There are many different paths to the future. According to P.M.H. Atwater, one of the foremost investigators into near-death experiences, future memory allows people to "live" life in advance and remember the experience in detail when something triggers that memory. Atwater explains the unifying, and permanent, effect of that experience is a brain a "brain shift" which she believes "may be at the very core of existence itself." In Future Memory, Atwater shows that structural and chemical changes are occurring in our brains, changes indicative of higher evolutionary development. This mind-blowing exploration of a mind-blowing topic traces her findings about this phenomenon and explores its implications for the individual and for society. Future Memory: Provides a series of steps to assist in developing future memory Explores new models of time, existence, and consciousness Presents an in-depth study of the brain shift and how it can be experienced Offers an extensive appendix and resource manual Future Memory is an important step in understanding the relationship between human perception and reality.
Memory studies has become a rapidly growing area of scholarly as well as public interest. This volume brings together world experts to explore the current critical trends in this new academic field.
Whereas historical determinacy conceives the past as a complex and unstable network of causalities, this book asks how history can be related to a more radical future.
New York Times Book Review Best Poetry of 2018 “Like a cup of tea for the weary.” —Washington Post In this Zen-infused and meditative collection, critically acclaimed poet Elizabeth Spires reflects on memory, mortality, and the ...
... Hugh P. Taylor, October 4, 1823. 12 “I endeavor to collect”: Jefferson in a letter to James Madison, January 12, 1789. 13 “the worthiest minds, who lived in the best ages”: Montaigne, “Of the education of children,” CW, 115.
The comedic actress best known for her role on Taxi describes her extremely rare autobiographical memory and the ways in which it has helped her in countless scenarios, in a guide that offers advice about how to bolster memory and make it ...
In this book, Tomaso Vecchi and Daniele Gatti argue that the purpose of memory is not to remember the past but to predict the future.
27 H. Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advan ced Industrial Society (New York: Routledge Classics, 1964), 3, 14, e mphasis in original. Also Adorno et al., The Authoritarian Personality.
The book has three parts: “Past” addresses memory. Our inability to comprehend our staggering present partly lies in our ignorance of our staggering past. We peer into the black box of history to understand how we got here.
One helpful sociological model explaining the global diffusion of norms and organizational forms is the world polity approach, which draws on neo-institutionalism and is championed by John Meyer and his collaborators (Meyer et al.
Remembering Ethnic Cleansing and Lost Cultural Diversity in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Europe Barbara Törnquist-Plewa. Boyer, M.C. 1994. ... Urban Spaces after Socialism: Ethnographies of Public Spaces in Eurasian Cities.