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Sunday 13 December 2015

Researchers Discover That Memories Can Be Passed Down Through Changes in Our DNA


Researchers Discover That Memories Can Be Passed Down Through Changes in Our DNA

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Epigenetics is a branch of biology which studies how the development and functioning of biological systems are influenced by forces that operate outside of the DNA sequence. Within the past few years alone, remarkable discoveries have been made which  demonstrate that our thoughts, emotions, feelings, and overall perception of the world/environment around us can actually have  physical/biological effects on our DNA.

Adding further complexity to our often mystifying genetic code, research from Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia has shown that it’s possible for information to be inherited biologically through our DNA. More specifically, their research shows that behaviour can be affected by events in previous generations which have been passed on through a form of genetic memory.

Published a couple of years ago in the journal Nature Neurosciencethe findings of this study corroborates with other recent research in the field.(source)(source)

The study found that mice can pass on learned information about traumatic or stressful experiences to subsequent generations — in this case, the smell of a cherry blossom. These results could explain why people suffer from phobias, or why certain behaviours or thoughts are triggered by particular objects or situations:

From a translational perspective, our results allow us to appreciate how the experiences of a parent, before even conceiving offspring, markedly influence both structure and function in the nervous system of subsequent generations. . . . Such a phenomenon may contribute to the etiology and potential intergenerational transmission of risk for neuropsychiatric disorders such as phobias, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. (source)

As part of the study, researchers trained mice to fear the smell of cherry blossom using electric shocks before allowing them to breed. After this training, they were allowed to mate, and the offspring also showed the same fearful responses to the odour of the cherry blossom when compared to a neutral odour (despite never having encountered either before). The generation after the offspring demonstrated the same behaviour as well, and these results remained constant even when mice were impregnated through artificial insemination.

This suggests that experiences and their effect on our psyche are somehow transferred from the brain and into the genome, allowing them to be passed on to later generations.

In an interview with The Telegraph, Professor Marcus Pembrey, a paediatric geneticist at University College London, said the work provided “compelling evidence” for the biological transmission of memory. (source) He went on to state that:

“It addresses constitutional fearfulness that is highly relevant to phobias, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorders, plus the controversial subject of transmission of the “memory” of ancestral experience down the generations. . . . It is high time public health researchers took human transgenerational responses seriously. . . . I suspect we will not understand the rise in neuropsychiatric disorders or obesity, diabetes and metabolic disruptions generally without taking a multigenerational approach.”  (source)

 

You Can Change What Has Been ‘Encoded’ Into Your DNA

 


Researchers at the Institute of HeartMath, an internationally recognized non-profit scientific research center, have found that feelings of love, appreciation, anger, and anxiety can also influence the outcomes of each individual’s DNA blueprint.

For example, in a study titled Modulation of DNA Conformation By Heart-Focused Intention,” physical aspects of DNA strands were shown to be influenced by human intention:

“The results provide experimental evidence to support the hypothesis that aspects of the DNA molecule can be altered through intentionality. . . . The data indicate that when individuals are in a heart-focused, loving state and in a more cohernent mode of physiological functioning, they have a greater ability to alter the conformation of DNA. Individuals capable of generating high ratios of heart coherence were able to alter DNA conformation according to their intention. . . . Control group participants showed low ratios of heart coherence and were unable to intentionally alter the conformation of DNA.: (source)

The theory of genetic determinism — the idea that our lives are controlled by a genetic code — has dominated this field for years. Leading developmental biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton, Ph.D, explains:

“This kind of belief system provides a visual picture of people being victims: If the genes control our life function, then our lives are being controlled by things outside of our ability to change them. This leads to victimization that the illnesses and diseases that run in families are propagated through the passing of genes associated with those attributes. Laboratory evidence shows this is not true.”  (source)

Recently (and for the first time ever), researchers were able to construct a gene network which can be controlled by thoughts. Martin Fussenegger, a professor at ETH Zurich, led the research project which shows the powerful potential of thought. You can read more about that here.

