Thank you for this mention of Averil Earnshaw ! French psychiatrist Anne
Ancelin Schutzenberger has observed similar phenomenon in her book Ancestor
Syndrome, also available in French, German and Spanish. She appears in a
videotape trialogue with Bert Hellinger and Rupert Sheldrake with topics
along these lines. ( April 1999 ) The tape is available through Carl-Auer
Systeme Verlag, Heidelberg. They came to some conclusions and also agreed
that there was still a sense of mystery.
All for now...
Anngwyn
In a message dated 8/5/2010 7:04:06 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
menssana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Time Bombs in Families and How to Survive Them
In 1999, Dr Averil Earnshaw published a book with the above title based on
thirty years of research into what she terms “Inner Space” and “the
dangerous collections of undigested experiences from our lives, which never
disappear”. She explores and comments on parallel events (especially major
life
events) in the lives of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters. She
suggests, in particular, that some physical illnesses may be of psychosomatic
origin, perhaps unconsciously ‘inherited’ from our parents.
In short, her theory is that our lives may be seriously affected by what
she calls “age-linked life events” of other family members, in particular
of our parents. She suggests that “we are particularly vulnerable in our
lives at the very same ages at which our parents experienced major events in
their lives.” She further suggests that if we are aware of these potential “
time bombs”, we may be able to exert a personal influence on the outcomes.
As well as offering pertinent observations from her career in
psychotherapy and speculative cause and effect arguments for her ideas,
Earnshaw
devotes many of the pages of this book to short practical analyses of the
biographies of many famous individuals: writers, poets, writers, actors and
artists, musicians and politicians. Among her special subjects are:
Darwin, Einstein, Freud, Picasso, Keats, Fleming (Alexander), Robert
Oppenheimer, Jane Austen, Marie Curie and Bertrand Russell.
There is obviously further scope for self-analysis and biographical
analyses by those who find Earnshaw’s hypotheses convincing.
Ten years on, people are finally beginning to pay more attention to this
original thesis. To give an idea of the wide appeal of her research and
speculations, I reproduce below two extracts, one on a poet, the other on an
actress.
( C Copyright Averil Earnshaw)
Reproduced, with permission, from Time Bombs in Families and How to
Survive Them, Part 3: Time Will Tell, pp 93-4.
ISBN 0958714517
On 06/08/2010, at 9:41 AM, Anne Beversdorf wrote:
I've mostly "lurked" here, but just had an experience and thought I'dlike to share. (I do group constellations rarely, and individual
vision in which I "became" my grandfather, a young boy of about 5, weeping
So, I've got a story to tell followed by a question...
I just did a constellation for myself, preceded a few years ago by a
self-confident and optimistic, and remember that after that I became more
I remember my own childhood until age 5 as happy, with me ridiculously
constellations... Do you think it's at all possible that "mirror neurons"
So here's the question. We see so often the effect of family history in
Anne Beversdorf
Counseling Astrologer
Western and Vedic
www.stariel.com
anne@xxxxxxxxxxx
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