ROOT & BRANCH
"Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The “newness” in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components. Body and soul therefore have an intensely historical character and find no proper place in what is new, in things that have just come into being.
That is to say, our ancestral components are only partly at home in such things. We are very far from having finished completely with the Middle Ages, classical antiquity, and primitivity, as our modern psyches pretend. Nevertheless, we have plunged down a cataract of progress which sweeps us on into the future with ever wilder violence the farther it takes us from our roots.
Once the past has been breached, it is usually annihilated, and there is no stopping the forward motion. But it is precisely the loss of connection with the past, our up-rootedness, which has given rise to the “discontents” of civilization and to such a flurry and haste that we live more in the future and its chimerical promises of a golden age than in the present, with which our whole evolutionary background has not yet caught up.
We rush impetuously into novelty, driven by a mounting sense of insufficiency, dissatisfaction, and restlessness. We no longer live on what we have, but on promises, no longer in the light of the present day, but in the darkness of the future, which, we expect, will at last bring the proper sunrise. We refuse to recognize that everything better is purchased at the price of something worse; that, for example, the hope of greater freedom is canceled out by increased enslavement to the state, not to speak of the terrible perils to which the most brilliant discoveries of science expose us.
The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity. ~Carl Jung, Memories Dreams and Reflections.
That is to say, our ancestral components are only partly at home in such things. We are very far from having finished completely with the Middle Ages, classical antiquity, and primitivity, as our modern psyches pretend. Nevertheless, we have plunged down a cataract of progress which sweeps us on into the future with ever wilder violence the farther it takes us from our roots.
Once the past has been breached, it is usually annihilated, and there is no stopping the forward motion. But it is precisely the loss of connection with the past, our up-rootedness, which has given rise to the “discontents” of civilization and to such a flurry and haste that we live more in the future and its chimerical promises of a golden age than in the present, with which our whole evolutionary background has not yet caught up.
We rush impetuously into novelty, driven by a mounting sense of insufficiency, dissatisfaction, and restlessness. We no longer live on what we have, but on promises, no longer in the light of the present day, but in the darkness of the future, which, we expect, will at last bring the proper sunrise. We refuse to recognize that everything better is purchased at the price of something worse; that, for example, the hope of greater freedom is canceled out by increased enslavement to the state, not to speak of the terrible perils to which the most brilliant discoveries of science expose us.
The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity. ~Carl Jung, Memories Dreams and Reflections.
NEPENTHE
Nepenthe /nɪˈpɛnθiː/ (Ancient Greek: νηπενθές) is a fictional medicine for sorrow, for those in grief mourning the dead; literally an anti-depressant. This "drug of forgetfulness" mentioned in ancient Greek literature and Greek mythology, said to originate in Egypt is most likely hashish and/or opium dissolved in wine.
"...men and gods have the same origin."
--Hesiod
"It was said: there was a time when the gods existed, but mortals did not exist yet. When the time came for their birth, the gods formed them under the earth, with ground, fire and all that is with these elements. To bring them to the light, the gods ordered to
[" the prescient ", " the intended ", and to Epimetheus [" the one who only learns after ", " the reckless "] to adorn those beings and to distribute among them the abilities as to each of them They were meant to be.
Epimetheus obtained from Prometheus to be able to proceed to distribution alone. The reckless distributed all of the animals, so that the man remained completely defenseless and naked. Thus the intended Prometheus could not help but steal the fire and the arts of Hephaestus and Pallas Athena from their common temple, to give to mankind. Since then, man is capable of living, but Prometheus - as much as the fault of Epimetheus - was punished for his action. This story goes back to an essay, to what is said to sophist Protagoras, who turned an old story in his own way.
Another story was that Prometheus had made a first man of wonderful beauty and kept it hidden. Eros would reveal the fact to Zeus that he would send for that beautiful creature; she received the drink of immortality and then shines in the sky as Fenon, "the shining", as we used to be called planet Jupiter. Besides Him, Prometheus also made other men, molding them with water and earth. According to these short stories, he was also the creator of the animals.
