Puzzle of Flesh
"Here is the Book of Thy Descent,
Here begins the Book of the Sangreal,
Here begin the terrors,
Here begin the Miracles."
--Perlesvaus
A Puzzle of Flesh
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood? ~Carl Jung
I think what you mean by science is a way of authentic knowing, whatever that may be. But most, or many of the things that matter to us, are neither outside nor inside. Like the kind of experiences I work with (Mack 1999), they are powerfully internal but have an element from the outside, and I think this is probably true of most phenomena that matter to us. [My question then is this]: How do we use science to study something that is not simply the inner world, nor is it the outer world, but is a resonance of the whole reality system? --John Mack
Here begins the Book of the Sangreal,
Here begin the terrors,
Here begin the Miracles."
--Perlesvaus
A Puzzle of Flesh
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood? ~Carl Jung
I think what you mean by science is a way of authentic knowing, whatever that may be. But most, or many of the things that matter to us, are neither outside nor inside. Like the kind of experiences I work with (Mack 1999), they are powerfully internal but have an element from the outside, and I think this is probably true of most phenomena that matter to us. [My question then is this]: How do we use science to study something that is not simply the inner world, nor is it the outer world, but is a resonance of the whole reality system? --John Mack
THE GENE BANK
Deciphering Your Historical & Genetic Genealogy
WAYS OF KNOWING
Collage by Matt Atkinson
"The last stage is reached when, in the highest tension and concentration, beholding in silence and utter forgetfulness of all things, it [the soul] is able as it were to lose itself. Then it may see God, the fountain of life, the source of being, the origin of all good, the root of the soul. In that moment it enjoys the highest indescribable bliss; it is as it were swallowed up of divinity, bathed in the light of eternity." --Plotinus
"A burgeoning new model however, depth thealogy, as a Jungian-influenced psycho-religious discipline, accepts that all of the above are happening, creating a union between science and religion—as the psychological and the religious are intricately connected within the individual. A byproduct of my study, depth thealogy is the psychodynamic and thealogical phenomenological analysis of religious experience and praxis; it is firmly rooted in personal Divine experience and based on the adherent’s understanding of the Numinous’ immanent and transcendent nature. (Proudfoot, 1985)
It is an appropriate and useful unifying model for understanding the current Western paradigmatic shift. Within the realm of depth thealogy and the shifting Western paradigm, the religious, the psychometric and the psychological combine into a unifying personal religion seeking direct connection with a Numinous that is both immanent and transcendent, both sublime and profane – both present within--and part of--the sacred spaces that inhabit our Earth." --Patricia ‘Iolana. The Sublime and the Profane:
A Thealogical Account of Psychometric Experiences Within a Sacred Space
They Come In Dreams: They Give Us Faces
"The last stage is reached when, in the highest tension and concentration, beholding in silence and utter forgetfulness of all things, it [the soul] is able as it were to lose itself. Then it may see God, the fountain of life, the source of being, the origin of all good, the root of the soul. In that moment it enjoys the highest indescribable bliss; it is as it were swallowed up of divinity, bathed in the light of eternity." --Plotinus
"A burgeoning new model however, depth thealogy, as a Jungian-influenced psycho-religious discipline, accepts that all of the above are happening, creating a union between science and religion—as the psychological and the religious are intricately connected within the individual. A byproduct of my study, depth thealogy is the psychodynamic and thealogical phenomenological analysis of religious experience and praxis; it is firmly rooted in personal Divine experience and based on the adherent’s understanding of the Numinous’ immanent and transcendent nature. (Proudfoot, 1985)
It is an appropriate and useful unifying model for understanding the current Western paradigmatic shift. Within the realm of depth thealogy and the shifting Western paradigm, the religious, the psychometric and the psychological combine into a unifying personal religion seeking direct connection with a Numinous that is both immanent and transcendent, both sublime and profane – both present within--and part of--the sacred spaces that inhabit our Earth." --Patricia ‘Iolana. The Sublime and the Profane:
A Thealogical Account of Psychometric Experiences Within a Sacred Space
They Come In Dreams: They Give Us Faces
For those we love most, both in time and beyond...
