Consciousness

We can step in and do the work as conscious creators (takes effort but is easy) and or we unconsciously replicate the patterns (effortless but life is hard).  If we limit our view of ourselves as creators then our ability to transmute into joy and aliveness is likewise limited. This body of work supports “expansion” into a new frontier – Community of Love or the Space of Expansion

A more powerful presence of love will bring up what is less than – the healing crisis – refer to the vitality meter. The higher the vitality the deeper one can go. The Course talks about the body – we remain as conscious, active Love in the state of Being, but if we have generational patterns of hate, fear, guilt and grief, etc. we generate a false image of our-self identified with the ‘body’ and experience our-self as the false self. We are the created essence of Love and yet we have been given a different message. The false self blocks the truth. Progressively move toward the state of remembering who you are. Healing process may not be ‘dr. feelgood’  If the body dies then the function of the carbon based memory bank shuts up and one experiences who they are – Love. We can do that without physically dying.

Movie 1995 “Saved by the Light” Dannion Brinkley https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114342/

“Our inner child is a part of ourselves that’s been present ever since we were conceived, through utero and all the developing years after where we were young and developing into tender selves: baby, infant, toddler, young child and middle school year. The inner child can often recall good experiences as well as childhood fears, traumas, neglect or significant loss. It can be hard to pinpoint the exact event that is tugging at us, but we can start to notice our internal patterns that have left us a subconscious “bread crumb trails” when we start to explore our inner world.”  https://integrativepsych.co/new-blog/what-is-an-inner-child

A student writes to her grandfather and hears back from grandfather even though he is out of his body. https://whyagain.org/intergenerational-healing/Letter to Ancestor

Discussion of Generational Healing – MP3 Radio Show from January 27, 2022 (edited down to the last part of the 2nd hour)

“Healing the Generations: One Breath at a Time” by Jeanette Shaw – book underway

The mechanism underlying the process of generating perception is one where neuropeptides circulate and find cells for which they have an affinity and attach to the cell’s receptor site. Landing on those cells they insert themselves, appearing inside the cell as “chemistry.” These information carriers are designed to inform the cell about actuality, THE ACTUAL WORLD, or communicate about internal conditions and needs. Sadly, this process has, for most, been hijacked and compromised by errant perception. Much of this cellular communication process has become a rehash of unresolved, dissociated traumas from the past, often arising from patterns carried from generation to generation in the genes. The reflections of these unconscious processes APPEAR to be actual present moment experiences but are nothing but echoes of one’s past. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/21/study-of-holocaust-survivors-finds-trauma-passed-on-to-childrens-genes

Understanding that unresolved generational issues are passed along in one’s lineage, I suspect, is what led Henry David Thoreau to write in 1854: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city, you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. BUT IT IS A CHARACTERISTIC OF WISDOM NOT TO DO DESPERATE THINGS.”

Social / Environmental / Community influences

Beliefs like the Law of Jante, which is not a real “law” but is believed by many.  The Janters who transgress this unwritten “law” are regarded with suspicion and some hostility, as it goes against the town’s communal desire to preserve harmony, social stability and uniformity. You should blend in and not do anything to stand-out or succeed beyond your previous generations.

The ten rules state:

1. You’re not to think you are anything special.
2. You’re not to think you are as good as we are.
3. You’re not to think you are smarter than we are.
4. You’re not to imagine yourself better than we are.
5. You’re not to think you know more than we do.
6. You’re not to think you are more important than we are.
7. You’re not to think you are good at anything.
8. You’re not to laugh at us.
9. You’re not to think anyone cares about you.
10. You’re not to think you can teach us anything.

The “Law” was first formulated as ten rules in Sandemose’s satirical novel A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks (En flyktning krysser sitt spor, 1933), but the attitudes themselves are older.  An eleventh rule recognized in the novel as “the penal code of Jante” is:  Perhaps you don’t think we know a few things about you?