A quote from my new novel, Remembering.
Coming soon.
“Memory isn’t stored in the brain. It’s accessed through it.”
She moved to one of the alcoves. Touched a carved spiral.
“We think memory is neurons firing. Synapses connecting. Chemical reactions. But that’s like saying music is stored in a radio. The radio doesn’t create the music. It receives it. Tunes into a frequency that already exists.”
If this were true, and many believe it is.
Would learning be less about forcing information in,
and more about clearing noise out?
Would thinking improve if the environment supported it,
instead of constantly interrupting it?
Would clarity come not from more effort,
but from stillness?
Is this why meditation is no longer fringe,
but becoming essential?
And when we look at ancient sites around the world,
built with precision, silence, geometry,
and used at specific times of day and year.
Were they designed to store knowledge.
Or to access it?
Not teaching.
Just asking.
I’d be genuinely interested in how others see this.