A Walking Tour of the Memory Palace: How Humans Learned to Train Remembering

A walking tour through the history of memory training: oral cultures, the memory palace, and contemplative recollection, as background reading. Imagine a building you know well, perhaps the house you grew up in. Walk through the front door in your mind. Turn left into the kitchen. Notice the table, the window, the sound the floor made. Without effort, you have just done something that ancient teachers prized: you used place to hold memory. This article takes you on a short tour through the history of that idea and its relatives. It is general background on the subject, written for curious readers, and it does not describe the contents of any specific book. The occasion is a title called THE BILLIONAIRE MEMORY MASTERY (https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=wWTuEQAAQBAJ), whose keywords mention memory training, a sovereign mind, and memory mastery meditation. Those phrases sit at the crossroads of two old streams: the practical craft of remembering and the contemplative idea of a mind that is steady and self-governing. The tour below visits each room in turn. Related book: THE BILLIONAIRE MEMORY MASTERY by Dr. Ajarn Robert Shumake. More titles: Amazon author store.