Print ArticleThis article is Part II of a piece originally published last August.
Donīt look now but a new generation of elders are moving in. Bottom line is the Baby Boomer Generation is not going to age like their parents generation. This is the generation which brought us Hippies, Rock & Roll, the Environmental Movement, the Feminist Movement, Health Food, Personal Computers and The Internet!
Just as the young boomers tried to recreate a unique vision of what it was to be a human "being", I think that on the other end, this same generation will begin to evaluate their life experience in a unique manner. Or maybe they will simply be the first generation to even attempt to evaluate their life experience.
Don't misinterpret the word "Elder". It is intended with much respect. This "program" isn't for twenty something's or even the middle aged. This is specifically for "our generation," the Boomers, the new Elders of The Tribe. We are the Elders of The Great Human Tribe of Consciousness. It is time to re-introduce a sincere respect for our elders which has been missing for awhile. People should look forward to becoming elders themselves, instead of this dreadful fear of aging which is currently in vogue. We should look FORWARD to each stage of conscious manifestation within this physical form. As it is currently experienced everyone longs to be twenty-one and then they live out the remainder of their life regretting that they are no longer in their twenties.
I used to carry my journal as another man might carry a pack of cigarettes or a flask. I have kept journals since 1965 and at any moment I can walk to my shelf and pull out a specific year and within ten seconds I am back in that frame of mind and squall of memory. And not only do I get to review the formal words on the page but the odd note in a margin or even a stain upon a specific page will serve to place me so exactly back in that space that I can smell the room, see what I was wearing and actually hear the isolated bits of conversation going on around me.
Look upon these journals and "lists" of specifics like furniture you are placing in a Bekins Van in anticipation of moving day.
The goal is to finally wake up to your life and your reason for incarnating in this specific time frame with this specific cast of characters. You canīt access this big "Ah Ha!" until you can access and hold within your mind the entire movie of your life (lives) lived. Most people never get close because they choose to remain interminably busy until the day they die. And it is to the benefit of those in power to keep the populace busy. First with fashion, style and peer group fear and then with kids, marriage and fear of loosing control and finally with medicine, television and fear of death. These are all masking devices to keep us a secret even until ourselves. Unfortunately the masses live a quiet life of desperation for the most part, totally unexamined. Most people never get any further than keeping score, as if life were a game which could be either won or lost by the pile of stuff acquired by the end of the last day.
Those people, places and things which remain within the hallowed halls of your memory have meaning beyond your wildest imaginings, even though you havenīt a clue. These are symbols by which, upon further investigation, you will be able to better gauge the depth and breath of the totality of your consciousness. And make no mistake, your genius and your goal is to grasp that which lies immediately beyond your sphere of Light. We are more than heliotropic, human kind holds the potential to be heliographic. Soul based humans hold the potential to "Bring Light" to the moment. But in a life filled with busy-ness and low level distraction 24/7, humans are not liable to realize their ultimate potential. That is why the reprogramming of The Elder Mind is of crucial importance. There is a unique opportunity at this time in history because the generation turning 60ish, is truly unique. This is the Boomer Generation. These are the Hippies who have survived. But now their kids are grown, they are retired and they are in a unique position once again. These seniors are not going to go quietly into their later years like their parents.
The key to reprogramming your mind for the later years, is being able to access memory in detail. As we age our bodies may fail us, our personal economics may falter, our short term memory may become "quirky", but usually, as we age, our long term memory becomes increasingly clear. My mother, in her late 70's, couldn't recall my personal phone number but she could recall in detail, what she had for dinner on a certain Friday night in June of 1939.
There is great focus now on exercising the physical body but the brain/mind matrix is a muscle which must be exercised as well. Like a good dog it should be taken out daily for a long walk. But how does one do this? The solution is very simple and it is available to absolutely every person, regardless of physical health. The concept is to develop a mnemonic device within the imagination. One must re-learn how to drive the vehicle we call the human brain and we must learn to navigate within the infinitude of mind. Through focused intent, we must do no less than establish our own grid of global positioning satellites, a metaphorical array which will allow us to find our position anywhere within the sphere of personal memory. For make no mistake, the later years are the prime ground for reviewing all that has transpired over the course of your life. The goal is to really see what has transpired. To recall and enjoy the experiences and learn from the mistakes. Usually, during the course of lifeīs experiences we are too busy within the moment to really appreciate the richness of the individual events. In the end what we are doing by recalling the myriad memories within our life, is growing a Soul and all of lifeīs fecund material comprise the nutrients necessary for this task.