In the late depictions of sarcophagi, especially in Rome, one sees that Prometheus formed man: like a small statue that is animated by the goddess Athena, as this brings her a butterfly, which in our language is called Psyche, like the soul. In the region of Focide there were massive stone blocks that were said to have the scent of the human body: they would have been the remnants of the mud with which Prometheus had created man. How men could be born or reborn from stones will be said later [i.e. where the stones are the bones of mother earth]." --Károly Kerényi, the gods and heroes of Greece. The story of the myth, the birth of civilization
Nepenthe /nɪˈpɛnθiː/ (Ancient Greek: νηπενθές) is a fictional medicine for sorrow, for those in grief mourning the dead; literally an anti-depressant. This "drug of forgetfulness" mentioned in ancient Greek literature and Greek mythology, said to originate in Egypt is most likely hashish and/or opium dissolved in wine.
"...men and gods have the same origin."
--Hesiod
"It was said: there was a time when the gods existed, but mortals did not exist yet. When the time came for their birth, the gods formed them under the earth, with ground, fire and all that is with these elements. To bring them to the light, the gods ordered to
[" the prescient ", " the intended ", and to Epimetheus [" the one who only learns after ", " the reckless "] to adorn those beings and to distribute among them the abilities as to each of them They were meant to be.
Epimetheus obtained from Prometheus to be able to proceed to distribution alone. The reckless distributed all of the animals, so that the man remained completely defenseless and naked. Thus the intended Prometheus could not help but steal the fire and the arts of Hephaestus and Pallas Athena from their common temple, to give to mankind. Since then, man is capable of living, but Prometheus - as much as the fault of Epimetheus - was punished for his action. This story goes back to an essay, to what is said to sophist Protagoras, who turned an old story in his own way.
Another story was that Prometheus had made a first man of wonderful beauty and kept it hidden. Eros would reveal the fact to Zeus that he would send for that beautiful creature; she received the drink of immortality and then shines in the sky as Fenon, "the shining", as we used to be called planet Jupiter. Besides Him, Prometheus also made other men, molding them with water and earth. According to these short stories, he was also the creator of the animals.
In the late depictions of sarcophagi, especially in Rome, one sees that Prometheus formed man: like a small statue that is animated by the goddess Athena, as this brings her a butterfly, which in our language is called Psyche, like the soul. In the region of Focide there were massive stone blocks that were said to have the scent of the human body: they would have been the remnants of the mud with which Prometheus had created man. How men could be born or reborn from stones will be said later [i.e. where the stones are the bones of mother earth]." --Károly Kerényi, the gods and heroes of Greece. The story of the myth, the birth of civilization
GENEALOGY
Between the Known & the Unknown Self
Iona Miller, 2017
For more, see
Ancestors & Archetypes site
http://ancestorsandarchetypes.weebly.com/
“I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are still together.” ― Warsan Shire
Retire Your Family Karma
https://books.google.com/books?id=BR3uFXbDWsgC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/an-excerpt-from-it-didnt-start-with-you-how-inherited-family-trauma-shapes-who-we-are-and-how-to-end-the-cycle-viking-april-2016-by-mark-wolynn/?gclid=CjwKCAiA3o7RBRBfEiwAZMtSCRd9i-8QSdLBCTqyay6CZEw1WU1q5k3ss5mfQH6xsGJDoWEDrzJ3dBoCfqkQAvD_BwE
Transgenerational psychology and Depth Genealogy include recent and deep ancestral knowledge of family identity and traditions, intergenerational epigenetics and family patterns. Also called intergenerational, and multigenerational, Transgenerational theory is an approach which deals with the rules governing the communication of acquired practices, behaviors and beliefs between generations, historical data and trauma, functionality, and emotional pain (loss, wounding, grief, depression, rage, trauma, disease, etc.). The systemic approach values historical information, believes the past influences the present and future, and aims for more than symptom reduction.
Transgenerational passage incorporates bonding, the transmission of family roles and the spectrum of family-related traditions, family secrets and cultural changes, beliefs and behaviors. It suggests that enmeshment, unresolved emotional fusion, and limited or dysfunctional attachment to our nuclear families must be addressed if we hope to achieve a mature and unique personality.
Included are ethnic and regional values, religious and national tradition and attitudes towards life, death and sexuality, unhelpful patterns of belief and behavior, and generation gaps. Choice of occupation, educational aspirations, attitudes towards money and politics are also transmitted. Losses in the social field often precede psychophysical symptoms.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j..1979.00506.x/pdf
There is no rigorous scientific approach to the passage of family culture and tradition. Intergenerational family therapy acknowledges generational influences on family and individual behavior, such as emotional regulation attachment and forgiveness.
