The other day I was trying to explain the notion of "Body Memory" to someone and I found myself talking about my dog.
The dog I'm the person of was a rescue animal. I got her at a county run animal shelter that is not a "no kill" shelter; most in big cities aren't. Just recently when renewing her license, I learned I was not her second owner, but her third. I still feel sure that her name has always been the same and that she was born in the home of her original owner, who may have been a backyard breeder. I also learned when I adopted her that she has at least one liter, but for all I know she may have given birth many times, and then was spayed.
My dog reacts emotionally, shaking, when her feet are on stainless steel. Doesn't matter if this is at the vets or in a sink, or anywhere else - the feel of it frightens her. I think she associates the feel with pain and loss.
When I first brought her home she always pulled her feet or paws away if I tried to touch them. Over many full body massages and months of learning to trust me and not exhibit signs of separation anxiety, she stopped pulling away and started waiting for me without crying. Now she lets me touch her feet and paws and I sometimes hold them in my hands. Again, I think she associates the feelings - physical and emotional - with pain.
I took my dog into the closest groomers, a store that also sells cute doggie items, and depending on what sort of barking she hears she will either, wag her tail and look up at me with excitement (small chirpy sounds) or shake with fear and even back away (the harsher barking of a larger dog) and this is very specific. Because she has exhibited fear, which is uncharacteristic for her overall friendly temperament, I don't want to leave her at a groomer and groom her myself. I recently took her to a benefit for the shelter and she peaceably sat near a massive Irish Wolf Hound and German Shepherds. All well behaved. The dogs at the groomers were further away, leashed, and also well behaved, but yet the VOCAL SOUND of dogs either made her think she was going to meet a long lost relative (maybe her mother) or an enemy!
My dog can't tell me what she's feeling or thinking in any moment, but it's clear she is reacting. Memories are inside her - maybe her mind which is part of the body, or her body itself as mind.
WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH HUMAN BEINGS?
I'm convinced that some people practice genealogy to gain a different perspective on themselves, by way of getting to know more about the people they are genetically related to, especially so if that person has always felt different, as if they were born into the wrong family. (At last you've found an eccentric sea captain a few generations back who seems to be the only other person in the family besides yourself who loved to sail!)
I'm also convinced that some people are very influenced by their past lives. (You sailed and were the sea captain yourself!)
Some people think that there is no such thing as past (or future) lives, as is the case for reincarnation, but that people do have BODY MEMORIES and these can be inherited. (You love to sale because you have the body memory of the sea captain!) A body memory might, as in the case of my dog, give you a reaction - positive or negative - that maybe makes no sense.
Say tuned for more on Body Memory in the future posts of ANCESTRY WORSHIP - GENEALOGY
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23 June 2013
21 June 2013
18 June 2013
UNITED STATES CENSUS PROVES MORE WHITES DYING THAN BEING BORN
NY TIMES : CENSUS BENCHMARK WHITE AMERICANS HAVE MORE DEATHS THAN BIRTHS article by SAM ROBERTS
EXCERPT: "The disparity was tiny — only about 12,000 — and was more than made up by a gain of 188,000 as a result of immigration from abroad. But the decrease for the year ending July 1, 2012, coupled with the fact that a majority of births in the United States are now to Hispanic, black and Asian mothers, is further evidence that white Americans will become a minority nationwide within about three decades."
COMMENT by ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEOLOGY
Something I realized long ago is that ON THIS PLANET White People ARE the minority!
That is if you are counting as White, only people who have no recent ( say 1/16the) DNA that is Hispanic, Black, Asian, Native American - and are simply European from way back, but then I remember a long time ago a Jewish Woman friend told me that Jewish people were a separate Race as well.
The question is WHAT WILL OUT CULTURE BE LIKE? WHAT VALUES WILL WE CHERISH?
EXCERPT: "The disparity was tiny — only about 12,000 — and was more than made up by a gain of 188,000 as a result of immigration from abroad. But the decrease for the year ending July 1, 2012, coupled with the fact that a majority of births in the United States are now to Hispanic, black and Asian mothers, is further evidence that white Americans will become a minority nationwide within about three decades."
