Here we go, folks. It’s almost release time for The Order of Memory. This is the first in a new series of books that came from several conversations, as well as dreams. Dreams? Yes, there are some lines in the book that came straight out of dreams. Creepy, I know.
Conversations? Yes, lots of conversations on memory, and alternate realities, the Mandela Effect, and secret societies.
You see, a little secret, well not much of a secret… I’m a huge lover of science fiction, conspiracies, the definition of reality, the metaphysical, the spiritual, fantasy, and what makes us fucking human. (I also cuss a lot.) I had my first experience with questioning reality and what could be possible years ago. I was only twelve years old, and it was around the thirtieth anniversary of the JFK assassination. I saw the movie JFK and that whole, “Back and to the left” scene stuck with me. I wondered what the hell else was possible in the world and how did I know what was the truth and what was not. Several theories later, I’ve read a lot of books, watched a lot of documentaries, and an idea came to me to rationalize some of the things that happened, especially in regard to memory, and our understanding of the past. What would happen if the memories we have were manipulated to make us believe the past was different than it truly was.
Hence, here comes The Order of Memory.
The opening quote in the book is from a dream. March 2011, I dreamed I was on a plane with a bunch of high school kids who were on a trip over seas. Sitting next to me on this flight was a man. That man is well known, but I won’t say his name, because it’s only for me. But this man looked at me and he was drinking a scotch. He lifted that scotch to me and with a nod said, “All that the world would have you to believe is a lie, and the trick is educating yourself to see past that lie.”
I woke right up, and wrote that quote down. It stuck with me, and as I began writing this book, that quote kept coming back to me, because how do we know what is true and what is a lie? What if there was an outside force, or secret group that manipulated what we believed.
What if we had no memory? Then what? How could someone plan their life without any kind of blueprint of memory to direct them for future actions? Who are we without our memories? Who are we as individuals or as humanity as a whole?
There’s a lot of human history we’ve forgotten.
“Memory is vital to experiences and related to limbic systems, it is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action.[1] If we could not remember past events, we could not learn or develop language, relationships, nor personal identity (Eysenck, 2012).”
I read that quote on wikipedia and that’s where the idea of Lily Hunt took shape. Then the more I wrote, the more the story took on a life of its own. The story created its own world and it was a mad, fantastic, hell of an awesome trip to write.