Patty_Molor
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Here is but one narrative among a sea of examples of memories not being stored in the brain. The example comes from a series of tests where Grof gave participants LSD and the subject experienced an occurance from before they were born:
Grof, Stanislav; Bennett, Hal Zina (2009-10-13). The Holotropic Mind (Kindle Locations 2136-2141). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
I recall the experience of a young Finnish woman who attended one of our workshops in Sweden. Inga experienced herself as a young soldier during World War II, a full fourteen years before her conception. The soldier she became was her father, and she was in the midst of a battle, experiencing it all through his senses and nervous system. She fully identified with him, reliving how his body had felt and the sharpness of the high adrenalin emotions he was undergoing at the time. She was acutely aware of everything that was happening in the area around her. While hiding behind a birch tree, a bullet whistled past and grazed his-her cheek and ear. Inga’s experience was extremely vivid and compelling to her. She could not even imagine where such a memory could have come from. She did know that her father had fought in the Russo-Finnish war, but she was certain he had never told her of anything like the experience that had come to her mind. She decided to call her father on the phone and ask him about her experience. After speaking with him for some time she reported back to the rest of the workshop group. As she spoke, she grew more and more excited, awed by her discovery. When she described what she had experienced to her father he had been absolutely astonished. Everything she described to him had actually occurred! Her descriptions of the battlefield and his thoughts and feelings that day were absolutely correct, down to the detailed descriptions of a birch tree forest where the event happened. He also assured her that he had never spoken to anyone about his experience because he had never considered it serious or interesting enough to tell. Though he had never verbalized it, the experience had somehow been passed along to his daughter.
Grof, Stanislav; Bennett, Hal Zina (2009-10-13). The Holotropic Mind (Kindle Locations 2136-2141). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.