Now what is a mnemonic device? Simply put a mnemonic device is a picture you create within your mind to which you assign a specific memory. For example you have a problem remembering names. You meet a person named Katz, so, in your mind you think of a cat and whenever you meet this person again his name comes to mind because you have assigned the picture of a cat to him. Now to recall an entire life, something a little more extravagant may be necessary.
Imagine a large palace with grounds and garden paths. Imagine this in extreme detail for it will remain forever constant and will never change. This palace or mansion is truly large and contains many rooms.
You will assign a category of memory to each section. The garden, the entry way, the library, living room and on and on and within each of these locations will be specific items or artifacts. In the gardens will be specific flowers, bushes, hedges and trees. Within the rooms within the house will be pieces of furniture, collectibles, artifacts and paintings and each of these items will be extremely detailed and very specific. These are not "generalized" items. These are so real you will be tempted to reach out and touch them. Pick them up in your hands and examine them. Think of this as a truly advanced Web Site, perhaps an interactive, holographic Web Zone.
Now the purpose of this Memory Palace is to serve as a vast mnemonic museum. Each section of the garden, each room within the house and each separate artifact within a specific room will serve to trigger specific memories within your mind. These are memories which you currently have but with life's myriad distractions, you are not liable to have access to. It is like having a computer with a very large hard drive, but no way to categorize and organize all the data. This Memory Palace will comprise the "Windows" for your Mind.
This is not a new concept. It is, in fact, very ancient. Once upon a time in the ancient days, long before writing, (before the first scientist) when man lived in the moment and thrived upon the still warm memories of real Gods and Goddesses, the story tellers of old had a problem. Their stories became interwoven and entangled and elongated over time until a good tale was as complicated as modern brain surgery and yet there were no written words to memorize, no script to refer back to. No storyboard. How to keep it all straight?
The early story teller would create an architectural wonder within his mind. He would build a palace and grounds within his imagination. And this palace and its attendant gardens would be very specific, very detailed and very predictable. Each flower and arrangement of trees and bushes and each entrance and hallway and sleeping room and dining room and banquet room and storage room would be very specific, furnished with very specific pieces in a very precise order. In his mind this would be a place he could return to time and again and feel secure that it would always be the same. Flowers never wilted and paint never faded in the mind of the story teller. This would be a universe of mnemonic devices, encoded with all the cues necessary for the telling of his long tale. This was the original Memory Palace.
This was Natures first Random Access Memory, complete with an icon shell with which to connect the myriad lines of bio-computer code. Simply point with the imagination and click with willful intent. No mouse necessary. Thus armed, the ancient story teller could hold his audience spellbound for hours on end telling a perfectly wonderful and magical story and then, a month later, in another town, tell it again, exactly the same.
We are God's Memory Palace. We are an interactive holographic construct of dynamic memory being visualized by a higher form of consciousness.
We choose a forgetting when we choose to incarnate in this Earth Frame. We forget who we really are and where we originate from. We choose, often, a second forgetting, when we forget that there is even such a thing as "Spirit". But now we have reached the age it is appropriate to awaken once again. To literally wake up within this dream we call our "Life". Until we "wake up" we are stumbling around like sleep walkers, bumping into one another, incurring pain and creating drama. But once we begin to remember, then we start falling into synchronicity and then flow. As we begin to wake up we discover that it is a pathway and a trail. We are not lost, we have not been abandoned. We are not lost at sea on a tiny raft awaiting rescue or death. We are cruisers. We have a point of origination and we have a final destination and we are on a Path. We are not a chance assemblage of molecules. We are holographic God sparks.
Now, one might say, this is very interesting, but who has the time to even consider such options. I would offer that a significant portion of our society has not only the time, but the need for just such an option. And this group is called, the elderly, the retired or even that part of the population confined to prisons, nursing homes and other institutions.
