On the past being a ghost, the best treatment of it I've encountered is the short story Truth of Fact, Truth of Feeling [1]. It's so worth the complete read, so I hate to reduce it to a quote, but the critical bit is:

> We rewrite our pasts to suit our needs and support the story we tell about ourselves.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_of_Fact,_the_Truth_o...

vonnik · 10h ago

This is the Zen/Advaita position.

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