COMMENT by ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEOLOGY
Something I realized long ago is that ON THIS PLANET White People ARE the minority!
That is if you are counting as White, only people who have no recent ( say 1/16the) DNA that is Hispanic, Black, Asian, Native American - and are simply European from way back, but then I remember a long time ago a Jewish Woman friend told me that Jewish people were a separate Race as well.
The question is WHAT WILL OUT CULTURE BE LIKE? WHAT VALUES WILL WE CHERISH?
16 June 2013
13 June 2013
PARIS JACKSON'S DNA : THE CONTROVERSIAL JACKSONS AND FAMILY
You don't have to be a fan of Michael Jackson to be enthralled with the Jackson family drama, and most recently in the news, another law suit by the Jacksons and another law suit to the Jacksons, and the suicide attempt of Paris Jackson, Micheal's daughter by Debbie Rowe.
Some people think that they spin all their personal business just to make more and more money, becoming more famous for being famous than for talent!
I want to see what the best lawyers can do for rich people in the courts of this nation. So every day I checked in to see what was happening in the trial.
Then came the news that daughter Paris had tried to commit suicide.
So much speculation why.
Paris is coming into her adulthood with great advantages and disadvantages. She is high profile, like it or not. I suspect she doesn't like it so much. For me this brings in questions of Fate versus Self Creation and, of course, reincarnation - spiritual stuff.
Also there's speculation on her relationship with her birth mother, then the legal wife of Micheal Jackson, who may have treated Ms. Rowe as a surrogate, and the true parental heritage of the children, with more than one man having admitted to donating sperm to Michael Jackson's cold storage long ago.
Can the Jacksons and Rowe keep this private business or will AEG's lawyers try to use that information to make the Jackson children to appear to have less right to any winnings?
I read a number of web sites that prove and disprove this heritage with photo comparisons. I came across one that was very convincing that Micheal is the genetic father of all three children. This site showed that the media lightened photos of the children's skin color and then provided photos of many famous people who had at least one self-identifying Black parent who looked White. Let's just say that Michael had very distinctive feet which all three seem to have inherited. Feet!
DNA...
Where do I stand on all this?
I don't think who the kids parents are genetically has anything to do with who their legal parents are - it's if they had been adopted - and it should have NO BEARING WHATSOEVER on them being more or less deserving of any money won in the suit. So I see no need for it to be brought up.
This is not a trial over parentage or heredity but about if Micheal Jackson was responsible for his own addiction and death or his doctor was and who was behind the doctor - Jackson or the company that was paying him for a final tour.
Debbie Rowe also fascinates me, especially because she breeds dogs and horses on her ranch, which she bought after selling her Beverly Hills house, and has been out of the children's lives by Michael's command, for many years. She strikes me as a Fertility Goddess, an Earth Mother, one who accepted she would not raise the children or be in their lives too much. Over the years Debbie has rallied when her concern over the children was tweaked by other law suits. I suspect Micheal was not just the Love of Her Life but also a Big Heartbreak.
What teenager heading towards womanhood would not want to know her birth mother, especially because grandma Katherine is a senior senior citizen, sorry, just too old to be dealing with teenagers! Are you like me, kind of rooting for Debbie here, hoping that she can be and do more?
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Some people think that they spin all their personal business just to make more and more money, becoming more famous for being famous than for talent!
I want to see what the best lawyers can do for rich people in the courts of this nation. So every day I checked in to see what was happening in the trial.
Then came the news that daughter Paris had tried to commit suicide.
So much speculation why.
Paris is coming into her adulthood with great advantages and disadvantages. She is high profile, like it or not. I suspect she doesn't like it so much. For me this brings in questions of Fate versus Self Creation and, of course, reincarnation - spiritual stuff.
Also there's speculation on her relationship with her birth mother, then the legal wife of Micheal Jackson, who may have treated Ms. Rowe as a surrogate, and the true parental heritage of the children, with more than one man having admitted to donating sperm to Michael Jackson's cold storage long ago.
Can the Jacksons and Rowe keep this private business or will AEG's lawyers try to use that information to make the Jackson children to appear to have less right to any winnings?
