Extrasensory Perception

I disagree with the conventional view that memories are packaged up somewhere in our brain and carried around with us like files in a filing cabinet. My own experience tells me it can be nothing like this. When I remember something, I don't preceed it by sorting through other "wrong" memories until I find the "right" one. It might take awhile and it may not always be complete, but I always go from wherever I am, directly to the experience I'm looking for. I believe the brain's role in memory is to function like a switchboard rather than a filing cabinet.

I've been using memory as a jumping off point because everybody is familiar with it. As I said, I believe our memories are NOT stored like paid bills in a filing cabinet. I DO believe they are stored, of course. But I believe they are stored in the cells and systems that experience them - at the time they are experienced - in the past. I believe that when we remember, what we are really doing is shifting our conscious attention to the time and place where a particular experience occurred. I have no idea at all how you could test for this and it requires a total shift in the way people think about time, space and what (yes, I said WHAT) we really are.

When I was five years old, I was hit by a kid riding a bicycle while I stood on the sidewalk outside my house. As I focus my atention on it, I am able to recall quite a variety of details. I can hear myself crying. I can see the faces of the people standing over me. I can taste the tears runing down my cheek. I believe that what I am re-experiencing, from all those years ago, does not come from inside my present day brain. It comes from a place inside my brain when my brain is five years old. So to say that one is connected to their past may be more than just a metaphor. I believe it's a physical reality. The next you hear someone say, "It's like I'm actually there!" Think about it. Maybe they actually are.

This, of course, touches upon, and validates, many religious teachings. The idea that God is aware of everything we've ever done or that our entire life can flash before our eyes, doesn't seem that mysterious in this context. Where it gets a little scary is when you begin to realize the larger implications. Yes, there are even larger implications.

It is possible then, that our bodies and minds and everything we are familiar with, are not just a collection of here and now atoms and molecules. In this context, atoms and molecules can be seen as a cross section of a larger geometry which we ourselves occupy. While our conscious attention may be focused here, the totality of what we are exists "simultaneously" in the past, present and future. Our lives may not just be a wafer thin event taking place within time but homogenous objects that occupy a contiguous volume of time and space.

Oh yes, ESP. I almost forgot. ESP then, is simply a memory of the future. I'll get more into that later. If all this seems to be a bit complicated, take comfort in knowing that I'm only suggesting ONE thing, which has unfortunately led to a lot of other things - which makes a lot of people uncomfortable. Just when we're getting used to the idea that Earth isn't at the center of anything, I come along and try to push the idea that our perceived reality itself has no more substance than a television picture. How this came about is described in the topic, The Universe.