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They brought domesticated grasses and sheep and goats. The women were most assuredly weaving baskets and cloth. I wonder if they were the people who built homes on the banks of the Danube with shrines for the goddesses of fertility - of life and death.
Izabel enters a world so different from her Neolithic ancestors that it boggles the mind. And still she carries in the mitochondria of each cell, the echo of their lives.
Epigenetics
“At the heart of this new field is a simple but contentious idea—that genes have a ‘memory’. That the lives of your grandparents—the air they breathed, the food they ate, even the things they saw—can directly affect you, decades later, despite your never experiencing these things yourself.”
From the BBC television program The Ghost in Your Genes
8 comments:
Congratulations almost !!
What a wonderful and interesting post. Thank you.
Loving your work and what an incredible concept that our genes carry the memories of our ancestors. Mine have been traced back to 12th century Scotland
What a wonderful post! Congrats on the new grand-daughter once she arrives and thanks for the pics of the beautiful as ever jewelry. And the words - oh so true, oh so true!!
What fascinating history and your designs seem to reflect it in their eclectic and warm design. I am loving your photography too. Somehow I haven't mastered the photographing of my bigger pieces yet but you manage to capture the richness with your backdrops whether they are neutral of=r colorful.
Congratulations on your soon to be grandmotherdom and I'm not sure if I ought to congratulate you on your retirement.
Thanks for stopping by my blog, I really appreciate it.
Thank you and you're welcome. I can't wait to see where your explorations lead you in 2013
It's pretty amazing if true. My friend Susan Scheck writes on her website, The Stillpoint Healing Arts, "Scientists are finding that not only do your genes carry physical traits from your ancestors, but they carry the imprints of social and environmental trauma such as famine and stress. And you, in turn, pass down this genetic information from trauma in your life to your children and theirs. If you've ever wondered why you feel stressed when there's no apparent cause - ask your parents and grandparents what went on in their lives while you were still in the womb.
Not that this is new information: shamans and medicine people knew this intuitively thousands of years before modern science. The idea that you carry energetic wounds from past traumas - including those of your ancestors - is a major one in shamanic healing. These wounds can be removed through shamanic illuminations and other energy medicine techniques. And once removed in you, they're also removed from the energetic fields of your children. Clients report feeling weights lifted from them and a new sense of freedom and vitality. My hope is that as energy medicine becomes more widespread, we can erase the imprints of trauma from our ancestors' time, as well as from modern-day life - for our sakes as well as our descendants'. "
Thank you Shel! I wish you a happy, healthy and abundant New Year
Thank you Kim. Retirement was not what I had planned this soon, but maybe things are working out like this so that I can "follow my bliss". I have two other grandchildren by my youngest son, but this is my daughter's first. I really struggle with the photography side of this so your comments are much appreciated too.
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