Through those who came before...and those who are not yet born...
There is no need for us today to give up the relational, to forego meaningful connection and traditional language, even when we move beyond the supernatural belief systems of our ancestors.
The Portuguese word "SAUDADE" has no English Equivalent: it describes the feeling of missing something very intensively. The Portuguese also say: "To Yearn for the Future" - Feeling for the connection to a destiny in time that is NOT YET, may be a particular genetic skill of the serpent... inhabiting time itself..
Ways of Knowing
They come in dreams, in revere, in ritual, with the gentle assist of a "library angel" or other surprise clues, and they inform our being literally and figuratively. They carry mystery in their wake, often with cryptic messages or information that can later be verified or found in the physical world. They inspire our spiritual studies and humanitarian efforts, our self-expression, proclivities and desires. They compel our loves and help create our children, perpetuating the line. We are theirs and they are ours. We are family; we are Blood. We feel their experience from their point of view. As we collect them in name, we collect their experiences, integrating them into our own meaning.
Ancestor worship has been a vital part of Chinese life since prehistoric times. Ancestor worship is expressed in numerous ways, some of them very practical and physical, as well as ethereal. Cultivating rows of graves resonates with cultivating relationships and providing boons for the dead in the afterlife -- cultivating kinship meant cultivating virtue as well as communication and reverence. Most believe that ancestors can help in difficult times. In China, ancient human sacrifice has given way to modern tomb-tending ceremonies, but the dead still make demands. The practice of ancestor worship has existed since ancient times, and it emphasized continuity of family lines and filial piety.
Tending RESTLESS SPIRITS is described by Peter Hessler for National Geographic:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2010/01/chinese-afterlife/hessler-text
There was only one day each year when they looked backward, in April, during the festival of Qingming. The Chinese name translates as "day of clear brightness," and for more than a millennium it's been celebrated in various regional forms across China. Ancestor worship goes back even further. More than 5,000 years ago, the cultures of northern China were venerating the dead through highly systemized ceremonies. Echoes of these traditions still survive today, and during my first year in the village, when the holiday came around, I accompanied my neighbors on their ritual journey to the cemetery.
Only men were allowed to participate. All of them were named Wei, and a dozen members of this extended clan left before dawn, hiking up the steep mountain behind the village. They wore simple work clothes and carried flat wicker baskets and shovels on their shoulders. They didn't make small talk, and they didn't stop to rest. They had the determined air of a work crew—tools at the ready, trudging past apricot trees whose fresh buds glowed like stars in the morning half-light. After 20 minutes we reached the village cemetery. It was located high on the mountain, where simple piles of dirt had been arranged in neat rows. Each row represented a distinct generation, and the men began their work on the front line, tending the graves of the most recently dead—the fathers and mothers, uncles and aunts. They weeded the mounds and piled fresh dirt atop. They left special gifts, such as bottles of alcohol or packs of cigarettes. And they burned paper grave money for use in the afterlife, the bills bearing a watermark that said, "The Bank of Heaven Co., Ltd."
Each villager pays special attention to his own close relatives, working through the rows from father to grandfather to great-grandfather. Almost none of the graves had markers, and as the men moved back in time, from row to row, they became less certain of identities. At last the work was communal, everybody pitching in for every mound, and nobody knowing who was buried beneath. The final grave stood alone, the sole representative of the fourth generation. "Lao zu," one villager said. "The ancestor." There was no other name for the original clan member, whose details had been lost over the years.
Genealogy
We cultivate our own rows or lines of ancestors through genealogy, the pedigree of our origins. Genealogy and even genetic genealogy are pursuits that require interpretation of assembled data, not literal interpretation, due to hidden variables and a variety of other factors, including the interpretive bias of the researcher. Thus, they are essentially Hermetic pursuits and should be approached as such, seeking both their wisdom and their subtle misdirection, outright lies of the past and present, misrepresentations, and other Trickster elements.
Even today, grandiose speculation often passes for science. Those unfamiliar with either subject are most likely to misinterpret their own family's functional relation to others, and likewise to misinterpret the evidence of their alleles in relation to antic origins and their meaning. Identifying SNPs from deep common ancestry, or rare SNPs related to shared characteristics helps us recognize one another as kin.