Neuroplasticity is a great example of this power, demonstrating how we can change our genes by changing our thoughts and the way in which we perceive our environment. The placebo effect is another great example.

A 2002 article titled “The Emperor’s New Drugs,” published in the American Psychological Association’s Prevention & Treatment and conducted by University of Connecticut psychology professor Irving Kirsch, made some more shocking discoveries about the power of the mind.(source)(source) He found that 80 perecent of the effect of antidepressants, as measured in clinical trials, could be attributed to the placebo effect. This professor even had to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to get information on the clinical trials of the top antidepressants.

A Baylor School of Medicine study, published in 2002 in the New England Journal of Medicine, (source) looked at surgery for patients with severe and debilitating knee pain. Many surgeons know there is no placebo effect in surgery, or at least believe this to be true, yet this study yielded surprising results to the contrary. Patients were divided into three groups. For one group, damaged knee cartilage was shaved off by the surgeons. For the second group, surgeons flushed out the knee joint, removing all of the material believed to be causing inflammation.

Both of these processes are the standard surgeries performed on people who have severe arthritic knees. The third group received a “fake” surgery; the patients were only sedated and then told they had received surgery. In reality, doctors simply made the incisions and splashed salt water on the knee as they would in normal surgery, then sewed up the incisions. All three groups went through the same rehabilitation process, and the results were astonishing. The placebo group improved just as much as the other two.

The list of examples showing the potential power of our minds is extensive. Your genes and DNA are not set in stone, you have the power to change your biology with belief.

Below is a lecture from Dr. Bruce Lipton


The Genetics Myth - Clip from Zeitgeist 3: Moving Forward

 

 

 

“Consciousness Creates Reality”:

Physicists Admit the Universe is Immaterial, Mental & Spiritual

 

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“Consciousness creates reality,” a statement that has gained a lot of attention across various alternative media outlets around the world. Make no mistake, consciousness has been (for quite some time) studied by numerous scientists, especially in its relation to quantum physics and how it might be correlated with the nature of our reality.

What is consciousness? Consciousness includes a number of things. It’s how we perceive our world, our thoughts, being aware, our intentions and more.


“Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking in the radio for the announcer.”
Nasseim Haramein, director of research for the Resonance Project


“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”  
–  Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918


“It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to consciousness.”  
- Eugene Wigner, theoretical physicist and mathematician. He received a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963


The statement that “consciousness creates reality” comes with a number of different questions. Does this mean we as individuals (and on a collective level as one human race) can shape and create whatever reality we’d like for ourselves? Does it mean we can manifest a certain lifestyle, and attract certain experiences? Does it happen instantly? Does it take time? How do we do it?

Although we might not be able to answer these questions with absolute scientific certainty, we do know that yes, a correlation between consciousness and our physical material world does indeed exist in some way, shape or form. The extent of that correlation (again from a modern day scientific point of view) is still not well understood, but we know of the correlation, and we know it must have some sort of significance.

“A fundamental conclusion of the new physics also acknowledges that the observer creates the reality. As observers, we are personally involved with the creation of our own reality. Physicists are being forced to admit that the universe is a “mental” construction. Pioneering physicist Sir James Jeans wrote: “The stream of knowledge is heading toward a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter, we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter. Get over it, and accept the inarguable conclusion. The universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual.”  – R.C. Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University , 
- “The Mental Universe” ; Nature 436:29,2005) (source)

 

The Science Behind The Statement “Consciousness Creates Reality”

 


The quantum double slit experiment is a very popular experiment used to examine how consciousness and our physical material world are intertwined. It is a great example that documents how factors associated with consciousness and our physical material world are connected in some way.

