209. That the function of intuition in terrestrial mankind takes place unconsciously and the results from it appear as ready-made ideas and plans is due to the fact that this function consists mainly of sensing and using memory material which has been forgotten long ago and therefore constitutes something which the individual is unaware that he possesses. In order to be conscious in one's memories, that it to have the ability to remember one's experiences, it is also necessary to have a body. This body is described later on in Livets Bog as the "body of memory" or "body of bliss". As this body is almost latent in terrestrial man so will his faculty of memory be correspondingly latent. Therefore he is conscious of only quite a small fraction of his memory material. His experiences sink into oblivion comparatively quickly. Only the roughest and strongest experiences - meaning those which through pleasantness or unpleasantness have made the deepest impression on the individual - can be preserved for decades. Lesser experiences, on the other hand, will be forgotten in the course of hours, sometimes even in the course of minutes or seconds. Here we have to remember that the living being - according to later analyses and sections in Livets Bog - constitutes a reality which is eternal, and as such contains a vast amount of memories. For the living being concerned this total sum of memories makes up a reality which is described in Livets Bog as the "inner world". The details of this inner world consist solely of reflected images or memories of the individual's collective experiences through several evolutionary spirals. In order to experience this inner world one needs the body of memory already mentioned, and its manifestations, or this kind of experience, will be the same as that reality we call "remembering". Thus, to be able to remember an experience is equivalent to being able to sense one's reaction to it through the release of energy representing the memory of that experience and its contact with the body of memory. Any memory whatsoever represents a certain combination of energies, or a "mental object", to which the body of memory reacts more or less, according to its development, in the same way as a physical object represents a certain combination of physical energies to which the physical body reacts according to its stage of development, that reaction being the same as physical sensing. But as memories are quite inaccessible to physical sensing, not audible to physical ears or visible to physical eyes, then we are witnessing yet again that terrestrial mankind to a certain extent lives in a spiritual world.