Afterlife (Endings)

by BBella , Thursday, February 07, 2013, 22:22 (4093 days ago) @ dhw

Continued...-On DNA memory:-> Your linking of the subconscious with past lives sets me off at a tangent, but it's an idea that I find intriguing. In the highly revealing article David referred us to concerning the complexity of life, the author said that one gram of DNA contains enough information to fill 100 billion DVDs. Could it be that your past lives and subconscious memories are in fact the lives and memories of your ancestors, passed down genetically through the generations? In much the same way, the intelligent corvids and other highly intelligent birds, animals, insects "inherit" information which their current selves then apply according to their own degrees of consciousness.-The inherited memory of our ancestors within our DNA theory has always been on the back burner of my mind but was not brought to the forefront until after my OBE. I even have a poem or two written with that very idea in mind. When I was maybe from the ages of 5-8 years old I, I remember asking my mother why I remembered being old, and another time, why I remembered being a boy (other times something/someone different). She would say to me when I would say ask these things (usually after dressing up as whatever I remembered), you are just remembering your genes. So that theory is not new to me, but again, I never really thought about it until after my OBE. Since then, my own kids will hear me say now and then in response to something that brings up the subject, "...that is if there is such a thing as past lives or maybe you are just remembering your genes." And I might add, "or both". Just as an aside, even though I was raised in a Christian home (only in the sense of being taken to church), my mom has always had an independent mind that does not conform to any one belief. I now see her as purely agnostic even tho she has no idea what that means. But I never noticed or even talked to her about these things until after my OBE. 
 
> I'm not saying this gets rid of the soul, because it doesn't offer an explanation of consciousness itself. The argument has to go the other way: IF consciousness were indeed the product of our material selves (a big IF), this would offer us a coherent alternative to your past lives scenario: the subconscious would be the memories of earlier generations locked in the genes. But I'm just thinking aloud...-I've also heard it said that souls tend to reincarnate down thru families (idk). The DNA memory could easily be the reason it seems that way, or it may very well be that souls favor families because they are ancestors to themselves in a sense (if they have incarnated as an earlier ancestor). They might do this to choose to direct their family tree of evolution toward a more balanced and civilized tree. 
 
> As for the ideal afterlife, which is our starting point, yes I can see the attractions of your vision. Heaven alone knows how it would all work ... if there's a heaven in the first (second?) place! ... but then we don't even know how this life works, do we?-True. And might very well be why we keep coming back. Who wants to be a know it all for all eternity raise your hand! lol