The true nature of time is counterintutive to the every day experiences of our daily lives. Everyone would agree that the present is fixed (that is simply is), but what is not apparent is that the future and especially the past shift to assure the stable experience of the present. That is to say, the Reliability of Now.
History, memory, archeological reilcs and records of all kinds are soft, malleable. Events can ony be measured as numeric probabilities, and as such given values only between zero (0) and one (1). The farther back into the past, the less certain the event becomes, the smaller the value, the more flexible the event becomes, the more stable the present. It may be thought of as less an issue of altering the past to suit the present and more an adjustment as to the likelihood that events did or did not occur as they are understood at the present. Which leaves events of the past as shadowy, nebulous and as open-ended as the future.
The closer to an event to the present, the higher the probability value until we reach the present, which is the only thing we can give a value of one (1)--simply because it is.
The future is much like the past. The future shuffles itself to make certain that the value of Now is always one (1). The future and the past have only a single purpose, which is to create the present, the Now. The Past + the Future = Now. Only in this way can we move through time. Without it we become unstuck.
How will this understanding change your life and how will it improve your experience and appreciation of Now?
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