Genetic (ancestral) memory proven by scientists

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Genetic memory ("ancestral memory", "ancestral memory") has been proven by scientists. Previously, it was assessed only at the level of hypotheses. She won the most serious attitude from psychologists (hypnotherapists). Through generic memory, the inexplicable was explained: for example, constant stress and panic attacks during a prosperous life (parents survived a concentration camp). Under hypnosis, patients revealed shocking details of horror that they simply could not have known.

Even 100 years ago, Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist, believed that descendants inherited the experience of their ancestors, which is associated with stress and pain. But until recently, this assumption has not been confirmed empirically.

A breakthrough occurred only in 2013. The study that proved Pavlov's hypothesis was carried out by American scientists Kerry Ressler and Brian Diaz from the Emory University Medical Center in Atlanta (USA). They found that trauma data altered gene activity through chemical modification of DNA. The experiments were carried out on mice, which transmitted the memory of the smell from generation to generation. The article was first published in the scientific journal Nature Neuroscience.

During the study, it was found that newborn rodents inherited a gene responsible for innate reflexes from their parents. In particular, offspring may fear certain odors that their "parents" cannot tolerate.

Scientists have taught a male rodent to be afraid of the smell of bird cherry, which has a substance acetophenone. Then, from crossing these males with females, they got offspring and found that the mice were also afraid of the smell of bird cherry. Moreover, the training of offspring by parents and contacts between generations were excluded. In addition, the reaction to the "dangerous" odor was not lost in the next generation and during the breeding of offspring by artificial insemination.

It turns out that traumatic information changes the activity of genes through chemical modification of DNA. Experts have proven that this is a biological, not social transfer of information, and it occurs through the transfer of DNA methylation through the germ cells.

Such a scheme is typical only for “paternal” and “grandfather's” memory, but not for “maternal” memory, since spermatogenesis occurs throughout the life of men, and a woman is born with a full set of eggs, and it is no longer possible to somehow change these genes. However, in the same formed eggs, the woman keeps the ancestral memory from her father, that is, the grandfather of her child. By the way, it is curious that among Jews it is customary to define a true Jew by his mother.

Prior to the release of these studies, there were dozens of books written on ancestral memory. Most of them come from psychophysiologists and hypnotherapists. As circumstantial evidence (in the absence of experienced ones), they cited the amazing and inexplicable skills of babies (for example, the ability to swim). The reasoning was about the following:

Today it is known that during pregnancy, the fetus in the womb sees dreams about 60% of the time. From the point of view of SP Rastorguev, the author of the book "Information War", it is genetic memory that manifests itself, and the brain looks at it and learns. "A genetic program containing the lives already lived by the ancestors is fed to the original void that the embryo is destined to fill in the mother's womb." Thanks to science, today we know that the human embryo in the womb in the process of maturation, passing through the entire cycle of evolutionary development - from a single-celled organism to an infant, “briefly recalls its entire history as the history of the development of a living being”. As a result, the newborn child retains the genetic memory recorded by all his historical ancestors. For example, a newborn has the ability to float on its own. This ability to swim is lost after a month. Those. children are born with a full arsenal of knowledge, carefully preserved over centuries of evolution in genetic memory. And up to 2 years old, the child retains sound, visual, tactile genetic memory. Unfortunately (or fortunately), as you grow and learn, access to genetic memory diminishes.

Present in our psyche, genetic memory data are usually not available to us in conscious comprehension. Since the manifestation of this memory is actively counteracted by our consciousness, trying to protect the psyche from “split personality”. But genetic memory can manifest itself during sleep or a state of altered consciousness (hypnosis, trance, meditation), when the control of consciousness is weakened.