ENTANGLED ANCESTORS
The Family Soul
The Family Soul
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Well of Souls
Liminal Aesthetics
"We must give time to nature so that she may be a mother to us.
I have found the way to live here as part of nature, to live in my own time.
People in the modern world are always living so that something better is to happen tomorrow, always in the future, so they don't think to live their lives.
They are up in the head. When a man begins to know himself,
to discover the roots of his past in himself, it is a new way of life."
--Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, Pages 156-163
If one can once get outside this ego conditioning,
time becomes entirely relative, and the present moment is as if eternal.
~Carl Jung, Conversations with Jung, Page 13
oOo
Genealogy is a way to travel within oneself, a vision quest through our ancestral fields to expand our sense of self and our relationship to the world. Trees are a symbol of the cycle of life, death and re-birth. They blossom from tiny saplings into enormous personifications of nature and beauty, they bear fruit, lie dormant during the colder months, only to burst forth into new life again with the turning of the seasons.
Families have an unconscious mind and soul that travel across generations and entangle those who follow in the fates and trauma of those who came before. Research in epigenetics shows that trauma, experiences, and behaviors of the ancestors can be inherited by their offspring up to four generations, and perhaps longer, by changing the expression of various genes. These epigenetic changes are stored in the epigenome and can be transmitted transgenerationally to subsequent generations.
We are deeply bonded to family members we may not have even known or knew existed: a parent’s deceased sibling; a grandmother’s rage; a stillborn baby, miscarriage, or abortion; ancestors who were enslaved or enslaved others; a father’s allies who died in wartime; our grandparents’ previous partners; the ancestors who stayed in the home country; ancestors that had to leave, etc.
Out of blind, loyal love, we unconsciously try to bring into light our ancestor’s difficult fate(s) and trauma. This bonding love may cause us to invite disease, suffering, depression, relationship struggles, and even suicide, into our lives in an unconscious attempt to restore balance to our family systems. The dynamics of this larger blueprint lies beyond our awareness, yet its effect on our lives is profound.
We start to suffer when we hang on to old ideas of who we think we are. We hang on because things staying the same make us feel secure. We feel safe in what we are used to. But that security makes us sad. We are denying the changing nature of life. That’s a powerful force to try and deny. It’s like trying to hold back the ocean.
When balance within the family soul is restored, the same love entangled with illness, difficult fate,trauma and suffering can be transformed into a force for healing.
When one or many ancestors seem to have had a hard life or particularly heavy fate they generally receive an out pouring of love from their future descendants. It seems that their conditions are very often recreated to the point of being reenacted to honor and even copy the fate or destiny that befell those who left long ago. Their suffering through disease or death or accidental trauma can be recreated very easily by the current generation. Why? Deep love and connection supersedes all else in some cases.
Many families operate in ways that violate natural laws because of deeply unconscious patterns, loyalty to family secrets, and tragic losses that make grieving difficult. Yet there are universal truths that connect all of us to one another, even while each family also has its own story that makes it unique.
This approach is not about trying to change, fix, blame, analyze, or pathologize. Its power and depth lie in honoring what is, especially in those places of loss, pain, or tragedy which have remained unacknowledged -- in a circle of ancestral connection. When we do so, love and life can flow more freely, and our rightful place of belonging is restored.
We experience the hidden truths in a new, direct way we transform the energies locked into an ancestral pattern and if we are lucky we may be able to honor and understand the fate and destiny in a clear way as we honor the past and leave it with them to bear, hence no repetition.
It seems we copy someone else's fate or destiny to strengthen the link between us and them to let them be seen again through our eyes with great love. It’s my summation after a decade of facilitating that we desperately want to share a deep connection and even copy the destiny or fate of those who suffered so that they may know that it wasn’t in vain or that they are alone in their experience.
We can honor them in a direct and honest way and hopefully will be allowed to go our own way with them in our hearts. Strength is the goal and as we honor the suffering we do not have to repeat it, IF we are lucky. We try to get it right generation after Generation.
Do we really have to spend our lifetime reenacting the fate and destiny of those who came before? No we do not. Does it serve us better to honor their fate and destiny directly? YES, as long as they are included with honor, love and respect plus some reverence. Because we are fluid, we are constantly growing and changing. We are free to live our own fluid identity and lives until it’s time to meet the ancestors again in the realm of the dead.
Liminal Aesthetics
"We must give time to nature so that she may be a mother to us.
I have found the way to live here as part of nature, to live in my own time.
People in the modern world are always living so that something better is to happen tomorrow, always in the future, so they don't think to live their lives.
They are up in the head. When a man begins to know himself,
to discover the roots of his past in himself, it is a new way of life."
--Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, Pages 156-163
If one can once get outside this ego conditioning,
time becomes entirely relative, and the present moment is as if eternal.
~Carl Jung, Conversations with Jung, Page 13
oOo
Genealogy is a way to travel within oneself, a vision quest through our ancestral fields to expand our sense of self and our relationship to the world. Trees are a symbol of the cycle of life, death and re-birth. They blossom from tiny saplings into enormous personifications of nature and beauty, they bear fruit, lie dormant during the colder months, only to burst forth into new life again with the turning of the seasons.
Families have an unconscious mind and soul that travel across generations and entangle those who follow in the fates and trauma of those who came before. Research in epigenetics shows that trauma, experiences, and behaviors of the ancestors can be inherited by their offspring up to four generations, and perhaps longer, by changing the expression of various genes. These epigenetic changes are stored in the epigenome and can be transmitted transgenerationally to subsequent generations.
We are deeply bonded to family members we may not have even known or knew existed: a parent’s deceased sibling; a grandmother’s rage; a stillborn baby, miscarriage, or abortion; ancestors who were enslaved or enslaved others; a father’s allies who died in wartime; our grandparents’ previous partners; the ancestors who stayed in the home country; ancestors that had to leave, etc.
Out of blind, loyal love, we unconsciously try to bring into light our ancestor’s difficult fate(s) and trauma. This bonding love may cause us to invite disease, suffering, depression, relationship struggles, and even suicide, into our lives in an unconscious attempt to restore balance to our family systems. The dynamics of this larger blueprint lies beyond our awareness, yet its effect on our lives is profound.
We start to suffer when we hang on to old ideas of who we think we are. We hang on because things staying the same make us feel secure. We feel safe in what we are used to. But that security makes us sad. We are denying the changing nature of life. That’s a powerful force to try and deny. It’s like trying to hold back the ocean.
When balance within the family soul is restored, the same love entangled with illness, difficult fate,trauma and suffering can be transformed into a force for healing.
When one or many ancestors seem to have had a hard life or particularly heavy fate they generally receive an out pouring of love from their future descendants. It seems that their conditions are very often recreated to the point of being reenacted to honor and even copy the fate or destiny that befell those who left long ago. Their suffering through disease or death or accidental trauma can be recreated very easily by the current generation. Why? Deep love and connection supersedes all else in some cases.
Many families operate in ways that violate natural laws because of deeply unconscious patterns, loyalty to family secrets, and tragic losses that make grieving difficult. Yet there are universal truths that connect all of us to one another, even while each family also has its own story that makes it unique.
This approach is not about trying to change, fix, blame, analyze, or pathologize. Its power and depth lie in honoring what is, especially in those places of loss, pain, or tragedy which have remained unacknowledged -- in a circle of ancestral connection. When we do so, love and life can flow more freely, and our rightful place of belonging is restored.
We experience the hidden truths in a new, direct way we transform the energies locked into an ancestral pattern and if we are lucky we may be able to honor and understand the fate and destiny in a clear way as we honor the past and leave it with them to bear, hence no repetition.
It seems we copy someone else's fate or destiny to strengthen the link between us and them to let them be seen again through our eyes with great love. It’s my summation after a decade of facilitating that we desperately want to share a deep connection and even copy the destiny or fate of those who suffered so that they may know that it wasn’t in vain or that they are alone in their experience.
We can honor them in a direct and honest way and hopefully will be allowed to go our own way with them in our hearts. Strength is the goal and as we honor the suffering we do not have to repeat it, IF we are lucky. We try to get it right generation after Generation.
Do we really have to spend our lifetime reenacting the fate and destiny of those who came before? No we do not. Does it serve us better to honor their fate and destiny directly? YES, as long as they are included with honor, love and respect plus some reverence. Because we are fluid, we are constantly growing and changing. We are free to live our own fluid identity and lives until it’s time to meet the ancestors again in the realm of the dead.
ARBOR VITAE
Entangled Roots & Branches of
the Family Tree
Entangled & Enmeshed
"You excuse yourself with your disbelief in the immortality of the soul.
Do you think that the dead do not exist because you have' devised the impossibility of immortality? You believe in your idols of words.
The dead produce effects, that is sufficient. In the inner world there is no explaining away, as little as you can explain away the sea in the outer world.
You must finally understand your purpose in explaining away, namely to seek protection." --Jung, Red Book, Page 298.
Entangled Roots & Branches of
the Family Tree
Entangled & Enmeshed
"You excuse yourself with your disbelief in the immortality of the soul.
Do you think that the dead do not exist because you have' devised the impossibility of immortality? You believe in your idols of words.
