'and for that matter, could we not find traces of Africa in me as it would be found in you as well! good topic, man!! but i don't think you could trace that, because i don't personally think it's there.''


there are neuro chemical ways to trace your dna markers, but that is a subject, perhaps for another forum. :)

in the very end- the whole world walks thru you.

Hmmmmm....ok, well first off, I just gotta say I'm a wee bit skeptical about this "whole body regenerates in 7 years" thing....I'm just not so sure about it. I know our largest organ, the skin, is constantly renewing itself, and that the liver is also capable of regenerating. But I've never heard this for other organs. My intuitive understanding is that for the most part they grow to maturity and that's it. Sure they have mechanisms for healing and repairing areas, but I don't know that they're just constantly regenerating. I refer to the liver again: you can take out part of the liver, and the liver will mostly grow back and you'll be fine. But you can't grow back a piece of a kidney, or a lung.....so again, I'm skeptical on the original premise.

But what is fueling your organism constantly and building beneficial and detrimental deposits in your body is definitely what you eat, what you drink, what you breath, and even the light that's hitting you, the angle, duration, etc.....So everything in your bioregion leaves a pretty good mark in your body and your essence. Stands to reason that the longer you are in an area, the more like that area you will become in biochemical terms (leaving aside all the metaphysical implications for now...)

And as for what we carry from past generations, well, it seems to me that goes way beyond just the genetic anomalies like sickle-cell that LLB pointed out. I had this vision, insight of sorts one night, where I saw how every single one of the tiny miniscule cells in our body is subject to the actions of every single one of our ancestors into infinity. Just imagine, to make an extreme example, if some Homo Erectus living in a cave in the middle east sustains an injury to the shoulder that leaves him walking a little funny for the rest of his life. Just a litte funny, nothing life risking. So his son is born, and sees how Daddy walks, and by natural primate behavior, imitates the slight lean of his fathers shoulder, thereby tensing all those muscles and energy pathways and so on.....and imagine this being repeated in tiny subtle degrees over ten, a hundred, a thousand generations, each generation imitating their mothers and fathers subconsciously repeating not just their behavioral patterns, but also their physical behavioral patterns. So 500,000 years later a whole slew of people are carrying a tiny degree of fucked-up shoulder from ancestors long past, in the process blocking energy pathways and in turn creating real physical and psycho-social disease.....

This is, to me anyways, partially why yoga is so helpful. You learn to unlearn all the fucked up physical, spiritual and emotional baggage that your family and ancestors have carried since.....who knows when.....

Anyways, I may be way off topic, but I just felt it important to share that....

:)