One of the reasons I am impressed by the Pekingese dog breed is that they
have one of the longest ancestral store of racial memories for a pet
developed by humans .... similarly
Arabian horses, and Koi fish do also. Koi have lived to be 265 years old. I
feel I have an awesome racial memory. One I was equipped with at birth, and
it even included future memory for my life time and my children's...
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racial memory
-noun Psychology .
feelings, patterns of thought, and fragments of experience that have been
transmitted from generation to generation in all humans and have deeply
influenced the mind and behavior.
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In psychology, genetic memory is a memory present at birth that exists in
the absence of sensory experience, and is incorporated into the genome over
long spans of time. It is based on the idea that common experiences of a
species become incorporated into its genetic code, not by a Lamarckian
process that encodes specific memories but by a much vaguer tendency to
encode a readiness to respond in certain ways to certain stimuli. It is
invoked to explain the racial memory postulated by Carl Jung, and
differentiated from cultural memory, which is the retention of habits,
customs, myths, and artifacts of social groups. The latter postdates genetic
memory in the evolution of the human species, only coming into being with
the development of language, and thus the possibility of the transmission of
experience. Racial memory is a concept in Jungian psychology. Racial
memories are posited memories, feelings and ideas inherited from our
ancestors as part of a "collective unconscious".
Language, in the modern view, is considered to be only a partial product of
genetic memory. The fact that humans can have languages is a property of the
nervous system that is present at birth, and thus phylogenetic in character.
However, perception of the particular set of phonemes specific to a native
language only develops during ontogeny. There is no genetic predisposition
towards the phonemic makeup of any single language. Children in a particular
country are not genetically predisposed to speak the languages of that
country, adding further weight to the assertion that genetic memory is not
Lamarckian.
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From my own life experience and access to my racial memory from multiracial
ancestors, I personally believe that I do have extra sensory communication
abilities that others have not inherited and also have ancient memories that
are most valuable to me in my life. Intuition, instinct, and intelligence
coupled with a vast inherited racial memory bank are some of the resources I
value and use in my life. They are unique and individually mine and are not
common to others.
Friday, August 27, 2010
My Koi Pool Algae
A friend came to my home yesterday to pick me up for lunch and was looking at my large Koi pool which is now covered with a dark green algae on all of the interior surfaces, the water is filtered and has ultra violet light exposed to kill bacteria and the most noxious forms of algae (blue-green and string algae) but apparently it doesn't prevent the type of algae growth now existing in the Koi pool.
I enjoyed botany in college and in my choice of reading while doing home gardening. I even took a class to become a "Master Gardener" with the Maricopa County Agriculture Extension. So I will be trying to observe and learn more about the life its ecology in my Koi pool.
She asked me about it and I thought it would be a simple matter to give her more specific information about its name and attributes..... well this morning I learned there are 125,771 different species of algae! How do I go about finding out more information about the specific algae growing in my pool? My friend thinks it might be bad, but I assured her all pools have it , those that have water plants growing in them since one does not use an algaecide in a pool they want water plants to grow in also.
The "green algae" is the most diverse group of algae, with more than 7000 species growing in a variety of habitats. The "green algae" is a paraphyletic group because it excludes the Plantae. In biological taxonomy, a grouping of organisms is said to be paraphyletic if all the members of the group have a common ancestor but the group does not include all the descendants of the common ancestor. Groups which include all the descendants of a common ancestor are commonly termed monophyletic, although this term is sometimes taken to apply to paraphyletic groups, in which case they are called holophyletic.
Like the plants, the green algae contain two forms of chlorophyll, which they use to capture light energy to fuel the manufacture of sugars, but unlike plants they are primarily aquatic. Because they are aquatic and manufacture their own food, these organisms are called "algae," along with certain members of the Chromista, the Rhodophyta, and photosynthetic bacteria, even though they do not share a close relationship with any of these groups.
