Page 169 - Spirit and Mind. Vol 1

Nicolai Levashov. Spirit and mind. Vol.1

Material, repeatedly read and recited, is engraved on our memory forever — or,
at least, for substantial periods of time. Thus, one and the same sense stimulus, most
often visual or auditory, enters the brain at varying time intervals; that is, one and the
same ionic code of an external stimulus enters the same neurons of the
corresponding optical or acoustic brain centers at regular time intervals.

If the intervals between signals are shorter than the "life span" of the signal's
etheric imprint, the repeated bombardment does not allow this imprint to fade away
and "die." Thus the "life span" of the etheric imprint is prolonged and becomes a

long-term memory. If the repeated signals keep recurring regularly over an
interval sufficient to create a complete astral imprint, it will become permanent.

Thus, the external event or phenomenon will be engraved on our memory
forever. But then, the easily-answered question arises as to why, in the process of
increasing the etheric imprint's life span, the ascending flow of primary matters
manages to completely saturate the signal's etheric imprint with G matter (as
occurs in stress situations) — even when the neurons' metabolic activity is not

particularly vigorous?
The answer lies in the following: the etheric imprint's self-dimensionality
changes, and this leads to a rupture of the qualitative barrier between etheric and
astral levels and an opening into the microspace of the signal's etheric imprint. This is
precisely what initiates the formation of the external signal's astral imprint. If the life
span of the event is long enough to allow creation of a stable and full astral
imprint, the brain remembers this external stimulus (event, phenomenon or
information) forever.
But then, we may ask, how many repetitions are needed for that to occur? Some
people have a memory so phenomenal that reading, seeing or hearing a stimulus once
is enough to engrave it forever in their memory. It also means that the life span of this
one etheric imprint is sufficient to form a stable and complete astral imprint of the
external stimulus.

There are also some who, even with myriad repetitions, are unable to remember
anything. Sometimes it is due to genetic damage, in which case the life span of an
etheric imprint is so small that it vanishes from the etheric level before the
repeated signal enters. At other times, dysfunctional memory is the result of
infectious agents in the spinal fluid and the secretion of their toxins, which impact the
brain cells by changing their ionic composition and slowing down their internal
exchange processes.

In that case, the ascending flow of primary matters to the etheric imprint is too
weak to ensure saturation of the imprint by G matter in sufficient concentration
to open a qualitative barrier between the etheric and astral levels -without which
an astral imprint of the signals cannot be created.

In some cases of this type, formation of short-term memory is possible. But if
the ascending flow of primary matter is too slow to saturate the etheric imprint

with G matter faster than the imprint loses its G matter, short-term memory is
not a possibility either.
In most cases, peoples' ability to memorize falls between these two extremes and
also changes with age. It usually ranges from maximum ability in childhood to fair or

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