Genes and Reincarnation Part II: Lifeguarding the Genepool

Imagine that every several thousand years, or even million, mother nature cleared up all the loose ends in the genetic code.  These are the Ages where impossible genetic diversity is tied up in a mass extinction.  What would it feel like to be one of these species trying to fight its way through to the other side of the Age?

Let us just say that we are in such an Age right now.  You are the living progeny of thousands of generations of your families creeping its way down through eternity.  Here you stand with all of your idiosyncrasies.  What you think of as an irritating tic, is the twitch your great grandfather got from gambling too much.  Or, as in my case, it is the alcoholism your grandfather never settled.

It lies upon us to balance these equations.  Somehow modern science shows that Darwin’s natural selection is actually further from the truth than Lemarck’s inheritance of acquired characteristics.  In fact, cutting edge science is showing that we have actual mutation and inheritance in not only one generation, but within the same generation!

A Little Humor for You

Genes and Reincarnation Part I: Ancestral Memory

When I was a child I read a story about Anthropologists in landlocked sub-Saharan Africa.  They told of a tribe which had not seen the ocean in thousands of years and had no words or mythology of the great bodies of water.  Yet the children still dreamed of oceans and their associated cultures.  

Using proper scientific methods they could only discern that something was passed on in the genes.  We often call this “ancestral” or “genetic” memory.  Others call it reincarnation or the soul.  The important thing is not what one calls it, but how one uses these memories.  

In another modern study, a scientist goes to different towns across the world to interview people.  They tell of past lives and deaths.  This doctor then goes to the alleged places of these experiences and verifies their existence.  One can offer any number of explanations to describe these phenomena.  Though they ring hollow when you actually see pictures of the independently verified past lives and present children.

I mention these facts not to persuade anyone as to the veracity of either argument.  I do mention them however to show that the tools provided by them are both useful.  Imagine that your life is an opportunity to fulfill the fates and destinies your ancestors could not?

Eternity in a Moment

In the movie K-Pax, the alien “Prot,” tells us that the universe is one never-ending cycle of contraction and expansion.  He further adds that we need to get it right this time because we will be here again.  Although these thoughts meander their ways through history, what they mean in the present is the job of the mystic of prophet.

What they mean today is that we are immortal, our life lasts forever as part of one unbroken chain of infinity.  Yet again, what does this mean?  It means that you will be here again and that there is no way to change the big things, except as part of the little ones.

In other words, how we live each moment is what determines our fate.  This morning during my contemplation I reflected upon a dilemma which has always troubled me.  Either my consciousness is one insignificant speck in an infinite universe, or the universe is an insignificant speck in my infinite consciousness.

Both trouble the philosopher.

Either what you do matters so much so as to be overwhelming, or what you do is so meaningless as to be crushing.  Both are somewhat true, but neither really is.  What is true, is that the moment you live now determines your fate.  Imagine that this were the last moment we ever spent in our lives.

Some would spend it drinking, others making love.  Neither answer is right; neither answer is wrong.  When every moment becomes an eternity, this is immortality.  I have finally found the source of this moment.

I am trying to put into words that which is impossible to say.  All of my life I have felt that anything is possible.  I have found that which is impossible.  Trying to express the infinite in anything other than a gaze of the eyes.  How does one share that moment of oneness experienced only in complete merging of thought, word, and deed?

They way it is done is by living it.  That is my life, and yours.  I have found my forever.  It is no longer only in the gaze of my beloved, but in everything.

I Love You Forever

Together always
My family you will be
We dine at the table of infinity
Singing songs of praise
One day we imagine that we die
Only so today matters
When we feel the finite
We are able to know the forever
The gods love you
Even more than I do

In my dreams I see everything
The union, the separation, the darkness
I love my pain
But only because it highlights my pleasure

Knowing you seems like more than I deserve
I love the feeling
It is better than justice, nobility, and honor

For it it the truth of the Lord, in who’s name I bow forever
Thank you Goddess for Love
Thank you Father for possibility
Thank you for Hades for limitation

You are my Gods and Goddess, my feelings
Waves that carry me gently
And sometimes roughly

Someday I could grow up
But Why?

Youth is the gift of humanity
Imagined mortality which carries the heavens
Word is that you will never die
Yet for me….

Yet for us.

Liberty Versus Freedom

When discussing
Liberty and Freedom, it is rarely clear what the distinction is between the two.   Please enjoy the following quotes which elaborate the parallels and differences.  The main issue is that one’s liberty is independent of others and never circumscribed, while freedoms of one person are limited by another’s. 

 

Today, liberty and freedom are used interchangeably and mean essentially the same thing, but the terms have different origins.
Liberty, with its root in Latin, had its origin in words for “unrestricted,” “independence,” and “separation.”
Liberty separated one from the mass of enslaved humanity and made one independent. Freedom, in Northern European languages, sprang from the same root as the word “friend,” and did not mean separation from, but belonging to a community of free people. The creative tension between liberty-as-separation and freedom-as-belonging is central to American history. Some objects in this exhibition fall clearly into one category or the other, but most combine elements of both traditions, just as they were combined in American history.”

 

http://vahistorical.org/visions/about.htm

 

 

“Freedom” and “
Liberty” Are Not the Same Thing

Paul V. Hartman

 

“Freedom is the exemption from control by some other person, or from arbitrary restriction of specific defined rights like Worship, or Speech.
Liberty is the sum of the rights possessed in common by the people of a community/state/nation as they apply to its government, and/or the expectation that a nation’s people have of exemption from control by a foreign power.

 

Freedoms are things that people EXTRACT from their government;
Liberty is less derivative, more formative; a thing GRANTED by the people to the people in common. The ability to Assemble, for instance, while commonly thought of as a freedom, is really an aspect of liberty.

 

Freedoms end when they encounter a contrary freedom of another person. You are free to smoke, until you encounter my freedom not to inhale your smoke.
Liberty lacks that distinction: my liberty never contradicts or limits yours.”

 

http://www.naciente.com/essay36.htm

 

http://www.naciente.com/detritus.htm

 

LIBERTY                                                            FREEDOM

Freedom from arbitrary or depostic government or control	State of being at liberty rather than confinement or under physical restraint.
Freedom from external foreign rule.	Exception from external control, interference or regulation.
Freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.	Power of determining one’s own actions.
Freedom from captivity, confinement or physical restraint.	The power to make one’s own choices or decisions without constraint from within or without.
Unwarranted or impertinent freedom in action or speech or a form or instance of it.	Civil liberty as oppossed to subjection to an arbitrary or despotic government.
A female figure personifying freedom from despotism.	Personal liberty as opposed to bondage or slavery.
	Ease or freedom of movement or action.

 

http://www.elliottsamazing.com/liberty.html