The dead produce effects, that is sufficient. In the inner world there is no explaining away, as little as you can explain away the sea in the outer world.
You must finally understand your purpose in explaining away, namely to seek protection." --Jung, Red Book, Page 298.
Rethinking Our Ancestry
Are we really alive if we remain 'dead' to the true nature of Reality? Without a deep visceral understanding of our own embodiment, kith and kin, without knowledge of our family tree, and without the personal story of who we are and where we come from, we remain rootless without a living connection. But, we are connected to the ancestors like long forgotten dreams, even when they remain unconscious.
Thierry Guillard frames it succinctly: "At birth, we unconsciously inherit unfinished stories of our parents, our ancestors and our society. Like open circuits, the charges of this heritage influence our lives for we cannot cut ourselves off from our roots without losing an essential part of ourselves. These histories replay themselves in some of the difficulties we encounter in our own lives, often programming the same outcomes again and again."
Generally, we only remember our ancestors for a few generations unless there is a historical reason for records and stories to be preserved. But the cultural practice and rituals of genealogy have served individuals, tribes and nations throughout the history of mankind. The ancestors are like 'living fossils' in our our psyche, which we can differentiate out from the pointless forest of an undelineated Tree. We may descend from several undelineated families.
From Europe to Asia, genealogy is a “blueprint for action.” Historically genealogical records have been lost and recreated many times, and there have been several periods of genealogical reconstruction and confabulation with legends and myth. Also, historically, writing genealogies only vaguely depends on records.
From Belle Epoch America to modern China, if they don’t have the records, they just make it up. It may be a fraudulent genealogist, or an inexperienced family member copying from inaccurate trees. Even with accurate records, some try to embellish their family history, making it grander than it really was.
Those writing a new genealogy can easily borrow pieces of any story from extant records and claim it. It’s easy to claim that your ancestors have an important name, or were important officials. But, to knowingly do so would indicate some kind of shadow problem, and persona issues -- blocks to true meaning, which can be as disabling as inflations from pure fantasies or superstitions about noble lines.
Branching Out
Genealogical narrative has its own power. In a group of their contemporaries and peers an individual loses uniqueness. But that same person, as the latest member of a lineage of forebears, automatically assumes a certain status.
The narration of a genealogy inevitably highlights the last member. Not only do the achievements of the ancestors accrue to the most recent descendant, but the ancestors themselves appear to be more forerunners pointing to what is yet to come. Length of genealogy confers prestige on an individual; likewise, length of history confers prestige on a nation.
Ritual, a way to perform genealogies, invokes the 'spirits' -- ordered relationships between human beings in the here-and-now and non-immediate sources of power, authority, and value. The fundamental efficacy of ritual lies in its ability to have people embody assumptions about their place in the larger order of things. Generational analysis is one such ritual.
Ancestral Linkage
We can build our Family Tree as an aspirational framework with genealogy and psychogenealogy, and our paths through the Tree of Life. "Walking the path" of our various branches step-by-step, we discover precisely which ancestors connect us and how to older common ancestors. This is the first step in revealing hidden truth and differentiating ourselves from our unconscious collective - the prima materia or massa confusa.
Jung thought, "A tree is not a bad analogy, because we do not understand how a tree functions either, how it raises up to its crown the huge volume of water that circulates in its system, for example, yet the tree is an indisputable fact, a natural process." Jung thought individuation was such a natural process, like an oak growing from an acorn.
'Raising to consciousness' formerly unknown ancestors is a metaphorical 'resurrection,' that increases our self-knowledge and leads toward assimilation or transgenerational integration. Consciousness can also block individuation through resistance by not allowing what is in the unconscious to develop.
Complexes may be related to environmental traumatic experience, or internal conflicts. The core of any complex is a universal pattern of experience, or archetype. Complexes originate in the archetypal depths of the psyche -- deep structures, patterns and ways of living that represent an inherited memory of the history of human culture.
Complexes and repetition compulsions can be associated with unconscious ancestral effects. Important groups of unconscious associations, conflicting beliefs that stand on their own like a splinter identity, or a strong unconscious impulse can be embodied as ancestors.
We raise patterns and images to consciousness from the psychoid depths, finding our purpose in the universe and give expression to what we realize. Such gnosis and healing potential is derived from knowledge of the unconscious -- represented unconscious contents. Patterns of unfolding consciousness reveal archetypal structure, promoting wholeness and balance between wholesale identification with myth and outright rejection of it, restoring the free flow of consciousness.
We share unconscious contents through participation mystique - a symbiosis where contents of one's personal unconscious are experienced in another or through another person. Jung claimed, "The participation mystique by which society contains the individual may be understood as a statement of the fact that individuals are still undifferentiated from each other, that is to say, they have not yet been self-consciously broken up into individual personalities." (C.G. Jung Speaking; Interviews and Encounters).
Projection and archaic identification are often mythological motifs surrounding situations and objects, including other persons, dead or alive. In an unconscious process we 'meet our projections' rather than make them. Ancestors are 'hooks' for projecting our unconscious qualities. We can learn something about ourselves withdrawing or dissolving projections.
Genealogy is a sequence of corporeal births, but also psychic events. 'Walking a path' is much like 'walking a labyrinth. We begin with our self and proceed back to the progenitor of each direct ancestor, both male and female. "Walking the path" means you must visit every profile in both paths, no shortcuts. Jung called the sequence of psychic events as a connection, a solid sequence, that either begins with a prime cause or follows a final cause.
Beyond causal qualities, obvious connections are demonstrated by the sequence of events, but our family tree also expresses nonlocal qualities, beyond mind, body, space and time. In everyday life, distance and location are mundane absolutes. Yet physics now suggests that at the most fundamental level, the universe is nonlocal—there is no such thing as place or distance.
Are we really alive if we remain 'dead' to the true nature of Reality? Without a deep visceral understanding of our own embodiment, kith and kin, without knowledge of our family tree, and without the personal story of who we are and where we come from, we remain rootless without a living connection. But, we are connected to the ancestors like long forgotten dreams, even when they remain unconscious.
Thierry Guillard frames it succinctly: "At birth, we unconsciously inherit unfinished stories of our parents, our ancestors and our society. Like open circuits, the charges of this heritage influence our lives for we cannot cut ourselves off from our roots without losing an essential part of ourselves. These histories replay themselves in some of the difficulties we encounter in our own lives, often programming the same outcomes again and again."
Generally, we only remember our ancestors for a few generations unless there is a historical reason for records and stories to be preserved. But the cultural practice and rituals of genealogy have served individuals, tribes and nations throughout the history of mankind. The ancestors are like 'living fossils' in our our psyche, which we can differentiate out from the pointless forest of an undelineated Tree. We may descend from several undelineated families.
From Europe to Asia, genealogy is a “blueprint for action.” Historically genealogical records have been lost and recreated many times, and there have been several periods of genealogical reconstruction and confabulation with legends and myth. Also, historically, writing genealogies only vaguely depends on records.
From Belle Epoch America to modern China, if they don’t have the records, they just make it up. It may be a fraudulent genealogist, or an inexperienced family member copying from inaccurate trees. Even with accurate records, some try to embellish their family history, making it grander than it really was.
Those writing a new genealogy can easily borrow pieces of any story from extant records and claim it. It’s easy to claim that your ancestors have an important name, or were important officials. But, to knowingly do so would indicate some kind of shadow problem, and persona issues -- blocks to true meaning, which can be as disabling as inflations from pure fantasies or superstitions about noble lines.
Branching Out
Genealogical narrative has its own power. In a group of their contemporaries and peers an individual loses uniqueness. But that same person, as the latest member of a lineage of forebears, automatically assumes a certain status.
The narration of a genealogy inevitably highlights the last member. Not only do the achievements of the ancestors accrue to the most recent descendant, but the ancestors themselves appear to be more forerunners pointing to what is yet to come. Length of genealogy confers prestige on an individual; likewise, length of history confers prestige on a nation.
Ritual, a way to perform genealogies, invokes the 'spirits' -- ordered relationships between human beings in the here-and-now and non-immediate sources of power, authority, and value. The fundamental efficacy of ritual lies in its ability to have people embody assumptions about their place in the larger order of things. Generational analysis is one such ritual.
Ancestral Linkage
We can build our Family Tree as an aspirational framework with genealogy and psychogenealogy, and our paths through the Tree of Life. "Walking the path" of our various branches step-by-step, we discover precisely which ancestors connect us and how to older common ancestors. This is the first step in revealing hidden truth and differentiating ourselves from our unconscious collective - the prima materia or massa confusa.
Jung thought, "A tree is not a bad analogy, because we do not understand how a tree functions either, how it raises up to its crown the huge volume of water that circulates in its system, for example, yet the tree is an indisputable fact, a natural process." Jung thought individuation was such a natural process, like an oak growing from an acorn.
'Raising to consciousness' formerly unknown ancestors is a metaphorical 'resurrection,' that increases our self-knowledge and leads toward assimilation or transgenerational integration. Consciousness can also block individuation through resistance by not allowing what is in the unconscious to develop.
Complexes may be related to environmental traumatic experience, or internal conflicts. The core of any complex is a universal pattern of experience, or archetype. Complexes originate in the archetypal depths of the psyche -- deep structures, patterns and ways of living that represent an inherited memory of the history of human culture.
