Consciousness and memory

Contents

Looking inward
Memory
God
References

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Purusha - पुरुष [Sanskrit] - spirit, or immaterial essence of a human (Garcia & Miralles 2022)

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CoCo - cosmic consciousness [God]

GeCo - greater external individual consciousness [Life / Soul]

LoCo - localised consciousness [Body]

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1. Looking inward

Sentient life (e.g. human beings, animals, aliens) can be solitary or societal, terrestrial or extraterrestrial (i.e., universal). We of earth can live alone in a cave, or in a house with others. We can look around at the dirt and the buildings upon it, or at the stars in the night sky and infinity beyond. We can meditate with an empty mind, or fill it with the chaos of everyday life. At any point in time we can experience none, part, or all of the above. We can be happy, sad, indifferent. This roller coaster ride is normal, due to the fact that we are conscious beings with free will. Everything derives from that, is connected to that. It is not only the meaning of life, but the reason of, and for, life. We have no control, but at the same time are in complete control. "Impossible!" you say. But true. So what is my point here?

I am in a quandary. I work hard to control my life, to deal with events rationally, and to be either at peace or happy; to minimise stress and remain healthy so that I can be alert, mindful and useful. But...... as I write this I am none of that. I am stressed, I am deeply sad, and my life teeters on the edge of chaos - physically, financially, emotionally and spiritually. I know this will pass, and I also know that it will return, for ultimately that control I strive for is elusive and ephemeral. Why? Because it is not just up to me. It can be reliant on those around me, the people I love, and the world beyond. It may even be predetermined. By whom? That I do not know. But, for example, the weather can cause chaos in one's life; political events can be uplifting or upsetting; love can waiver, disappear, or flood the senses. Perhaps my whole life cycle - the linear time on earth from birth to death, and that before and after - has been planned and was occurring as it was meant to be. Like I mentioned above, life can be all or nothing and everything in between. Some much for control....

Yet within these two paragraphs is everything - my past, present and future. I know this, because it has taken 68 years of my present life to get to this point in the development of my individual, eternal consciousness, and that development has, over the past two years, allowed me to think deeply and arrive at my present state of being and understanding. That state gives me confidence in what I believe, and in what I write. It allows me to accept that dichotomy of free will / lack of control, and puts me in a state where I am happy about facing the end of this life and moving on to the next, and the next after that, perhaps ad infinitum.

One of the keys to this self-confidence is my development of a personal understanding of consciousness and of the role and place of my greater external individual consciousness (GeCo), which is a fractal derivative of the greater Cosmic Consciousness (CoCo), which is also known as God / Creator / Source. My individual consciousness is also known as my soul, mind, essence and sense of being. It allows me to know who I am, to have experiences, to have memories, and to survive in this three dimensional world of Earth. It is non-material and exists external to the organic machine that is my temporary earthly body. That part of my individual consciousness which runs that body is just that - a subset of a much greater, external consciousness with almost infinite capabilities - the GeCo Those capabilities, throughout the various iterations of my life, allow me to get close to that of the Cosmic Consciousness, as in reaching a state of nirvana / bliss / heaven. The journey from single, sentient amoeba to a human being in 2025 has been a long one, though of the precise details I know nothing. Some people can access their previous lives, but most cannot. Why? I do not know, and it does not matter. Nevertheless, the links at the head of this article, and the following discussion points, may assist in explaining some of these ultimate questions.

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2. Memory

If we understand that consciousness is not local, but is non-material and "resides" external to the body, and does not originate in, or reside solely and permanently only with in the brain, then the question arises:

What happens to memory when we die, or when the brain is subject to trauma and damaged, such as during an operation or in a car accident?

The normal answer would be that, as memory is created by the brain (so science emphatically tells us), when the body dies the brain stops working and memory disappears. End of story. But, if we accept, as the present writer does, that memory is stored in our consciousness, which is primary, eternal, expansive and non-material, then the question expands out and becomes:

Does memory reside wholly or partially within the consciousness and wholly or partially within the brain? Is it one or the other, or both, or neither?

One could believe either, though most people accept it when scientists tell us that memory is brain-based and purely material, as in electrical impulses within neurons. However, we are finding out more and more that consciousness is fundamental, i.e., the actual foundation of life, soul, essence. It is the ultimate point of origin for everything in the universe, and with that in mind we have to then reconsider our stance regarding memory.

Should I say, I do not need to consider the issue of memory in the brain because that's already been considered by numerous commentators over the years? Yes, I could, but the issue of consciousness as the basis of memory - not the brain - is now the focus of the present writer's consideration. But how does one sharpen that focus?