Our ancestral lines transmit positive and negative attitudes, beliefs, actions, and habits. Genealogy is a natural introduction to the process of self-exploration and intergenerational patterns and dynamics. Depth genealogy pursues those connections, ancient and modern.
This transgenerational theory is a minor step in the formulation of such an approach whose roots run deep. It includes origins, biological communication, beliefs, emotional reactivity, intelligence, and behaviors passed to succeeding generations. The Transgenerational perspective maintains that generational conflict can remain unresolved throughout generations. This view does not imply causation of conflict, only that unresolved issues can continue to affect families throughout generations.
The Transgenerational approach to our ancestral web includes at least 3 or 4, even 5 or 6 generations of ancestors on both sides of our tree, at least 14 direct ancestors. If some are unknown or missing, if we don't know their names or origins, they fall in the gap of our deep unconsciousness. We can approach this hidden complexity which makes us up with our genealogy. The great chains of our ancestral lines are actually a complex web that makes up the warp and woof of the very fabric of our being.
The more we learn about our direct ancestors, the more easily we begin to see patterns of repetition and coincidence. These are the ties that bind us, for good or ill -- and these bonds generate currents of emotion that permeate the stream of transmission. Sometimes there are double-binds, betrayal, family secrets, and other 'crazy-making' behavior.
Transmitted from generation to generation even unconsciously, we can sometimes tell from family names who is a dedicated stand-in for lost loved ones. Each of them had their own accidents, illnesses, and trauma -- disasters, war, catastrophe. They witnessed births and miscarriages, forced moves, and bore the burdens of grief and intolerable loss. 'Longing to belong,' we may, indeed, be alienated from those closest to us in other ways by betrayal, parentification, suffered injustice, and family myths.
Life-Scripts, Drivers, & Injunctions
Our intra-psychic environment is the frame or context. Parental injunctions, spoken or silent commands, are experienced internally and can distort reality, self-image, self-talk, and existential position. Self-esteem is related to behavioral symptoms.
Questionnaires
http://www.brefigroup.co.uk/acrobat/drivers.pdf
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5344a72ce4b012983d5cf7a8/t/55db68b2e4b021265fed372c/1440442546170/scripts.pdf
Drivers include various messages or programs from both parents to our internal Parent-Adult-Child matrix. We even absorb 'messages' from absent parents, emotionally unavailable parents who fail to meet our real needs. These toxic messages can trouble our relationships and disturb our well-being.
The unmet needs of parents when they were children are often passed down the generational chain when critical messages are absorbed uncritically from infancy onward. They are beliefs of the invented self around trust, shame, and blame about what we 'should', 'must', or 'ought to' do, from "don't be close" to "don't be you." Reactions are triggered unconsciously by context and criticism. These are personal unwritten rules of how to be and not be. The 'all-seeing eye' of god is originally the internal eye of introjected parental scrutiny.
http://www.internet-of-the-mind.com/distorted_reality.html
Typical injunctions include:
Don’t exist – suicidal personality
Don’t be you (sex you are) – gender identity – addiction to cosmetic surgery
Don’t be a child – first born – overly responsible
Don’t grow up – last born – overly self indulgent – narcissism; puer/puella
Don’t make it (succeed) – often goes with a Try Hard driver – inability to find a life partner
Don’t – phobias – generalized anxiety – bed wetting in children – OCD
Don’t be important – low self esteem – poor assertion – more often female
Don’t enjoy – sexual dysfunction (pre orgasmic) – workaholic
Don’t be close – more often male – intimacy problems – commitment problems
Don’t belong – distancing family – drug and alcohol problems
Don’t be separate – emancipation problems - “leaving home problem” – emeshed family
Don’t be well (sane) – psychosomatic problems – stroking patterns – psychosis
Don’t think – drug and alcohol – Adult ego state problems – psychosis
Don’t feel – This injunction is really a group of injunctions
Don’t trust – central to the paranoid personality
We can explore each self-similar line for personal, symbolic, and archetypal meaning. Ancestors are each a living presence that shapes who we are -- an individual and collective influence. Intergenerational life events become connected in our bodies and express through epigenetics. Gene expression is altered rather than the genetic code itself; some genes turn on and others turn off.