The major groups of "green algae" are distinguishable on the basis of their flagellar insertion (the number and arrangement of the flagella that the cells have); their method of cell division; and their habitat
http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/protists/gallery.html was an interesting sight and I think I believe my algae in the Koi pool is a "green algae"
Green algae:
Algae are not considered "plants" but are their own distinct life form and they do mutate creating new varieties...
I have a microscope but so far have not made a slide of "my koi pool algae"... Oh my, the mysteries of my Koi pool and the life within!
I enjoyed botany in college and in my choice of reading while doing home gardening. I even took a class to become a "Master Gardener" with the Maricopa County Agriculture Extension. So I will be trying to observe and learn more about the life its ecology in my Koi pool.
She asked me about it and I thought it would be a simple matter to give her more specific information about its name and attributes..... well this morning I learned there are 125,771 different species of algae! How do I go about finding out more information about the specific algae growing in my pool? My friend thinks it might be bad, but I assured her all pools have it , those that have water plants growing in them since one does not use an algaecide in a pool they want water plants to grow in also.
The "green algae" is the most diverse group of algae, with more than 7000 species growing in a variety of habitats. The "green algae" is a paraphyletic group because it excludes the Plantae. In biological taxonomy, a grouping of organisms is said to be paraphyletic if all the members of the group have a common ancestor but the group does not include all the descendants of the common ancestor. Groups which include all the descendants of a common ancestor are commonly termed monophyletic, although this term is sometimes taken to apply to paraphyletic groups, in which case they are called holophyletic.
Like the plants, the green algae contain two forms of chlorophyll, which they use to capture light energy to fuel the manufacture of sugars, but unlike plants they are primarily aquatic. Because they are aquatic and manufacture their own food, these organisms are called "algae," along with certain members of the Chromista, the Rhodophyta, and photosynthetic bacteria, even though they do not share a close relationship with any of these groups.
The major groups of "green algae" are distinguishable on the basis of their flagellar insertion (the number and arrangement of the flagella that the cells have); their method of cell division; and their habitat
http://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/protists/gallery.html was an interesting sight and I think I believe my algae in the Koi pool is a "green algae"
Green algae:
Algae are not considered "plants" but are their own distinct life form and they do mutate creating new varieties...
I have a microscope but so far have not made a slide of "my koi pool algae"... Oh my, the mysteries of my Koi pool and the life within!
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Life or Not
This morning one of my pretty Koi jumped out of the large 8 ft pool..??? I discovered him not quite yet dead while emptying my recycling can.
I picked his limp body up and had to decide to bury him or try to see if I could revive him.. I chose the latter. I sensed there was life, and I had hope he might be able to recover.....
I went back outside while writing this email and he seems to be alive since I don't see any dead body floating on top of the water or laying on the bottom of the pool... He may have suffered brain damage or may not live long because of his "accident", "bad decision to jump out", or whatever happened that he was out of the water...... but for now he is alive ...
How many of us consciously choose life or not, take risks, make fatal errors in life; and the lucky ones are saved and live to write about it or learn from their near death?
I wrote this blog post this morning on the subject of "Life or Not" ..
http://ymmartin.blogspot.com/2010/08/life-or-not.html
Each day is a new beginning .... Each day is what we make it.
I picked his limp body up and had to decide to bury him or try to see if I could revive him.. I chose the latter. I sensed there was life, and I had hope he might be able to recover.....
I went back outside while writing this email and he seems to be alive since I don't see any dead body floating on top of the water or laying on the bottom of the pool... He may have suffered brain damage or may not live long because of his "accident", "bad decision to jump out", or whatever happened that he was out of the water...... but for now he is alive ...
How many of us consciously choose life or not, take risks, make fatal errors in life; and the lucky ones are saved and live to write about it or learn from their near death?
I wrote this blog post this morning on the subject of "Life or Not" ..
http://ymmartin.blogspot.com/2010/08/life-or-not.html
Each day is a new beginning .... Each day is what we make it.
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