March 8th, 2026

Unfogetting and/or Substantiation 

Anamnesis 

and/within 

In Illo Tempore

Etty Hillesum below

Remembering What Never Left

There is no past to recover. There is only Now — and the degree to which we are present to it.

"Un-forgetting" is therefore not retrieval across time but a *shift in depth*. The eternal isn't then. It isn't even now in the temporal sense. It is the *ground of now* — always already present, beneath the movement of thought and story.

Plato sensed this: knowing is recognition, not acquisition. The soul doesn't learn — it *remembers what it is*.

The Sufi *dhikr* confirms it: remembrance of God is not nostalgia for a distant covenant but the dissolution of the forgetting itself — and what remains when forgetting stops is not a memory but a *presence*.

Jung's caution applies here precisely. Consciousness — the narrative self, the remembering "I" — mistakes itself for the whole. But the deeper psyche, like sacred time, was never absent. It was structuring experience from below, unwitnessed.

Anamnesis pulls the saving event forward — un-forgetting it into present reality.

While

In illo tempore reveals the origin never left — sacred time underlies ordinary time as bedrock underlies soil.

One is active retrieval. The other is vertical descent. Both arrive at the same place: the eternal is not then, but now.

 "He who would fathom the Psyche must not confuse it with Consciousness, else he veils from his own sight the object he wishes to explore"

Carl Jung

What you are looking for is not lost in the past. It is lost in the *foreground*.

Etty Hillesum 

Truly, my life is one long hearkening unto my self and unto others, unto God. And if I say that I hearken, it is really God who hearkens inside me. The most essential and the deepest in me hearkening unto the most essential and deepest in the other. God to God.

בעצם כל חיי הם הקשבה פנימית ארוכה עמוק לתוך עצמי, לתוך אחרים, לתוך אלוהים. וכשאני אומרת שאני מקשיבה, בעצם אלוהים הוא שמקשיב בי. החלק האמיתי והעמוק בתוכי, מקשיב לחלק האמיתי והעמוק בזולת, מאלוהים לאלוהים.

صدقاً أن حياتي هي إستماع طويل النفسي وللآخرين ولله. وإذا قلت بأنني أستمع. هو في الواقع الله الذي يستمع بداخلي، الأهم والأعمق بداخلي يستمع إلى الأهم والأعمق بداخل الآخر. حديث بين الله والله.