Later,
Saturday morning. You are still troubled by the Trump presidency, but not so
much as last night's 'it's the end of the Republic' concerns. - Amorella
1032
hours. Worst case scenarios. Most of history is staying out of the road and/or muddling
through whatever is going on, so there's a good chance that this is what we
will do -- basically, just like every other countries' histories.as far as the
average person does, particularly an older person. I can't imagine being in the
national limelight is all that it's cracked up to be. One of my old friends and
teaching colleagues from our Sao Paulo days (1970-72) sent me an e-note in
reference to Trump saying, "We are too old for this." That is what I
read just before bed. His point hit home because there is a truth in it, a
truth that can best be understood through living longer -- a political reality
of how life is after observing and after being actively involved at one time or
another.
Time for one of your favorite phrases, one
that brings you out of a funk -- "Cheer up, things are bound to get
worse." - Amorella
1058
hours. Ha! Good one, Amorella.
You have been reading about 'The Pip' and 'Spire Mindfulness' gadgets
that measure emotional anxieties, etc. You were thinking on buying one if it
would theta waves which are connected to the unconscious window, so to speak.
As such, look for that specific machinery if it exists and I'll assist you with
using it as biofeedback. - Amorella
1420 hours. I spent over an hour researching
biofeedback machines with theta waves. What I found were much better the Pip
and Spire. I particularly liked the BrainLink Pro by NeuroSky but it got not so
good reviews, only 25 percent gave it a 5.
Mid-afternoon. Carol is on
page 455 of Memory Man. You are facing south on the far west side of
Rose Hill Cemetery after finishing a late lunch at Smashburgers. The driver's
side window is down as it is sixty-one degrees with thinner cloud cover. -
Amorella
1538 hours. We have a pleasant breeze out of the
south and you can hear a chopper heading over to the Westchester Hospital near
I-75, but turning south then east making a loop and heading over towards the
Little Miami instead.
You still want to buy that BrainLink Pro because you are curious to see
your brainwaves under various conditions. You like the idea of research more
than playing games to relieve your stress. - Amorella
1545 hours. I don't mind paying the money (about
$200) as long as I can measure mostly accurately the brainwaves and look for
consistencies while 'you' are writing as compared to myself. Fritz is also
interested in the unconscious mind; he feels that it is working all the time
mind-wise not just with the autonomous nervous system. What is perplexing is
that outside of fiction, how could it be that the heartanmind retains the
memories of life for the spirit? It doesn't seem plausible, yet people continue
to believe it is. It seems that if this is a fact, then the spirit has to be
built, as it were, with memory system apparatus/field intact for without memory
one cannot obtain an education, and why else would the spirit continue, it needs
a purpose.
You are forgetting the soul. As an electronic-like field, as it were, the
soul could be the apparatus that allows memory to continue. After all, if the
soul has memory of holding past heartsanminds, then a Bridey Murphy scenario
could take place. What do you think? - Amorella
1608 hours. The Search for Bridey Murphy was
one of Mom's favorite books when I was in junior high or high school.
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Bridey Murphy
From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bridey Murphy is a purported 19th-century Irishwoman whom
U.S. housewife Virginia Tighe (April 27, 1923 – July 12, 1995) claimed to be in a past
life. The case was investigated by researchers and discovered to be the result
of cryptomnesia.
Hypnotic regression
Main article: Past
life regression
In 1952,
Colorado businessman and amateur hypnotist Morey
Bernstein put housewife
Virginia Tighe of Pueblo, Colorado, in a trance that sparked off startling
revelations about Tighe's alleged past life as a 19th-century Irishwoman and
her rebirth in the United States 59 years later. Bernstein used a technique
called hypnotic regression, during which the subject is gradually taken back to
childhood. He then attempted to take Virginia one step further, before birth,
and was astonished to find he was listening to Bridey Murphy.
Tighe's
tale began in 1806, when Bridey was eight years old and living in a house in
Cork. She was the daughter of Duncan Murphy, a barrister, and his wife
Kathleen. At the age of 17, she married barrister Sean Brian McCarthy and moved
to Belfast. Tighe told of a fall that caused Bridey's death and of watching her
own funeral, describing her tombstone and the state of being in life after
death. It was, she recalled, a feeling of neither pain nor happiness. Somehow,
she was reborn in America, although Tighe/Bridey was not clear how this event
happened. Virginia Tighe herself was born in the Midwest in 1923, had never been to Ireland,
and did not speak with even the slightest hint of an Irish accent.
