Reader Comments on Forgetting In Order to Remember Better
by Greg Mackie. Read the article.
Greg,
loved this entry in your blog. I am at times conscious of making a decision not to remember, in order to keep my feeble brain capacity focused on things I deem important in that moment. (My wife can provide countless examples, should you be interested). That seems consistent with the experiment in the article—deciding in the moment not to remember. You point out that the Course asks and advises more, though. It asks us to forget things we have long ago committed to memory, either consciously or through ego-conditioning. That is far more difficult, I think. In the first case I never committed something to memory, in the second I must take a back-hoe to dig out something deeply entrenched and integrated into my worldview and neuro-structure. The outcome seems the same though—eliminating unnecessary brain clutter and the influence of wrong learnings to focus on what we want to know. Continual practice which leads to new habits and a changed worldview seems to be the Course's prescription for the way out of this. Thank heaven for the practice structure of the Course
—Rick Baker
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