The memory you don’t remember.

You were someone before you had a story about yourself. These are audio sessions that set the story down for an hour — so you can hear what is still there without it. Opening soon.

prae·mo·ria /praeˈmo.ri.a/ noun · neologism · Latin prae (before) + memoria (memory)
What you are before the story of you begins. The part of you that does not have to be remembered to be yours.
before the story your biography birth — a threshold, not a beginning

Four approaches

  1. Vestigium

    the trace

    Learning to notice what in you arrived before you did — the reaction that is older than its reason.

  2. Auscultatio

    listening in

    Attending to the body’s older answers: what startles, what settles, what recoils before you have decided anything.

  3. Descensus

    the descent

    The rehearsal. An audio session that goes back one layer at a time, below the first thing you are able to remember.

  4. Reditus

    the return

    The last approach. What comes back up with you, and what it asks of an ordinary day.

Praemoria teaches a practice of attention, and what it trains is ordinary: noticing how much of a day was settled before you had any say in it. It makes no claim that memory reaches past a single life, and it is not therapy, ancestry testing or medical care.

The second threshold ULTRAMORIA asks the same question on the far side of the biography. In preparation →