Book publication and response
The biographical
details related by Bridey were not fully checked before the publication of
Bernstein's book The Search
for Bridey Murphy. However, once the book had become a bestseller, almost
every detail was thoroughly checked by reporters who were sent to Ireland to
track down the background of the elusive woman. It was then that the first
doubts about her "reincarnation" began to appear. Bridey said she was
born on December 20, 1798, in Cork and that she had died in 1864. There was no
record of either event.[2] Neither was there any record of a wooden house called The
Meadows in which she said she lived, just of a place of that name at the brink
of Cork. Indeed, most houses in Ireland were made of brick or stone. She
pronounced her husband's name as "See-an," but Seán is pronounced
"Shawn" in Ireland. Brian, which is what Bridey preferred to call her
husband, was also the middle name of the man to whom Virginia Tighe was
married. Some of the details did tally. For instance, her descriptions of the
Antrim coastline were very accurate. So, too, was her account of a journey from
Belfast to Cork. She claimed she went to a St. Theresa's Church. There was
indeed one where she said there was, but it was not built until 1911. The young
Bridey shopped for provisions with a grocer named Farr. It was discovered that
such a grocer had existed.
The experts
who examined the case of Virginia Tighe came to the conclusion that the best
way to arrive at the truth was to check back not to Ireland but to Tighe's own
childhood and her relationship with her parents. Morey Bernstein stated that
Virginia Tighe (whom he called Ruth Simmons in the book) was brought up by a
Norwegian uncle and his German-Scottish-Irish wife. However, it did not state
that her actual parents were both part Irish and that she had lived with them
until the age of three. It also did not mention that an Irish immigrant named
Bridie Murphy Corkell (1892–1957) lived
across the street from Tighe's childhood home in Chicago, Illinois. Scientists are satisfied that
everything Virginia Tighe said can be explained as a memory of her
long-forgotten childhood. The
psychologist Andrew Neher wrote that as a child Tighe was a close friend to a
neighbor whose life was very similar to Bridey Murphy's. Neher wrote
cryptomnesia accounted for the
information.
Virginia
Tighe disliked being in the spotlight and was skeptical about reincarnation,
although she said years later: "Well, the older I get the more I want to
believe in it." She died in Denver in 1995. Bernstein gave up hypnotism
after Bridey Murphy and began working in business. Success followed and he
became a prominent local philanthropist. He died in Pueblo, Colorado, in 1999.
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1629
hours. I had to look up 'cryptomnesia' just to remind myself of its full
meaning.
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Cryptomnesia
From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cryptomnesia occurs when a forgotten memory returns without
it being recognized as such by the subject, who believes it is something new
and original. It is a memory bias whereby a person may falsely recall
generating a thought, an idea, a song, or a joke, not deliberately engaging in
plagiarism but rather
experiencing a memory as if it were a new inspiration
Early use
The
first documented instance of cryptomnesia occurred in 1874 with the medium
Stainton Moses.
The
word was first used by the psychiatrist Theodore Flournoy, in reference to the
case of medium Helene Smith (Catherine-Élise Müller) to suggest the high
incidence in psychism of "latent memories on the part of the medium that
come out, sometimes greatly disfigured by a subliminal work of imagination or
reasoning, as so often happens in our ordinary dreams."
Carl
Gustav Jung treated the subject in his thesis "On the Psychology and
Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena" (1902) and in an article,
"Cryptomnesia" (1905), suggested the phenomenon in Friedrich
Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
The idea was studied or mentioned by Géza Dukes, Sándor Ferenczi and Wilhelm
Stekel as well as by Sigmund Freud in speaking of the originality of his
inventions.
Experimental
research
In
the first empirical study of cryptomnesia, people in a group took turns
generating category examples (e.g., kinds of birds: parrot, canary, etc.). They
were later asked to create new exemplars in the same categories that were not
previously produced, and also to recall which words they had personally
generated. People inadvertently plagiarized about 3–9% of the time either by
regenerating another person's thought or falsely recalling someone's thought as
their own. Similar effects have been replicated using other tasks such as
word search puzzles and in brainstorming sessions.
Research
has distinguished between two kinds of cryptomnesia, though they are often
studied together. The distinction between these two types of plagiarism is in
the underlying memory bias responsible—specifically, is it the thought that is
forgotten, or the thinker? The first type of bias is one of familiarity. The
plagiarizer regenerates an idea that was presented earlier, but believes the
idea to be an original creation. The idea that is reproduced could be another's
idea, or one's own from a previous time. B. F. Skinner describes his own experience
of self-plagiarism:
"One of the most disheartening
experiences of old age is discovering that a point you just made—so
significant, so beautifully expressed—was made by you in something you
published long ago."