Complexes and repetition compulsions can be associated with unconscious ancestral effects. Important groups of unconscious associations, conflicting beliefs that stand on their own like a splinter identity, or a strong unconscious impulse can be embodied as ancestors.
We raise patterns and images to consciousness from the psychoid depths, finding our purpose in the universe and give expression to what we realize. Such gnosis and healing potential is derived from knowledge of the unconscious -- represented unconscious contents. Patterns of unfolding consciousness reveal archetypal structure, promoting wholeness and balance between wholesale identification with myth and outright rejection of it, restoring the free flow of consciousness.
We share unconscious contents through participation mystique - a symbiosis where contents of one's personal unconscious are experienced in another or through another person. Jung claimed, "The participation mystique by which society contains the individual may be understood as a statement of the fact that individuals are still undifferentiated from each other, that is to say, they have not yet been self-consciously broken up into individual personalities." (C.G. Jung Speaking; Interviews and Encounters).
Projection and archaic identification are often mythological motifs surrounding situations and objects, including other persons, dead or alive. In an unconscious process we 'meet our projections' rather than make them. Ancestors are 'hooks' for projecting our unconscious qualities. We can learn something about ourselves withdrawing or dissolving projections.
Genealogy is a sequence of corporeal births, but also psychic events. 'Walking a path' is much like 'walking a labyrinth. We begin with our self and proceed back to the progenitor of each direct ancestor, both male and female. "Walking the path" means you must visit every profile in both paths, no shortcuts. Jung called the sequence of psychic events as a connection, a solid sequence, that either begins with a prime cause or follows a final cause.
Beyond causal qualities, obvious connections are demonstrated by the sequence of events, but our family tree also expresses nonlocal qualities, beyond mind, body, space and time. In everyday life, distance and location are mundane absolutes. Yet physics now suggests that at the most fundamental level, the universe is nonlocal—there is no such thing as place or distance.
Nonlocal Ancestors
Nonlocal consciousness is not confined to specific points in space, including brains or bodies, nor to the present moment. It is an ordering principle that can inject information into disorganized or random systems. It can operate beyond mere awareness, unconsciously, drawing on individual and collective consciousness, as well as the world or environment. Coherence or resonance may be expressed as compassion, empathy, love, unity, oneness, and connectedness. Consciousness affects or informs human and nonhuman or inanimate forms alike.
Consciousness is present everywhere in spacetime, so has no need to “go” or “be sent” via a medium or carrier. Synchronous events, including intentional or directed healing, may work via coherence, an entanglement or resonance effect, but we should be careful not to mistake this field effect for the mind itself, which permeates and undergirds all. Still none of us has any idea how anything material could be conscious, so we must simply stand in that Mystery. We share its essential nature; it is the cosmos within us. We are that.
Nonlocal events, like synchronicity are apparently 1) unmediated, requiring no go-between signal; 2) unmitigated, with no diminishing of effect with distance; 3) immediate, apparently outside of time and space as we commonly understand them. In this acausal process, consciousness is fundamental, not derivative and unexplainable in terms of anything more basic.
Jung advised, “This feeling for the infinite can be attained only if we are bounded to the utmost. In knowing ourselves to be ultimately limited we possess also the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!”
The paths of our descent remain correlated, entangled forever. Each time we retrace our roots we are commemorating and reenacting the glorious time of the beginnings. The contrast image of ascent and descent on the Tree of Life is the primary metaphor, unlocking a treasure of family knowledge and self-knowledge, and a new sense of presence.
We have another life than the life we consciously intend to have. Alchemy stresses redemption of the physical body, or matter, while actively striving toward creation of a subtle, immortal body, which has no apparent physical basis.
World Soul; World Tree
The world-tree is an expression of anima-mundi or world-soul. It is the axis that aligns us with the cosmos, but more tangibly, it is the shared ancestral tree, rather than a stand-alone tree. Alchemy requires resurrection of the soul of body. The challenge we encounter in developing and "owning" this fresh worldview is to "see through" to a unified vision of mundane physical processes with spiritual values and vision.
In shamanism, the ancestors were venerated as the effect was a preventive therapy that maintained those vital connections with the past. While the World Tree meant one thing in shamanic culture today it refers to the definitive family tree for the entire world, a collaboration on shared ancestry by constantly expanding and improving the tree. The World Family Tree currently has more than 100 million profiles.
The World Family Tree is like having millions of people solving the same jigsaw puzzle together instead of each of us solving a separate, tiny puzzle. Traditionally, people have embarked on individual studies of their family history in the hope of preserving it for future generations.
However, this isolated approach results in the same research being repeated over and over again. By combining all research into a single, collaborative tree, users can focus on verifying existing information and pursue new leads rather than wasting time repeating what others have already found.
With the World Family Tree you constantly discover new information about your family because so many other users are constantly working to improve it with new findings. Sources and citations are included so the work of others can be checked and enhanced.
If mistakes are found, you can fix them quickly on the World Family Tree, which is not possible with standalone trees that are controlled by someone else. Thus, errors gradually disappear instead of perpetuating, growing worse, and achieving the false notion of accuracy simply by being repeated by others.
The World Family Tree allows identical profiles to be merged into one, reducing duplication and collecting the best information for all to share. Profiles support multiple languages so you can easily document names and biographies separately in different languages. The World Family Tree is also curated by a large team of expert volunteer Curators.
Entangled Particles
We can develop awareness of the psychophysical ordering processes inherent in matter -- in our matter. The physical body is a living metaphor -- a metaphorm -- for psychic transformation. Life begets life in creative manifestation.
According to Jung, psyche is not different from matter. At the psychoid or psychophysical ground level, they are different perspectives on the phenomenal world. Psyche is the womb of manifestation. The collective unconscious is also projected into the inner aspect of our own bodies.
In Psychology of Religion, Jung notes, “We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images.” And, Jung comments, “In reality, there is nothing but a living body. That is the fact, and psyche is as much a living body as body is living psyche: it is just the same.” (Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, vol. 1, p. 396.)
The psychoid nature of archetypes extends beyond a neurophysiological basis into the general dynamical patterns of all matter and energy -- the unconscious properties of the physiological world. Both psyche and matter are in a constant process of redefinition.
In pilot-wave theory, if space and time behave like a superfluid, or a fluid that experiences no dissipation at all, then 'path memory' could conceivably give rise to the strange quantum phenomenon of entanglement. When two particles become entangled, a measurement of the state of one instantly affects that of the other, even at vast distances. The superfluidfluid/quantum correlation mirrors the collective unconscious field as a vast ocean of potential.
In standard quantum mechanics, the effect is rationalized as the instantaneous collapse of the particles’ joint probability wave. But in Bohm's pilot-wave version of events, an interaction between two particles in a superfluid universe sets them on paths that stay correlated forever. The interaction permanently affects the contours of the superfluid, accounting for nonlocal correlations.”
Entangled Lives
Jung referred to unitary reality consisting of both psyche and matter as transcendental -- an unextended energetic intensity, or potential. He argued, "...Psyche cannot be totally different from matter for how otherwise could it move matter? And matter cannot be alien to psyche, for how else could matter produce psyche? Psyche and matter exist in the same world, and each partakes of the other, otherwise any reciprocal action would be impossible."
We are each a personal part of the world's impersonal fabric, so psyche and soma interpenetrate. Waves in this potential spacetime mysteriously “collapse” into particles in actual spacetime. They collapse from their ghostly state into definite quantum particles.
This idea shares much with a holistic or integral perspective, an approach which we can extend to our family tree and 'path memories'. In psychosomatics, psyche carries the potential, while soma is the actuality. In the absence of a voice, the body can articulate complex affective and relational losses.
Paleopoetics
We can engage the somatic unconscious as an experiential space of relations and imagination of the heart. The three instincts are self-preservation, sexual, and social. How did humans, given their non-symbolic mammalian heritage, come to represent their knowledge in symbolic form?
All non-verbal communication is mimetic (rehearsal loop), a self-started representational act -- the ability to alternate between various self-perspectives and other-perspectives. The archaic basis of episode recognition patterns is different from generalized, procedural memory. We learned to represent a situation and reflect on it (metacognition, orientation, time, space, date, specific place).
Jung suggested we cannot stand to live a meaningless life. but individuation means to find one's own meaning and connection to universal meaning. The collective unconscious doesn't express personal wishes and intentions as it is an absolutely transpersonal, neutral, psychic 'entity,' which, like nature, is an emanative form of appearance.
Cultural Networks
Humans are linked from birth to a vast cultural storehouse of knowledge and skill accumulated as cultural memory over aeons. We are sensitive to understanding the significance of environmental effects and mimesis (motor skill and imagination) allows us to invent intentional representations.
Culture is mimetic framework. Mirror neurons allow us to love, to socialize, and to empathize with the experience of others through collective shaping of network architecture. In the genealogical context, we are more than a fixed point in a particular cultural network. The genealogy symbolizes the angular momentum of descent. Our responsibility is to make that path easier. Such is the way of nature. Psychogenealogy modulates consciousness in a marked and novel way -- up-shifting our inkage.
