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Encoded Memory
Now shall we go outside of normal human experience? Paranormal. What is the “para” by the way? Alongside. Perhaps a better word than paranormal would be sympathetic experience. The part of your consciousness that is mostly in your sympathetic nervous system and mirroring network, at this point. That is when a pair a normal’s run…
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Seat Of Species Memory
The root charka doesn’t learn. It just is. It’s the root of the natural, formative order of your being. The second chakra actually learns. It’s your very first center of learning, and it becomes aware in utero. This is why our parents psyches are so seemingly ingrained in our consciousness. It’s not explained by your…
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Creating Memory With Ritual
What exactly does ritual “do” to the energy field? Ritual is an application of the observer effect, and creates a model of the intention to be observed in the world and by the world. So ritual creates a memory in the world. In the place it was done, in the people who participated in it,…
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Our Genetic Makeup is Memory
I am just wondering about how intent and willpower could affect physical change on the genetic level? Good question. How can you arrive at an intent? Can you intend to do something that has nothing to do with reality? Every bit of language, every bit of visual symbolism, every memory trace is shaped by reality,…
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Everything has Memory
Perhaps the heart of today’s topic of Dark Relics can be summed up with a phrase, “A place for everything, and everything in its place.” The world itself and the things in it have memory. Even much of science implies this even if they don’t fully endorse it. Houses, cars, landmarks, many things we don’t…
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Bee Hives, Human Neurons, Genetic Memory
Of scientific interest, the human brain when engaging in memory retrieval actually seems to follow more or less what bees do when they forage, and bee behaviour seems to follow a similar pattern to human excitatory/inhibitory nerve signals. You mean how bees can memorize their route to the best flowers? They can, yes. Patterns repeating…
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Working Memory
I know I’m searching for something. Something so undefined that it can only be seen by the eyes of the blind. A Billy Joel song lyric but also related to tonight’s topic, the law of contagion. Human beings generally perceive themselves to see the world as a whole. Even neuroscience now says that this is…
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Preserve the Memory
So, this does have a use. It isn’t just all wild otherworldly rhetoric. Do you not feel like there is something wrong with your mind being derailed by circumstance? Just reacting to input without actual intention behind it? Do you feel your intention or individual purpose should really ever be derailed? Well, actually I do…
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Special Memory
Tonight, we are doing another in the applied theurgy series, specifically on the god Shiva/Rudra. But first, what would you call an influence that spans individual beings awareness, influencing them all? Transcendent? Meme or archetype, I guess, are technical terms. We have many of those in the realm of human experience, and often they seem to…
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Practice the Memory of the God
I may get a little Gnani here, non-devotional. From one point of view the purpose of ritual is to honor the gods, and I won’t deny that. People tend to get caught up in what might please the gods. I guess because we like to make people we care about feel good, happy. But as…
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Memory of Us
Nature loves conserving information. The point that if you nuke a place, the shadow of those far enough from the immediate detonation can be burned permanently onto a wall say, or a rock, interesting no? In our own bodies there is enough energy to destroy a city the size of one of the world’s major metropoli…
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Autobiographical Memory
You have learned a great many things in your life. What portion of those actually serve a constructive purpose? Being hit just feels terrible. It’s like being bullied but you can’t stop it because you’ve been taught that authority is always right. That would be a non-constructive consciously learned thing. How about baking a cake?…
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Memory of Any Perceived Thing
Stranger still, how would you say you know an object when you see it? It compares well with other similar objects. Perceptual metaphors? Ultimately, our memory of any perceived thing is an energy pattern present in a material substrate, and yet somehow this energy travelling along this specific material circuit can somehow tell us what…
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Memory Matters
How do you know what matters to you? Who you are? What I find myself doing. You react to the stimulation, pleasure or pain. According to science, it’s memory, and as you go through your day and experience things, a structure shaped like a horse shoe around your spinal cord registers and routes every sensory…
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Compromised Memory
The basic building block of the human body is the cell, yes? The material that supposedly retained the memory is not lost or eliminated so there is no material loss to go with the memory loss. What would you think is the brain of the individual cell? Nucleus. Well, what is the brain of matter? Connections.…
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Substrate of Collective Memory
So, everything dreams. Everything dreams and research shows that the biggest portion of our genetic transformation takes place at night. Everything dreams and the dreaming process follows the same rules of organic chemistry and physics. Long term memories are formed, old memories are weighed and their dominance adjusted in the connectome or just preserved. The…
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Memory Management
Let’s move on to the informational then, perhaps starting with the most obvious and visceral concern, the dead. They have discovered in neuroscience that parts of our brain learn to recognize, mimic and predict the behaviour of those close to us, those we know well. This usually has no mind bending impact until the known…
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Fringe Zone of Collective Memory
Perhaps the fringe zone of the collective memory… There are many small subdomains each showing its own character and paradigm of traits, but out on the fringe you have the noise zone. According to Jung the universal concept of hell was the manifestation of everything human cultures found disturbing and persistent and none the less…