The percentage of our population which fits into this category is large and growing ever larger. In our culture great emphasis is put upon acting out, doing, working, moving, manifesting mental activity in an exterior manner. So when someone is retired, fired, put in prison or in some other way banished from our "Just Do it!" culture, they are literally abandoned to their own devices as surely as if they had been put on a deserted island with minimal food and perhaps TV.
The thing we, as a culture overlook, and we as individuals often over look as well, is the purpose behind why we are here manifested in a 3-dimensional world in the first place. That essential purpose is so that we may gain "EXPERIENCE". Now experience in its essential nature is neither good nor bad. It just is "experience". And the thing that holds experience together within the mind is "Memory". Each of us, no matter how high or low our earthly sojourn, has lived a life filled to the absolute brim with experience. Makes absolutely no difference how our experience is valued or devalued by our culture or our time, it is utterly ours and it is VAST and it is personal.
It could be said that if you have lived 60 years you haven't merely had 60 years worth of experience, you have at least 60 years squared because aside from your day to day, minute to minute reality, you have "feelings" and "thoughts" and "reflections" about those experiences, prior to their happening, as they happen and in retrospect, after the experience has passed. One could go even further and say that each moment of earthly experience is like a mini-Big Bang! An ever reaching explosion of possibility and probability radiating out from a single focused Nano second of personal experience. But unfortunately, though our cybernetic hard drive has truly vast storage potential, we do not have an easily accessible data retrieval program. The Memory Palace is an ancient tool which will serve as a new form of software for the human heart and the human mind.
At this stage in our life we have a window which opens and gives us an opportunity to raise our level of consciousness. We didnīt come here for an SUV and good jeans. We came here to grow our soul. Through this open window we have an opportunity to review our entire experience in this life. This is an opportunity often overlooked. Donīt become distracted by golf or day time TV. Your experience is a two fold opportunity. You have the initial experience and now you have the opportunity to recall and review the entirety of the experience during this earthly sojourn in order to grow your soul.
Donīt look now but a new generation of elders are moving in. Bottom line is the Baby Boomer Generation is not going to age like their parents generation. This is the generation which brought us Hippies, Rock & Roll, the Environmental Movement, the Feminist Movement, Health Food, Personal Computers and The Internet!
Just as the young boomers tried to recreate a unique vision of what it was to be a human "being", I think that on the other end, this same generation will begin to evaluate their life experience in a unique manner. Or maybe they will simply be the first generation to even attempt to evaluate their life experience.
Don't misinterpret the word "Elder". It is intended with much respect. This "program" isn't for twenty something's or even the middle aged. This is specifically for "our generation," the Boomers, the new Elders of The Tribe. We are the Elders of The Great Human Tribe of Consciousness. It is time to re-introduce a sincere respect for our elders which has been missing for awhile. People should look forward to becoming elders themselves, instead of this dreadful fear of aging which is currently in vogue. We should look FORWARD to each stage of conscious manifestation within this physical form. As it is currently experienced everyone longs to be twenty-one and then they live out the remainder of their life regretting that they are no longer in their twenties.
I used to carry my journal as another man might carry a pack of cigarettes or a flask. I have kept journals since 1965 and at any moment I can walk to my shelf and pull out a specific year and within ten seconds I am back in that frame of mind and squall of memory. And not only do I get to review the formal words on the page but the odd note in a margin or even a stain upon a specific page will serve to place me so exactly back in that space that I can smell the room, see what I was wearing and actually hear the isolated bits of conversation going on around me.
Look upon these journals and "lists" of specifics like furniture you are placing in a Bekins Van in anticipation of moving day.
The goal is to finally wake up to your life and your reason for incarnating in this specific time frame with this specific cast of characters. You canīt access this big "Ah Ha!" until you can access and hold within your mind the entire movie of your life (lives) lived. Most people never get close because they choose to remain interminably busy until the day they die. And it is to the benefit of those in power to keep the populace busy. First with fashion, style and peer group fear and then with kids, marriage and fear of loosing control and finally with medicine, television and fear of death. These are all masking devices to keep us a secret even until ourselves. Unfortunately the masses live a quiet life of desperation for the most part, totally unexamined. Most people never get any further than keeping score, as if life were a game which could be either won or lost by the pile of stuff acquired by the end of the last day.
