Dormant or Extinct DNA Strands

Much of our DNA has been considered "junk" DNA. And we know from epigenetics that certain gene expressions turn on and turn off. What if sound can activate dormant gene expressions?

As I explore concepts of freedom and consent, everything within the cultures of the past say 2000-5000 years needs to be looked at.

They say “relationships take work” and no one know this more than a farmer. The relationship with humans and the land takes a lot of work. I read a book called Sex at Dawn almost two decades ago and it brought up some interesting ideas about when humans lost their freedom.

Here is a summary:

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality is a 2010 book about the evolution of human mating systems by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá. In opposition to what the authors see as the "standard narrative" of human sexual evolution, they contend that having multiple sexual partners was common and accepted in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness. The authors contend that mobile, self-contained groups of hunter-gatherers were the norm for humans before agriculture led to high population density. Before agriculture, according to the authors, sex was relatively promiscuous and paternity was not a concern. This dynamic is similar to the mating system of bonobos. According to the book, sexual interactions strengthened the bond of trust in the groups. Far from causing jealousy, social equilibrium and reciprocal obligation were strengthened by playful sexual interactions.

The book generated a great deal of publicity in the popular press where it was met with generally positive reviews. Conversely, numerous scholars from related academic disciplines—such as anthropology, evolutionary psychology, primatology, biology, and sexology—have been highly critical of the book's methodology and conclusions, although some have commended its arguments.

The authors have to main points they hammer home:

1. Monogamy is not natural. And that tribes shared everything and ownership of people wasn’t a thing until the dawn of agriculture.

2. Humans became enslaved with the dawn of agriculture, when we moved from nomadic, garden of Eden roamers to the grit of staying in one place, domesticating animals and domesticating land. When ownership of land became a thing, therefore inheritance of the land, that is when knowing who is your offspring became important and therefore, women’s “purity”, “chastity,” became controlled. So as the land was owned, so too was the female body. Patriarchy it seemed started with land ownership.

When men started domesticating the woman and she was never meant to be dominated, suppressed and domesticated. From goddess to servant.

Essentially Sex at Dawn explores when humans lost their freedom of mental, physical, spiritual and sexual consent. And we went from sharing to owning things.

What does sharing to owning lead to? Well a lot. Because on all levels it suggests there was once a reciprocal relationship between humans and land and then it became about domination, taking without permission, unjust contracts and with the taking away of freedoms, we may have lost a lot that could not survive in captivity.

I recently spent some time with Metis author LoriAnn Bird who authored Revered Roots. And she spoke about how the indigenous plants of the land, like the indigenous peoples of any land, they have great wisdom and have been in a symbiotic relationship with each other for thousands of years.

The indigenous plants that grow often carry the cures and the microbiome needed to survive on that land. One of the first things done by colonialists and land thieves is to kill the indigenous people and change the microbiome, introduce “invasive” species that don’t work with the indigenous plants of a population. For example in British Columbia, as soon as invaders arrived they started chopping down 850-1800 year old tress on mass, so within less then a century 75% of old growth forests have been destroyed.

Canada once had some of the largest trees in the world. And while the indigenous people of Canada honored these great great great grandfathers and mothers of the land, invaders just saw money.

Old-growth logging in Vancouver and across British Columbia has been ongoing for over a century, with significant impacts on the region's ancient forests. Specifically, on the southern coast (including Vancouver Island and the mainland southwest), 75% of the original, productive old-growth forests have been logged. This includes over 90% of the valley bottoms where the largest trees grow.

Logging of old-growth forests in BC has been a long-standing practice since the rise of industrial logging in the 1960s. The loss of old-growth forests has significant consequences for biodiversity, wildlife habitat, and the ability of forests to store carbon and mitigate climate change. The impact on old-growth forests around Vancouver is particularly notable, with 75% of the original forests on the southern coast already logged. (ChatGPT)

I have a theory on diversity that is of the imagination. But I wonder if extinction is a holistic concept. If we are all fractals of the cosmos and carry everything within us, every dirt, star dust, masses of water and all organisms of all things from the soil, it makes sense to me that big earthquakes, cosmic meteorites, floods and famines also align with evolution.

