History is defined as the study of past stories. Those who study history piece together artifacts to understand their story in context to the greater story.
What if focusing on the past has caused us to become stuck there? Does it become easier to conclude, like Kurt Vonnegut did, that as humans, “we’re doomed to repeat the past no matter what.”
No matter what? To accept this idea of what history offers means that we are powerless in our ability to change our trajectory. It means that the future is necessarily out of our control, even though it was us who created these stories in the first place! This is the logic of the Gene Theory, which says that we are no greater than the makeup of our genes, a fixed blueprint that determines our life path.
Like geneticists, historians like consistency – everything in its proper place; names, places, dates, facts, even if the final story is one-sided, written by those who hold the pen and own the publishing presses. But what would happen if we changed this accepted perception of history from a fixed, linear, negative feedback loop bent on repeating mistakes to something else?
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What if there are no mistakes to make but only experiences to explore? And what if these experiences are not a series of past events but a series of present moments? What if history becomes a mirror for us to hold up so that we can see that there is no conveyor belt at all, except for the one in the mirror?
I propose that history is merely an artifact of time and space that keeps us stuck living in the past, a distraction that keeps us replaying Groundhog Day to prevent us from seeing our true potential and creating new stories.
As Quantum physics shows, nature moves in energetic layers and patterns. The pattern does not repeat itself in linear fashion but adapts to changes along the way within its environment. It is the story of Epigenetics, a moving outward and inward, simultaneously – in the shape of a torus.
“The dual torus,” says physicist Nassim Haramein, “is the most fundamental pattern of energy dynamics in the universe and can be found on all scales, from the cosmological to the atomic. The pattern of cell division in biology matches the fundamental structure of the fabric of the space that it is dividing in.”
What does history have to do with physics?
If we are not fixed to the constructs of historical perception, then we are not doomed to repetition. In fact, we are not doomed at all. To move forward we must simply move beyond these self-limiting, physical constraints and leave history behind, where it belongs. Our eyes have deceived us long enough. For greater perception, we must focus on the breath.
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Yes, I said the breath. Breath, prana, or ch’i is life force. It is universal energy and the driving force behind the constellations, galaxies, and the motion behind every living cell. Breath brings oxygen to the cells and clarity to the mind. It brings each of us to something greater – the present moment, the moment from which we create.
Life does not happen in the past just as it does not happen in the future, so why focus there? The saying goes, “If you are depressed, you live in the past. If you are fearful, you live in the future.”
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The truth is that everything happens now, in this moment. Each breath is not only an expansion of the lungs but also an expansion of awareness, and an opportunity for movement and growth – forward. The movement of the double torus shows us that we are both love and fear, light and dark, hunger and fulfillment. Powerless and powerful. Evolving not repeating.
If history shows us anything it is this: If you can break free of the conveyor belt as defined by others, you can write your own story.
Not History.
Your story.
