New Advances in Brain & Critical Care(NABCC)

Borra College of Health Sciences, Dominican University, USA

Publications

• Review Article   
  The Blessing of Memory Loss: Toward a Sacred Phenomenology of Forgetting
  Author(s): Julian Ungar-Sargon*
  
  There is a strange mercy in the way the mind forgets a mercy that medicine has rarely understood. In our age of biomedical triumphalism, where pharmaceutical companies spend billions on Alzheimer's therapies promising to rewind the unrewindable, we speak of memory loss exclusively as catastrophe, as the progressive erasure of selfhood requiring aggressive intervention. This article proposes a radical reconsideration: that forgetting may constitute not merely neurological decline but a form of sacred release, a biological instantiation of the Kabbalistic principle of tzimtzum divine contraction that creates space for new being. Drawing upon fifty years of clinical neurology practice, Jewish mystical theology, phenomenological philosophy, and contemporary neuroscience, I argue that the medicalization of memory loss has obscured dimensions of human experience that traditional wisdom .. Read More»
  

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