“We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we are in. And we have to reverse our thinking to see that the past always flows out of the present. That now is the creative point of life. And so, you see, it’s like the idea of forgiving somebody. You change the meaning of the past by doing that. It’s also like the flow of music. The melody as it is expressed is changed by notes that come later. The present is always changing the past.” – Alan Watts
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This reminds me of a book that opened me up to this same idea, that the past is in flux in being (re-)written by the present. It also explains the physics behind the concept of “time” and how it’s illusory (which is confirmed by many wisdom traditions and of course quantum science). The book is “Remembering the Future: The Physics of the Soul and Time Travel” by Brooks Agnew.
I did a concept album earlier this year on the theme of time and the different experiential facets: “Classica” by Metasonica.