Have you ever seen the movie, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? It's a sad indie-like flick that has an interesting, and true message about how memories shape who we are as people. It's interesting, although it is very depressing, too. In the movie, scientists learn how to erase bad memories with special technology, but there is a sinister side to the whole concept of "erasing bad memories" in the movie.

Anyhow, apparently scientists *really are* working on a way to do this. Rawstory.com reports:

Do you have a really bad memory, or past heartache, that you would prefer to forget?

Researchers at Harvard and McGill University (in Montreal) are working on an amnesia drug that blocks or deletes bad memories. The technique seems to allow psychiatrists to disrupt the biochemical pathways that allow a memory to be recalled.

Wow, that is incredible....scary too. It makes me think of that incident in the Bible where Mary comes to Jesus and just dumps an entire bottle of ridiculously expensive perfume on Jesus as an act of love. She remembered her sin, and that remembrance brought about thankfulness in her about the fact that Jesus forgave her of all of her sin. She was redeemed, and the pain of the past is always one memory away, but it was dwarfed by the realization of the redemption she had received from Jesus.

We don't need medication, we need redemption. I need it today.

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