Pre-Memory

Memory.

It's a funny thing.

It's completely intertwined with time, yet, it's one-directional. It exists only for past events.

Or does it?

Before we consider that, I'd like to share a phenomenon that reveals an aspect of memory that few have heard of.

"Heart Memory".

Paul Pearsall, MD, a psycho-neuro-immunologist, discovered a shocking phenomenon after interviewing nearly 150 heart transplant recipients.

Hearts carry memory.

There's one particular story reported by Pearsall that highlights this phenomenon perfectly, the story of an eight-year-old girl who received the heart of a ten-year-old girl who had been murdered.

Upon receiving the heart via a transplant, the recipient had horrifying nightmares of being murdered by a stranger. Psychiatric help was sought because of how traumatic they were, and the images the girl saw in the "dream" were so specific that the psychiatrist and the mother notified the police.

According to the psychiatrist, "...using the description from the little girl, they found the murderer. He was easily convicted with the evidence the patient provided. The time, weapon, place, clothes he wore, what the little girl he killed had said to him... everything the little heart transplant recipient had reported was completely accurate."

The recipient of the donor didn't just receive a heart, she also received memories from the donor.

This is one of countless stories that conclude the same reality: memory is not just a function of our brains. Somehow, our hearts play a role too, which reminded me of a particular research study that we covered in Level 5.

The HeartMath Institute study that proved intuition across time.

If you recall, they discovered that the "intuitive signal" originated in the participants' hearts before being passed to their brains. The energy came from the heart. Taking this into account alongside Pearsall's research, it cannot be denied that our hearts play a role in connecting us to our emotions across time and to our memories from our past.

Interesting.

It seems that "memory" may be hiding a secret.

As we already know about memory, it has a deep connection to our emotions. The stronger an emotion, the stronger the memory. And as I mentioned in Level 6, I believe that memory has a deep connection with the Theory of Extuity, which leads me to a final gift I wish to share.

As we know, the beliefs of our possibilities and limitations that exist in our subconscious minds define the very possibilities and limitations we experience in our conscious life, and there's one specific 'fact' that we've been hardwired to believe since childhood…

A memory is something remembered from the 'past'.

Just the past.

But what if we truly believed, on a deep subconscious level, that memory was omnidirectional? That memory applied to both past and future? Would we "remember" moments in our future, specifically those in which we experience strong emotions, exactly like we remember our past?

In other words…

Would we have "memories" of our future?

I'm going to let you discover the answer to that one.

Have fun.