Attune Magazine January 2013 | Page 57

A positive outcome not included in the published papers of most of the scientists working on the various facets of this emerging discipline,though it is implicit in the findings just as surely as the evidences of the damage already done. To state it very simply: just as negative factors can cause damaging modifications that can be passed down to one's descendants, so it must also be possible to change these expressions in a beneficial way.

Perception is an unexpectedly huge part of the equation, as is our interpretation and chosen action. We CAN decide how to react, and interrupt destructive patterns if we just pay enough attention to what is actually happening around us and within us. We can't control others, but we can control ourselves, and respond to others in a more timely and effective way- and if others are not neglected/abused/ignored at key times in their development, they are less likely to lose their capacity for empathy, and less likely to pass that chemical propensity onto their descendents. This is crucial, because as our population grows and develops more and more of a history of suffering and passing on that suffering in personal lore and behavioral patterns as well as embedded chemical imprints of the experiences of our ancestors, who among us can say by this era in history, that we have not been traumatized and abused at some point in time? Each of these experiences leaves its mark in this way, not only on us as individuals, but on the family history, and eventually on the species mind...and soul.

Since energy is the foundation of our material matrix, and experiences encode themselves in the fiber of our being, it's clear that ruthless and callous action toward others will cause exactly the increase we are seeing in violent action toward others. We are reaping the harvest of our insensitivity and selfishness toward other life- forms as well.