I read a number of web sites that prove and disprove this heritage with photo comparisons. I came across one that was very convincing that Micheal is the genetic father of all three children. This site showed that the media lightened photos of the children's skin color and then provided photos of many famous people who had at least one self-identifying Black parent who looked White. Let's just say that Michael had very distinctive feet which all three seem to have inherited. Feet!
DNA...
Where do I stand on all this?
I don't think who the kids parents are genetically has anything to do with who their legal parents are - it's if they had been adopted - and it should have NO BEARING WHATSOEVER on them being more or less deserving of any money won in the suit. So I see no need for it to be brought up.
This is not a trial over parentage or heredity but about if Micheal Jackson was responsible for his own addiction and death or his doctor was and who was behind the doctor - Jackson or the company that was paying him for a final tour.
Debbie Rowe also fascinates me, especially because she breeds dogs and horses on her ranch, which she bought after selling her Beverly Hills house, and has been out of the children's lives by Michael's command, for many years. She strikes me as a Fertility Goddess, an Earth Mother, one who accepted she would not raise the children or be in their lives too much. Over the years Debbie has rallied when her concern over the children was tweaked by other law suits. I suspect Micheal was not just the Love of Her Life but also a Big Heartbreak.
What teenager heading towards womanhood would not want to know her birth mother, especially because grandma Katherine is a senior senior citizen, sorry, just too old to be dealing with teenagers! Are you like me, kind of rooting for Debbie here, hoping that she can be and do more?
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09 June 2013
NATIONAL ARCHIVES NATIVE AMERICAN RESEARCH - LINKS!
NARA NATIVE AMERICANS LINK
I noticed that my post on proving Native American ancestry has been getting a lot of hits, so I thought I would post this helpful link which leads to lots and lots of other informative links including Dawes Rolls and Guion-Miller Roll as well as Census Enumeration of Pueblo Indians, 1790-1939.
THESE ARE SPECIAL COUNTS OF NATIVE AMERICANS separate from the NATIONAL CENSUS or STATE CENSUS.
So... What if you think you have Native American ancestry but no known member of your family is "card carrying" members of a tribe with reservation rights?
I may have said it before, but it's worth repeating. Census records are the backbone of American genealogy but everything you read on them may not be right and when it comes to "color" or race or ethnicity, what you see written down may be the word of the reporting individual (hopefully a family member but sometimes a neighbor) or the opinion of the census taker.
I've seen someone called Black or Negro when living in the American South who was called White in Chicago. I've seen large farm families who proved to have a Native American ancestor with one child called Black and the rest called White - and across the street another farm where they were all listed as Indian.
We can learn about the niche specific attitudes about race and color and ethnicity from this though, can't we?
I noticed that my post on proving Native American ancestry has been getting a lot of hits, so I thought I would post this helpful link which leads to lots and lots of other informative links including Dawes Rolls and Guion-Miller Roll as well as Census Enumeration of Pueblo Indians, 1790-1939.
THESE ARE SPECIAL COUNTS OF NATIVE AMERICANS separate from the NATIONAL CENSUS or STATE CENSUS.
So... What if you think you have Native American ancestry but no known member of your family is "card carrying" members of a tribe with reservation rights?
I may have said it before, but it's worth repeating. Census records are the backbone of American genealogy but everything you read on them may not be right and when it comes to "color" or race or ethnicity, what you see written down may be the word of the reporting individual (hopefully a family member but sometimes a neighbor) or the opinion of the census taker.
I've seen someone called Black or Negro when living in the American South who was called White in Chicago. I've seen large farm families who proved to have a Native American ancestor with one child called Black and the rest called White - and across the street another farm where they were all listed as Indian.
We can learn about the niche specific attitudes about race and color and ethnicity from this though, can't we?
07 June 2013
FORBES : HOW THE HUMAN FACE MAY LOOK IN THE FAR FUTURE : YIKES!
FORBES : HUMAN FACE IN 100,000 YEARS link here (hope the advertisement doesn't pop!)
OK here's a clue... bug eyed!
