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I came across the Art of Memory via the writings of John Crowley (who is of course the best author in the world ever, but thats another discussion) in Little, Big and Aegypt, and research into Giordano Bruno, a defrocked dominican friar, astronomer, philosopher, artist, and mathematician. He was burned at the stake for disagreeing with the catholic church, and one of the things he realized and wrote about (aside from the fact that the sun is just a star and the heavens are full of millions of them and that there is probably other intelligent life in the universe) was the Art of Memory. As the wiki page i linked above indicates, there are many techniques which have been called "art of memory". I have worked with creating an elaborate visualization of a "memory mansion" with a room for each aspect of what i want to remember. I can place objects in the rooms to stand for certain things or remind me of them, and i can revisit those things via the visualization. When i first learned of it, i thought "what a bothersome nuisance" but after working with it i have had some amazing experiences. Like my shrine room (in the east wing lol)... the statues there and i have had some really excellent conversations, which is not the point of the art of memory, but seemingly a side effect. But in many ways the point of the art is that things will spontaneously arise in the mind's memory mansion which will allow the inhabitant insight and greater and greater access to memory. Have any of you bums worked with this? Heard of it? Read those pages and have some thoughts? I would love to hear them... blessings