[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Originally Posted by Ian

Just to confirm I do not believe memories are stored -- so possibly I may disagree with Open Mind on this. Makes a change from skeptics though who all seem to sing from the same hymn sheet!

How can they be retrieved if they are not stored?

I would hypothesise it's not the case that memories are somehow etched in the brain in the form of information which the mind interprets. I think this is nonsensical. Rather I would hypothesis that memories are a direct perception by the self of past events. Most memories are however completely blocked by the brain. In the afterlife realm we will have full access to all our memories i.e our perception of our memories will be unimpeded.

So you must be assuming that all events exist simultaneously. Otherwise a transcript of history must be stored, a la the akashic record. Once our brain is no longer filtering our view of simultaneous events, what will it mean to "have full access to all our memories?"

~~ Paul