Spiritual Seekers Have Poor Memory???

[King Merk]

Do you identify as a psychopomp, shaman or the archetypal magician? 

To give a brief introduction to these three roles...

“In Jungian psychology, the psychopomp is a mediator between the unconscious and conscious realms.”

 

”The Shaman is said to be walking with one foot in the every day world and with the other in the spirit world.”

“All knowledge that takes special training to acquire is the province of the Magician energy. Whether you are an apprentice training to become a master electrician and unraveling the mysteries of high voltage; or a medical student, grinding away night and day, studying the secrets of the human body and using available technologies to help your patients; or a would-be stockbroker or a student of high finance; or a trainee in one of the psychoanalytic schools, you are in exactly the same position as the apprentice shaman or witch doctor in tribal societies.”

 

Personally, I identify with all three of these roles and my suspicion is many of you do as well.

 

A very intuitive and professional astrologer friend of mine brought up a very interesting point to me the other day.

She said... “You’re a psychopomp. It’s who you are. You travel back and forth between the land of the living and the dead. You travel into the depths of the unconscious to bring back knowledge to the conscious world... you memory is poor isn’t it?”

Shocked, I said “It is... it’s quite poor actually. I’ll often forget what I’m doing in the middle of a task. I’ll forget complete hour long conversations I’ve had with people. I can’t remember my mom’s birthday or age for the life of me. Hell, the other day I even forgot my address and had to look it up on Google maps.” 
 

 

So my question for you dear read is... how is your memory? 

Is this a common thing amongst us “seekers?”

I’m sure I’m not the only one who identifies as a shaman, magician or psychopomp.

So, for those other inquisitive souls whom swim through the murky depths of the subconscious... how is your memory? Do you struggle with this too? And what do you do to manage or even relieve said issue? 

Thanks for reading!(: 

[Sempiternity]

Yes, in realizing that Now is all that exists, that there is no "past", I have very little relationship to a "past", as I know it's just me creating it Now. It doesn't effect my life much. Those in my life have accepted my lack of memory. If something is worth remembering, I will write it down. It's nice being free from a past. I have no trauma from past events, or regret over things I did or didn't do, or longing for another time in my life that was "better". 

 

[SamC]

13 minutes ago, King Merk said:

Do you identify as a psychopomp, shaman or the archetypal magician? 

To give a brief introduction to these three roles...

“In Jungian psychology, the psychopomp is a mediator between the unconscious and conscious realms.”

 

”The Shaman is said to be walking with one foot in the every day world and with the other in the spirit world.”

“All knowledge that takes special training to acquire is the province of the Magician energy. Whether you are an apprentice training to become a master electrician and unraveling the mysteries of high voltage; or a medical student, grinding away night and day, studying the secrets of the human body and using available technologies to help your patients; or a would-be stockbroker or a student of high finance; or a trainee in one of the psychoanalytic schools, you are in exactly the same position as the apprentice shaman or witch doctor in tribal societies.”

 

Personally, I identify with all three of these roles and my suspicion is many of you do as well.

 

A very intuitive and professional astrologer friend of mine brought up a very interesting point to me the other day.

She said... “You’re a psychopomp. It’s who you are. You travel back and forth between the land of the living and the dead. You travel into the depths of the unconscious to bring back knowledge to the conscious world... you memory is poor isn’t it?”

Shocked, I said “It is... it’s quite poor actually. I’ll often forget what I’m doing in the middle of a task. I’ll forget complete hour long conversations I’ve had with people. I can’t remember my mom’s birthday or age for the life of me. Hell, the other day I even forgot my address and had to look it up on Google maps.” 
 

 

So my question for you dear read is... how is your memory? 

Is this a common thing amongst us “seekers?”

I’m sure I’m not the only one who identifies as a shaman, magician or psychopomp.

So, for those other inquisitive souls whom swim through the murky depths of the subconscious... how is your memory? Do you struggle with this too? And what do you do to manage or even relieve said issue? 

Thanks for reading!(: 

Interesting read. I have a very good memory but I a still stuck in this material world where my spiral dynamics stage yellow systems take place.  I don't think I am the psychpoomp archetype.

That said, it might very well be the case. 

 

[EddieEddie1995]

Get nootropics and try some journaling and concentration practices. This is what helped me a lot. 

Forgetting your address is what worries me though hehehehe

You cannot force thoughts, let go, and they will appear

What if you forget who you are? Oh... You already did that  

[King Merk]

On 4/1/2021 at 3:29 PM, Sempiternity said:

Yes, in realizing that Now is all that exists, that there is no "past", I have very little relationship to a "past", as I know it's just me creating it Now. It doesn't effect my life much. Those in my life have accepted my lack of memory. If something is worth remembering, I will write it down. It's nice being free from a past. I have no trauma from past events, or regret over things I did or didn't do, or longing for another time in my life that was "better". 

 

What a beautiful place to come from. Thank you for sharing

[King Merk]

@EddieEddie1995 what nootropics would you suggest for better memory?

I’ve also been playing with the idea of some of my memory issues being heavy metal poisoning. Specifically Mercury as I ate a ton of fish back when I was into bodybuilding hardcore. 

I only forget my address like 1/10 times but when I do it’s frustrating as fuck?

[seeking_brilliance]

Do you know your MBTI? 

[blackchair]

i said to memory bye bye long time ago 

Edited April 3, 2021 by blackchair

[GreenLight]

I think memory loss happens so we can stay more in the moment. I have seen a few podcasts where spiritual teachers forget something and just become instantly blissful. Also read other people having this experience. Maybe it's part of the journey that we will all meet each other at a dementia - memory clinic 

[Moksha]

Psychopomp is a bit of a red flag, but not entirely.

Psycho:

A crazy or mentally unstable person.

Pomp:

Ceremony and splendid display, especially at a public event.

By what standard, though? Most "normal" people, particularly those of the Western persuasion, consider mystical insights to be delusional. Ultimately, who cares what they think? The whole point is to let go of thinking, and choose being.

[Roy]

I smoked too much weed as a teenager so that probably fucked my memory up, I can't even remember phone numbers people tell me sometimes literally 2 minutes after hearing it lmao.

[Hulia]

31 minutes ago, Roy said:

I smoked too much weed as a teenager so that probably fucked my memory up, I can't even remember phone numbers people tell me sometimes literally 2 minutes after hearing it lmao.

I have never smoked weed, but the same. Even worse, 10 seconds enough for me to forget any number consisting of more than 4 figures. I don´t have a single phone number in my head. 

Luckily no problems with my adress  never forgot. 

I have just problems with memorizing things without a kind of story in a background. Like numbers. 

[Roy]

Just now, Hulia said:

I have never smoked weed, but the same. Even worse, 10 seconds enough for me to forget any number consisting of more than 4 figures. I don´t have a single phone number in my head. 

Luckily no problems with my adress  never forgot. 

I have just problems with memorizing things without a kind of story in a background. Like numbers. 

haha yep I feel you! idk maybe I've never been a numbers person, and the weed didn't help even though I wasn't THAT hardcore of a smoker compared to many friends I knew at the time.

The problem is I'm literally daydreaming and contemplating deep stuff every day pretty much ALL the time. In my own head analyzing, and going meta, that when people start talking to me about trivial shit or numbers I need to remember, I just literally don't care. Even when I'm working and it's supposed to be "important".

[seeking_brilliance]

I love all three descriptions and also experience great recall. ?‍♂️

[EddieEddie1995]

Idk the names. Here are few: Huperzine A, htp-5, salbutiamine, lions mane, graviola, modafinil etc. 

Do your research. ?