Let’s talk about memory for a moment. The thing that distinguishes us as a creature is the depth of our memory potential. It is our capacity to remember that is the bedrock of our self-reflected consciousness. Obviously, there are other attributes involved in all of that, but it is something to grasp that without memory there is no potential for humanity to transform. That is, memory is an absolutely essential ingredient.

I want you to look very carefully at this Circuit. And I want you to see something in the Circuit that should stand out and scream at you. That is, there is absolutely no Individually in this Circuit. Individuality is mutative. It is specifically mutative, like the illustration that I just gave you where I showed you the cellular construct of the 15/5 and I said that the 3 is missing, the Individuality, the potential of mutation is missing.

In other words, one of the things to really grasp about memory is that memory is the way in which we handle the status quo. I’ve often talked about Collective Circuitry as being Solomon’s Circuitry—there’s nothing new under the sun. When you’re dealing with the Collective, whether it is logical or abstract, it is only operating on what is not anything else; it deals with what is there in the Maia. Memory is a way of holding on to the Maia.

After all, this is the construct that matters for our Personalities, that we can make sense out of the Maia. It would be difficult to imagine what it would be like if you were stripped of all of your memory and you were suddenly to awaken in a world that you did recognize, because you would not recognize it. You would not recognize, in a sense, what objects are. You would not be able to communicate. You would have enormous problems in terms of just your basic orientation. And in order to survive you would be driven by the deepest and most uncomfortable survival drive, just survival drive.

Memory is what it’s all about. We know in modern times the tragedy of Alzheimer’s disease. It is a frightening thing for most human beings to watch a parent that has been vital and mentally active suddenly not be able to recognize them or to know where they are, and on and on. We see this incredible breakdown in their humanness; they lose their humanness. It is our memory that holds us together.”
Ra Uru Hu from The Memory Network (eBook Pages 2-4)

Ra Uru Hu was the Human Design System’s founder and messenger. Ra dedicated 25 years of his life to the development and teaching of the System around the world until he passed away in 2011.