The Art of Memory: Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno And The Mnemonic Tradition

The Art of Memory by Frances Yates is an incredible study of the memory techniques used by figures through history.

From Giordano Bruno and Marsilio Ficino to John Dee, Ramon Llull, Martin Faulks and Nelson Dellis, The Art of Memory has been an incredible resource for thousands of people around the world.

The only problem is... Yates is considered by many scholars to have been incorrect about so many of her ideas. She seems to have deeply misunderstood Bruno when it comes to hermeticism and that suggests she might be misguided by how he and others used the Memory Palace technique.

What was Frances Yates misguided on?

Not only how the great memory masters used their Roman Rooms and the Journey Method, but they used these ancient mnemotechnics to achieve encyclopedic memory to establish a theory of everything.

Bruno's creativity was immense, and his ability to help others develop principles of self education and personal transformation is profound. But it matters a great deal that we understand the true implications of what Bruno was really saying, especially in an era when neuroscience tells us so much about the human brain.

The recent memory championship tradition is fantastic, but it has left so much of the rich philosophy inherent to the mnemonics behind. This playlist series intends to help restore the psychology and hermetic thinking behind memory "magic" to bring back the best of renaissance science as we use the internet as our common school of advanced study to helps us learn faster and remember more.

Frances Yates was lucky to have found the Warburg Institute and we're lucky Aby Warburg created it. So many important texts were preserved and Frances Yates helps us explore their many ideas.

Future videos will explore the role of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica in memory training.

We'll look into the Rhetorica Ad Herrenium and the Picatrix. In this series, I want to leave no stone unturned. Here's the link to the playlist for checking back as new videos are added:

   • The Art of Memory: Giordano Bruno, Fr...  

For more videos on The Art of Memory and hermetic memory, please see:

The art of memory: Daniel Kilov at TEDxMacquarieUniversity

   • The art of memory: Daniel Kilov at TE...  

Issues in Frances Yates' "Hermetic Tradition'" and On Individualism in the Reformation

   • Issues in Frances Yates' "Hermetic Tr...  

Dilwyn Knox: Frances Yates on Giordano Bruno

   • Dilwyn Knox: Frances Yates on Giordan...  

An Introduction to The Classical Art of Memory

   • An Introduction to The Classical Art ...  

Hermetic Art Of Memory

   • Hermetic Art Of Memory  

Lynne Kelly on Memory Craft:

   • Lynne Kelly On Memory Craft [Memory T...  

An Introduction To The Hermetic Art Of Memory

   • An Introduction To The Hermetic Art O...  

Art of Memory Software: Memory Systems Tutorial

   • Art of Memory Software: Memory System...  

Will Self - Isolation, Solitude, Loneliness and the Composition of Long-Form Fiction

   • Will Self - Isolation, Solitude, Lone...  

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https://www.magneticmemorymethod.com/yt

I look forward to your thoughts in the discussion and thanks as always for your support of the Magnetic Memory Method initiative!

Sincerely,

Dr. Anthony Metivier
https://www.magneticmemorymethod.com

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