Dr. Roger Woolger
on
"The Mechanism of Remembering"
[according to Greek mythology] "...when you're born your soul is either dipped into the River of Lethe
or it is dipped into the other River of Mnemosyne and different souls have different tasks. Some are born to remember. Some are allowed to forget. It's a higher karma to remember, clearly. If you are born as a rememberer you have to be a multiple being. You can't just get on with this life and say "that's all there is." In some way, that's the conflict between those who are for reincarnation and those who are against it. If you are a reincarnationalist you have got to accept multiple being. You've got to take responsibility for other parts of yourself. But if you're not, you can say "Well this life is all there is" and this is the work. And that might be totally appropriate for some people. And to be burdened by all the other memories and fragments of being would be a nuisance. But for those of us who are, we have a different kind of work.
To do regression and spiritual work not only broadens our own soul
but it helps contribute to the unification of mankind.
Roger Woolger, January 2004, Colrain, MA
In ancient Greek myth, Mnemosyne (Memory), the mother of the Muses, is said to know everything, past, present, and future. She is the Memory that is the basis of all life and creativity. Forgetting the true order and origin of things is often tantamount to death (as in the case of Lethe, the river of death in Greek mythology, which destroys memory http://www.crystalinks.com/mythology3.html
