“Persons desiring to train this faculty (of memory) must select places
and form mental images of the things they wish to remember and store
those images in the places, so that the order of the places will preserve the order of things, and the images of the things will denote the things themselves, and we shall employ the places and images respectively as a wax writing tablet and the letters written on it.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (circa 106-42 BCE) in regard to Simonides in De Oratore, II, lxxxvi, 351-4 as provided in The Art of Memory by Frances A. Yates
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Searles O’Dubhain
Searles O’Dubhain is an American Celtic scholar, writer and story teller who has been practicing Druidry for over 30 years. Searles created ‘The Summerlands’, one of the very first beloved online Celtic pagan communities in the early 90’s. He additionally published ‘Ogham Divination’, that lays a detailed and creative pathway of recreating and discovering the ancient ways of the Druids. This and much more available on his website www.summerlands.com.