Shree: Memory

Shree: Memory

Memory is a powerful way of perceiving life. Memory is about existence and vibrations that create some thoughts, feelings and a form that perceives its existence based on some variables or conditions (or vibrations themselves). Is memory individual or collective? What does it include? In its fundamental form, memory has no boundaries (whatever they seem to be, those are constructs or self imposed) and since there are no boundaries, it means all Universe is One (or from One medium of consciousness). Boundaries mean generated from vibrations leading to thoughts and feelings and finally to a form. A boundary is “felt” (or imagined or constructed) as a function of how the form perceives itself. If boundary dilutes (meaning expands) then nature of perception increases, more subtle forces are felt and finally only the One stays. Hence the destination of all boundaries (or journeys of perceptions) is realizing the One. We are therefore on a journey till the inquiry takes shape in our thinking and then we arrive at the natural destination of becoming the One.

The idea of journey is important since it means that there is a strong meaning to all that we perceive and do. Why do we run, from what do we run, where do we run and how do we run (I like to call it “movement”) is in important undertaking. We will need to move (or vibrate) in some manner and in this movement or vibration; there are incidences of severe stress, dilemma, pain, and revelations and so on.

Memory may have existential dimensions and they would subsequently become timeless. Therefore questions of vibrations, meaning leading to process and forms, connections, time, scale and proportions, space become highly relevant. What sort of memory do we create when things change fast and cause “disruption” in consciousness? What sort of connectons, relations do we build with space and time and people? The answers to these questions will hint at the quality of spatial experiences we therefore create or see nowadays. Increased surveillance, automation, increased notions of privacy, demands on productions, demands on consumptions, resulting aesthetics, demands on increased teams in consultancy, increased demands on absolute control, lack of accountability, neglect of “public spaces”, apathy of discussing and designing anything regarding public or collective good, either too much mute spectatorship of public spaces or explosion of crushing noise/ revolt on public spaces, too much sterilization of spaces, too much self absorbtion and preoccupation with individual routines/ imaginations and so on, shrinkage of time, and so on.

We see the world of existence from our inner lens, which is always connected with a larger (and subtle and intangible) idea of life. Are we paying the cost of ignoring this idea of connection and subtleness of meanings?

Hari Om.