Some forms of meaning or experience are extremely difficult to remember or interact consciously with before the specific modes of memory that can encode their content are developed. This often happens during experiences of nonordinary consciousness. We may not be able to remember the first experience, but somewhere down the line we acquire the capacity to recall the experience in a referential fashion, and this is the beginning of awareness of such experiences. One wonders how many kinds of experience are lost to our access due to failure to develop or activate the forms of memory required to conserve and manipulate them within consciousness. Or perhaps more provocatively: might not expanding the library of memory forms enhance the character and function of our intelligence?