Recently the writer has been Netflix binge-watching various post-2020 Japanese and Korean dramatic, fantasy and romance television series, with the latter usually running on average to 16 episodes. They have high production values, are well written in regards to character development and narrative deployment, and they address a general audience. They are traditional television fodder, devoid of the recent trend in Hollywood towards the artificial imposition of the so-called Woke Mind Virus ideology, wherein artificial elements of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) are forced upon all aspects of the production, much to its detriment in the way of introducing both narrative disruption and character implausibility. Suspension of disbelief is unfortunately replaced by suspension of belief. Therefore of the programs viewed, all held the writer to the end, and often in a continuous sitting over a couple of days.

One of those Korean dramas (K-drama) which initiated the present blog focussed around consciousness and memory was Queen of Tears. Therein, one of the main protagonists developed a life-threatening brain tumor, had an operation and, as a result of that, lost her memory - whether permanently or temporarily was not initially explained, unlike the scenario in the Hollywood film 50 First Dates. One of the elements of the drama, revealed in the last two or three episodes, was that which developed around her husband and family who convinced her to have the operation, even though she didn't want to because she didn't want to lose all those precious memories. However, she finally acquiesced, and the drama was heightened as an alternate friend and hopeful lover took control of her, deceiving her in the process. Setting the husband up with murder, he was able to control her life for a period, until the memory imprint of her true love returned. But how could this happen when her memory was supposedly destroyed?.

Whilst watching this take place, the writer was thinking, "Hang on, it is not a simple case that post-operation, all of the memories are gone." That is easy to believe if we believe that memory is purely brain based and, like a computer, can easily be wiped. Obviously this is a logical conclusion, as it has happened in real life on many occasions when damage to the brain results in a loss of memory. We only have to look at people with Alzheimer's to see that, as one of the symptoms of that brain-based diseases is loss of memory. But is it?

One study has recently revealed that though there can be degradation of brain function arising out of Alzheimer's, consciousness - including memory - can still persist and be expressed, though in a non-physical, metaphysical manner, as in non-verbal communication via telepathy. So, even though there are slots of examples of people who had operational brain trauma and practically exhibit lost memory, that memory still exists in their consciousness, though cannot be expressed in the normal manner.

Memory can be preserved in that greater expanded external individual consciousness (GEEIC), however most people do not have access to that during their normal lifetime; or, if they do, they do not know how to initiate that. When we die we likely get access to it, as in when those suffering near-death-experiences (NDEs) state that their lives flashed before their eyes in a period approximating seven seconds. There is no way that any of us can prove that scientifically, or the scientific community can accept that due to their materialist-based methodology. We have learned from the reality of reincarnation and near death experiences, that people indeed can access that greater consciousness, and many of those individuals subsequently exhibit extended memories into their past lives, and/or extended knowledge. Those who experience the latter - sometime from birth - are often called autistic and savants.

If we consider our physical body an organic machine, equivalent to a laptop or smartphone, we can use the analogy that the localised version of our external, greater consciousness derives from the that massive mainframe of almost unlimited capacity and which stores information about past lives, the present, and perhaps even the future, with a wi-fi like connection between the two. This is all speculation, and in the realm of our Earth-based, scientific paradigm, it will likely never be proved. But, as a believer in that scenario, the writer would say to family: "I have no worries about losing my memory because I know it is stored within my greater consciousness." Yes. I could wake up one day with no memory and, in fact, memory is a fragile thing which it could be said fails every day, in some way, just like a person with Alzheimer's. Such is life.

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3. God

God created man in His own image (Genesis 1:27)

Jesus said: "I am the way, the truth and the life." As science is supposedly seeking the truth, it is drawn into the reality that we, and the whole universe, was formed in the image of God. Therein lies the connection between God, Cosmic Consciousness and science. When scientists talk about the hard problem of consciousness, they are in actual fact dealing with what is a hard problem for them, namely, spirituality and God as the source of creation. When God, or Jesus, said "I am," this refers to the fact of the fundamental nature, and the source of everything science does. Cosmic Consciousness is that very point of infinity - not "infinity and beyond," but infinity in reverse, from the beginning; not into the future, but into the past.

Since deep diving into the subject of consciousness at the beginning of 2024, the present writer has increasingly found the courage to comment on various YouTube, Facebook and X / Twitter presentations, especially where they continue to push the consciousness is a derivative of the brain philosophy. For example, in the Amira and Aryaan Arora channel interview of 21 March 2025 entitled Top Neuroscientist PROVES How The Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality | Anil Seth the writer made the following posting:

God, Source, Creator is Cosmic Consciousness - the origin of everything; fundamental. We are fractal elements / derivatives of the cosmic consciousness, in the form of individual consciousness. It is real, non-material, external and eternal. The brain is simply a localised, 3D material receiver which interprets and implements individual conscious thoughts. All the mechanical and quantum aspects of consciousness flow from this understanding of cosmic consciousness.

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3. References

Dimitropolis, Stav, Transporting Your Consciousness to an ‘Alternate Reality’ Online Could Cause Memory Problems, Scientists Say, Popular Mechanics, 5 March 2025.

Garcia & Miralles 2022.

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Last updated: 25 April 2025

Michael Organ, Australia

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