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A memory palace (or memory crossing) was a highly complex form of mental visualization that Aloysius Pendergast trained himself to do. It combined Tibetan meditation techniques from the Chongg Ran discipline with concepts Pendergast found in a sixteenth-century Italian manuscript by Giordano Bruno titled Ars Memoria, Art of Memory.

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  • A memory palace (or memory crossing) was a highly complex form of mental visualization that Aloysius Pendergast trained himself to do. It combined Tibetan meditation techniques from the Chongg Ran discipline with concepts Pendergast found in a sixteenth-century Italian manuscript by Giordano Bruno titled Ars Memoria, Art of Memory.
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  • A memory palace (or memory crossing) was a highly complex form of mental visualization that Aloysius Pendergast trained himself to do. It combined Tibetan meditation techniques from the Chongg Ran discipline with concepts Pendergast found in a sixteenth-century Italian manuscript by Giordano Bruno titled Ars Memoria, Art of Memory. * In The Cabinet of Curiosities, to visualize J.C. Shottum's Cabinet of Natural Productions and Curiosities and certain areas of lower Manhattan (including the Five Points neighborhood) in 1881 * In Still Life with Crows to experience the massacre known as the Curse of the Forty-Fives * He sometimes used it to remember conversations and events in his childhood home of Rochenoire * In White Fire to visualize a hypothetical conversation between the authors Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde.
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