Into the Mindsai

Memory...it is what makes us who we are--a collection of people, places, and events. But like people, memories only live as long as those who can remember them. At least, that was the scientific understanding until the research by Dr. Sebastian 'Bash' Silva. A Nobel Prize-winning cyber psychologist, Bash is a man haunted by memories of the past, but they might not all be his own. He is certain that they are ancestral memories, passed down through successive generations. To test this hypothesis, he has created the Mindsai, a machine capable of reconstructing memories stored in the deepest parts of the mind. Aided by Aliyah, a bright-eyed newcomer to his lab and Craig, a disgruntled graduate student, Bash hopes that his experiments with the Mindsai are the key to bridging the gap to untold reservoirs of knowledge of the past. However, the shadowy figures lurking in the edges of memory are variables he never predicted. Perhaps some memories are best forgotten to be remembered.

About the Author

Nathaniel J. Ratcliff was born in the small town of Chillicothe, Ohio in the winter of 1986. He began his writing career in high school bywriting poetry for local library anthologies. From 2005 to 2009, heattended Miami University (of Ohio) and majored in psychology andpolitical science before pursuing a Ph.D. in social psychology at ThePennsylvania State University, graduating in 2016. To date, hispsychological research has yielded several peer-reviewed journalarticles covering topics of memory, social power, leadership, andorganizational behavior. Currently, Nathaniel works as a researchassistant professor, or data storyteller, at the University of Virginiain the United States. He resides in Springfield, Virginia with his wife, Shana, who is finishing her degree in psychology.

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