The Empathic Oracle
by Steve Wilson & Michelle Motuza
Vladimir Nabokov wrote an autobiography called "Speak Memory."
Rather than focusing on a linear series of event to describe his life story, he allowed his mind to wander and allowed memories of colours and textures and light to lead his story. He could go on and on about a summer day from his childhood, or a feeling of exhilaration he had in a new city, yet wrote only one sentence about the most tragic and shocking event of his life, when his father was assassinated. He never explained that. But I suspect he was numbed when it happened and has no real sensation memory of it, doesn't recall textures or colours or light. He'd have had to delve into another kind of thinking to tell us about it and that wasn't the kind of book he was writing.
He was experimenting with memory as it related to time and to nature. He was exploring how we really connect things in our minds. The result is one of the most interesting and genuine recollections of a life ever written.
Today give a thought to your own life story and scribble down a memory or two based on sensations. If not today, over time.
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