Present Memories: Recognize the True Depth of Life

Download or read book Present Memories: Recognize the True Depth of Life written by Gabriel Devita and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The findings of neuroscience and cognitive neuropsychology suggest that all experience of thought, feeling, and sensation is an experience of the past, the very recent past perhaps, but the past nonetheless. Only the intimacy of awareness itself is ever truly present, and it is so endlessly, constantly, and unchangingly. Absolutely everything we experience, everything in time, everything processed as a memory trace, is a faint echo of a recent past. The reality of awareness is prior to the word and concept of "awareness," which, as a thought, must be remembered. The intimate reality of it is prior to conceptualization; it is intimated in every experience without being experienced. This book weaves an insightful and sometimes poignant exploration of consciousness, childhood and nature - the depths and the shallows of experience and "the transparent world of unequivocal simplicity that I seemed to have lost somewhere in my youth. What seemed divisible became indivisible again, and at the same time I knew that it had never been lost."