CAN WE CHANGE THE PAST?
Our first reaction would be ‘impossible, it is a closed book, it happened’. However, we do believe that we can change the future; and here I do not talk about generating our future through our decisions, but about changing our future, such as not getting involved in an accident. This appears possible because some people have intuition or visions of the future, and knowledge of it allows us to make decisions to prevent getting in the predicted situation. We thereby changed the future and generated a feed-back loop from the future to the present and back to the future. Why should this then not be possible with the past? I was confronted with this question from some past life regressions presented in my book ’75 Lives of Haran – New Insights into Reincarnation’, and here are my thoughts on the matter.
Spiritual teachings tell us that time as we understand it does not exist and that everything actually happens simultaneously. According to this, time is simply a construct for our linear mind to cope with reality. Therefore, the past and the future do not exist and everything happens in the now. All of this is extremely difficult if not impossible to grasp. However, quantum physicists quite happily create higher dimensional realities through mathematical formulae which are entirely outside our comprehension and which even they can only describe via analogies. Therefore, the principle of entering unknown and difficult to comprehend territory is not foreign to us.
Coming back to the posed question, when everything happens in the now, then we only have to accept that everything is not only interconnected forward but also backward, and everything influences everything else. Another way to imagine interactions with the past are based on the concept of alternate lives (see my discussion ‘The enigma of alternate lives’). Normally, we would just observe or experience a past life in regressions, but sometimes we seem to be able to interact with it in such a way that the life from then on follows a different route and thereby changes the present. If we consider the existence of alternate lives then we must assume that both the original version and the alternate version pre-existed already before we observed it, we just shifted our observation to the alternate version which has already become our time-line. Therefore, instead of creating a new time-line in the past we may just be observing a pre-existing one. Thereby the causality in our time-line is maintained. Both scenarios could explain how it is possible to change the past.
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