Episodic memories are locked in details of specific experiences such as the death of a loved one. Mythical culture institutionalized meaning by codifying significant contents of individual experience. Internal memory became external culture. We developed theories to predict and explain through symbolic culture. We are still rooted in episodic experience, as well as being mythic, symbolic, and theoretical. Theoretical development strips away previous mythic meanings, demystifying them.
Metaphysics of Presence
The psychoid level of archetypes correlates with wave/particle duality and the heritable DNA biohologram. Expressive nature can be likened to epigenetics, heritable changes in gene expression that are not due to changes in DNA sequence. Every cell in the body has the same genetic information. Cells, tissues and organs differentiate when different sets of genes are turned on or expressed.
We exist in relation to ourselves, to others, to myths, to images, and to archetypes. Their expression is the essence of our being. The body is inescapably a relational body with the potential for overcoming the boundaries of flesh to perpetuate relationality, received wisdom (lucidity), and power-knowledge even in the absence of material embodiment.
Quantum entanglement and nonlocality are models or metaphors for how we may actually remain connected. Our entangled pairs close the locality loophole. David Bohm suggested we have an almost universal tendency to fragment the world and ignore the dynamical interconnectedness of things. This is responsible for many of our problems, not only in science but in our lives and culture -- and in our relations with our own ancestors.
Unexamined Ground
Genealogy can help bridge that interconnectedness gap -- the unconscious, unexamined ground. Genealogy is a differential element of values. It is a field in which relationships operate -- a realm of conscious and unconscious cooperation represented by point to point networks of individuals, dead and alive. The sociality is not merely objective, because of our deep psychophysical involvement. Theory describes "Soul as Intersubjective Reality and Spirit as Interobjective Reality."
Genealogy is complex and requires a broad context -- an open value network with communication, non-control, open-access and value creation. It has its own space-time relationality. As relational selves we stand in intricate and intimate webs of connection with all we contact—whether human or animal, animate or inanimate. 'Path memory' stimulates the right probabilities.
Agents, relationships, and the field of relationality in which relationships occur close the objective-subjective loop with assertion and intentionality. Atomistic individualism is rejected for a relational self, a balance between individual agency and collective communion.
Genealogy can energize the relationships that mobilize action across different interwoven dimensions of relationality. It helps us organize ancestral incoherence and multiplicity. Our pathways of descent or family branches are like converging or parallel realities.
Embodied Relationality
Relationality considers relationships the foundation of subjectivity, including the tangible and intangible beyond the boundaries of life/death in the absence of the corporeal or embodied other. Separation of families occurs by disappearance, miscarriage, migration, displacement, divorce, war, and death.
Archetypal ideas can be correlated with fundamental physiological processes. For example, the union of opposites can be linked to the sympathetic and parasympathic systems - ergotrophic and trophotropic systems of arousal. The 'rein' effect is the emotional alchemy of our ecstatic and transcendent nature. One system, ergotrophic, energizes us; the other, trophotropic, tranquilizes us. The E-system is Yang, while the T-system is Yin. http://ionamiller.weebly.com/emotional-alchemy.html
Family members who have died are only 'relatively disembodied.' Bonds are not severed by death but continue in an interactive psychophysical relationship. Even after death attachments and continuing bonds remain apparent. Bereavement, depression, and symptoms are some examples.
Metaphorically, at least, quantum entanglement (relational entanglement) is mirrored in the twisted limbs of our ancestral branches, particularly the first 5-6 generations that connect us with the more widely shared World Tree. Actions performed on one affect the other, even when separated by great distances.
Psychophysical Relativity
Despite our inherent relationality, a “crisis of nonrelation” often marks our psychic entanglements. What gets in the way and leaves us facing pathological alternatives instead? What is it about our relationality that tempts us to disavow the very thing that makes us who we are?
Why do we tend to avoid our relationality pursuing narcissistic solace and solitary self-enclosure? Ancestral connection, attachment, and intersubjectivity is one way to overcome such tendencies with the interconnectedness of processes of individuation, relationality and affect. Relationality is shaped across global and local contexts by gender and generation, including aspects of emotions and embodiment.
Collective Individuation
Such radical decentering establishes a number of shifts that enable us to think in categories and concepts like the individual, the subject, the group, the threshold, relationality, co-implication and so on. Breaking with both subject-centerdness and the individual as model or starting point is an epistemological shift. We can be part of an undivided whole and still possess our own unique qualities.
Singularity, rather than that of the individual, coupled to the standpoint of relationality enables us to think of the self — other, human—animal, nature— culture and human — world in terms of complex becoming. Intersubjectivity and interbeing incorporate a sense of the dynamic web of relationships that are constitutive for our being at a given moment.
Personal & Universal
The co-constitution of all life has major implications regarding responsibility for the other and responsibility for the world. Grounding in the standpoint of the temporality and historicity of being is our existential condition and circumscribes our relation to the other. http://bod.sagepub.com/content/16/1/129.abstract
Western societies presume death signifies an absolute loss of the other in the demise of their physical body. But we can recognize that embodied relational experience can continue after death, encompassing a ‘me’, a ‘you’ and an ‘us’. After death ‘me’ and ‘us’ remain (though changed) while crucial dimensions of ‘you’ persist too. Caring for the dead involves including them in the family, remembering them, and acting in ways they would approve. Imaginal dialogue provides comfort and guidance.
Relational Identity
The binary divide between living and dead bodies mirrors other related dichotomies of mind/body, self/other, internal/external, and nature/social. Empirical and anecdotal research suggests that embodied relationality expresses how connectedness is lived out after death and/or disruptive transitions in material practices and felt experiences.
Research continues to imply that we are not just ontologically bounded units or entities. We don't just participate in relationships, but are constituted by them, especially those directly related to us. Embodied relationality includes caring after death.
Family descent and history is one key dimension of categories of identity. Social membership and 'belonging' is another. Genealogy is framed by waves of mobility and intercultural history.
Ancestral home and place of origin is another dimension. The material landscapes of certain prehistoric lands are part of our heritage because our ancestors were there when it was being shaped. This is native belonging. Alternatives are settler presence, or collective displacement, shaped by long histories of migrations.
Spirits of the Ancestors
Entanglement is an instantaneous nonlocal connection at the quantal and subquantal level. Two or more objects or subjects can only be described in relation to one another even when widely separated. In quantum entanglement two particles can be intimately linked to each other even if separated by billions of light-years of space or time. This supermemory is a bizarre intersection of entanglement, information and time.
Family Matters
A change induced in one affects the other; unity of mind is achieved by quantum entanglement. Entanglement remains as long as neither has any significant interactions with other objects to break the entanglement. Particles of energy/matter can become correlated to predictably interact with each other. No signal is sent, no influence transmitted. But the fate of one embodies and reveals the fate of the other.
Unconscious images, beliefs, compulsions and physical symptoms can be the result of being entangled with family and ancestors. Unconscious entanglements with family members or ancestors play a significant role in our emotional conflicts, physical illnesses and spiritual distress. These entanglements also influence the way we cope with the challenges of growing up in our families.
Causal Ambiguity
Bizarre quantum bonds connect distinct moments in time, suggesting that quantum links -- not space-time -- constitute the fundamental structure of the universe. What happens now can be correlated with what happens later, in ways that elude a simple mechanistic explanation. In effect, you can have spooky action at a delay.
These strong temporal correlations between time and space are seriously counterintuitive. Not only can two events be correlated, linking the earlier to the later one, two events can become correlated so that it becomes impossible to say which is earlier and which is later. Each of these events is the cause of the other, as if each were the first to occur.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160119-time-entanglement/
Once Connected Matter
It is a physical fact we contain our ancestral genetics and epigenetics and it remains a psychological fact, too. Further, Scientific American reports that "It is remarkable that it is so common for cells from one individual to integrate into the tissues of another distinct person."
We now know that cells from a developing fetus cross the placenta, allowing the baby’s DNA to become part of the mother’s body. These fetal cells persist in a woman’s body into her old age. If she has been pregnant with a male child it’s likely she’ll have some Y-chromosomes drifting around for a few decades too, even if the baby she carried didn’t live to be born. The cells of that child stay with her, resonating in ways that mothers have known intuitively throughout time. Male cells were found in the brains of women and had been living there, in some cases, for several decades.
Fetal cells you contributed to your own mother may be found in her blood, bone marrow, skin, kidney, and liver. These fetal cells appear to “treat” her when she is ill or injured.
In one case, a woman stopped treatment against medical advice. A liver biopsy showed “thousands of male cells” determined to be from a pregnancy terminated nearly 20 years earlier. These cells helped her body recover just as fetal cells you gave your mother rush to help repair her from within when she’s unwell.
Any woman who has ever been pregnant, even if she miscarried so early she never knew she was with child, is likely to be a microchimera (a person who carries the cells of another person). Fetal cells have the imprint of her child’s father and his ancestry.
Fetal cells can be shared from one pregnancy to another, meaning the cells of older siblings may float within younger siblings. The presence of fetal cells in a woman’s body is associated with substantially improved longevity, with an overall mortality rate 60 percent lower than women whose bodies don’t contain such cells. According to such findings, we heal our mothers and our children heal us. http://lauragraceweldon.com/2012/06/12/mother-child-are-linked-at-the-cellular-level/
We imagine ourselves as singular autonomous individuals, but these foreign cells suggest that most people carry remnants of other individuals, including absorbed twins.
