Hello everyone,
Im Betania from Chile, also new to the forum.
I had heard about some indigenous cultures celebrating birthdays on the
date parents learned a baby was coming, and not on the actual birth date.
But were actually older than that! Our cellular age is the sum of our
age plus the age our mother was when we were born, plus 5 months in our
grandmother womb. Holding that in mind, we were there through the life
history of our mother and as Dan Booth Cohen just pointed out, in terms of
resonance, our first experiences are those of our maternal grandmothers!!
And surely we are able to retain all that information. Thinking of the
evidence for cellular memory (cells retaining non- genetic information),
the information held by the egg we were is now in each of our cells,
similar to the way cellular division implies the duplication of DNA
information: we start with one copy and end up with billions of copies,
being expressed in each cell. So, there it is, in each and every one of
our cells, tissues and organs, the memory of what our grandmother felt and
of what our mother went through!
As you all probably now, theres another biological fact that enhances the
importance of the female line. Our nuclear DNA is half mother and half
father, and represents the majority of the total genetic material in a
cell. But there is also the mitochondrial genetic material which is
completely a maternal heritage. Mithochondrias are the organelles where
cellular respiration or breathing takes place. They are the factories
where oxygen is consumed within the cell for the obtaining of biological
energy. This organelle has its own DNA because, evolutionarily, it came
from a whole cell (its like a very ancient cell, living within a modern
cell).
The egg in a female is a complete cell with half the nuclear genetic
material and a complete cytoplasm containing mitochondria with their
mitochondrial DNA. Spermatozoids carry the other half of nuclear genetic
material and also have mitochondria, which they need to produce the energy
needed to reach their goal. But once they get there, only the nucleus
enters the egg, not the male mitochondrias. So, each of us has a little
more of maternal genetic heritage than the paternal one. And the
mitochondrial heritage through the male line is lost. It only has
continuity in the female line.
On one side, mitochondrial DNA has been used as genetic footprints to map
human evolution on the female line, which resulted in the proposal of the
theory of the 7 daughters of Eve. On the other side, I find it very
interesting because it adds up to the several insights that have been made
on the issue of the female line having a special relevance.
Warm regards,
Betania
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Julio Príncipe <principejulio@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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Dear friends and colleagues, few days ago a former client send to me the
next paragraph:
It is often said that the first sound we hear in the womb is our mother's
heartbeat. Actually, the first sound to vibrate our newly developed hearing
apparatus is the pulse of our mother's blood through her veins and
arteries. We vibrate to that primordial rhythm even before we have ears to
hear. Before we were conceived, we existed in part as an egg in our
mother's ovary. All the eggs a woman will ever carry form in her ovaries
while she is a four-month-old fetus in the womb of her mother. This means
our cellular life as an egg begins in the womb of our grandmother. Each of
us spent five months in our grandmother's womb and she in turn formed
within the womb of her grandmother. We vibrate to the rhythms of our
mother's blood before she herself is born.
And this pulse is the thread of blood that runs all the way back through
the grandmothers to the first mother.
We all share the blood of the first mother - we are truly children of one
blood.
-Layne Redmond, author 'When the Drummers Were Women-A Spiritual History of
Rhythm'
I found it beautiful (since the name of the book itself), and came to me
the Hellinger's statement: "reconciliation borns in the heart of the woman"
(in my wrods, I guess); so I wish to share and maybe initiate a thread
above this idea and its healing power.
Big hug from Peru,
Julio
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