EVERY MOMENT OF THE PAST IS ENSHRINED IN ITS TIME. IT ENDURES IN ITS OWN INSTANTS. IT REMAINS AS A PALPABLE AND DISCERNIBLE REALITY AS A FORCE OF ENERGY
An action or a sound creates a permanent record of itself. This record persists as a theoretically recallable event at the time it occurred. If one were able to look back in time, or perhaps travel faster than the speed of light and move back to the time of the event, that record would show itself exactly as it initially happened. It is archived in time, unaltered.
Everything we become aware of has occurred in the past, before we sense it. A sight or a sound or a vibration or a fragrance must travel to us, which takes time. This puts the event in the past. Once the stimulus reaches us, it still must travel along neurological pathways to our brain and be processed before we can be aware of it. This puts taste and tactile experiences in the past, also. Some things, such as the light we see now that emanated from a star, are in the far distant past.
Thus, by the experience of our own senses, we know that all things leave a record that can be perceived.
Every word and act in life become substantive entities. They accumulate energy at the moment of their creation. They may seem like reflections in mirrors. But they are not mere images. They are living records with substance and force. These records of all that have happened are solid retentions.
These records never leave their fixed positions in space and time. Just as a person’s past experience adds to the physical reality of the person who has moved into the present, so the record of the past also exists in the present. And it will show itself in the future.
Everything we do and say throughout our lifetimes becomes part of this record, a force that is bound to us throughout our lives. Sounds and actions are substantive entities, perceptible by our senses. The energy associated with these persists – like all energy – beyond the physical mechanism that produced them. It never changes. It persists as memory in the environment.
The present exists for a moment, instantly becoming the past. That past moment is as real as the present moment that created it. No one doubts the material existence of the present. Once we move into a new present, that material existence that is now the past does not disappear. It becomes the factual stuff of the past.
Our seemingly infinite past moments are attached to our bodies. Each present moment has become part of our physical bodies; we are constantly changing. These changes are definite and measurable. They are the present-turned-past, molding our physical selves. Similarly, each present moment alters our minds, emotions, and other analogous characteristics, leaving the imprint of what becomes the past. Thus, our past is bound to and interwoven with our bodies and minds throughout life.
The new present constantly adjusts the physical manifestations that were acquired from previous “presents.” The unaltered past moment in a life is recallable in altered form in our subjective minds. There is also the true record of the past, which persists as an objective, static, and consistent force. Because it is intricately part of our one’s body and mind, it remains glued to that body throughout life. It does not reside in the brain, so it is not influenced by the mind.
When we die, the memory separates from the body. At this point, it is “out there” in the atmosphere of the earth. It is now available to be perceived by others. Our lives become available for audit. Somebody under hypnosis may sense a past, believing it is their own past. As they sense intimate knowledge of that past, it is easy and natural to interpret these images as being the source of their own reincarnation.
That past energy is now a possibly measurable force. It may be directly measurable, like heat. It may only be indirectly measurable, like gravity.
When we die, our bodies and minds can no longer use the memory energies of our past. In death, the physical connection to our memories is broken. Dust and water cannot hold all that past together.
Time also can no longer hold the memories. This energy becomes free of time, accessible to the properly perceptive.
Someday, a technology will be developed that can tap into this energy of past events that persists in the atmospheric shell of the earth. Some people sense it. Other people see it clearly. It can be brought to life. In the meantime, certain will-suppressed individuals make past events come alive.
THE PAST IS BOUND TO MIND AND BODY IN LIFE.
A person is that person because of his or her past. The objective events and attendant feelings of each day intricately molds the mind and the body. Every moment of a life enhances and destroys, enriches and impoverishes, adds and replaces. A person’s past becomes the present individual – physically, mentally, and emotionally.
The past never ceases to exist. It persists in its entirety, in its time. Its effects are exhibited in the observations of the present.
All that has ever happened influences and becomes an integral part of the present. The past, then, is happening in the present and will continue to operate in the future. Therefore, the present is ever-expanding to contain the continual additions from the growing past. Moving forward, this enlarging past and present append onto the present as it moves into the future.
The result is that the entire past exists in the present. Not as some theoretical concept. It is as real as the present is real. Everything from the past is readable in the current moment. For most, it is incoherent. For some, it is easily deciphered. Most are unaware that they are reading the past.
Each of us has a past, firmly bound to body and mind. All previous experience remains physically attached to the body throughout life. It just persists in a previous time. Although recollections have been influenced and altered by our busy mental preferences, the actual pristine, unaltered past still exists in its time.
We begin life with certain characteristics. The mind is a clean slate, and the body is not yet formed. Both grow and develop in response to participation in life. The happenings that mold us in each present moment become past moments. We retain these influences as we age. Pieces of each moment we live are integrated into our minds.
Our actions become incorporated into and change our bodies. We acquire mental powers, including memories, that intermix with attitudes. We expand physical powers, including muscle memories that build upon themselves to increase skills and coordination.
Living life is adding powers and abilities and attitudes and inclinations and knowledge to mind and body. These all interact and alter each other.
In life, the memory of one’s own past is reachable. It is close. It is a force surrounding each of us throughout our lives. While we breathe, each of us retains this force of objective memory like an envelope that gives coherency to our lives. It is a physical presence accompanying the journey on earth.
Although originating in the past, true memory exists as a material force attached to one’s mind and body in the present. Theoretically, this energy can be observed and measured like other forces in nature.
The uncorrupted memory can be tapped whenever we exercise a desire to remember. Occasionally, the influence and power of an episode may be so strong that recall is near perfect. Usually, the filtering of genuine memory through the sieve of our brains alters the perception. As described above, the human brain is occupied with many interests that work to influence recollections.
The mind stores adjusted memories, and they seem real. Residing in the brain makes them susceptible to alteration by mental activities. The objective memories that ultimately separate from our bodies, consist of the true images from each past moment. Emotion is not part of this, though its effects are seen in the way we act. But emotion certainly taints the objectivity of the memory as it is being recalled by the conscious brain.
Some memories are unaffected by all our subjective jazz. But flawless recall is unusual. What we remember is tarnished and incomplete. The human brain carries so much extra baggage, which puts its stamp on our attitudes, knowledge, and memories.
We and our pasts are interdependent upon each other. Throughout life, each person’s past lives with her or him.
The force and stability of the attraction stems from the intimate interaction we had with those experiences when they were in the present, and from the actual physical presence within our psyches and bodies that those experiences continue to exert on us throughout life, making us who we are. Though the hard reality of a day remains forever unchanged in its time, its tentacles have become interwoven into the fabric of the reality of our minds and our bodies.
Illness, aging, and trauma fracture the attachment to the memory force. The bond between the body and objective memory deteriorates. Loss of mental functions, from minor memory gaps to full-blown dementia, are the expression of a weakened connection to our personal past energy force.
Eventually, the adherence to one’s life becomes weakened until the linkage is ultimately severed. This may be a gradual or sudden process. Our subjective past – created and maintained by our active mental processes – dies with us. Each of us also has an objective past – which molded our bodies and minds but is not altered by subjectivity – which does not disappear with death.
Health and Spirit by Dr. Jack Zoldan 