Interesting concept but what would be the mechanism through which this thing operates
Does Bernd believe in genetic memory and inherited trauma? I do.
I know it sounds kinda weird and is associated with all kinds of crazy people and crackpot ideas I don't believe in. For example SS-occultist Karl Maria Wiligut who believed he could remember facts from the lives of his Gothic ancesdors. I think Varg has also made similar claims and there are all kinds of new age esoteric ideas about former lives etc. I'm not talking about that.
In recent times, mainstream scientists have started to investigate phenomena in epigenetics where children of people who lived through starvation have a tendency to become fatter in order to prepare for another famine. I have also read an article about a German man who lived through the bombing of Hamburg. Both his son and his grandson had recurring nightmares about fleeing through the burning city to safety, an event he himself really experienced but never talked to them before.
I personally have a really strong feeling of security and safety whenever I am underground. I have been to mines, subways, a bunker and really deep cellars. Other people describe it as uncomfortable to not have windows and think about tons of rock above your head. Personally I find it comforting. It is the strongest feeling I ever experienced from just being in a specific place. I think it must be connected to my grandparents, who lived through one of the worst allied bombings in WWII and regularly had to go into a bunker. One event had my grandmother in a sort of makeshift bunker that caught fire and she had to flee through streets running with rivers of burning phosphorus to another bunker. I imagine this is a trauma I inherited.
Another one is a sort of social anxiety, fear of strangers and of angry people. Several of my ancestors were abused by choleric people and my grandfather was expelled by his Czech neighbours at the end of WWII, which was another extremely traumatic event. The traits that I associate with this experience are present in my father, who is his son, but not my mom. Which further makes me believe this theory is true.
I'm not an brain scientist. But from what I've read, genetics, epigenetics and the mechanisms how the body reads and writes DNA are not yet fully understood.
Oh and another thing: There are anecdotes of people who receive organ transplants and then have new memories or skills. One guy started playing the piano after he got the heart of a piano player.
As I said, I have no idea how it could work. But I chose to believe in it. It can do no harm if I'm wrong, but I have a strong feeling that there might be something to it. So it is real in my mind.
>There are anecdotes of people who receive organ transplants and then have new memories or skills
Sounds like press going for sensation.
Generally no I don't believe DNA can affect brain in terms of memories of any kind, I think it only has a structure of a "proto brain" in it.
But brain is more or less a whitelist, at least neo cortex and other complex parts which make us unlike other animals able to solve complex problems.
You can see it in new born kids, they can't even control their limbs, seems like they're just wired to a brain and controlling them is learning process which isn't there right away.
Maybe you can confuse some knowledge with a "genetic memory" if that knowledge is common to almost every individual during development.
Like walking, talking and etc.
