Giordano Bruno and the Art of Memory with John Michael Greer
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The Great Challenge of the Ardor Memory
Bruno's secret was that he could divide up words into two letter groups. And so you would have these groups, and you would just be able to row off on entire pages of text verbatim. He also uses this whole thing as a as a commonatorial method, as an algebra of ideas. So you have all these ideas stored in your head, and you say, ok, what if i look atit this way? And the wheel clicks one over, and soh you knowand so it becomes a tool for thinking. There are magical dimensions also, which he goes out of his way not to make clear, but they're very clearly there in the book.
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