Genetic Genealogy
Genetic genealogy is the application of genetics to traditional genealogy. Genetic genealogy involves the use of genealogical DNA testing to determine the level of genetic relationship between individuals. Genetic genealogy is a science in great flux. In April 2000, Family Tree DNA began offering the first genetic genealogy tests to the public. This offering marked the first time that a personal theory on the Y chromosome could be tested outside of an academic study. Additionally, Sykes’ concept of a surname study, which by this time had been adopted by several other academic researchers outside of Oxford, was expanded into online Surname Projects (an early form of social network) and the effort helped spread knowledge gained through testing to interested genealogists worldwide.
In 2001, Sykes went on to write the controversial but popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve, which described the seven major haplogroups of European ancestors. This work has been superseded, by in the wake of the book's success, and with the growing availability and affordability of genealogical DNA testing, genetic genealogy as a field began growing rapidly. By 2003, the field of DNA testing of surnames was declared officially to have “arrived” in an article by Jobling and Tyler-Smith in Nature Reviews Genetics. The number of firms offering tests, and the number of consumers ordering them, had risen dramatically.
Another milestone in the acceptance of genetic genealogy is the Genographic Project. The Genographic Project is a five-year research study launched in 2005 by the National Geographic Society and IBM, in partnership with the University of Arizona and Family Tree DNA. Although its goals are primarily anthropological, not genealogical, the project's sale by April 2010 of more than 350,000 of its public participation testing kits, which test the general public for either twelve STR markers on the Y chromosome or mutations on the HVR1 region of the mtDNA, has helped increase the visibility of genetic genealogy. Such tests show biogeographical and ethnic origins and revealed vast patterns of human migration.
Even with scientific linkage to specific ancestral groups, self-discovery should not be confounded with personal mythology though both necessarily overlap. There is what the evidence shows or suggests, then the narrative which we construct from that limited evidence, which suggests certain things about our families, current and former cultures, and the future of society.
Hermeneutics is the study of theories and methods of the interpretation of systems of meaning, including interpretations of experience, or human behavior generally, including language and patterns of speech, social institutions, and ritual behaviors. It is a specific method or theory of interpretation, such as Freud or Jung's depth psychologies, for example. The word hermeneutics is a term derived from 'Ερμηνεýς, the Greek word for interpreter.
This is related to the name of the Greek god Hermes in his role as the interpreter of the messages of the gods. Hermes was believed to play tricks on those he was supposed to give messages to, often changing the messages and influencing the interpretation thereof. The Greek word thus has the basic meaning of one who makes the meaning clear. A DECODER. DNA still manages to preserve its deepest secrets about who and what we are. The bounds of fact and fancy blur in an incoherent reading -- creative misreading of SNP mutations, much like a dream interpretation.
Most people with a lot of New England ancestry descend from one or more ‘gateway’ ancestors – i.e., early colonists who descend, themselves, from English kings, primarily the Plantagenets. The latter, in turn, have their own gateway ancestors, through whom we derive our longest possible ‘ancestral lines’ – into the Dark Ages (roughly A.D. 450-750),
and perhaps (though far more conjecturally) even the Classical (Greco-Roman) and Ancient (Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian) worlds.
ALL such descents are hypothetical – that is, all entail many filiative links that are not, in fact, attested in writing, but postulated by scholars on the basis of an assessment of the known chronology, ethno-political situation, and onomastic patterns of the relevant era, locale, and race. In short, ‘ancient’ pedigrees have many ‘dotted lines,’ which are plausible, even likely, but NOT susceptible to proof.
Unfortunately, popular American genealogical literature is rife with supposed ‘ancient’ pedigrees which are neither likely nor plausible, and in some cases provably bogus, passing, as they do, through long chains of supposed personages who never existed. How, short of acquiring a comprehensive knowledge of many phases of world and national history, half a dozen ancient and modern languages, the various branches of philology, and an immense (and highly specialized) research literature (surely a job for several lifetimes!), is the ‘lay’ reader to tell the plausible from the preposterous, the reasonable from the ridiculous?