If the fetus is absorbed completely, there are usually no further complications to the pregnancy, other than first trimester vaginal bleeding. This occurs when a twin or multiple disappears in the uterus during pregnancy as a result of a miscarriage of one twin or multiple. The fetal tissue is absorbed by the survivor.
Men have failed paternity tests because of this phenomena. A man's DNA may notmatch because the man's unborn twin is technically the genetic father of their son.
An intriguing new study suggests children may resemble a mother’s previous sexual partner. The effect may be due to molecules in the semen of the first mate being absorbed by the female's immature eggs where they influence future offspring.
The quantum level of interconnectedness between once-connected matter could explain the frequent stories of mothers knowing when something has gone wrong at a distance for their spouses, children. or siblings, and vice versa. If we can 'talk' to the cells of our bodies to good healing effect and immune stimulation, we might reasonably also speak with and mobilize the cells of others circulating in our system.
Politics of Belonging
Jung asks, not what childhood trauma creates a fixation, but what obstacle in the life path are we unable to overcome, and what is the cause of the regression? Our lives remain literally entangled with our immediate family and the souls, spirits, and issues of our ancestors. Our branches criss-cross continents, oceans, and culture wars. The lost or forgotten knowledge and secrets of our ancient ancestors, shapes the creative and moral future reality.
Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon that occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated or interact in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently. Instead, a quantum state may be given for the system as a whole.
In a similar way we are entangled with the fate of our ancestors and carry their burdens. When the root of the problem is brought to light, we don't have to repeat the fate of our ancestors with whom we were entangled. Only when these indeterminate causal relations between events are pruned away — so that nature realizes only some of the possibilities available to it — do space and time become meaningful. Quantum correlations come first, space-time later.
Measurements of physical properties such as position, momentum, spin, polarization, etc., performed on entangled particles are found to be appropriately correlated. Schrödinger said, "I would not call [entanglement] one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics, the one that enforces its entire departure from classical lines of thought."
Ancestor Syndrome
The psychological term for negative entanglement is enmeshment. Our ancestors reflect our dissociated and unintegrated personality facets. Its most positive expression is the unus mundus, the essential heart of the World Soul.
Family Constellations (a subset application of Systemic Constellations) is an experiential process of releasing and resolving profound tensions within and between people. The process diverges from conventional forms of cognitive, behavior and psychodynamic psychotherapy in several key respects.
Family Constellations attempt to reveal a previously unrecognized systemic dynamic that spans multiple generations in a given family. We can resolve the harmful effects of that dynamic by encouraging acceptance of the factual reality of the past, psychophysical transformation, and transcendence.
Below: Between the Lines: Healing the Individual & Ancestral Soul with Family ...By Nikki Mackay
https://books.google.com/books?id=ygLtBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT91&lpg=PT91&dq=entangled+generations,+ancestry&source=bl&ots=nFf-WOxmks&sig=-IBMhQLC6tjnNoosFrpQCbt1Rus&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjX-uKT-MnRAhVEylQKHT42D-EQ6AEIOzAH#v=onepage&q&f=false
Nonlocal consciousness is not confined to specific points in space, including brains or bodies, nor to the present moment. It is an ordering principle that can inject information into disorganized or random systems. It can operate beyond mere awareness, unconsciously, drawing on individual and collective consciousness, as well as the world or environment. Coherence or resonance may be expressed as compassion, empathy, love, unity, oneness, and connectedness. Consciousness affects or informs human and nonhuman or inanimate forms alike.
Consciousness is present everywhere in spacetime, so has no need to “go” or “be sent” via a medium or carrier. Synchronous events, including intentional or directed healing, may work via coherence, an entanglement or resonance effect, but we should be careful not to mistake this field effect for the mind itself, which permeates and undergirds all. Still none of us has any idea how anything material could be conscious, so we must simply stand in that Mystery. We share its essential nature; it is the cosmos within us. We are that.
Nonlocal events, like synchronicity are apparently 1) unmediated, requiring no go-between signal; 2) unmitigated, with no diminishing of effect with distance; 3) immediate, apparently outside of time and space as we commonly understand them. In this acausal process, consciousness is fundamental, not derivative and unexplainable in terms of anything more basic.
Jung advised, “This feeling for the infinite can be attained only if we are bounded to the utmost. In knowing ourselves to be ultimately limited we possess also the capacity for becoming conscious of the infinite. But only then!”
The paths of our descent remain correlated, entangled forever. Each time we retrace our roots we are commemorating and reenacting the glorious time of the beginnings. The contrast image of ascent and descent on the Tree of Life is the primary metaphor, unlocking a treasure of family knowledge and self-knowledge, and a new sense of presence.
We have another life than the life we consciously intend to have. Alchemy stresses redemption of the physical body, or matter, while actively striving toward creation of a subtle, immortal body, which has no apparent physical basis.
World Soul; World Tree
The world-tree is an expression of anima-mundi or world-soul. It is the axis that aligns us with the cosmos, but more tangibly, it is the shared ancestral tree, rather than a stand-alone tree. Alchemy requires resurrection of the soul of body. The challenge we encounter in developing and "owning" this fresh worldview is to "see through" to a unified vision of mundane physical processes with spiritual values and vision.
In shamanism, the ancestors were venerated as the effect was a preventive therapy that maintained those vital connections with the past. While the World Tree meant one thing in shamanic culture today it refers to the definitive family tree for the entire world, a collaboration on shared ancestry by constantly expanding and improving the tree. The World Family Tree currently has more than 100 million profiles.
The World Family Tree is like having millions of people solving the same jigsaw puzzle together instead of each of us solving a separate, tiny puzzle. Traditionally, people have embarked on individual studies of their family history in the hope of preserving it for future generations.
However, this isolated approach results in the same research being repeated over and over again. By combining all research into a single, collaborative tree, users can focus on verifying existing information and pursue new leads rather than wasting time repeating what others have already found.
With the World Family Tree you constantly discover new information about your family because so many other users are constantly working to improve it with new findings. Sources and citations are included so the work of others can be checked and enhanced.
If mistakes are found, you can fix them quickly on the World Family Tree, which is not possible with standalone trees that are controlled by someone else. Thus, errors gradually disappear instead of perpetuating, growing worse, and achieving the false notion of accuracy simply by being repeated by others.
The World Family Tree allows identical profiles to be merged into one, reducing duplication and collecting the best information for all to share. Profiles support multiple languages so you can easily document names and biographies separately in different languages. The World Family Tree is also curated by a large team of expert volunteer Curators.
Entangled Particles
We can develop awareness of the psychophysical ordering processes inherent in matter -- in our matter. The physical body is a living metaphor -- a metaphorm -- for psychic transformation. Life begets life in creative manifestation.
According to Jung, psyche is not different from matter. At the psychoid or psychophysical ground level, they are different perspectives on the phenomenal world. Psyche is the womb of manifestation. The collective unconscious is also projected into the inner aspect of our own bodies.
In Psychology of Religion, Jung notes, “We might well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images.” And, Jung comments, “In reality, there is nothing but a living body. That is the fact, and psyche is as much a living body as body is living psyche: it is just the same.” (Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, vol. 1, p. 396.)
The psychoid nature of archetypes extends beyond a neurophysiological basis into the general dynamical patterns of all matter and energy -- the unconscious properties of the physiological world. Both psyche and matter are in a constant process of redefinition.
In pilot-wave theory, if space and time behave like a superfluid, or a fluid that experiences no dissipation at all, then 'path memory' could conceivably give rise to the strange quantum phenomenon of entanglement. When two particles become entangled, a measurement of the state of one instantly affects that of the other, even at vast distances. The superfluidfluid/quantum correlation mirrors the collective unconscious field as a vast ocean of potential.
In standard quantum mechanics, the effect is rationalized as the instantaneous collapse of the particles’ joint probability wave. But in Bohm's pilot-wave version of events, an interaction between two particles in a superfluid universe sets them on paths that stay correlated forever. The interaction permanently affects the contours of the superfluid, accounting for nonlocal correlations.”
Entangled Lives
Jung referred to unitary reality consisting of both psyche and matter as transcendental -- an unextended energetic intensity, or potential. He argued, "...Psyche cannot be totally different from matter for how otherwise could it move matter? And matter cannot be alien to psyche, for how else could matter produce psyche? Psyche and matter exist in the same world, and each partakes of the other, otherwise any reciprocal action would be impossible."
We are each a personal part of the world's impersonal fabric, so psyche and soma interpenetrate. Waves in this potential spacetime mysteriously “collapse” into particles in actual spacetime. They collapse from their ghostly state into definite quantum particles.
This idea shares much with a holistic or integral perspective, an approach which we can extend to our family tree and 'path memories'. In psychosomatics, psyche carries the potential, while soma is the actuality. In the absence of a voice, the body can articulate complex affective and relational losses.
Paleopoetics
We can engage the somatic unconscious as an experiential space of relations and imagination of the heart. The three instincts are self-preservation, sexual, and social. How did humans, given their non-symbolic mammalian heritage, come to represent their knowledge in symbolic form?
