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E23 Dr. Lynne Kelly: How To Supercharge Your Memory Like Indigenous Cultures

Aidan's Infinite Play

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The Evolution of the Priestly Class

In indigenous cultures, music and art are in the heart of the culture. Music is a way of representing memory and knowledge. We've separated it all into nice little silos - we're not taking advantage of the fact that our brain works with music and art. And if you think about dementia, people can be completely unresponsive to anything even when they haven't said anything for years. They'll stand up and sing the words from their deep past where they don't recognise them at all. I am so besotted by everything. It's not just the clinged, clinged, simian hider,. those totem poles tell stories. But, and they've just put up new ones

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