We can identify the major geographic areas, ethnicities, and pre-Plantagenet ‘gateway’ ancestors through whom we might descend from Dark Age, Classical, or Ancient kings, warlords, consuls, emperors, and pharaohs, and can outline the major sources of data and forms of reasoning upon which such descents are predicated. It will also draw your attention to proposed ‘ancient’ descents which are known to be false, or have been seriously questioned, and identify the absolute historical limits beyond which it will never be possible to go.
At about 360 years, or just short of 15 generations an individual living today would carry only three thousands of 1% (00.003052%) of the DNA of an ancestor who was “pure” anything 15 generations ago. So even if one ancestor was indeed Mediterranean 15 generations ago, unless they continuously intermarried within a pure Mediterranean population, the amount would drop by 50% with each generation to the miniscule amount that would be found in today’s current generation. With today’s technology, this is simply untraceable in autosomal DNA.
Through those who came before...and those who are not yet born...
There is no need for us today to give up the relational, to forego meaningful connection and traditional language, even when we move beyond the supernatural belief systems of our ancestors.
The Portuguese word "SAUDADE" has no English Equivalent: it describes the feeling of missing something very intensively. The Portuguese also say: "To Yearn for the Future" - Feeling for the connection to a destiny in time that is NOT YET, may be a particular genetic skill of the serpent... inhabiting time itself..
Ways of Knowing
They come in dreams, in revere, in ritual, with the gentle assist of a "library angel" or other surprise clues, and they inform our being literally and figuratively. They carry mystery in their wake, often with cryptic messages or information that can later be verified or found in the physical world. They inspire our spiritual studies and humanitarian efforts, our self-expression, proclivities and desires. They compel our loves and help create our children, perpetuating the line. We are theirs and they are ours. We are family; we are Blood. We feel their experience from their point of view. As we collect them in name, we collect their experiences, integrating them into our own meaning.
Ancestor worship has been a vital part of Chinese life since prehistoric times. Ancestor worship is expressed in numerous ways, some of them very practical and physical, as well as ethereal. Cultivating rows of graves resonates with cultivating relationships and providing boons for the dead in the afterlife -- cultivating kinship meant cultivating virtue as well as communication and reverence. Most believe that ancestors can help in difficult times. In China, ancient human sacrifice has given way to modern tomb-tending ceremonies, but the dead still make demands. The practice of ancestor worship has existed since ancient times, and it emphasized continuity of family lines and filial piety.
Tending RESTLESS SPIRITS is described by Peter Hessler for National Geographic:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2010/01/chinese-afterlife/hessler-text
There was only one day each year when they looked backward, in April, during the festival of Qingming. The Chinese name translates as "day of clear brightness," and for more than a millennium it's been celebrated in various regional forms across China. Ancestor worship goes back even further. More than 5,000 years ago, the cultures of northern China were venerating the dead through highly systemized ceremonies. Echoes of these traditions still survive today, and during my first year in the village, when the holiday came around, I accompanied my neighbors on their ritual journey to the cemetery.
Only men were allowed to participate. All of them were named Wei, and a dozen members of this extended clan left before dawn, hiking up the steep mountain behind the village. They wore simple work clothes and carried flat wicker baskets and shovels on their shoulders. They didn't make small talk, and they didn't stop to rest. They had the determined air of a work crew—tools at the ready, trudging past apricot trees whose fresh buds glowed like stars in the morning half-light. After 20 minutes we reached the village cemetery. It was located high on the mountain, where simple piles of dirt had been arranged in neat rows. Each row represented a distinct generation, and the men began their work on the front line, tending the graves of the most recently dead—the fathers and mothers, uncles and aunts. They weeded the mounds and piled fresh dirt atop. They left special gifts, such as bottles of alcohol or packs of cigarettes. And they burned paper grave money for use in the afterlife, the bills bearing a watermark that said, "The Bank of Heaven Co., Ltd."
