Memory and Selfhood

A man notes that while body sensations increasingly feel less like ‘me’, memories still convincingly create a sense of separate selfhood and continuity. Rupert explains that while the man correctly infers continuity from memory, it’s not personal identity that memory validates but consciousness itself. Memory confirms not a separate self but the consciousness in which both current and past experiences appear – like travelling between rooms in the same space. He adds that the mind superimposes time onto consciousness, which itself exists eternally in the now.

From event 21 March - 28 April, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Garrison Institute, 21–28 March 2025

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