Temporal Memory is a Window to the Eternal

Memory is key to our conscious development. Relationships between people and objects form into living narratives from our actions and imagination. The mind rapidly compares memory with new experiences through the five physical senses streaming into an ever-present moment before our eyes. After-death memory works in precisely the same way, ensuring order in our living physical world narrative and the eternal realm beyond. A better understanding of the process will ensure direction and happiness.

by Arthur Telling

Memory Necessary for Mind to Function

Memory is critical to the unfolding narrative of a life lived. Without it, we have nothing from which to build. It would be like a book where the first line is read and is forgotten upon moving to the next line. We would be living in an unrecognizable present with nowhere to go. Memory gives retention of what just happened to build and further the living narrative, from first memories to the final moment.

With the understanding of the necessity of memory for the development of order and progression, we can better understand the nature of our greater self that lives before our physical birth and lives on after death. This same memory operates in the same way in play and provides us with life not just during this present life but also in the spirit worlds and beyond.

During this life, we gather and retain information from the present moment and from dreams, beliefs, and imaginations, all retained whether lived or imagined. And we quickly forget what is not helpful to our current needs. Today I know what I ate at lunchtime but have no idea what I had for lunch three days ago. It is not time passing that fades memory. It is the usefulness of that memory to us now. I don’t remember lunch from yesterday, but I remember bringing the car to the dealer for servicing. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t know whether the car needed to be serviced. Still, my memory of yesterday’s lunch would be of no use to me today except if there was some additional element of worth, like having had lunch with an old friend. Precisely, the mind remembers and can recall what is useful to it now in some mental or emotional way.

Physical and Afterlife Memory

This same functioning of memory applies to the afterlife. When we “die,” we will find that we are in a different place, possibly somewhere we will recall having been before incarnating in the physical world. It is because we shed memories that are not useful or are perhaps even detrimental for the moment, and those long past memories can again be reclaimed when usefulness returns. Such memories are not lost. They are put in the mind’s “archives.”

An incarnational cycle is to the entity as is a single physical life to a person. The same memory applies. My inner sources say seven incarnations in a single incarnational cycle, seven personalities, and many incarnational cycles through the mind’s perpetuity. The entity retains and processes each of the incarnational personalities, developing into a more complex being through the emotional and mental experiences of the personalities. What more exists from earlier incarnational rounds can be accessed but is not readily in memory of the entity. It is for the same reason as our birth to death framing, but the entity is aware of the illusion’s beginning to end.

We should strive to be aware that the mind’s eternal nature includes our prior birth and to-be after-death experiences. Through a careful awakening by study and through meditation, these resources will awaken to us. The truth first seems frightening, for whatever is not recognizable naturally brings anxiety. A gradual awakening brings familiarity with our higher natures and opens us to a glorious awaiting future.

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About the Author

Arthur Telling has written numerous stories, articles on religion, philosophy, and metaphysics. His article, “A Different Jesus Message,” appeared in the Nov. 2011 AMORC Rosicrucian Digest. Telling is the author of nine books, including Cleopatra and Jesus’s untold stories, a newly released novel based on actual events titled: “THE INCARNATION: Cleopatra’s Story of Jesus.” His website: www.arthurtelling.com and Facebook page “Philosophy for a Modern Era: www.facebook.com/philo30