Each villager pays special attention to his own close relatives, working through the rows from father to grandfather to great-grandfather. Almost none of the graves had markers, and as the men moved back in time, from row to row, they became less certain of identities. At last the work was communal, everybody pitching in for every mound, and nobody knowing who was buried beneath. The final grave stood alone, the sole representative of the fourth generation. "Lao zu," one villager said. "The ancestor." There was no other name for the original clan member, whose details had been lost over the years.
Genealogy
We cultivate our own rows or lines of ancestors through genealogy, the pedigree of our origins. Genealogy and even genetic genealogy are pursuits that require interpretation of assembled data, not literal interpretation, due to hidden variables and a variety of other factors, including the interpretive bias of the researcher. Thus, they are essentially Hermetic pursuits and should be approached as such, seeking both their wisdom and their subtle misdirection, outright lies of the past and present, misrepresentations, and other Trickster elements.
Even today, grandiose speculation often passes for science. Those unfamiliar with either subject are most likely to misinterpret their own family's functional relation to others, and likewise to misinterpret the evidence of their alleles in relation to antic origins and their meaning. Identifying SNPs from deep common ancestry, or rare SNPs related to shared characteristics helps us recognize one another as kin.
Genetic Genealogy
Genetic genealogy is the application of genetics to traditional genealogy. Genetic genealogy involves the use of genealogical DNA testing to determine the level of genetic relationship between individuals. Genetic genealogy is a science in great flux. In April 2000, Family Tree DNA began offering the first genetic genealogy tests to the public. This offering marked the first time that a personal theory on the Y chromosome could be tested outside of an academic study. Additionally, Sykes’ concept of a surname study, which by this time had been adopted by several other academic researchers outside of Oxford, was expanded into online Surname Projects (an early form of social network) and the effort helped spread knowledge gained through testing to interested genealogists worldwide.
In 2001, Sykes went on to write the controversial but popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve, which described the seven major haplogroups of European ancestors. This work has been superseded, by in the wake of the book's success, and with the growing availability and affordability of genealogical DNA testing, genetic genealogy as a field began growing rapidly. By 2003, the field of DNA testing of surnames was declared officially to have “arrived” in an article by Jobling and Tyler-Smith in Nature Reviews Genetics. The number of firms offering tests, and the number of consumers ordering them, had risen dramatically.
Another milestone in the acceptance of genetic genealogy is the Genographic Project. The Genographic Project is a five-year research study launched in 2005 by the National Geographic Society and IBM, in partnership with the University of Arizona and Family Tree DNA. Although its goals are primarily anthropological, not genealogical, the project's sale by April 2010 of more than 350,000 of its public participation testing kits, which test the general public for either twelve STR markers on the Y chromosome or mutations on the HVR1 region of the mtDNA, has helped increase the visibility of genetic genealogy. Such tests show biogeographical and ethnic origins and revealed vast patterns of human migration.
Even with scientific linkage to specific ancestral groups, self-discovery should not be confounded with personal mythology though both necessarily overlap. There is what the evidence shows or suggests, then the narrative which we construct from that limited evidence, which suggests certain things about our families, current and former cultures, and the future of society.
Hermeneutics is the study of theories and methods of the interpretation of systems of meaning, including interpretations of experience, or human behavior generally, including language and patterns of speech, social institutions, and ritual behaviors. It is a specific method or theory of interpretation, such as Freud or Jung's depth psychologies, for example. The word hermeneutics is a term derived from 'Ερμηνεýς, the Greek word for interpreter.
This is related to the name of the Greek god Hermes in his role as the interpreter of the messages of the gods. Hermes was believed to play tricks on those he was supposed to give messages to, often changing the messages and influencing the interpretation thereof. The Greek word thus has the basic meaning of one who makes the meaning clear. A DECODER. DNA still manages to preserve its deepest secrets about who and what we are. The bounds of fact and fancy blur in an incoherent reading -- creative misreading of SNP mutations, much like a dream interpretation.
Most people with a lot of New England ancestry descend from one or more ‘gateway’ ancestors – i.e., early colonists who descend, themselves, from English kings, primarily the Plantagenets. The latter, in turn, have their own gateway ancestors, through whom we derive our longest possible ‘ancestral lines’ – into the Dark Ages (roughly A.D. 450-750),
and perhaps (though far more conjecturally) even the Classical (Greco-Roman) and Ancient (Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian) worlds.
