Genetic inheritance is biological inheritance. This post will briefly summarize genetic inheritance. We are creatures of genetic transmission. Teilhard de Chardin said, “biological (organic) inheritance is based on the transmission of genetic information in humans very much the same as in other sexually reproductive organisms.” (1961) Our genetic code (DNA) of spiral energy will reflect the parental inheritance we are born with. Biological-genetic  inheritance is basically DNA memory that passes from generation to generation. DNA is cumulative from familial past generations –—> parents, grandparents, great grandparents, etc. Genetic inheritance is biologically based and springs from Nature. Genes entail a lot of things, but they are especially concerned with survival and reproduction. Genetics is just an exceptional branch of biology. Genetics concerns cells and how cells use genes as a blueprint. Every cell has a genetic code or blueprint (instructions for life). I like and endorse Richard Dawkins view of genes as not so much a blueprint, but more as a recipe of genetic instructions. Genes are the material that we inherit in pairs from both parents. Genes are stretches of DNA that have a recipe to make protein. The genetic code recipe is a straight-line written formula of 3-letter words that are digitally displayed. Incredibly, a genetic code of 3-letters is the same for all of life from simple bacteria to human beings. DNA’s double-helix ladder is a sequence bases for organic life no matter the form life takes. DNA’s spiral-staircase structure has 2-helical strands that make for its backbone. The 2-strands …

In the Theory of Balanceology, I advance a broad view of human evolution (i. e. cosmological, biological, cultural, and personal), and I also advocate for a broader view of human inheritance (i. e. cosmological, biological, cultural, and personal).  I previously  discussed cosmological inheritance.  Over the next several posts I will discuss biological inheritance. Biological inheritance entails a huge subject area. In my research, study, and trying to have some experience and conceptualization of biological inheritance, I have focused on: 1.) genetic inheritance, and 2.) transgenerational genetic inheritance. More to come.  

Sometimes poetry can put into words what the more data oriented professions related to the sciences and behavioral health can’t.  I came across this poem by Robert Weston a few years ago.  His poem just seemed to express what I was trying to say about my view of cosmological evolution and inheritance. His poem helped me build my naturalistic based Theory of Balanceology. I hope you can appreciate it as much as I do.  

I embrace and have come to appreciate that all of us have Cosmic origins making each one of us an infinitesimal part of a gigantic interconnected Universe. The Cosmic elongated shadow makes us creatures having the entirety of the Cosmos within us. I declare that I view homo sapien creatures as cosmic sapien creatures. Human beings are transmitters of energy. Our mind and body is of matter-energy moving in space-time. Every atom (animate or inanimate) is about atomic energy —> being energetic. Our Cosmic inheritance comes from atoms that have come from supernova explosions happening billions of years ago. That makes all of life inheritors of dying stars. Stars are basically gigantic hydrogen bombs held together by gravity —> the formula to make a star is hydrogen + gravity + time. There are more stars than grains of sand on our Earth, and our mind-bodies are made from the elements of pristine stardust. We are liberated self-aware creatures and the byproducts of Cosmic stardust that miraculously came to life (i. e. Biological Inheritance). The calcium in our bones is generated from ancient stars. The iron in our blood originated from primeval stars. The nitrogen in our muscles and the hydrogen in our hair are spinoffs from primordial space. We truly are descendants of that 13,700,000,000 years ago antediluvian Big Bang explosion. In previous posts I indicated that we are part of Nature’s patterns, order, duality, unity, cyclicity and balance. In fact, we are exquisitively sensitive to Nature’s patterns and order. …

In several previous posts I took a broader view of human evolution compared to other writers and theorists.  I maintain human evolution has cosmological, biological, cultural, and personal components.  In this post, and in posts to come I will also take a broader view of human inheritance. First of all, inheritance concerns anthropogeny —-> the study of our origins and beginnings.  My goal for the posts to come is to illustrate how I have studied, researched, discovered, and have come to understand the very long process and intricate history concerning our multifactorial origins. Inheritance pertains to linkage, derivation, precursors, and a connectedness we have received from the past. To inherit something is to receive something. Today there are many individuals concerned with discovering their genealogical history. At the micro-level (family level) there are numerous people interested in studying their family history, family tree, and finding out about their family pedigree. That is an exciting, educational, and valuable thing to do.  However, I keep in mind that at the macro-level (species level) we are connected by an extremely long cosmological and biological family history. We also have remarkable sociological historical connections. I don’t think enough of us pay attention to our species inheritance.  My inheritance posts will set the stage for future posts where I will discuss  in great detail how all of this inheritance has evolved into human nature –—> human beings. I now extensively address  how our inherited foundations have come from cosmic, biological, cultural, and personal transmission: 1.) cosmological inheritance …

In a recent post, I addressed cultural devolution.  And, the discussion of celebrity culture and how it contributed to modern day cultural devolution came up.  I might get myself into some trouble here, but I decided to make a post about Celebrity Culture.  In our  modern culture there has developed a kind of semi-god worship for “celebrities” in  movies, music, sports, and politics. Pampered celebrities with their spoiled egos are seen on television, in magazines, advertisements, and endless parades of self-congratulatory  red carpet ceremonies. We have become a celebrity focused want-to-be culture with an ambition to be part of the “rich and famous.” We have a love/hate relationship with celebrities. On the one hand, we fantasize about their fame and fortune, but at the same time envious of their fame and fortune. Rene Girard coined the term mimetic desire that explains the envy, and covetousness that neuronically develops in part of the brain when it becomes activated to what others have. We live vicariously through celebrities. We love to see a celebrity build up, but the schandenfreude part of a typical human brain loves to see celebrities crumble. Celebrity culture is one of opulence, consumerism, unbridled materialism, exhibitionism, plastic surgery, attention-seeking behaviors, fame-seeking behaviors, and inauthenticity. Celebrity culture is having a 20,000 sq. foot home (multiple homes), $350,000 car (multiple cars), $250,000 ring (multiple diamond rings), a gold tooth (a mouth full of gold teeth), a million dollar wedding (multiple million dollar weddings). Celebrity status is a world of “Keeping …

I theorize that one reason for cultural devolution “is what can occur when the technological advancement of a species races ahead of its moral, ethical and spiritual development.” (Walsh, 2005) It appears to me that at some levels human technology has displaced human morality. There are examples in human history when entire cultures have been subjected to degenerative periods of collective immorality. In the advanced technological 20th Century some of the following atrocities have happened ——> Nazi Era in Germany, Great Leap Forward in China, Bosnian genocide, Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, Rwanda mass killings, and Syrian barbarity. Cultural devolution happens when a society is out-of-balance —-> it has lost its way. World-renowned historian Arnold Toynbee maintained that all cultures have a life cycle where they start, develop, mature, and die. Cultures have many ups and downs during their existence. In a later post, I address this topic in detail when I ask, “Is the United States in a cultural devolutionary time-period with a juvenilistic emphasis on materialism, immediate gratification, and attention-seeking behaviors?” I am afraid these behaviors are persistently moving America towards a vulgarization and coarsening of our culture and society. Finally, all of us individually have our own life cycling journey of birth, stages of growth and development, periods of devolution, and in this cycle we too will die.  Question:  “Is American Culture going through a time of devolution (however you define that term)?