Really great post. Funnily enough, Darwin's theory of inheritance was that all your organs shed some type of particle called gemmules which gets passed on to your kids. Like a liver gives off tiny liver particles which travel to your sperm and then rearrange in your offspring to make a liver again. And using your liver more might make it give off more gemmules and make your offsprings liver bigger. Today this would be called Lamarckism!
Awesome article, really well written and important material discussed respectfully and in-depth, this might be one of the best works you've done, I admire you for covering this topic. The Patton poem was unknown to me, I simply know of a quote from him about the topic. I'll have to look for more of Patton's poetry.
One of the key reasons I returned to paganism is because I have long believed in genetic memory, blood memory, and reincarnation. I used to think of this as direct soul reincarnation, and sometimes still think of it that way, but more often than not I believe that I have memories encoded in my genes which bubble up from time to time in the form of instincts. Since the ideal and spiritual is very real to me, and the foundation of this material realm, I think that genes are likely capable of reaching over, their storage systems are quite robust as you say. Jean-Emile Charon speaks about the electron as being a sort of "cross-over" point between the material and immaterial, and he partly argues based on their incredible storage systems. There are many other things he talks about, he was primarily a physicist, and I am neither a geneticist or a physicist, nor really a theologian, I am just a farmhand and poet.
This is why I think that in a religious sense, it may be worthwhile to speak of the DNA as a miniature Tree of Life, a World-Tree within us, that which makes our bodies temples, a subliminal space within our very cells. This might bring fruit if explored.
Theres a lot of movement in this field about "quantum DNA" and such, but what we know about DNA already shows us the incredible, wonderful complexity of biological life. It IS a tree of life, you ARE a reassembled version of your ancestors. Some groups say this makes those religions pointless, I say it validates their assessments about the structure of nature more than anyone else's.
If any religion is promised to "survive" scientific materialism, so far it seems to be paganism. These ideas can at least be said to mirror simple observations of nature, rather than attempting to condemn and escape them.
Frankly, I see no need for a biological base for “blood memory”. But this post is a useful reminder that all our theories can only be imperfect expression of an observed reality in a certain time and place and circumstances with our imperfect senses. Science can never be “settled”. We can only be reasonablely confident that a certain phenomenon can be reproduced under the same conditions. As such, there is room for adjustment and improvement. Having wrote this, the fact is science can never really examine spiritual forces because it’s not set up to do this, because of Its premises or its frame. This is where history come in, and Darwinism is very much a historical study done with shovel and test tubes.
Really great post. Funnily enough, Darwin's theory of inheritance was that all your organs shed some type of particle called gemmules which gets passed on to your kids. Like a liver gives off tiny liver particles which travel to your sperm and then rearrange in your offspring to make a liver again. And using your liver more might make it give off more gemmules and make your offsprings liver bigger. Today this would be called Lamarckism!
Awesome article, really well written and important material discussed respectfully and in-depth, this might be one of the best works you've done, I admire you for covering this topic. The Patton poem was unknown to me, I simply know of a quote from him about the topic. I'll have to look for more of Patton's poetry.
One of the key reasons I returned to paganism is because I have long believed in genetic memory, blood memory, and reincarnation. I used to think of this as direct soul reincarnation, and sometimes still think of it that way, but more often than not I believe that I have memories encoded in my genes which bubble up from time to time in the form of instincts. Since the ideal and spiritual is very real to me, and the foundation of this material realm, I think that genes are likely capable of reaching over, their storage systems are quite robust as you say. Jean-Emile Charon speaks about the electron as being a sort of "cross-over" point between the material and immaterial, and he partly argues based on their incredible storage systems. There are many other things he talks about, he was primarily a physicist, and I am neither a geneticist or a physicist, nor really a theologian, I am just a farmhand and poet.
This is why I think that in a religious sense, it may be worthwhile to speak of the DNA as a miniature Tree of Life, a World-Tree within us, that which makes our bodies temples, a subliminal space within our very cells. This might bring fruit if explored.
Thank you friend
Theres a lot of movement in this field about "quantum DNA" and such, but what we know about DNA already shows us the incredible, wonderful complexity of biological life. It IS a tree of life, you ARE a reassembled version of your ancestors. Some groups say this makes those religions pointless, I say it validates their assessments about the structure of nature more than anyone else's.
If any religion is promised to "survive" scientific materialism, so far it seems to be paganism. These ideas can at least be said to mirror simple observations of nature, rather than attempting to condemn and escape them.
Interesting
Frankly, I see no need for a biological base for “blood memory”. But this post is a useful reminder that all our theories can only be imperfect expression of an observed reality in a certain time and place and circumstances with our imperfect senses. Science can never be “settled”. We can only be reasonablely confident that a certain phenomenon can be reproduced under the same conditions. As such, there is room for adjustment and improvement. Having wrote this, the fact is science can never really examine spiritual forces because it’s not set up to do this, because of Its premises or its frame. This is where history come in, and Darwinism is very much a historical study done with shovel and test tubes.