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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

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The Memory Code

By: Lynne Kelly
Narrated by: Louise Siversen
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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.

©2016 Lynne Kelly (P)2016 Audible, Ltd Anthropology Archaeology Australia, New Zealand & Oceania Indigenous Studies Memory Improvement Personal Development Social Sciences Specific Demographics Thought-Provoking
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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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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.

fascinating topic, a bit pretentious

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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.

ground breaking!

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l wish this book had been written before I went looking at Neolithic barrows in Cornwall in 2007

What a facinating book.

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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).

Stunning well researched and convincing theory

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.