The very first attempts showed me how difficult it was. Attempts at selfremembering failed to give any results except to show me that in actual fact we never REMEMBER OURSELVES. Fragments: Seven
I said that European and Western psychology in general had overlooked a fact of tremendous importance, namely, that we do not REMEMBER OURSELVES; that we live and act and reason in deep sleep, not metaphorically but in absolute reality. And also that, at the same time, we can REMEMBER OURSELVES if we make sufficient efforts, that we can awaken. Fragments: Seven
“We come to the conclusion that we must ‘REMEMBER OURSELVES.’ But we can ‘REMEMBER OURSELVES’ only if we have in us the energy for ‘self-remembering.’ We can study something, understand or feel something, only if we have the energy for understanding, feeling, or studying. Fragments: Nine
“It has been explained before that in ordinary conditions of life we do not REMEMBER OURSELVES; we do not remember, that is, we do not feel ourselves, are not aware of ourselves at the moment of a perception, of an emotion, of a thought or of an action. If a man understands this and tries to remember himself, every impression he receives while remembering himself will, so to speak, be doubled. In an ordinary psychic state I simply look at a street. But if I remember myself, I do not simply look at the street; I feel that I am looking, as though saying to myself: ‘I am looking.’ Instead of one impression of the street there are two impressions, one of the street and another of myself looking at it. This second impression, produced by the fact of my remembering myself, is the ‘additional shock.’ Moreover, it very often happens that the additional sensation connected with self-remembering brings with it an element of emotion, that is, the work of the machine attracts a certain amount of ‘carbon’ 12 to the place in question. Efforts to remember oneself, observation of oneself at the moment of receiving an impression, observation of one’s impressions at the moment of receiving them, registering, so to speak, the reception of impressions and the simultaneous defining of the impressions received, all this taken together doubles the intensity of the impressions and carries do 48 to re 24. At the same time the effort connected with the transition of one note to another and the passage of 48 itself to 24 enables do 48 of the third octave to come into contact with mi 48 of the second octave and to give this note the requisite amount of energy necessary for the transition of mi to fa. In this way the ‘shock’ given to do 48 extends also to mi 48 and enables the second octave to develop. Fragments: Nine