Mmmm as you know i am a big fan of the church, specifically steve kilbey whom i see as one of the true great visionaries of australian culture, in his blog he writes about a drug he calls memory, and it's intresting as i spend a lot of time dwelling upon the usefulness of memory, is it a drug? Are we all just addicted to the chemical process of remembering, editing, i guess it is a subjective reality, and memory is part of what shapes it. Me i have a very non linear memory, not sure if it's the blows to my head i sustained in london or just some strange wireing but my memory is so non linear, it has no chronological flow, in fact i remember things from the future as much as i do the past.
Old Proust wrote about remebering the past, but if i was Proust i'd be writing about the future just as much, the constraints of time impede liberation of the mind, don't be fooled, don't take any notice of birthdays, don't care about what day it is, never wear a watch, never play any importance on anythng that has artificial time, just follow the cycles of nature and take a step to freedom.
The Daoists never give their age away, you know why? becuase they have no idea how old they are.
Memory is the brains self editing process, usually most of it is junk, nostalgic trips down fake realities we arrange to suit our sense of order, memory is hacked and cracked all the time, william burroughs experimented with the cut up technique in writing, a technique that propelled writting into the future. I don't use his technique often but i occassionally delve into it, the idea of randomly chopping up bits of information and them randomly putting them back together is a very effective way of getting order from chaos. The results have a predictive quality, thus a memory from the future.