Cumulative family experience includes shock, unfinished grieving, unresolved conflicts, lack of opportunities, migration, power issues, scapegoating, persecution, abuse, historical and environmental challenges, premature deaths and the nature of their relationships and their individual and collective landmark events. They are embedded in complex layers of our mindbody as unconscious memory, experience, and meaning. Each family expresses a unique dynamic, family law, order, and tradition, in verbal and non-verbal ways, in toxic or healthy interaction.
We work through our lives with conscious and unconscious myths which can be clarified through our legacy. We naturally find the ancestors in phobias, dreams, visions, ideas, beliefs, and physical symptoms -- perhaps even their memory-traces of guilt, shame, sorrow, sadness, even horror, pain, or fright.
We may still feel the feelings our ancestors could not. Larger and smaller cultures like families can exert cult-like control effects on our minds. They modify our cognitive bias and resilience or create anxiety, despair, and anger. Unprocessed behavioral symptoms impair our adaptation.
We can all define our own reality more easily when we have a better understanding
of the problem at hand. All we have to do is 'face' it. Our ancestors put a face on it that helps us 'face it'.
Between the Known & the Unknown Self
Iona Miller, 2017
For more, see
Ancestors & Archetypes site
http://ancestorsandarchetypes.weebly.com/
“I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are still together.” ― Warsan Shire
Retire Your Family Karma
https://books.google.com/books?id=BR3uFXbDWsgC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/an-excerpt-from-it-didnt-start-with-you-how-inherited-family-trauma-shapes-who-we-are-and-how-to-end-the-cycle-viking-april-2016-by-mark-wolynn/?gclid=CjwKCAiA3o7RBRBfEiwAZMtSCRd9i-8QSdLBCTqyay6CZEw1WU1q5k3ss5mfQH6xsGJDoWEDrzJ3dBoCfqkQAvD_BwE
Transgenerational psychology and Depth Genealogy include recent and deep ancestral knowledge of family identity and traditions, intergenerational epigenetics and family patterns. Also called intergenerational, and multigenerational, Transgenerational theory is an approach which deals with the rules governing the communication of acquired practices, behaviors and beliefs between generations, historical data and trauma, functionality, and emotional pain (loss, wounding, grief, depression, rage, trauma, disease, etc.). The systemic approach values historical information, believes the past influences the present and future, and aims for more than symptom reduction.
Transgenerational passage incorporates bonding, the transmission of family roles and the spectrum of family-related traditions, family secrets and cultural changes, beliefs and behaviors. It suggests that enmeshment, unresolved emotional fusion, and limited or dysfunctional attachment to our nuclear families must be addressed if we hope to achieve a mature and unique personality.
Included are ethnic and regional values, religious and national tradition and attitudes towards life, death and sexuality, unhelpful patterns of belief and behavior, and generation gaps. Choice of occupation, educational aspirations, attitudes towards money and politics are also transmitted. Losses in the social field often precede psychophysical symptoms.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j..1979.00506.x/pdf
There is no rigorous scientific approach to the passage of family culture and tradition. Intergenerational family therapy acknowledges generational influences on family and individual behavior, such as emotional regulation attachment and forgiveness.
Our ancestral lines transmit positive and negative attitudes, beliefs, actions, and habits. Genealogy is a natural introduction to the process of self-exploration and intergenerational patterns and dynamics. Depth genealogy pursues those connections, ancient and modern.
This transgenerational theory is a minor step in the formulation of such an approach whose roots run deep. It includes origins, biological communication, beliefs, emotional reactivity, intelligence, and behaviors passed to succeeding generations. The Transgenerational perspective maintains that generational conflict can remain unresolved throughout generations. This view does not imply causation of conflict, only that unresolved issues can continue to affect families throughout generations.
The Transgenerational approach to our ancestral web includes at least 3 or 4, even 5 or 6 generations of ancestors on both sides of our tree, at least 14 direct ancestors. If some are unknown or missing, if we don't know their names or origins, they fall in the gap of our deep unconsciousness. We can approach this hidden complexity which makes us up with our genealogy. The great chains of our ancestral lines are actually a complex web that makes up the warp and woof of the very fabric of our being.
