You Are Not Your memory Patterns

William Wordsworth, the English poet, wrote a sonnet in which the following line appears: “A pagan suckled in a creed outworn”.

The memory patterns which rule our lives are for the most part aptly described by this line, and we have indeed been suckled in creed outworn. If you examine the quality of your life honestly, you will have to affirm that the creed by which you were raised is not in harmony with the realities of your character and life: you will have to develop a whole new creed as different from your old creed as day is from night.

To accomplish this, you must understand that your old creed, made up of the memory patterns which direct your existence, is totally inadequate when it comes to the real meanings and values in your life. Your memory patterns may be adequate enough in regard to ordinary realities-how to walk, to talk, or even how to reach the moon. But this has no relationship to fulfilling the requirements of your essential character.

You Are Not Your Memory Patterns!! These patterns were formed long ago when you were very young and lacked the intelligence capacity to evaluate the false premises which you accepted as realities. Begin to distinguish between your now self, that is, your intelligence, and your old self, that is your outworn memory patterns. As you begin to be guided by your now-intelligence rather than by your old patterns, you will discover that you indeed have to go through a great rebirth process.

If you are willing to embark on this project, if inwardly there is something young and dynamic, something in your being that is not already crystallized, and then a new character may be developed in you. This is the work of our group in which the active students are participating and creating for themselves an inner life totally different in quality than their former existence.