All non-verbal communication is mimetic (rehearsal loop), a self-started representational act -- the ability to alternate between various self-perspectives and other-perspectives. The archaic basis of episode recognition patterns is different from generalized, procedural memory. We learned to represent a situation and reflect on it (metacognition, orientation, time, space, date, specific place).
Jung suggested we cannot stand to live a meaningless life. but individuation means to find one's own meaning and connection to universal meaning. The collective unconscious doesn't express personal wishes and intentions as it is an absolutely transpersonal, neutral, psychic 'entity,' which, like nature, is an emanative form of appearance.
Cultural Networks
Humans are linked from birth to a vast cultural storehouse of knowledge and skill accumulated as cultural memory over aeons. We are sensitive to understanding the significance of environmental effects and mimesis (motor skill and imagination) allows us to invent intentional representations.
Culture is mimetic framework. Mirror neurons allow us to love, to socialize, and to empathize with the experience of others through collective shaping of network architecture. In the genealogical context, we are more than a fixed point in a particular cultural network. The genealogy symbolizes the angular momentum of descent. Our responsibility is to make that path easier. Such is the way of nature. Psychogenealogy modulates consciousness in a marked and novel way -- up-shifting our inkage.
Episodic memories are locked in details of specific experiences such as the death of a loved one. Mythical culture institutionalized meaning by codifying significant contents of individual experience. Internal memory became external culture. We developed theories to predict and explain through symbolic culture. We are still rooted in episodic experience, as well as being mythic, symbolic, and theoretical. Theoretical development strips away previous mythic meanings, demystifying them.
Metaphysics of Presence
The psychoid level of archetypes correlates with wave/particle duality and the heritable DNA biohologram. Expressive nature can be likened to epigenetics, heritable changes in gene expression that are not due to changes in DNA sequence. Every cell in the body has the same genetic information. Cells, tissues and organs differentiate when different sets of genes are turned on or expressed.
We exist in relation to ourselves, to others, to myths, to images, and to archetypes. Their expression is the essence of our being. The body is inescapably a relational body with the potential for overcoming the boundaries of flesh to perpetuate relationality, received wisdom (lucidity), and power-knowledge even in the absence of material embodiment.
Quantum entanglement and nonlocality are models or metaphors for how we may actually remain connected. Our entangled pairs close the locality loophole. David Bohm suggested we have an almost universal tendency to fragment the world and ignore the dynamical interconnectedness of things. This is responsible for many of our problems, not only in science but in our lives and culture -- and in our relations with our own ancestors.
Unexamined Ground
Genealogy can help bridge that interconnectedness gap -- the unconscious, unexamined ground. Genealogy is a differential element of values. It is a field in which relationships operate -- a realm of conscious and unconscious cooperation represented by point to point networks of individuals, dead and alive. The sociality is not merely objective, because of our deep psychophysical involvement. Theory describes "Soul as Intersubjective Reality and Spirit as Interobjective Reality."
Genealogy is complex and requires a broad context -- an open value network with communication, non-control, open-access and value creation. It has its own space-time relationality. As relational selves we stand in intricate and intimate webs of connection with all we contact—whether human or animal, animate or inanimate. 'Path memory' stimulates the right probabilities.
Agents, relationships, and the field of relationality in which relationships occur close the objective-subjective loop with assertion and intentionality. Atomistic individualism is rejected for a relational self, a balance between individual agency and collective communion.
Genealogy can energize the relationships that mobilize action across different interwoven dimensions of relationality. It helps us organize ancestral incoherence and multiplicity. Our pathways of descent or family branches are like converging or parallel realities.
Embodied Relationality
Relationality considers relationships the foundation of subjectivity, including the tangible and intangible beyond the boundaries of life/death in the absence of the corporeal or embodied other. Separation of families occurs by disappearance, miscarriage, migration, displacement, divorce, war, and death.
Archetypal ideas can be correlated with fundamental physiological processes. For example, the union of opposites can be linked to the sympathetic and parasympathic systems - ergotrophic and trophotropic systems of arousal. The 'rein' effect is the emotional alchemy of our ecstatic and transcendent nature. One system, ergotrophic, energizes us; the other, trophotropic, tranquilizes us. The E-system is Yang, while the T-system is Yin. http://ionamiller.weebly.com/emotional-alchemy.html
Family members who have died are only 'relatively disembodied.' Bonds are not severed by death but continue in an interactive psychophysical relationship. Even after death attachments and continuing bonds remain apparent. Bereavement, depression, and symptoms are some examples.
Metaphorically, at least, quantum entanglement (relational entanglement) is mirrored in the twisted limbs of our ancestral branches, particularly the first 5-6 generations that connect us with the more widely shared World Tree. Actions performed on one affect the other, even when separated by great distances.
Psychophysical Relativity
Despite our inherent relationality, a “crisis of nonrelation” often marks our psychic entanglements. What gets in the way and leaves us facing pathological alternatives instead? What is it about our relationality that tempts us to disavow the very thing that makes us who we are?
Why do we tend to avoid our relationality pursuing narcissistic solace and solitary self-enclosure? Ancestral connection, attachment, and intersubjectivity is one way to overcome such tendencies with the interconnectedness of processes of individuation, relationality and affect. Relationality is shaped across global and local contexts by gender and generation, including aspects of emotions and embodiment.
Collective Individuation
Such radical decentering establishes a number of shifts that enable us to think in categories and concepts like the individual, the subject, the group, the threshold, relationality, co-implication and so on. Breaking with both subject-centerdness and the individual as model or starting point is an epistemological shift. We can be part of an undivided whole and still possess our own unique qualities.
Singularity, rather than that of the individual, coupled to the standpoint of relationality enables us to think of the self — other, human—animal, nature— culture and human — world in terms of complex becoming. Intersubjectivity and interbeing incorporate a sense of the dynamic web of relationships that are constitutive for our being at a given moment.
Personal & Universal
The co-constitution of all life has major implications regarding responsibility for the other and responsibility for the world. Grounding in the standpoint of the temporality and historicity of being is our existential condition and circumscribes our relation to the other. http://bod.sagepub.com/content/16/1/129.abstract
Western societies presume death signifies an absolute loss of the other in the demise of their physical body. But we can recognize that embodied relational experience can continue after death, encompassing a ‘me’, a ‘you’ and an ‘us’. After death ‘me’ and ‘us’ remain (though changed) while crucial dimensions of ‘you’ persist too. Caring for the dead involves including them in the family, remembering them, and acting in ways they would approve. Imaginal dialogue provides comfort and guidance.
Relational Identity
The binary divide between living and dead bodies mirrors other related dichotomies of mind/body, self/other, internal/external, and nature/social. Empirical and anecdotal research suggests that embodied relationality expresses how connectedness is lived out after death and/or disruptive transitions in material practices and felt experiences.
Research continues to imply that we are not just ontologically bounded units or entities. We don't just participate in relationships, but are constituted by them, especially those directly related to us. Embodied relationality includes caring after death.
Family descent and history is one key dimension of categories of identity. Social membership and 'belonging' is another. Genealogy is framed by waves of mobility and intercultural history.
Ancestral home and place of origin is another dimension. The material landscapes of certain prehistoric lands are part of our heritage because our ancestors were there when it was being shaped. This is native belonging. Alternatives are settler presence, or collective displacement, shaped by long histories of migrations.
Spirits of the Ancestors
Entanglement is an instantaneous nonlocal connection at the quantal and subquantal level. Two or more objects or subjects can only be described in relation to one another even when widely separated. In quantum entanglement two particles can be intimately linked to each other even if separated by billions of light-years of space or time. This supermemory is a bizarre intersection of entanglement, information and time.
Family Matters
A change induced in one affects the other; unity of mind is achieved by quantum entanglement. Entanglement remains as long as neither has any significant interactions with other objects to break the entanglement. Particles of energy/matter can become correlated to predictably interact with each other. No signal is sent, no influence transmitted. But the fate of one embodies and reveals the fate of the other.
Unconscious images, beliefs, compulsions and physical symptoms can be the result of being entangled with family and ancestors. Unconscious entanglements with family members or ancestors play a significant role in our emotional conflicts, physical illnesses and spiritual distress. These entanglements also influence the way we cope with the challenges of growing up in our families.
Causal Ambiguity
Bizarre quantum bonds connect distinct moments in time, suggesting that quantum links -- not space-time -- constitute the fundamental structure of the universe. What happens now can be correlated with what happens later, in ways that elude a simple mechanistic explanation. In effect, you can have spooky action at a delay.
These strong temporal correlations between time and space are seriously counterintuitive. Not only can two events be correlated, linking the earlier to the later one, two events can become correlated so that it becomes impossible to say which is earlier and which is later. Each of these events is the cause of the other, as if each were the first to occur.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160119-time-entanglement/
Once Connected Matter
It is a physical fact we contain our ancestral genetics and epigenetics and it remains a psychological fact, too. Further, Scientific American reports that "It is remarkable that it is so common for cells from one individual to integrate into the tissues of another distinct person."
