Session 35 - Abraham Lincoln Walk-In - Wrong Date!

[ricdaw]

If I choose to forget a specific trauma that say, occurred between my mother and I, and in turn she also forgets that she perpetrated this trauma, doesn't the "consensus reality" of that event then change?

I don't think so, since it still happened. That both of you forgot, doesn't change what happened.

Ahhhhhh.  But the cosmic consequence of both of you forgetting actually can alter the past.  What happens in addition to the "forgetting" is the creation of new past events and associated new past memories too.  So now you remember a great birthday party when you were 11, when actually that was one of the events that was ruined by a specific trauma on that day.   And that 11 year-old-you may also now have more new events and more new memories of day following, too, since the trauma of the birthday event itself was changed.  

All events are occurring simultaneously, the backward shift of the "forgetting" triggers a forward ripple of new events.

Since it is impossible to inventory the mind and all its memories (before I forgot my year looked like this, after I forgot it looked like that) you tend to confront a changed past by reading contemporaneous things like diaries, or going to past visited places and finding that they are changed in the physical.  That is where the head trip occurs, when you are confronted by a reality, a physical thing that you can see, touch or hold, and it is not at all like it is supposed to be.  It is a visceral and somewhat scary occurrence that usually only happens when you are seeking it out.  Like, say, you are reading Seth and you are curious about the mechanics of reality shifts.  So you manifest proof of them.  Universal feedback loop complete.