Well, the way I understand the quote is like this, it mostly has to do with multiple possibilities/probabilities collapsing when a particular direction is taken. As an example, I am currently at a spot where I have a number of choices ahead of me; blue, red, yellow and green, I choose green and take action, so blue, red and yellow "cease" as possibilities, to use Ra's word. So if those 3 come to an end, and only green continues, then there is only one reality playing out, and not multiple realities. And that then applies to the past as well, if looked at from the future, because the others have collapsed.
This quote just popped into my mind as I was reading ricdaw's post about parallel realities, and multiple pasts. I'm not closed off to any such possibilities, or whether the choices not taken actually play out 'elsewhere', in other realities, I mean we all know that "there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy", I just lean towards one version realising, due to choice and action, in our particular space/time, instead of many. "Changing" the past in your mind, as a therapeutic exercise using imagination to heal trauma or wounds must be effective, the mind is that powerful, but it doesn't change the consensus past.
And I'm with you on the memory thing, memory is a very interesting subject. I have read some bizarre cases about memory. Bring the mind into the picture, and the anomalies and variations that can occur are infinite.
This quote just popped into my mind as I was reading ricdaw's post about parallel realities, and multiple pasts. I'm not closed off to any such possibilities, or whether the choices not taken actually play out 'elsewhere', in other realities, I mean we all know that "there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy", I just lean towards one version realising, due to choice and action, in our particular space/time, instead of many. "Changing" the past in your mind, as a therapeutic exercise using imagination to heal trauma or wounds must be effective, the mind is that powerful, but it doesn't change the consensus past.
And I'm with you on the memory thing, memory is a very interesting subject. I have read some bizarre cases about memory. Bring the mind into the picture, and the anomalies and variations that can occur are infinite.