We now know that cells from a developing fetus cross the placenta, allowing the baby’s DNA to become part of the mother’s body. These fetal cells persist in a woman’s body into her old age. If she has been pregnant with a male child it’s likely she’ll have some Y-chromosomes drifting around for a few decades too, even if the baby she carried didn’t live to be born. The cells of that child stay with her, resonating in ways that mothers have known intuitively throughout time. Male cells were found in the brains of women and had been living there, in some cases, for several decades.
Fetal cells you contributed to your own mother may be found in her blood, bone marrow, skin, kidney, and liver. These fetal cells appear to “treat” her when she is ill or injured.
In one case, a woman stopped treatment against medical advice. A liver biopsy showed “thousands of male cells” determined to be from a pregnancy terminated nearly 20 years earlier. These cells helped her body recover just as fetal cells you gave your mother rush to help repair her from within when she’s unwell.
Any woman who has ever been pregnant, even if she miscarried so early she never knew she was with child, is likely to be a microchimera (a person who carries the cells of another person). Fetal cells have the imprint of her child’s father and his ancestry.
Fetal cells can be shared from one pregnancy to another, meaning the cells of older siblings may float within younger siblings. The presence of fetal cells in a woman’s body is associated with substantially improved longevity, with an overall mortality rate 60 percent lower than women whose bodies don’t contain such cells. According to such findings, we heal our mothers and our children heal us. http://lauragraceweldon.com/2012/06/12/mother-child-are-linked-at-the-cellular-level/
We imagine ourselves as singular autonomous individuals, but these foreign cells suggest that most people carry remnants of other individuals, including absorbed twins.
If the fetus is absorbed completely, there are usually no further complications to the pregnancy, other than first trimester vaginal bleeding. This occurs when a twin or multiple disappears in the uterus during pregnancy as a result of a miscarriage of one twin or multiple. The fetal tissue is absorbed by the survivor.
Men have failed paternity tests because of this phenomena. A man's DNA may notmatch because the man's unborn twin is technically the genetic father of their son.
An intriguing new study suggests children may resemble a mother’s previous sexual partner. The effect may be due to molecules in the semen of the first mate being absorbed by the female's immature eggs where they influence future offspring.
The quantum level of interconnectedness between once-connected matter could explain the frequent stories of mothers knowing when something has gone wrong at a distance for their spouses, children. or siblings, and vice versa. If we can 'talk' to the cells of our bodies to good healing effect and immune stimulation, we might reasonably also speak with and mobilize the cells of others circulating in our system.
Politics of Belonging
Jung asks, not what childhood trauma creates a fixation, but what obstacle in the life path are we unable to overcome, and what is the cause of the regression? Our lives remain literally entangled with our immediate family and the souls, spirits, and issues of our ancestors. Our branches criss-cross continents, oceans, and culture wars. The lost or forgotten knowledge and secrets of our ancient ancestors, shapes the creative and moral future reality.
Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon that occurs when pairs or groups of particles are generated or interact in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently. Instead, a quantum state may be given for the system as a whole.
In a similar way we are entangled with the fate of our ancestors and carry their burdens. When the root of the problem is brought to light, we don't have to repeat the fate of our ancestors with whom we were entangled. Only when these indeterminate causal relations between events are pruned away — so that nature realizes only some of the possibilities available to it — do space and time become meaningful. Quantum correlations come first, space-time later.
Measurements of physical properties such as position, momentum, spin, polarization, etc., performed on entangled particles are found to be appropriately correlated. Schrödinger said, "I would not call [entanglement] one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics, the one that enforces its entire departure from classical lines of thought."
Ancestor Syndrome
The psychological term for negative entanglement is enmeshment. Our ancestors reflect our dissociated and unintegrated personality facets. Its most positive expression is the unus mundus, the essential heart of the World Soul.
Family Constellations (a subset application of Systemic Constellations) is an experiential process of releasing and resolving profound tensions within and between people. The process diverges from conventional forms of cognitive, behavior and psychodynamic psychotherapy in several key respects.
Family Constellations attempt to reveal a previously unrecognized systemic dynamic that spans multiple generations in a given family. We can resolve the harmful effects of that dynamic by encouraging acceptance of the factual reality of the past, psychophysical transformation, and transcendence.
Below: Between the Lines: Healing the Individual & Ancestral Soul with Family ...By Nikki Mackay
https://books.google.com/books?id=ygLtBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT91&lpg=PT91&dq=entangled+generations,+ancestry&source=bl&ots=nFf-WOxmks&sig=-IBMhQLC6tjnNoosFrpQCbt1Rus&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjX-uKT-MnRAhVEylQKHT42D-EQ6AEIOzAH#v=onepage&q&f=false
FAMILY SECRETS
Living Our Ancestors’ Dystopia:
Are you Entangled with your
Parents or Ancestors?
READING BETWEEN THE LINES
Links in a chain of generations,
unconsciously affected by their suffering
or unfinished business until we acknowledge the past.
http://www.systemiccoaching.com/sw_articles_eng/ancestral_problems.htm
Does your family history influence you? Yes!
Does it rule you? That's up to you.
Are you repeating your family history?
Are you trying to complete your parents' or ancestors' unfinished business?
Here are some common symptoms:
Entangled and enmeshed relationships can hurt you and the people you love. Entangled relationships with parents, grandparents aunts and uncles etc can cause chaos and suffering. Such enmeshments can diminish your ability to manage emotions and solve relationship problems.
Some Ancestral Entanglements
Identification
You identify with a parent or other ancestor
Projection
You communicate or project as ancestor's prejudices
Codependence
You depend on an ancestor who depends on you
Belief Bonds
You believe something to feel connected to an ancestor
Transference
You perceive someone as if that person were an ancestor
Guilt
You feel bad because an ancestor hurt someone
Are you confused or bothered by emotional reactions or relationship habits that seem to connect you to your parents or other ancestors? We can help you free yourself from parental and ancestral entanglements.
Normal & Healthy Relationships
Many people come to us who want to have normal relationships. But normal relationships may be unhealthy. It is normal for some mothers to over-love their eldest or only sons. It is normal for some fathers to devote themselves to their youngest or only daughters. It is normal for some grandparents to become substitute parents to their grandchildren.
Do you sometimes pretend to be a lost child? Do you sometimes try to parent other adults? Do you sometimes play victimizer, victim or rescuer roles? These role-playing games can be intense ... and they have high stakes. You bet your life.
Many families, organizations and cults enmesh people to control their behavior. There may be rules, but often the key rules are secret. Sometimes you can only lose.
Common Signs of Entanglements
Excuses
Blaming
Complaining
Criticizing
Threatening
Coercing
Begging
Gossiping
Don't say what you mean
Don't take yourself seriously
Claim everything is your fault
Never say "No"
Don't mean what you say
Tell people not to take you seriously
Claim nothing is your faultNever say "Yes"
Don't know what you mean
Take yourself too seriously
Avoid talking about yourself
Lie, protect and cover up for people
Apologize for being aliveAre never sure what is being discussed
Talk too much
Talk in self-critical, or hostile ways
Only say what provokes people
Only express opinions when people will agree
Claim to sacrifice your happiness for others
Cannot express emotions appropriately
Compulsive spending
Believe lies
Tell lies
Become workaholic
Many people are manipulated - and may manipulate others by - sexual entanglements. The most common may be in sales - pretty young women can sell just about anything. Also common are people who provide sexual pleasure - often without receiving pleasure themselves - in return for some benefit.
Partnership & Sexual Entanglements
Sexual Abuse . Sexual Solutions . Sexual Issues . Sexual Affairs
Long-Term Entanglements
Many codependent entanglements and dysfunctional disorders get worse over time, moving through symbiosis towards codependence and disconnection. You may become addicted to your own emotions - or addicted to hiding your emotions. What are the consequences of entanglements?
Common Consequences of Codependence
Your emotions can indicate your level of codependence:
Anger / RageFear / AnxietySadness / Melancholy
Entanglements & Responsibility
Living Our Ancestors’ Dystopia:
Are you Entangled with your
Parents or Ancestors?
READING BETWEEN THE LINES
Links in a chain of generations,
unconsciously affected by their suffering
or unfinished business until we acknowledge the past.
http://www.systemiccoaching.com/sw_articles_eng/ancestral_problems.htm
Does your family history influence you? Yes!
Does it rule you? That's up to you.
Are you repeating your family history?
Are you trying to complete your parents' or ancestors' unfinished business?
Here are some common symptoms:
- Living in the past
- Hereditary illnesses
- Never feeling "good enough"
- Family is not socially accepted
- Anger and aggressive behavior
- Cannot accept the present or the future
- Recurring emotional conditions such as depression
- Recurring patterns of unhappy or failed relationships
Entangled and enmeshed relationships can hurt you and the people you love. Entangled relationships with parents, grandparents aunts and uncles etc can cause chaos and suffering. Such enmeshments can diminish your ability to manage emotions and solve relationship problems.
Some Ancestral Entanglements
Identification
You identify with a parent or other ancestor
Projection
You communicate or project as ancestor's prejudices
Codependence
You depend on an ancestor who depends on you
Belief Bonds
You believe something to feel connected to an ancestor
Transference
You perceive someone as if that person were an ancestor
Guilt
You feel bad because an ancestor hurt someone
Are you confused or bothered by emotional reactions or relationship habits that seem to connect you to your parents or other ancestors? We can help you free yourself from parental and ancestral entanglements.
