From: peterson_at_d...
Date: 2001-08-10 17:22:24
--- In buildcheapeeg_at_yahoogroups.com, "Rob Sacks" <editor_at_realization.org> wrote:
>
> I've noticed that old memories often surface
> unexpectedly during meditation but maybe this
> involves a different mental mechanism from the
> attempt to deliberately recall something? Or
> maybe childhood memories are different in this
> respect from memories created in adulthood?
>
Rob--This often happens in alpha-theta training as well. I think
it's partly because the "censors" that otherwise guard consciousness
are relaxed and let things in that would otherwise be excluded.
Also, in this state the mind is less directed by outside stimuli, so
it is free to wander and follow old associative networks into
"forgotten" corners, etc. Remember William James' beautiful metaphor
of the bird flitting from branch to branch? It is definitely very
different from deliberate retrieval efforts.
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