Epigenetic Memories Passed Down For 14 Generations

Our genes are not only shaped by our environment — they are shaped by our thoughts as well. And how people in our family tree were contemplating life, stretching as far back as 14 generations ago, will have an effect on how your genes are expressed today. Though science has only demonstrated this effect, thus far, in the roundworm, remember that nature is not only fractal but also a single continuum, where patterns of cause and effect dovetail across species. The study provided here demonstrates that adaptations to temperature in one generation will carry on to the next, and this happens with astonishing speed and agility! This means that by simply moving your body to a different climate during your lifetime, your future grandchildren could also experience a genetic tolerance for weather, independent of your haplogroup. What these scientists have yet to understand, however, is that temperature adaptations are only the beginning.

The concept of “karma” has long thought to be exclusive to the realm of spirituality with no scientific basis. You may want to reconsider this classification. When we say a “curse” flows through a family line, we are not just talking about behaviors, neurobiological dispositions, and genetically implicated disease. No, we are talking about the nature of your ancestors’ meditations, contemplations, and moods. The sum total of their adaptation to life very much had a deep influence over the expression of their genes. And what was a grandfather’s “back luck” now becomes your own state of mind and experience of life, to one degree or another.

So, you see, we are not just biological robots. We are highly adaptable, genetically plastic creatures that are shaped by the stimuli of not only our external environment but our internal landscape as well. And the next time you find yourself meditating on how bad things are in the world, consider that your offspring may also have a tendency to see life through that lens, if not merely as a result of their synaptic imprinting from your own behaviors, but the ideas, passions, desires, and psychological cathexes of those in your family tree as well.

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-observed-epigenetic-memories-passed-down-for-14-generations