"A converging body of evidence calls attention to a consistent decline in basic cognitive abilities and “mental speed,” particularly in young males, beginning in the mid-to-late 1990s."
It's surprising to notice that it mostly affects boys Can there reasonably be one answer? There are certain neurological disorders that affect women more than men, typically with older women. What are some known differences? Hormones
Hormone inhibitors are becoming prevalent in the environment
Are there hormones that can affect cognitive function
I have become somewhat aware of what you are talking about in the posts above. I've been wondering if the internet, devices and technology are making people lazy to the extent that they don't have to learn to spell or write properly because computers do the work for them. That's one aspect, but there's also the issue of diet and food additives as well as general good nutrition.
Distant peaks emerge....clear as day. The hermit's lantern turns to guide the way. Hermit's Way - F. J. Rogers
People have become toxic, and lazy. In some jurisdictions where I live there have been debates to stop using pencils and paper, and encourage children to use tablets in schools.
I also believe diet and physical health is necessary in a path to personal enlightenment
Using your memory has been praised as a virtue for more than 2000 years
‘They do not think it proper to commit these utterances to writing, although in all other matters and in their public and private accounts they make use of Greek characters. I believe that they have adopted the practice for two reasons- that they do not wish the rule to become common property, nor those who learn the rule to rely on writing and so neglect the cultivation of memory; and, in fact, it does usually happen that the assistance of writing tends to relax the diligence of the student and the action of memory … They also lecture on the stars in their motion, the magnitude of the Earth and its divisions, on natural history, on the power and government of God; and instruct the youth in these subjects"
Julius Caesar talking about the Druids. (see De Ballo Gallico, VII, 15, 16.).
Memory work is an important aspect of learning to control the mind.
>not think it proper to commit these utterances to writing
I suspect that in the past telepathy was much less common than at the present so that the secrets of spiritual/Masonic science could be protected by not writing.
For some decades now the alien area of the web has referred to technology to read minds and now that discussion has come into the public domain.
150 million hits on google for: technology to read minds
In any case humans are much more telepathic these days so that it is important to veil sensitive thoughts e.g. by putting incorrect labels or images into the mental process.