EXCERPT: "Kwan says that 60,000 years from now, our ability to control the human genome will also make the effect of evolution on our facial features moot. As genetic engineering becomes the norm, “the fate of the human face will be increasingly determined by human tastes,” he says in a research document. Eyes will meanwhile get larger, as attempts to colonize Earth’s solar system and beyond see people living in the dimmer environments of colonies further away from the Sun than Earth."
(Dr. Alan Kwan, who holds a PhD in computational genomics from Washington University.)
OK here's a clue... bug eyed!
EXCERPT: "Kwan says that 60,000 years from now, our ability to control the human genome will also make the effect of evolution on our facial features moot. As genetic engineering becomes the norm, “the fate of the human face will be increasingly determined by human tastes,” he says in a research document. Eyes will meanwhile get larger, as attempts to colonize Earth’s solar system and beyond see people living in the dimmer environments of colonies further away from the Sun than Earth."
(Dr. Alan Kwan, who holds a PhD in computational genomics from Washington University.)
04 June 2013
ORPHANS IN THE FAMILY? : WHERE LILLIES BLOOM
Orphans in the family?
Very common.
I was watching an old movie the other day, about a family in the Smokey Mountains, called " Where the Lilies Bloom," which was based on a novel by Vera and Bill Cleaver. Since I did some extensive research for a family with roots in the Smokey Mountains, I've heard so many stories of living off the land, early marriages, and good neighbors who have a fine sense of community.
The crisis in this film is that children are left orphaned when their father dies and because they do not want to be put in foster care they decide to hide his death. Of course the fact that this takes place in the Smokey Mountains makes it doable. The children can bury him without anyone knowing and they can blame to be busy with collecting herbs to make medicinals and farm work when visitors come calling to talk to their dad. It goes on for a while, the children exhausted but still attending school so as not to raise any red flags, until the worn out 14 year old daughter who leads the family admits the problem to the owner of the land whose sister wants it back. A younger daughter marries the older man who wanted to marry her, despite promises to the dying father. Thus the land they were renting becomes owned by that daughter and family.
These days in the United States we seem to be ignorant about how many children were orphaned in the old days, often because their mother died in childbirth or afterwards of related causes. Believe it or not, two children out of three were orphaned in England in Charles' Dickens days, which is why Charles Dickins novels were so popular - all those street urchins. Today's blended families are most often because of divorce. Used to be blended families were because of death.
HOWEVER, BE AWARE THAT IN THE 19th century and before, an ORPHAN was defined as a child without a father (to support the family) and if you hear that a child was orphaned in your family, their mother or a step-mother may still be living.
There are orphans in my family, and I'm still researching to find out more about the people who took them in and raised them!
Very common.
I was watching an old movie the other day, about a family in the Smokey Mountains, called " Where the Lilies Bloom," which was based on a novel by Vera and Bill Cleaver. Since I did some extensive research for a family with roots in the Smokey Mountains, I've heard so many stories of living off the land, early marriages, and good neighbors who have a fine sense of community.
The crisis in this film is that children are left orphaned when their father dies and because they do not want to be put in foster care they decide to hide his death. Of course the fact that this takes place in the Smokey Mountains makes it doable. The children can bury him without anyone knowing and they can blame to be busy with collecting herbs to make medicinals and farm work when visitors come calling to talk to their dad. It goes on for a while, the children exhausted but still attending school so as not to raise any red flags, until the worn out 14 year old daughter who leads the family admits the problem to the owner of the land whose sister wants it back. A younger daughter marries the older man who wanted to marry her, despite promises to the dying father. Thus the land they were renting becomes owned by that daughter and family.
These days in the United States we seem to be ignorant about how many children were orphaned in the old days, often because their mother died in childbirth or afterwards of related causes. Believe it or not, two children out of three were orphaned in England in Charles' Dickens days, which is why Charles Dickins novels were so popular - all those street urchins. Today's blended families are most often because of divorce. Used to be blended families were because of death.
HOWEVER, BE AWARE THAT IN THE 19th century and before, an ORPHAN was defined as a child without a father (to support the family) and if you hear that a child was orphaned in your family, their mother or a step-mother may still be living.
There are orphans in my family, and I'm still researching to find out more about the people who took them in and raised them!
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