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anamnesis

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anamnesis [‚an·əm′nē·səs]
(medicine)
Information gained from the patient and others regarding the patient's medical history.
(psychology)
The faculty of memory.


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I learned from a dream guide in my childhood that the most important knowledge comes to us through anamnesis, which means "remembering" the knowledge that belonged to us, on the level of soul and spirit, before we came into this world.
For an English translation of this early eastern anamnesis as it was adapted by Loehe, see Schattauer, "Reconstruction of Rite," 267; note there as well the account of Loehe's shaping of the eucharistic action, pp.
To grasp the role of memory in this process of "repeating" his own words, the Aristotelian distinction between mneme and anamnesis will prove helpful.
 
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