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How Editing Our Past Changes Our Future

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Changing the past changes your future.

But how do you change the past?

By changing your story about the past.

That doesn't mean telling a lie. It does mean discovering the deeper truth by reframing your perspective - which, in the end, is where reality exists, anyway. As quantum physicist, Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, is wont to say, "There is no 'out there' out there."

Jason Luis Silva is a Venezuelan American filmmaker and public speaker who has a few things to say about this. He refers to himself as a "wonder junkie" and "performance philosopher." With Apollo Robbins, Silva co-hosts National Geographic's Brain Games. Silva's YouTube series, Shots of Awe, has had over 100 million views.

His three-and-a-half minutes of freestyle ruminating are sure to get an aware person thinking:

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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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