“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.” Baruch Spinoza
What would you like to ask your ancestors?
“What do we miss when we don’t have an opportunity to ask questions of our family members at critical points in their lives? What do we want to pass on to future generations? What do we hope to learn from those who came before us?”
Coming soon: your immortal brain
“….an exact replica of your brain will hold your memories, will act and think and feel the way you do, and will experience your consciousness — irrespective of whether it’s built out of biological cells, Tinkertoys, or zeros and ones.” David Eagleman
The energy of our ancestors….
“If there was a drug that would give you a dream of an ancestor with a message for you that would put you completely at peace for the rest of your life, would you take it?” Voula
We become who we come from…
And the sins of the fathers will be visited on their sons unto the seventh generation….
The forgetting pill: would you take it?
If there was a pill you could take to wipe out a traumatic memory forever, would you take it? If there was a pill you could take to remember something you’d completely forgotten but that was essential to your happiness, would you take it?
Ancestral secrets
“Every individual’s life is a novel. You and I, we live as part of an invisible web, a web we also help to weave.” Anne Ancelin Schutzenberger
What are your earliest memories?
“Here was her past, in chronological order. Here were all the people she had loved, and still loved; here were her family and her friends, having good times; here were her beloved children.
Here were all her memories, so that she would never forget.” Honor Sinclair
The Kingdom Above the Clouds
Long, long ago, there lived, in the land which we call Greece, a race of brave men and beautiful women. They thought their own land the best and the fairest in the world……. So they said, “There must be some mighty people living above us, who rule the sun and the moon and the stars and the oceans and the rivers and the woods and everything else. They are great and happy and good, and they live forever; they can do whatever they please, and from them come all our joys and sorrows. Let us worship them and sing of them.” And they called these mighty people gods and goddesses.
Betrayal. Infidelity. Could you forget? Or would you keep remembering?
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” Thomas S Szaz