Crafting Your Memory Palace

This session is designed to help you design your own memory palace - with 7 rooms that have 7 respective themes - to identify and make sense of your memories with the most (positive or negative) gravity.

Giordano Bruno is one of my heroes.

During the Renaissance, many religious intellectuals started using ancient memory techniques for new and more spiritual purposes. Bruno was the most interesting one of the lot. He took the memory palace technique, rooted in spatial organization (arranging information in a specific layout of rooms or places), and elevated it to the level of cosmic architecture. He encouraged creating vast, imaginative mental architectures that were not only personal but connected to the cosmic order. His memory systems were structured like divine or cosmic temples - the images and spaces were designed to align with natural and metaphysical laws. So this was not just about memorizing facts, but about aligning the mind with the grand archetypes of the universe, thus transforming the mind into a mirror of the cosmos. If you’re interested, read The Art of Memory by Frances Yates.

Inspired by him while still following my own weird, I designed my own “Memory Palace of Consecration,” where I house and unpack all of my memories that have most lasted the test of time. It’s been so fruitful that it’s only right to offer it to others.