Are you ready to blow your mind? I know some of us know and care a lot about physics and some of us don’t, but as human beings we all deal with what we think of as a past, present, and future. Except science is really starting to show that there may be no such thing as an objective concrete past, discrete from what is observed or documented by an observer or participant. Considered another way, maybe what you do going forward truly has the power and impact of changing what you know as your past.
In an amazing article called “Does the Past Exist Yet”, Dr. Robert Lanza explains some of how we fool ourselves about the past really being set in stone:
“Physics,” he writes, “tells us that objects exist in a suspended state until observed, when they collapse in to just one outcome. Paradoxically, whether events happened in the past may not be determined until sometime in your future — and may even depend on actions that you haven’t taken yet.”
This fascinating article brings hard science to some pretty humanistic ideas about how we live, what things mean, and constraints and patterns that may or may not have immutably shaped us. I recently completed a very thought-provoking seminar on brain science. One incredibly bizarre yet freeing concept underlying the course was the idea that there is no objective past or future... there is only in each moment the actual creation in our brain of an idea or conception of something we call “our past” or “our future.” I think we can feel pretty comfortable that the future doesn’t exist right now except in our mind. Getting that the past lives that way too was a bit more of a stretch!
What could be different for you if you got your past as something you create anew in each moment? Would you create a different past than the one you habitually see yourself as having had? Could you bring more power and freedom to who you are now and what you see yourself capable of doing and being, if you got that you exercise your own power in seeing your past how you see it?
Here is the link to the entire fascinating, mind bending article… take a read and please share your thoughts with us!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-the-past-exist-yet-e_b_683103.html
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