ALL such descents are hypothetical – that is, all entail many filiative links that are not, in fact, attested in writing, but postulated by scholars on the basis of an assessment of the known chronology, ethno-political situation, and onomastic patterns of the relevant era, locale, and race. In short, ‘ancient’ pedigrees have many ‘dotted lines,’ which are plausible, even likely, but NOT susceptible to proof.
Unfortunately, popular American genealogical literature is rife with supposed ‘ancient’ pedigrees which are neither likely nor plausible, and in some cases provably bogus, passing, as they do, through long chains of supposed personages who never existed. How, short of acquiring a comprehensive knowledge of many phases of world and national history, half a dozen ancient and modern languages, the various branches of philology, and an immense (and highly specialized) research literature (surely a job for several lifetimes!), is the ‘lay’ reader to tell the plausible from the preposterous, the reasonable from the ridiculous?
We can identify the major geographic areas, ethnicities, and pre-Plantagenet ‘gateway’ ancestors through whom we might descend from Dark Age, Classical, or Ancient kings, warlords, consuls, emperors, and pharaohs, and can outline the major sources of data and forms of reasoning upon which such descents are predicated. It will also draw your attention to proposed ‘ancient’ descents which are known to be false, or have been seriously questioned, and identify the absolute historical limits beyond which it will never be possible to go.
At about 360 years, or just short of 15 generations an individual living today would carry only three thousands of 1% (00.003052%) of the DNA of an ancestor who was “pure” anything 15 generations ago. So even if one ancestor was indeed Mediterranean 15 generations ago, unless they continuously intermarried within a pure Mediterranean population, the amount would drop by 50% with each generation to the miniscule amount that would be found in today’s current generation. With today’s technology, this is simply untraceable in autosomal DNA.
I am the Hermetic King resurrected from the sepulcher of
the Nigredo. My fire has been drawn out of the darkness;
purified and exalted. My expansive fire is Solar by nature and
I am called the Son of the Sun. I am the purified and exalted
fire of your soul. I am the solar radiance of your consciousness
and the true Gold of the philosophers. Blessed are they who
have assimilated the inner most nature of this most adorable Fire!
the Nigredo. My fire has been drawn out of the darkness;
purified and exalted. My expansive fire is Solar by nature and
I am called the Son of the Sun. I am the purified and exalted
fire of your soul. I am the solar radiance of your consciousness
and the true Gold of the philosophers. Blessed are they who
have assimilated the inner most nature of this most adorable Fire!
Keywords: Grail Lineage, holy grail, Sangreal, sang real, Bloodline, God-Kings, Merovingian Dynasty, Gnostics, Carolingian Dynasty, Ulvungar Dynasty, Desposyni, House of Poitiers, Plantagenet Dynasty, Capetian Dynasty, Bourbon Dynasty, Valois Dynasty, Philippine Dynasty, House of Basarab, Aviz Dynasty, House of Braganza, Bergundian Dynasty, Kiev Dynasty, Hapsburg Dynasty, Franks, Goths, Visigoths, House of Lorraine, Ostrogoths, Vikings, Normans, Anglo-Norman, Picts, Welsh Kings, English High Kings, Scottish Kings, Irish Kings, Plantagenet, Anjou, Cathars, Templars, Lombardys, Byzantines, Holy Roman Empire, Boyars, Magna Carta Barons, Crusaders, Anunnaki, Sumerian Kings, Egyptian Pharaohs, Babylonian Kings, Celtic Christianity, Scythians, Tribe of Dan, Davidic Line, Tribe of Benjamin, Tribe of Levi, Royal Ashina-Khazar, Trojans, Freemasons, Druids, Pendragon Dynasty, Messianic Legacy, Dragon Legacy, Tuatha de Danaan, Fir Bolg, Sidhe, Transylvania, Vinca, Dacia, Kush, Ethiopia, Saka, Scythians, Xiongnu, White Huns, Han Dynasty, Turkic Clans, Lusignan, Toulouse, Rennes le Chateau,
Magdalene Altar, Renne Le Chateau
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