Memory Self

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But it is also true that the Memory Self can adopt multiple memory identities based on such things as occupation, objectives, religion, sex, emotion, enjoyments or intellectual interests. From these memory identities held singly or collectively, decisions are made in reference to the context of these activities. One can identify oneself as both a professional soldier and a man of God - first.

Beyond these types of identities, the Memory Self can be classified as conscious and subconscious. Subconscious memory operates of its own accord, mostly independent of the conscious memory. The subconscious tends to keep a more accurate memory record, free from the identity prerequisites, objectives, goals, ambitions, education and indoctrination, or wishful thinking of the conscious mind. Decisions can be made from the unconscious mostly in the form of intuition, premonition, feeling or dreams. However the capacities of the unconscious are generally not incorporated into the conscious identity, but are usually considered as occult like capabilities. When the identities of the Memory Self are dropped, one is left with the controlling needs of the body, and is in a better position to get in touch with the more true nature of memory contained in the subconscious.

The ability of the Memory Self is also abstract thought, or the ability to create conceptions that do not exist in exterior reality, as anything from cartoon characters to mathematics. Without the physical body and the sensory system, grounding the Memory Self to the consistency of the material, and generally more or less mechanical operation of the physical world, the ability of abstraction would be like a dream, where the Memory Self would continuously create fantasy with no outside interference, such that what is created is totally subjective, limited to its own fantasy, self-reinforcing and ever self-same and repeating.

The Memory Self with its ability of abstraction could create abstract spiritual qualities and conditions without there actually being any, as gods, spirits, heaven and hell, ghosts or demons. The concept of the Memory Self is delineated in the interest of the study of the non-physical plane, where perhaps it should be known what is fairly sure, so as not to be confused with what may or may not.

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