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Topic: Blood Memory?
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mockingbird Knowflake Posts: 1037 From: Registered: Dec 2011
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posted January 09, 2013 10:46 PM
OK, so this is only about a half serious question, but: When the news was first percolating about the gang rape in India (before the victim had passed), my husband said that he thought about what he'd do if that happened to one of our three daughters. He went on, "In an instant, I thought, 'I'd round up the family members of those that raped her and shoot them all in the head.'" He went on to say that he was surprised, shocked even, at his own reaction - especially given that he said that it was calm and matter-of-fact, that his own reaction to the impulse was more emotional than the initial feeling -, and shrugged, "It must be my Hatfield blood." His Mom was a Hatfield, and his grandfather was a William Hatfield from the West Virginia/Kentucky border. Devil Anse is something like his great-great-Uncle. Annnyhoo, my half-serious question: In your opinion, is there something like blood karma or blood memory (that is, karma/memory down matri- or patrilineal lines)? Could my husband's (only partially) in jest comment have some truth? IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 24957 From: Saturn next to Charmainec Registered: Apr 2009
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posted January 10, 2013 01:29 PM
I believe so.IP: Logged |
Aeline Knowflake Posts: 1084 From: Registered: Jun 2012
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posted January 12, 2013 02:35 PM
yes, there is. IP: Logged |
fairy22 Knowflake Posts: 103 From: Registered: Feb 2012
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posted January 13, 2013 12:24 PM
I don't think so because if you knew how karma really worked - it's nothing like what you read about or what they say.But there is royal bloodlines and different types of bloodlines and so forth...!! IP: Logged |
Aeline Knowflake Posts: 1084 From: Registered: Jun 2012
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posted January 13, 2013 05:32 PM
quote: Originally posted by fairy22: I don't think so because if you knew how karma really worked - it's nothing like what you read about or what they say.But there is royal bloodlines and different types of bloodlines and so forth...!!
In my case the situation is different. I grew up knowing nothing what had happened in my family during both of the world wars, not even what my grandmother had done in the sake of my country, not even the way my grandfather was killed. I wasn't raised that way. Yet i always knew that i was "that kind" too. I mean, politically. I can stand for that as if it was the most important thing in life. I'd die for my country if necessary. And noone who knows me doesn't know why i am like this. And i myself found out only recently, when i finally got told about all those years. It's in blood. IP: Logged |
Faith Knowflake Posts: 3450 From: Registered: Jul 2011
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posted January 15, 2013 08:41 AM
Wow I was just thinking about this the other day! What started it for me was, for an odd moment, I had this impression that the way I was looking at a sunset was the same way that my paternal grandmother would have. I sensed that the way I would appear to a viewer while I was staring would make me resemble her (she was an extremely sharp Gemini with a piercing gaze), and I wondered if she was sensing things/processing stimuli in the same way when she made that face. She died when I was 12, but since she was always polite but formal, cold, and distant, I never knew much of her personality. After my dad died, I inherited photos that she took on her family's tour of Europe around the early 1920's. On the backs of the pictures, she had written notes...it was the first time I had seen her young handwriting. And it looked just like mine. That's the most I ever felt connected to her. I realized something inside both of us caused us to move our hands in almost the same exact way. So, anyway, the other day I was thinking of how it might be more than me making her facial expressions and writing like her. It got me thinking of how I once corresponded with a guy who was a consultant for a company that purified water by using gravity or something. The pollutants are shaken off from the water drops as they fall...something like that. This fellow had a mystical view of water, combined with an extensive grasp of water science. He was convinced that water has an actual memory. From what I remember of the conversation, he was saying that it retains a kind of "consciousness," a vibration, connected to all the forms it has manifested in...rain, river, snow...and the atmospheres it has engaged with. So I was thinking, if we are 70% water, we are flooded with the memories embedded in the water. Maybe I was focusing "like my grandmother did," because the liquid in my eyeballs is full of water-memories somehow passed down from her. (?) Off topic a little, but blood does contain water...and this has a great, short video: Scientists Investigate Water Memory http://odewire.com/170441/scientists-investigate-water-memory.html IP: Logged |
PixieJane Knowflake Posts: 1585 From: CA Registered: Oct 2010
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posted January 24, 2013 11:58 PM
I believe it's certainly possible, but it's hard to tell the difference between nature (blood/genes) and nurture. But I have a lot of Scandinavian blood in me, and when I was 15 I had a vision of the goddess Freya despite almost no knowledge of the religious lore of my pagan ancestors. According to modern day Heathens who follow such gods, it's a racial memory, that is it was in my blood, and had I come from nearly pure Greek stock then I'd have had a vision of an Ancient Greek divinity instead. It's an interesting theory anyway. IP: Logged |
mockingbird Knowflake Posts: 1037 From: Registered: Dec 2011
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posted January 25, 2013 09:38 AM
Very cool responses!I'll respond when I'm not on my phone with its blasted tiny keyboard. ------------------ If I've included this sig, it's because I'm posting from a mobile device. Please excuse all outrageous typos and confusing auto-corrects. IP: Logged |
Jovian Knowflake Posts: 578 From: US Registered: May 2012
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posted January 28, 2013 11:53 PM
Ha. One of the Hatfields. Too funny....Maybe he simply WAS one of that famous feuding family, a few lifetimes ago. Not uncommon to return to the same family line, I'd say. Certainly you hear stories about a child behaving in some peculiar way, having some peculiar habit, just like his dead grandfather used to do, etc. Whether or not we return in the same physical bloodline, we certainly return into familiar soul groups, with others with whom we have often shared many lifetimes and some of the same significant experiences. Does this lead to the development of shared outlooks and character traits? Or, is one's soul essentially unchanging, and souls of a similar ilk come together for shared experiences? Perhaps a bit of both. ...Just speaking of myself and why I am interested in my ancestry on my mother's side...recently while reading about and seeing a photo of a Scottish castle that was the domain of a certain clan, hundreds of years ago, that is up the family tree, I had a strong sense of nostalgia and my usual resonant feelings I get, when I hit upon what I perceive as a past-life familiarity with a place. ...Of course, for those who don't believe in "past lives," this doesn't disprove the idea that there rather is something like the idea of "blood memory" going on instead in such a case, and the memory of the castle was "somehow" passed down through "blood"/DNA/whatever.
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