Caitlin.....excellent article and we are essentially fellow travellers. I am an American living in Chiina and make no secret of my shared point of view with you. However, I am a 12 year guest here doing career and life design counseling and training of counselors and my mission and government censorship preclude what passes for First Amendment rights in the USA. Nevertheless, Chinese people are going through their own phases as they shake off the relentless horrors of social upheaval and wars from at least the Tanping Rebellion of 1850-64 to the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76. The intergenerational traumas are passed down, not through genetics but through the transfer of psychological distress from grandparents to parents to their children. I have learned firsthand that we are all human beings no matter our national origins and struggle for basically the same things i.e. personal happiness and some modicum of success in family and social life and in our work or productive life. The American Empire is the most powerful and dangerous in the world and we Americans do very much need to cast off the propaganda of our own culture and embrace the mindset transformation that will make sustainable life on our planet attainable. Extinction of modern civilization rides on it.
I have always believed that we are all human beings who share the same goals in life: to have a stable roof over our heads; to have enough to eat; to be free of violence; to make the world a better place for our children.
Thanks for corroborating this from the other side of the world.
(I also believe that there's nothing wrong with the extinction of modern "civilization." Of course, I live in the US, so that will affect my outlook.)
Some research indicates trauma is also passed down genetically. It's a double-whammy of behaviorial and genetic damage. As a descendant of survivors of pogroms and starvation (which also has been shown to alter descendant genetics to store fat more easily) I can identify with the stress aspects in my family.
Caitlin.....excellent article and we are essentially fellow travellers. I am an American living in Chiina and make no secret of my shared point of view with you. However, I am a 12 year guest here doing career and life design counseling and training of counselors and my mission and government censorship preclude what passes for First Amendment rights in the USA. Nevertheless, Chinese people are going through their own phases as they shake off the relentless horrors of social upheaval and wars from at least the Tanping Rebellion of 1850-64 to the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76. The intergenerational traumas are passed down, not through genetics but through the transfer of psychological distress from grandparents to parents to their children. I have learned firsthand that we are all human beings no matter our national origins and struggle for basically the same things i.e. personal happiness and some modicum of success in family and social life and in our work or productive life. The American Empire is the most powerful and dangerous in the world and we Americans do very much need to cast off the propaganda of our own culture and embrace the mindset transformation that will make sustainable life on our planet attainable. Extinction of modern civilization rides on it.
I have always believed that we are all human beings who share the same goals in life: to have a stable roof over our heads; to have enough to eat; to be free of violence; to make the world a better place for our children.
Thanks for corroborating this from the other side of the world.
(I also believe that there's nothing wrong with the extinction of modern "civilization." Of course, I live in the US, so that will affect my outlook.)
Some research indicates trauma is also passed down genetically. It's a double-whammy of behaviorial and genetic damage. As a descendant of survivors of pogroms and starvation (which also has been shown to alter descendant genetics to store fat more easily) I can identify with the stress aspects in my family.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=study+cortisol+trauma+holocaust+descendents&t=fpas&ia=web
I think the great work of Gabor Mate touches on this dynamic as well.
Thanks for the reference. Yes, there is evidence of transfer of emotion across cells