One potential revelation of this experience is that “the observer creates the reality.” A paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Physics Essays by Dean Radin, PhD, explains how this experiment has been used multiple times to explore the role of consciousness in shaping the nature of physical reality. (source)

In this experiment, a double-slit optical system was used to test the possible role of consciousness in the collapse of the quantum wave-function. The ratio of the interference pattern’s double slit spectral power to its single slit spectral power was predicted to decrease when attention was focused toward the double slit as compared to away from it. The study found that factors associated with consciousness “significantly” correlated in predicted ways with perturbations in the double slit interference pattern. (source)

“Observation not only disturbs what has to be measured, they produce it. We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.” (source)

Although this is one of the most popular experiments used to posit the connection between consciousness and physical reality, there are several other  studies that clearly show that consciousness, or factors that are associated with consciousness are directly correlated with our reality in some way. A number of experiments in the field of parapsychology have also demonstrated this.

Sure, we might not understand the extent of this connection, and in most cases scientists can’t even explain it. However they are, and have been observed time and time again.

Below is a video  demonstration from the film “What The Bleep Do We Know.”



Other examples that we’ve written about are government sponsored psychokinesis experiments, the global consciousness experiment, intelligence agency remote viewing experiments, thoughts and intentions altering the structure of water, the placebo effect, teleportation studies and more. You can find more details about those specific experiments HERE.


How We Can Incorporate This Information Into Our Lives & Use Consciousness To Transform The World

 


Change requires action, but the place within which that action comes from is most important.

Modern day science, especially quantum physics, has been catching up to ancient mysticism and concepts that are/were so deeply ingrained in various cultures throughout the ancient world. One great example of this is the fact that everything is energy , and nothing is solid. You can read more about that here.


“We are what we think, all that we are arises with our thoughts, with our thoughts we make the world.”
– Gautama Buddha


“Broadly speaking, although there are some differences, I think Buddhist philosophy and Quantum Mechanics can shake hands on their view of the world. We can see in these great examples the fruits of human thinking. Regardless of the admiration we feel for these great thinkers, we should not lose sight of the fact that they were human beings just as we are.”
Dalai Lama (source)


A great example of quantum physics meeting ancient wisdom is seen in the fact that Nikola Tesla was influenced by Vedic philosophy when pondering his ideas of zero point energy. You can read more about that here.

So why is this relevant? It’s relevant because new physics, as mentioned above, is pointing to the fact that the observer shapes the reality. The way we think and perceive could be  responsible and play a vital role in the physical construct we see in front of us.

“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” – Unknown

If we look at the world and examine it on a collective level, what do we see? How do we perceive it? Right now, the masses perceive it as being born, going to school, paying bills, raising a family and finding a “job” within the current paradigm to support yourself. No judgement here, but many people on the planet are not resonating with this experience. They want change. We’ve been repeating and perceiving our reality this way for a very long time, with very little information about what is really happening on and to our planet. It’s almost like we are robotic drones that are trained and brainwashed to accept things the way they are. To not question what is happening in our world and to continue on with the status quo, only caring for ourselves and our own lives. As Noam Chomsky would say, our consent has been manufactured. If we continue down this path and continue to perceive and view reality as “this is just the way it is,” we will, in essence, prolong that type of existence and experience for the human race without ever changing it.

In order to create and manifest a new reality for ourselves, our thought patters and the way we perceive reality must change. What changes the way we perceive reality? Information does. When new information emerges it changes the way we look at things and as a result, our reality changes, and we begin to manifest a new experience and open our minds to a broader view of reality. Not to say that we can’t manifest a new physical form in the blink of an eye, and that we are not capable of doing that, but it appears to be something that takes time, something gradual, something we don’t quite understand yet.

What’s also important about teachings from new physics is that, if factors of consciousness are associated with the creation of our reality, that means change starts within. It starts with the way in which we are observing the outer world from our inner world. This touches on the earlier point of how we perceive our reality. Our perception of the external world might very well be a reflection of our inner world, our inner state of being. So ask yourself, are you happy? Are you observing, perceiving and acting from a place of love? From a place of hate or anger? From a place of peace? All of these factors are associated with our consciousness, with our observation, the one (or the many) who are doing the “observing” might play a large role in what type of physical world the human race manifests for itself, what do you think?

We are indeed the observers,  can we create change and break patterns to open up new possibilities, change our direction, all through the way in which we observe ourselves, others and the world around us.

