The Ancestors

At the core level, we are connected with hundreds, maybe even thousands of people, we know nothing about. We experience their feelings and often act based on them, bearing the burden of their lives. The voices of the ancestors weave into a silent chorus that often sings to us our aspirations, thoughts and decisions. Many of these decisions help us to survive and succeed, but this is not always the case. Each person is born with a baggage full of inherited memory and maintains direct contact with it until 2 years old. It seems that with the development of own psyche, the genetic memory is displaced into the structures of the unconscious. Memories of ancestors sometimes come to us in a dream, in a state of trance or in deep meditation as events that we could not witness during our lifetime. Experiencing these events and the traumas associated with them affect our behavior if we ourselves were their participants. Scientists call this genetic memory. The word "memory" here is more of a metaphor, demonstrating an epigenetically coded predisposition to certain types of feelings and behavior. In 2013, after conducting a series of experiments on mice, scientists proved the fact of the genetic transfer of experience. They taught mice to fear the smell of cherry blossom, which has the substance acetophenone. The offsprings of those mice were also afraid of this smell, as were the offsprings of their offsprings. Perhaps, our ancestors will help us to look at ourselves and our lives in a new way…