidentally recalled,

some sort of subjective re- " experiencing " occurs, leaving you

believing that it's your own " personal " experience?

 

What this suggests, is that humanity is " seeded " , with knowledge, and

experience, which they themselves did NOT participate in initially -

someone did, some " thing " did, but not you... not you.

 

There is a kernel in there (in where? DNA/RNA most likely), which is

the species memory, from the earliest human times, " post ape " , and

the conscious part of the brain is the link to that kernel.

 

Unfortunately (or fortunately, your mileage will most definitely

vary), the link is tenous at best, and broken at worst - thus needing

either to be re-established, or re-connected to be of any useful

value - and only a person who, first, discovers this linkage, and

second nurtures this connection, can ever hope to make permanent use

of it.

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Nisargadatta , " fmraerdy " <mybox234@b...> wrote:

>

> Everybody knows that whatever they've experienced, possibly even from

> before birth, but at least sometime thereafter, is in memory, and if

> something is in memory, it can - though not always easily - be

> recalled, re- " experienced " in consciousness.

>

> For example: (and you can play along too...) I'm intentionally

> recalling that day/hour/minute when I received my first bike, a

> Schwinn Corvette with chrome fenders, and handlebar streamers, and

> rode it to my best friend's house, to show it and myself off to him,

> only to be snubbed by his total lack of interest... " Ho, hum, big

> deal, look at what I got! " I " remember " that. I feel absolutely

> CERTAIN it happened to me, and in that way. But, there is a

> monster-fly in the ointment, I'm not positive of every detail, it's a

> literal kluge.

>

> Now, did you know that there are things in memory, that you did NOT

> experience? And when they are intentionally or accidentally recalled,

> some sort of subjective re- " experiencing " occurs, leaving you

> believing that it's your own " personal " experience?

>

> What this suggests, is that humanity is " seeded " , with knowledge, and

> experience, which they themselves did NOT participate in initially -

> someone did, some " thing " did, but not you... not you.

>

> There is a kernel in there (in where? DNA/RNA most likely), which is

> the species memory, from the earliest human times, " post ape " , and

> the conscious part of the brain is the link to that kernel.

>

> Unfortunately (or fortunately, your mileage will most definitely

> vary), the link is tenous at best, and broken at worst - thus needing

> either to be re-established, or re-connected to be of any useful

> value - and only a person who, first, discovers this linkage, and

> second nurtures this connection, can ever hope to make permanent use

> of it.

 

 

What if there is only now, and that everything we call the past is

actually 'created' now, in a process we can call instant evolution.

 

Check out: http://www.platonia.com/

 

al.