You can’t build a 1800 old tree back. You can build a lot of things with that tree. You can. Indigenous people found ways of harvesting off trees without killing the tree, so they would take slices off the big trees but in a way the tree would heal. And when they needed a big tree for the building of a boat, they would request it and honor it as a sacrifice. If they needed a bear for food, they would ask the bear, (I learned this at the Museum of Anthropology).

Much of the wisdom of the indigenous land keepers and earth keepers was destroyed by rapists and thieves. LoriAnn Bird said, given the indigenous people’s of the world carried the wisdom of the land, it did not make sense to do this. Why kill off the wisdom keepers? Well, sadly, if all you want to do to the land is to steal it from it’s guardians, just as you stole their children and tried to kill off their language and culture… that’s what genocide is. To kill so you can take. And humans will destroy themselves if they continue the desire to own, but not to share. The desire to take, but not give back. The wish to have no, but not consider what is left for future generations.

I have seen in the past few years a real rise in interest in reviving the lost traditions of indigenous plants, plant medicine, indigenous sounds, mantras, and to bring what was lost back into the spotlight, to honor the linages, the wisdom keepers and the healers. To allow the witch to live. To understand that wisdom needs to bridge generations. To be a strong tree, we need wisdom to span generations for holistic evolution. If we are in a land that just had all the elders cut down, we lose our connection to them.

Here are my thoughts, if earth rules are: one love, then if someone or something is not loved, it cannot live. Humans and animals need connection and love. If we are hunted, eventually we will die. If we are owned, domesticated and held as slaves, we cannot thrive. Even if we don’t completely die, it makes sense that parts of ourselves will shut off. Now going back to the title of this post, what if parts of our DNA just lie dormant when we are pushed down. What if the woolly mammoth, is dormant in our DNA. What if her song could be revived?

We saw the aftermath of the Indigenous children taken from their families and forced into residential schools. They died because they were not loved. They were not allowed to speak their native tongues of their ancestors, their parents could not find them and the people who kidnapped them and were training them to be a servant class, they had no love for them. The children were buried outside the schools in the land of their ancestors. If Canada’s story of genocide is the standard playbook of colonization and non-consent for a long time now, how can we heal and bring back the wisdom of the land, the plants and all living creatures? And can we with love bring back what lies dormant? Can we have a resurrection of what lies beneath, coded in our DNA but lying dormant? It is an interesting thought.

I call on all the hearts, the inner temples of the free, the souls of the witches, the shamans, the healers, the fire of the Great Spirit within you, White Buffalo Woman, indigenous linages, indigenous wisdom, of mother Gaia, of Isis, of Osiris, of Christ consciousness, of Mary Magdalene, of Buddha, of Shiva, of Shakti, of the Tibetan linages, Hindu linages, Celtic linages, Chinese linages, of the Andes, of all willfully destroyed languages, spells, incantations, sounds, songs, writings, art, wisdom, healing and love. I would like to call back those lost frequencies. In the spirit of love, freedom and diversity. We need the wisdom of the goddess, the mother, the lovers back. Because we can’t win with more hate, the only way to win is to love. So let’s bring back the freedom to love, however and whatever that means. And allow people to express themselves, dress themselves and speak themselves without judgment. Sovereignty is the way. We need to unravel all the chains and lies and the death by a thousand cuts so we have a chance of our own survival and the survival of all that is sacred.

Here are some interesting sounds of artists bringing back sounds of freedom, unchained melodies and the sounds of nature, animals, the wind and the earth. I feel inspired to know that all those with a voice are fighting for love right now. I think we an win together, but it means we have to unleash our gifts in whatever way it is possible and express to our mother Gaia that we are with her and will fight for our creator so creation will continue freely.

Namaste. We are all aliens somewhere looking for a home. May we remember our magic today and use it to love ourselves and our planet back to life.