Normal & Healthy Relationships
Many people come to us who want to have normal relationships. But normal relationships may be unhealthy. It is normal for some mothers to over-love their eldest or only sons. It is normal for some fathers to devote themselves to their youngest or only daughters. It is normal for some grandparents to become substitute parents to their grandchildren.
Do you sometimes pretend to be a lost child? Do you sometimes try to parent other adults? Do you sometimes play victimizer, victim or rescuer roles? These role-playing games can be intense ... and they have high stakes. You bet your life.
Many families, organizations and cults enmesh people to control their behavior. There may be rules, but often the key rules are secret. Sometimes you can only lose.
Common Signs of Entanglements
Excuses
Blaming
Complaining
Criticizing
Threatening
Coercing
Begging
Gossiping
Don't say what you mean
Don't take yourself seriously
Claim everything is your fault
Never say "No"
Don't mean what you say
Tell people not to take you seriously
Claim nothing is your faultNever say "Yes"
Don't know what you mean
Take yourself too seriously
Avoid talking about yourself
Lie, protect and cover up for people
Apologize for being aliveAre never sure what is being discussed
Talk too much
Talk in self-critical, or hostile ways
Only say what provokes people
Only express opinions when people will agree
Claim to sacrifice your happiness for others
Cannot express emotions appropriately
Compulsive spending
Believe lies
Tell lies
Become workaholic
Many people are manipulated - and may manipulate others by - sexual entanglements. The most common may be in sales - pretty young women can sell just about anything. Also common are people who provide sexual pleasure - often without receiving pleasure themselves - in return for some benefit.
Partnership & Sexual Entanglements
- Do you initiate sex when you feel bad?
- Can you ask for what you want in bed?
- Do you withdraw from your sex partner?
- Are you disgusted by your sex partner?
- Do you have sex when you don't want to?
- Has sex become robotic?
- Do you tell lies to avoid sex?
- Have you lost interest in sex?
- Do you consider sexual affairs?
- Do you hope a partner will die?
Sexual Abuse . Sexual Solutions . Sexual Issues . Sexual Affairs
Long-Term Entanglements
Many codependent entanglements and dysfunctional disorders get worse over time, moving through symbiosis towards codependence and disconnection. You may become addicted to your own emotions - or addicted to hiding your emotions. What are the consequences of entanglements?
Common Consequences of Codependence
- feel lethargic, bored or low energy
- feel dejected and depressed
- feel hopeless, helpless & worthless
- feel withdrawn and isolated
- abuse or neglect your children
- avoid your responsibilities
- consider self-harm or suicide
- become aggressive and violent
- psychosomatic disease
- eating and sleeping disorders
- addictions to substances
- autoimmune disease symptoms
Your emotions can indicate your level of codependence:
Anger / RageFear / AnxietySadness / Melancholy
- Are you afraid of your own anger?
- Are you frightened of other people's anger?
- Do you hide or swallow angry feelings?
- Are you afraid of authorities?
- Are you afraid of being abandoned?
- Are you afraid of consequences?
- Do you proclaim your sadness?
- Do you punish people who make you sad?
- Do you feel guilty for feeling sad?
Entanglements & Responsibility
- Do you give unwanted advice?
- Must you help people with problems?
- Do you obsess about people's needs?
- Do you try to please other people (but not yourself)?
- Do you feel victimized?
- Are you overly responsible?
- Are you overly irresponsible?
- Do you only attract needy people?
- Are you attracted to needy people?
A new study pinpoints the precise mechanism that turns the inheritance of environmental influences "on" and "off."
Biological mechanism passes on long-term epigenetic memories
Science Daily - March 28, 2016
According to epigenetics -- the study of inheritable changes in gene expression not directly coded in our DNA -- our life experiences may be passed on to our children and our children's children. Studies on survivors of traumatic events have suggested that exposure to stress may indeed have lasting effects on subsequent generations. But how exactly are these genetic "memories" passed on?
Researchers have been preoccupied with how the effects of stress, trauma, and other environmental exposures are passed from one generation to the next for years. Small RNA molecules -- short sequences of RNA that regulate the expression of genes -- are among the key factors involved in mediating this kind of inheritance. Dr. Rechavi and his team had previously identified a "small RNA inheritance" mechanism through which RNA molecules produced a response to the needs of specific cells and how they were regulated between generations.
Epigenetics is the study, in the field of genetics, of cellular and physiological phenotypic trait variations that are caused by external or environmental factors that switch genes on and off and affect how cells read genes instead of being caused by changes in the DNA sequence. Hence, epigenetic research seeks to describe dynamic alterations in the transcriptional potential of a cell. These alterations may or may not be heritable, although the use of the term "epigenetic" to describe processes that are not heritable is controversial. Unlike genetics based on changes to the DNA sequence (the genotype), the changes in gene expression or cellular phenotype of epigenetics have other causes. More than 100 cases of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance phenomena have been reported in a wide range of organisms, including prokaryotes, plants, and animals. Read more ...
Family Constellations also known as Systemic Constellations and Systemic Family Constellations is an alternative therapeutic method which draws on elements of family systems therapy, existential phenomenology and Zulu attitudes to family. In a single session, a Family Constellation supposedly attempts to reveal a previously unrecognized systemic dynamic that spans multiple generations in a given family and to resolve the deleterious effects of that dynamic by encouraging the subject to encounter representatives of the past and accept the factual reality of the past.
Family Constellations diverges significantly from conventional forms of cognitive, behavior and psychodynamic psychotherapy. The method has been described by physicists as quantum quackery, and its founder Bert Hellinger incorporates the pseudoscientific idea of morphic resonance into his explanation of it. Positive outcomes from the therapy have been attributed to conventional explanations such as suggestion and empathy.
Practitioners claim that present-day problems and difficulties may be influenced by traumas suffered in previous generations of the family, even if those affected now are unaware of the original event in the past. Hellinger referred to the relation between present and past problems that are not caused by direct personal experience as Systemic entanglements, said to occur when unresolved trauma has afflicted a family through an event such as murder, suicide, death of a mother in childbirth, early death of a parent or sibling, war, natural disaster, emigration, or abuse. The psychiatrist Iv‡n BšszšrmŽnyi-Nagy referred to this phenomenon as Invisible Loyalties. Ancestor Syndrome
Biological mechanism passes on long-term epigenetic memories
Science Daily - March 28, 2016
According to epigenetics -- the study of inheritable changes in gene expression not directly coded in our DNA -- our life experiences may be passed on to our children and our children's children. Studies on survivors of traumatic events have suggested that exposure to stress may indeed have lasting effects on subsequent generations. But how exactly are these genetic "memories" passed on?
Researchers have been preoccupied with how the effects of stress, trauma, and other environmental exposures are passed from one generation to the next for years. Small RNA molecules -- short sequences of RNA that regulate the expression of genes -- are among the key factors involved in mediating this kind of inheritance. Dr. Rechavi and his team had previously identified a "small RNA inheritance" mechanism through which RNA molecules produced a response to the needs of specific cells and how they were regulated between generations.
Epigenetics is the study, in the field of genetics, of cellular and physiological phenotypic trait variations that are caused by external or environmental factors that switch genes on and off and affect how cells read genes instead of being caused by changes in the DNA sequence. Hence, epigenetic research seeks to describe dynamic alterations in the transcriptional potential of a cell. These alterations may or may not be heritable, although the use of the term "epigenetic" to describe processes that are not heritable is controversial. Unlike genetics based on changes to the DNA sequence (the genotype), the changes in gene expression or cellular phenotype of epigenetics have other causes. More than 100 cases of transgenerational epigenetic inheritance phenomena have been reported in a wide range of organisms, including prokaryotes, plants, and animals. Read more ...
Family Constellations also known as Systemic Constellations and Systemic Family Constellations is an alternative therapeutic method which draws on elements of family systems therapy, existential phenomenology and Zulu attitudes to family. In a single session, a Family Constellation supposedly attempts to reveal a previously unrecognized systemic dynamic that spans multiple generations in a given family and to resolve the deleterious effects of that dynamic by encouraging the subject to encounter representatives of the past and accept the factual reality of the past.
Family Constellations diverges significantly from conventional forms of cognitive, behavior and psychodynamic psychotherapy. The method has been described by physicists as quantum quackery, and its founder Bert Hellinger incorporates the pseudoscientific idea of morphic resonance into his explanation of it. Positive outcomes from the therapy have been attributed to conventional explanations such as suggestion and empathy.
Practitioners claim that present-day problems and difficulties may be influenced by traumas suffered in previous generations of the family, even if those affected now are unaware of the original event in the past. Hellinger referred to the relation between present and past problems that are not caused by direct personal experience as Systemic entanglements, said to occur when unresolved trauma has afflicted a family through an event such as murder, suicide, death of a mother in childbirth, early death of a parent or sibling, war, natural disaster, emigration, or abuse. The psychiatrist Iv‡n BšszšrmŽnyi-Nagy referred to this phenomenon as Invisible Loyalties. Ancestor Syndrome
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