Memory has two facets. On one hand, memory is a particularly personal faculty that is directly related to our unique life experiences and is therefore subjective.
It is more generally applied in the process of learning and gathering information that can be shared with others and increased by exchange and communication with others on an impersonal level.
Some of us have an especially clear subjective memory upon which we rely as a reminder of our own learning whether physical, emotional or mental. In the deeper levels of our psyche, involving our soul wisdom and our spiritual experiences, we rely entirely upon our own preservation of the secret or sacred private world into which few others are invited.
Some of us have a wonderful capacity for clear recall of what is related to factual or scientific information gleaned through the intellect and by study. This applies to wider issues beyond the personal and embraces information that we share and consider fundamental to reason.
Others possess unusual aspects of memory that we cannot really share or even understand the process involved…..
For instance, the capacity to regress one’s memory back to the birth experience is a rare faculty unless cajoled through the assistance of a psychologist.
The memory of past lives that can occur when regression slips beyond the first consciousness in the womb to remembering past life experiences. This is known to happen under therapy but also spontaneously as a rare conscious function of memory.
Spectacular memory feats have become more generally known to us through individuals who possess extraordinary abilities both or recording information and of recall.
For example, there are individuals who can memorize musical scores or orchestrations of sound through auditory memory or by the visualization of the score.
There is also photographic memory or eidetic memory. Few share the ability but those who can demonstrate it can astonish us with a range of talents ; the capacity used in mathematical calculation; in recording and recalling data with speed to challenge a computer; in speed reading and recall of volumes of books; in memorizing registration numbers of vehicles; in retention of names of people, and in the many arts, sciences and specific skills that have been known in human culture including the skill of recalling emotional experiences that produce emotional and physical responses enough to make us laugh or to weep – a faculty well known to actors.
Allowing that these wonderful talents exist as a potential in the human brain and mind is one thing.
To train our own memory as we wish, and to be able to rely upon accurate recall remains our personal task and responsibility.
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