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The Memory Code
- The Traditional Aboriginal Memory Technique That Unlocks the Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Ancient Monuments the World Over
- Narrated by: Louise Siversen
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In the past the elders had encyclopaedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across the landscape and the stars in the sky, too. Yet most of us struggle to memorise more than a short poem.
Using traditional Aboriginal Australian songlines as the key, Lynne Kelly has identified the powerful memory technique used by indigenous people around the world. She has discovered that this ancient memory technique is the secret behind the great stone monuments like Stonehenge, which have for so long puzzled archaeologists.
The stone circles across Britain and Northern Europe, the elaborate stone houses of New Mexico, huge animal shapes in Peru, and the statues of Easter Island all serve as the most effective memory system ever invented by humans. They allowed people in nonliterate cultures to memorise the vast amounts of practical information they needed to survive.
In her fascinating audiobook, The Memory Code, Lynne Kelly shows us how we can use this ancient technique to train our memories today.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-07-2023
Important book
I’ve now listened to this book twice & have downloaded Memory Craft. Everyone should read or listen to the Memory Code - yes - mind-blowing, but also myth dispelling in some instances. We don’t understand our indigenous peoples in whatever countries we live in & it’s important we have at least the beginnings of insights. Highly recommend.
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- Michele Cunningham
- 06-01-2018
What a facinating book.
l wish this book had been written before I went looking at Neolithic barrows in Cornwall in 2007
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- Anonymous User
- 07-02-2018
ground breaking!
This has lined up with my beliefs, we we're smart! and I was hoping to hear Graham Hancock's name at some point, this is all so bumbling, I can't wait to start creating my own memory palaces.
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- paul
- 14-06-2018
fascinating topic, a bit pretentious
Comes across as more of her life story in writing on the subject rather than it being about the subject itself. I'd rather hear about the culture than your trips here and there to learn the culture in each chapter.
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- Jo
- 23-08-2016
Fascinating, this book changed my thinking
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
This was a truly fascinating book. It challenged many of my preconceptions, answered many of the questions I've had about Australian aboriginal songlines, and just opened my eyes to non-literate cultures and the value of their memory systems. This was a remarkable book, well written, well narrated.
What does Louise Siverson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
Really well narrated, a pleasure to listen to.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Understanding the value of maintaining song lines through initiation rites only. It really opened my eyes. How memory codes aren't linear and are difficult to explain and don't quite fit into our literate concepts of the world.
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- Peter Jeffrey
- 12-08-2017
Brilliant
Would you consider the audio edition of The Memory Code to be better than the print version?
No
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Memory Code?
Lynne's visit to stonehenge
What does Louise Siverson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
Convenience whilst driving
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Excited to learn from someone who has done so much research
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Best book I have ever read and the audible version is an Extra bonus
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- Robyn
- 20-02-2019
Important and inspiring!
The understanding, so beautifully articulated here, of how intelligent, complex, insightful and downright knowledgeable humanity was, is important. We feel we have all knowledge at our fingertips with technology. Yet the understandings that emerge from the human brain, through the information stored there is how that information is made meaningful, practical and real. So this book shows that even the technology of writing. so efficient for conveying information, has its limitations. It can fail to draw in the whole of meaning with it. This is a learned and yet accessible, beautifully read "telling"... so many inspiring collaborations with Indigenous peoples, researchers and academics.
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- Chris Howard au
- 17-08-2018
Stunning well researched and convincing theory
Lynee Kelly's theory is groundbreaking and utterly believable. It makes a lot of sense and clearly explains why and how non-literate cultures could retain massive amounts of knowledge across thousands of years.
It also reminds us of how much we can learn from existing non-literate indigenous cultures, how much we have lost, and how much more we risk losing.
The book is wonderful, but the narration of the audio book makes it hard to listen to at times, as the narrator often "performs" the text as if reading fiction, embellishing and adding flourishes which at times makes the author sound pretentious, particularly in the early chapters. I bought the print version and can vouch there are not the plethora of exclamation points the narrator inserts.
Highly recommended listen (or read).
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- Rajesh
- 31-07-2017
Interesting treatment of the subject
Loved the book. I wished there were more chapters like the Journey through time. The rest of the book actually builds to that chapter. Definitely a great resource.
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- Kulcha
- 25-06-2017
Connections Galore
Fascinating book making and inspiring amazing connections to many aspects of life and history. The respect for indigenous wisdom and tradition is beautifully articulated and solid, not needing sentimentality or 'European angst' to support the case. Great way to shift perspectives
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