Remembrance of Things (Far) Past

Julian Jaynes, in Marcel Kuijsten (ed.), The Julian Jaynes Collection (Julian Jaynes Society, 2012).

Excerpt: When we remember, we are allowed into an enchanted other world where the past is magically present and time becomes like space. We are in an enormous space whose far boundaries merge indistinguishably into imagination on every side, a space full of forgetful shadows and obscuring twilights, of meanings that gleam with feeling, and bursts of accuracy that supports us, humiliate us, ennoble us, teach us. It is past and yet present. How is this possible? …