Those people, places and things which remain within the hallowed halls of your memory have meaning beyond your wildest imaginings, even though you havenīt a clue. These are symbols by which, upon further investigation, you will be able to better gauge the depth and breath of the totality of your consciousness. And make no mistake, your genius and your goal is to grasp that which lies immediately beyond your sphere of Light. We are more than heliotropic, human kind holds the potential to be heliographic. Soul based humans hold the potential to "Bring Light" to the moment. But in a life filled with busy-ness and low level distraction 24/7, humans are not liable to realize their ultimate potential. That is why the reprogramming of The Elder Mind is of crucial importance. There is a unique opportunity at this time in history because the generation turning 60ish, is truly unique. This is the Boomer Generation. These are the Hippies who have survived. But now their kids are grown, they are retired and they are in a unique position once again. These seniors are not going to go quietly into their later years like their parents.
The key to reprogramming your mind for the later years, is being able to access memory in detail. As we age our bodies may fail us, our personal economics may falter, our short term memory may become "quirky", but usually, as we age, our long term memory becomes increasingly clear. My mother, in her late 70's, couldn't recall my personal phone number but she could recall in detail, what she had for dinner on a certain Friday night in June of 1939.
There is great focus now on exercising the physical body but the brain/mind matrix is a muscle which must be exercised as well. Like a good dog it should be taken out daily for a long walk. But how does one do this? The solution is very simple and it is available to absolutely every person, regardless of physical health. The concept is to develop a mnemonic device within the imagination. One must re-learn how to drive the vehicle we call the human brain and we must learn to navigate within the infinitude of mind. Through focused intent, we must do no less than establish our own grid of global positioning satellites, a metaphorical array which will allow us to find our position anywhere within the sphere of personal memory. For make no mistake, the later years are the prime ground for reviewing all that has transpired over the course of your life. The goal is to really see what has transpired. To recall and enjoy the experiences and learn from the mistakes. Usually, during the course of lifeīs experiences we are too busy within the moment to really appreciate the richness of the individual events. In the end what we are doing by recalling the myriad memories within our life, is growing a Soul and all of lifeīs fecund material comprise the nutrients necessary for this task.
Now what is a mnemonic device? Simply put a mnemonic device is a picture you create within your mind to which you assign a specific memory. For example you have a problem remembering names. You meet a person named Katz, so, in your mind you think of a cat and whenever you meet this person again his name comes to mind because you have assigned the picture of a cat to him. Now to recall an entire life, something a little more extravagant may be necessary.
Imagine a large palace with grounds and garden paths. Imagine this in extreme detail for it will remain forever constant and will never change. This palace or mansion is truly large and contains many rooms.
You will assign a category of memory to each section. The garden, the entry way, the library, living room and on and on and within each of these locations will be specific items or artifacts. In the gardens will be specific flowers, bushes, hedges and trees. Within the rooms within the house will be pieces of furniture, collectibles, artifacts and paintings and each of these items will be extremely detailed and very specific. These are not "generalized" items. These are so real you will be tempted to reach out and touch them. Pick them up in your hands and examine them. Think of this as a truly advanced Web Site, perhaps an interactive, holographic Web Zone.
Now the purpose of this Memory Palace is to serve as a vast mnemonic museum. Each section of the garden, each room within the house and each separate artifact within a specific room will serve to trigger specific memories within your mind. These are memories which you currently have but with life's myriad distractions, you are not liable to have access to. It is like having a computer with a very large hard drive, but no way to categorize and organize all the data. This Memory Palace will comprise the "Windows" for your Mind.
This is not a new concept. It is, in fact, very ancient. Once upon a time in the ancient days, long before writing, (before the first scientist) when man lived in the moment and thrived upon the still warm memories of real Gods and Goddesses, the story tellers of old had a problem. Their stories became interwoven and entangled and elongated over time until a good tale was as complicated as modern brain surgery and yet there were no written words to memorize, no script to refer back to. No storyboard. How to keep it all straight?
