by Sharon Ruth Hill

Created on: May 02, 2009

Deja vu experiences, or the feeling that a new event has also happened in the past, can seem incredibly real and vivid but you can't quite put your finger on the actual history of the personal experience. However, there is a compelling theory relating to the genetic code of DNA, as in genetic memory, cellular memory, biological memory, and ancestral memory.

Explained in more simplistic terms, the genetic heritage we received from our ancestors contains the code for their talents, abilities, and their first hand memories and life experiences. This historical information is sometimes brought to the surface of our thoughts as a remembrance of some aspect of an event that happened not to us but to a direct ancestor in our genealogical line.

Biological memory, is a unique combination of the past history and current conditions which may include environment. The core of which is memory as contained, inherited, and processed through cell division. Our cells are constantly coding and decoding genetic information as a method of creating a personal blueprint that, through procreation, is then transferred to forthcoming generations in the form of DNA molecules. However, inherited epigenetic memory is not transferred by DNA sequence but by meiosis or mitosis.

Present at birth, genetic memory is innate, possibly deveoloped before the birth of every individual person. Since a newborn infant has no real, external life or even sensory experience, the human species allows, as part of the basic genetic code, for a slight head start with both a common experience and the ability to respond to sensorial stimuli.

Language ability is considered a mere by product of genetic memory, since all language is enabled by and present in the nervous system but yet must be developed. If it were other than this then we might inherently speak all the available languages of our ancestors without much real effort or education. This is more the ideal then the reality, however, many people are pre-disposed to learning languages.

Cellular memory is an interesting hypophysis whereby the cornucopia of habits, interests, tastes, and memories are available in the very cells of our bodies as well as our brains. This based on some evidence that recipients of organ transplants have soon developed some of the habits, interests, tastes, etc. of the organ donor. With no other reasonable explanation for these developments, this is a logical and reasonable conclusion.

With such a wide variety intrinsic characteristics pertaining to individual and collective memory of the human species, it is well within the realm of possibility that we do possess not only the inherited talents, abilities, and detriments of our ancestors, but the complete birthright of their individual memories available for our own access to apply to and further develop in our own experience.

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