Have you ever been accused or have you accused others of having a bad memory? Of course you have. We all remember some things and not others. Some of us are good with names (I’m not one of them), while others are good with numbers (I’m not one of them either). The opposite of remembering is forgetting, and this is where the problem lies. We believe that if we don’t remember something that we have experienced it, but forgot. We’ve all heard the words, “you never told me that.” My wife says it a lot to me. I used to argue with her about whether I said or didn’t say something until I understood the Elias information.
Current scientific thinking holds that memory is stored in the brain, and more recently, through the work of Dr. Candace Pert (Molecules of Emotion), that memory courses through the body in our endocrine system. It’s all very scientific and is driven by science’s belief that consciousness is an epiphenomenon of matter (created by matter). You know the thinking; without a brain there is no consciousness. It’s difficult to explain out-of-body experiences –of which millions are reported –with that kind of rigid belief. Many hold it as a truth in absolute.
Keeping in mind that the brain is a conduit of consciousness, but does not generate consciousness, let’s take a look at memory. What is crucial to memory is our attention,
AND ATTENTION IS NOT THOUGHT. Thought translates the myriad forms of
communication we constantly provide ourselves with. Attention may move to thought, but attention is not directed by thought. So, if attention is not thought, nor is it directed by thought, then what is it?
YOU are your attention. As Elias puts it:
“Attention is what you are, who you are and attention is what generates you as being you.”
What does this all mean as it pertains to memory? I’ll keep it simple by trying to avoid in depth information about our various
aspects and keep it focused on attention only. Let’s look at an example. Two months ago Harry and Lois went out for the evening to see the movie, What The Bleep Do We Know: Down The Rabbit Hole. Jumping to the present, Harry and Lois are sitting at the dinner table and Lois begins discussing the movie. She notices a puzzled look on Harry’s face and questions him about it. “I never saw that movie,” Harry tells her. “O course you did,” Lois says. “We saw it together two months ago. How can you possibly not remember?” An argument ensues, with Harry stuck to his position and thinking Lois is hallucinating, and Lois is stuck to her position and thinking Harry is getting senile. So, Who’s right?
Both Harry and Lois are right. If you recall from past posts, what we interact with is each other’s energy which we create into physical manifestation through our
perception. That energy is vast and our attention can be elsewhere while our partner is configuring our energy. Part of Harry’s energy is at the movies (the part he lends to Lois to create as she wishes), but his attention (Harry himself) is not. Lois was interacting with Harry’s energy, but not Harry’s attention. What is attention? Attention is You.
Briefly, a point about aspects. In the above example it may also have been that Harry exchanged primary aspects during the time he went to the movies with Lois and later changed back again. The memory is held with the aspect that went to the movies and is not held in
objective awareness by the aspect that was replaced. The memory is available in our
subjective awareness, for nothing is hidden from us. One can think of aspects the way we think of the various personas we wear
throughout the day. We have one persona we wear with friends, another in dealing with our children, another when involved with authority figures, etc. The point of all this is that we are infinitely larger than we have heretofore ever imagined. Begin believing that and your reality will respond in kind.
This is what Elias has to say about memory and simultaneous time (I’ve paraphrased for ease of understanding):
There is no need, so to speak, for memory or the holding of memory. The action of memory is not stored. The action that you hold in memory is occurring presently. Therefore, it is merely an action of turning attention within links of consciousness to the action which is occurring presently. The action of memory can be likened to you and the action of a strobe light. The strobe continues to blink even when you turn your eyes away from it. Even when you turn your eyes back to the strobe, thereby giving it your attention, you understand it was blinking even when your eyes were cast aside. This is the key point for understanding in all that you are creating and all that you are widening your 
awareness to. The element of attention is what turns your reality. Where you place your attention is where you shall place your interaction of perception, and this creates your reality.Bill Marshall
All of the information in this blog is in fictional form in my book, The Forgotten Self
(US) (UK)