The more we learn about our direct ancestors, the more easily we begin to see patterns of repetition and coincidence. These are the ties that bind us, for good or ill -- and these bonds generate currents of emotion that permeate the stream of transmission. Sometimes there are double-binds, betrayal, family secrets, and other 'crazy-making' behavior.
Transmitted from generation to generation even unconsciously, we can sometimes tell from family names who is a dedicated stand-in for lost loved ones. Each of them had their own accidents, illnesses, and trauma -- disasters, war, catastrophe. They witnessed births and miscarriages, forced moves, and bore the burdens of grief and intolerable loss. 'Longing to belong,' we may, indeed, be alienated from those closest to us in other ways by betrayal, parentification, suffered injustice, and family myths.
Life-Scripts, Drivers, & Injunctions
Our intra-psychic environment is the frame or context. Parental injunctions, spoken or silent commands, are experienced internally and can distort reality, self-image, self-talk, and existential position. Self-esteem is related to behavioral symptoms.
Questionnaires
http://www.brefigroup.co.uk/acrobat/drivers.pdf
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5344a72ce4b012983d5cf7a8/t/55db68b2e4b021265fed372c/1440442546170/scripts.pdf
Drivers include various messages or programs from both parents to our internal Parent-Adult-Child matrix. We even absorb 'messages' from absent parents, emotionally unavailable parents who fail to meet our real needs. These toxic messages can trouble our relationships and disturb our well-being.
The unmet needs of parents when they were children are often passed down the generational chain when critical messages are absorbed uncritically from infancy onward. They are beliefs of the invented self around trust, shame, and blame about what we 'should', 'must', or 'ought to' do, from "don't be close" to "don't be you." Reactions are triggered unconsciously by context and criticism. These are personal unwritten rules of how to be and not be. The 'all-seeing eye' of god is originally the internal eye of introjected parental scrutiny.
http://www.internet-of-the-mind.com/distorted_reality.html
Typical injunctions include:
Don’t exist – suicidal personality
Don’t be you (sex you are) – gender identity – addiction to cosmetic surgery
Don’t be a child – first born – overly responsible
Don’t grow up – last born – overly self indulgent – narcissism; puer/puella
Don’t make it (succeed) – often goes with a Try Hard driver – inability to find a life partner
Don’t – phobias – generalized anxiety – bed wetting in children – OCD
Don’t be important – low self esteem – poor assertion – more often female
Don’t enjoy – sexual dysfunction (pre orgasmic) – workaholic
Don’t be close – more often male – intimacy problems – commitment problems
Don’t belong – distancing family – drug and alcohol problems
Don’t be separate – emancipation problems - “leaving home problem” – emeshed family
Don’t be well (sane) – psychosomatic problems – stroking patterns – psychosis
Don’t think – drug and alcohol – Adult ego state problems – psychosis
Don’t feel – This injunction is really a group of injunctions
Don’t trust – central to the paranoid personality
We can explore each self-similar line for personal, symbolic, and archetypal meaning. Ancestors are each a living presence that shapes who we are -- an individual and collective influence. Intergenerational life events become connected in our bodies and express through epigenetics. Gene expression is altered rather than the genetic code itself; some genes turn on and others turn off.
Cumulative family experience includes shock, unfinished grieving, unresolved conflicts, lack of opportunities, migration, power issues, scapegoating, persecution, abuse, historical and environmental challenges, premature deaths and the nature of their relationships and their individual and collective landmark events. They are embedded in complex layers of our mindbody as unconscious memory, experience, and meaning. Each family expresses a unique dynamic, family law, order, and tradition, in verbal and non-verbal ways, in toxic or healthy interaction.
We work through our lives with conscious and unconscious myths which can be clarified through our legacy. We naturally find the ancestors in phobias, dreams, visions, ideas, beliefs, and physical symptoms -- perhaps even their memory-traces of guilt, shame, sorrow, sadness, even horror, pain, or fright.
We may still feel the feelings our ancestors could not. Larger and smaller cultures like families can exert cult-like control effects on our minds. They modify our cognitive bias and resilience or create anxiety, despair, and anger. Unprocessed behavioral symptoms impair our adaptation.
We can all define our own reality more easily when we have a better understanding
of the problem at hand. All we have to do is 'face' it. Our ancestors put a face on it that helps us 'face it'.
101 Generations
MYTHS & REALITIES