I believe that the human race is in the process of waking up to a number of different things, simultaneously. As a result, the way we perceive and “observe” the world around us (on a mass scale) is starting to drastically change. So if you want to help change the world, change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change.


“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
– Mahatma Ghandi


There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.” This statement (worldview statement) was by Lord Kelvin in 1900, which was shattered only five years later when Einstein published his paper on special relativity. The new theories proposed by Einstein challenged the current (at that time) framework of understanding. This forced the scientific community to open up to an alternate view of the true nature of our reality. A great example of how things that once were regarded as truth have changed.

“Lord Kelvin’s statements bares with it the voice of paradigms past…We knew that the Earth was flat, we knew that we were the center of the universe, and we knew that a manmade heavier than air piece of machinery could not take flight. Through all stages of human history, intellectual authorities have pronounced their supremacy by ridiculing or suppressing elements of reality that simply didn’t fit within the framework of accepted knowledge. Are we really any different today? Have we really changed our acceptance towards things that won’t fit the frame? Maybe there are concepts of our reality we have yet to understand, and if we open our eyes maybe we will see that something significant has been overlooked.”
 Terje Toftenes (source)





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2 comments:

  1. There are 2 basic choices for an entity, being conscious or unconscious. If we look around us, what do we see? Space, energy, and mass. For instance we see humans (energy) rocks (mass) and space (the largest part of the universe, but largely dismissed as not having life, or dubbed by energy as "dark". I think much confusion comes from confusing the word "conscious" with "consciousness".
    How much an individual understands truth relating to physical existence, information gathered and affecting surroundings, both past and present is a level of being conscious as regards to the realm of energy.
    On the other hand, consciousness is totally other. Total expanded, prolonged,unimpeded, permeable consciousness is another realm of existence entirely. Space consciousness can not be manipulated by energy. It is a realm that is beyond the physical realm of energy systems, which is where humans reside. We can visit the space realm of consciousness, but alas, we reside in the physical realm of energy. Because of that, each entity is on various levels of consciousness at any given time, and relates to "others",who are likewise on variants of consciousness. Therefore the propensity for pain is always present in the energy realm. As energy, we relate to both space consciousness and mass consciousness, in our attempts to be both mass (unconsciousness) and space (consciousness) at the SAME time. This is done with the system known as a brain in millions of bits per second, similar to the 1,0 of a computer, like rapid still images in a film. This happens so fast, humans have the experience of subjectivity, and this creates what we know as time. That is why we have people who are space-consciousness minded, and then we have the sheeple who relish in remaining asleep (unconscious.
    Whenever we attempt to change things, we are dealing in an energy action. The state of unimpeded, totally expanded state of consciousness has no need or desire to change anything. Because each entity in the space realm is totally expanded and enjoys the pleasure of complete agreement with "others". If a field of thought is undesired, an entity in the space realm (sustained consciousness) merely changes thought. It is Paradise, and it is where those who have awakened and chosen expanded consciousness are headed, upon leaving physical systems of the energy realm. Consciousness does not create reality. But being conscious of truth, will affect change, yet it is a result of physical actions on an energetic, physical level. ie. putting discovered information into action, and that is separate from the consciousness realm.
    I have long thought that DNA holds emotional memory. I have long thought that our ancestors remembered a global catastrophe, and this anxiety was passed down.I also think that cultures hold memory. That is why it is important to free ourselves from victim/abuser/salvationist religions.If we hook our star to that wagon, we are assuring ourselves another round in the physical realm of energy. Personally, I prefer the prolonged,sustained, ultimate joy of unimpeded consciousness. For both states of consciousness and unconsciousness are pleasurable and enjoy the surroundings of other entities engaged in the pleasure of agreement. It is only in the physical realm of energy,attempting to be both conscious and unconscious at the same time, which causes variants of awareness that creates the propensity for pain. The energy realm is always a choice. If we want the thrills & chills of being an ego in a maze of energy systems, then we will pay the price...in pain. I love New Illuminati.

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    1. Xcellent points all! You'll have to write some articles for us!

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