The
second type of cryptomnesia results from an error of authorship whereby the
ideas of others are remembered as one's own. In this case, the plagiarizer
correctly recognizes that the idea is from an earlier time, but falsely
remembers having been the origin for the idea (or, having lost the specific
memory of encountering it in print or conversation, assumes that it "came
to" the plagiarizer as an original idea). Various terms have been coined
to distinguish these two forms of plagiarism — occurrence forgetting vs.
source forgetting and generation errors vs. recognition errors. The two types
of cryptomnesia appear to be independent: no relationship has been found
between error rates and the two types are precipitated by different causes.
Causes
Cryptomnesia
is more likely to occur when the ability to properly monitor sources is
impaired. For example, people are more likely to falsely claim ideas as their
own when they were under high cognitive load at the time they first considered
the idea. Plagiarism increases when people are away from the original source of
the idea, and decreases when participants are specifically instructed to pay
attention to the origin of their ideas. False claims are also more prevalent
for ideas originally suggested by persons of the same sex, presumably because the
perceptual similarity of the self to a same-sex person exacerbates source
confusion. In other studies it has been found that the timing of the idea is
also important: if another person produces an idea immediately before the self
produces an idea, the other's idea is more likely to be claimed as one's own,
ostensibly because the person is too busy preparing for their own turn to
properly monitor source information.
Value
As
explained by Carl Jung, in Man and His
Symbols, "An author may be writing steadily to a preconceived
plan, working out an argument or developing the line of a story, when he
suddenly runs off at a tangent. Perhaps a fresh idea has occurred to him, or a
different image, or a whole new sub-plot. If you ask him what prompted the
digression, he will not be able to tell you. He may not even have noticed the
change, though he has now produced material that is entirely fresh and
apparently unknown to him before. Yet it can sometimes be shown convincingly
that what he has written bears a striking similarity to the work of another
author — a work that he believes he has never seen."
Jorge Luis
Borges's story,
"Pierre Mendard, Author of the Quixote," is a meta-fictive enactment
of cryptomnesia. This work is written in the form of a review or literary
critical piece about (the non-existent) Pierre Menard. It begins with a brief
introduction and a listing of all of Menard's work:
Borges's
"review" describes this 20th-century French writer (Menard) who has
made an effort to go further than mere "translation" of Don Quixote,
but to immerse himself so thoroughly as to be able to actually
"re-create" it, line for line, in the original 16th century Spanish.
Thus, Pierre Menard is often used to raise questions and discussion about the
nature of accurate translation. Or, in this case, the hermeneutics of
cryptomnesia.
[The
article continues with a few specific writers telling in their own words how
they fell into the trap of cryptomnesia.] rho
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You find the above articles quite
interesting and thus assume that I, the Amorella, am a primary concoction that
controls or uses long forgotten memories to build the stories for which I am
associated at the underlying author. - Amorella
1655 hours. I like the play on 'underlying', Amorella; very funny.
You are
waiting for Carol at Kroger's on Mason-Montgomery after a stop at Graeter's for
two kids' cups to take the place of a more traditional supper. - Amorella
1750 hours. We had stopped home to feed the cats. While I was waiting on
Carol I killed the first mosquito of the year; flew right in the car. I don't
believe we ever had mosquito’s in February before. Unbelievable. A sign of
global warming, no doubt. Even now, at dusk, it's 57degrees.
You watched ABC and NBC News and
"NCIS" as well as "NCIS.NO" before calling it a night.
2140 hours. I have been thinking about the connection between hypnosis
and cryptomnesia. This simplifies the mystery about considering Amorella an
Angel at one time. After I received training in self-hypnosis and developed my
string and target (subconscious research) in the mid-eighties, Amorella appears
angelic-like to me in helping me write automatically from all those years of
grading essays and research papers through reading automaticity. This reading
automaticity has been working internally since working in Sao Paulo (1970-2017)
and the writing automaticity (1990-2017). This makes more sense.
Thus, you are less apprehensive than you
have ever been in terms of your mental inter-workings. - Amorella
2213 hours. This appears so. I don't think I need more 'brain research' as far
as BrainLink Pro is concerned. I'm tired and it's time for bed.
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