The early story teller would create an architectural wonder within his mind. He would build a palace and grounds within his imagination. And this palace and its attendant gardens would be very specific, very detailed and very predictable. Each flower and arrangement of trees and bushes and each entrance and hallway and sleeping room and dining room and banquet room and storage room would be very specific, furnished with very specific pieces in a very precise order. In his mind this would be a place he could return to time and again and feel secure that it would always be the same. Flowers never wilted and paint never faded in the mind of the story teller. This would be a universe of mnemonic devices, encoded with all the cues necessary for the telling of his long tale. This was the original Memory Palace.
This was Natures first Random Access Memory, complete with an icon shell with which to connect the myriad lines of bio-computer code. Simply point with the imagination and click with willful intent. No mouse necessary. Thus armed, the ancient story teller could hold his audience spellbound for hours on end telling a perfectly wonderful and magical story and then, a month later, in another town, tell it again, exactly the same.
We are God's Memory Palace. We are an interactive holographic construct of dynamic memory being visualized by a higher form of consciousness.
We choose a forgetting when we choose to incarnate in this Earth Frame. We forget who we really are and where we originate from. We choose, often, a second forgetting, when we forget that there is even such a thing as "Spirit". But now we have reached the age it is appropriate to awaken once again. To literally wake up within this dream we call our "Life". Until we "wake up" we are stumbling around like sleep walkers, bumping into one another, incurring pain and creating drama. But once we begin to remember, then we start falling into synchronicity and then flow. As we begin to wake up we discover that it is a pathway and a trail. We are not lost, we have not been abandoned. We are not lost at sea on a tiny raft awaiting rescue or death. We are cruisers. We have a point of origination and we have a final destination and we are on a Path. We are not a chance assemblage of molecules. We are holographic God sparks.
Now, one might say, this is very interesting, but who has the time to even consider such options. I would offer that a significant portion of our society has not only the time, but the need for just such an option. And this group is called, the elderly, the retired or even that part of the population confined to prisons, nursing homes and other institutions.
The percentage of our population which fits into this category is large and growing ever larger. In our culture great emphasis is put upon acting out, doing, working, moving, manifesting mental activity in an exterior manner. So when someone is retired, fired, put in prison or in some other way banished from our "Just Do it!" culture, they are literally abandoned to their own devices as surely as if they had been put on a deserted island with minimal food and perhaps TV.
The thing we, as a culture overlook, and we as individuals often over look as well, is the purpose behind why we are here manifested in a 3-dimensional world in the first place. That essential purpose is so that we may gain "EXPERIENCE". Now experience in its essential nature is neither good nor bad. It just is "experience". And the thing that holds experience together within the mind is "Memory". Each of us, no matter how high or low our earthly sojourn, has lived a life filled to the absolute brim with experience. Makes absolutely no difference how our experience is valued or devalued by our culture or our time, it is utterly ours and it is VAST and it is personal.
It could be said that if you have lived 60 years you haven't merely had 60 years worth of experience, you have at least 60 years squared because aside from your day to day, minute to minute reality, you have "feelings" and "thoughts" and "reflections" about those experiences, prior to their happening, as they happen and in retrospect, after the experience has passed. One could go even further and say that each moment of earthly experience is like a mini-Big Bang! An ever reaching explosion of possibility and probability radiating out from a single focused Nano second of personal experience. But unfortunately, though our cybernetic hard drive has truly vast storage potential, we do not have an easily accessible data retrieval program. The Memory Palace is an ancient tool which will serve as a new form of software for the human heart and the human mind.
At this stage in our life we have a window which opens and gives us an opportunity to raise our level of consciousness. We didnīt come here for an SUV and good jeans. We came here to grow our soul. Through this open window we have an opportunity to review our entire experience in this life. This is an opportunity often overlooked. Donīt become distracted by golf or day time TV. Your experience is a two fold opportunity. You have the initial experience and now you have the opportunity to recall and review the entirety of the experience during this earthly sojourn in order to grow your soul.
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