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transgenerational epigenetic inheritance,
That’s a lot….I should have realised this was going nowhere good.
Epigenetics combined with the philosophical idea of Determinism made me wonder if free will is—if not an illusion—a bit of a mirage. That, in addition to the environment we grow up in, the contour and texture of our lives are shaped—in part—by some form of genetic predetermination.
if we understand who and where we came from, genetic destinies can be altered, hopefully for the better.
She told herself that if she stopped looking, eventually the right person would come along.
That’s how you keep from going mad, Faye thought as she tried to focus on the movie. You simply can’t let yourself care too much.
Afong thought that she must have been a horrible man in her previous life to have been reborn a woman. She must have been cruel, to be reborn powerless. She must have been greedy to come back as property. She must have been shiftless, to have had her feet bound in this life. She must have been vehement to have been forced to marry an old man whom she had never met, never seen, unable to forget the young man she cared for, dreamt about.
they both knew she did not need a lesson in grief. She had been born a woman.
Amen
The idea of treating trauma passed down from one generation to the next in humans was highly controversial, to say the least. Just the idea of historical trauma was argumentative, though the concept had been widely accepted in Native American communities for hundreds of years, or more recently, within groups descended from Holocaust survivors. Yet therapists and geneticists had been puzzled for decades, searching for evidence of what they called transgenerational epigenetic inheritance.
