THE PERISPIRIT

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Functions of the Perispirit

Part 3 of 5: Memory Archive

The perispirit retains all the states of consciousness, of sensibility, and of desire or will, undergone or expressed by the spirit, and its holds a memory of all the knowledge the spirit has ever acquired  ̶  every thought, dream, feeling, action, and experience, retaining all of the above from the moment of the spirit's inception to its present stage. Nothing is destroyed, and all of the various stages of a spirit's development are registered in the perispirit, which conserves its identifying personality (a result of all accumulated), as the latter transforms and develops throughout the process of our evolution. 

The registration of sensations by the perispirit can occur in a conscious or unconscious manner. Under normal conditions, the sensations modify the vibrational nature of the perispirit. If such modifications pass a minimal limit in intensity and duration, the sensations will be registered consciously, meaning there will be a conscious perception, and the spirit will be aware of what is occurring. This is the memory of fixation. If this limit is not reached, then the sensation will be registered, but unconsciously. Because not all sensations and memories can manifest simultaneously, those that become weakened in rhythm will drop below the limits of perception and enter into the subconscious level.

Through this memory, we can also see that throughout the process of evolution, the repetition of certain acts creates habits, from primordial methods of physical survival to evolved acts of a virtuous nature; at first the acts are conscious, but with constant repetition, requiring less time and force, they become mechanical, until they finally become automatic and unconscious.

Through evocative memory, a spirit, when permitted, is able to bring to the conscious level, the images of its past, gathered and stored in the perispiritual archive.