Debunking the Bloodline
THE APOCALYPTIC THEOPHANY from G. Moraeu
Debunking the Bloodline
Myths & Memes of the Genetic Matrix & Royal Lines
http://jungiangenealogy.weebly.com
by Iona Miller, 2013
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Myths & Memes of the Genetic Matrix & Royal Lines
http://jungiangenealogy.weebly.com
by Iona Miller, 2013
Pre-Print for Paranoia Magazine
Before anyone leaps to meme-like conclusions about 'Reptilians', Anunnaki, Merovingians, Templars, Gnostics, Illuminati, Pendragons, ancient aliens, holy blood, grail lines, god-kings, or "Luciferian consciousness", they should find out if they themselves carry such remnants in their own genes. They may be strangling in their own roots.
This author has traced her own bloodline back to Sumeria, and is an advisor to a peer-reviewed DNA journal, so speaks from some experience. Genealogy has become the world's biggest hobby, second only to the subject of sex online. The Underground Stream has spawned many underground scenes of varying credibility.
The widely-misunderstood Bloodline "conspiracy" looks different from inside than outside its own culture. Those actively pursuing their royal genealogies or involved in the numerous organizations and loose-knit heritage groups often hold radically different viewpoints on the subject from sensationalistic articles generated and endlessly recycled online.
They tend to be fascinated with certain eras, issues, or philosophies -- with magical personas, illustrious or nefarious ancestors, or alternative lifestyles. Some are metaphysical, spiritual, or deeply religious. Most are “lone wolves”, finding meaning only they value. The other side is profoundly skeptical, antagonistic or political, considering the bloodline malignant and controlling -- a nonhuman cabal of evil intent. Clearly, it means many things to many people.
Those who disbelieve the Grail paradigm might be surprised when it turns up in their family history. That is the best and perhaps only way to truly grasp its deeper meaning -- from the inside out. You can read the history of the world in your own genealogical lines, in the lives of your great-grandparents. Finding 4-5 generations is enough to plug into the World Tree.
Exploiting the Gullible
Most people with any interest in the bloodline are invested in some theory -- perhaps, in ancient aliens or hybridization scenarios, like the Sitchin Sumerian story. Political viewpoints range from monarchist to anarchist ideas about ruling elites, who have a stranglehold on social control and the bloodline.
David Icke was foremost in promoting his theory that the elite are shape-shifting Reptilians. He even accused his ex-wife of being the same during their divorce. His hysteria has earned him big money. Salacious stories tend to sell. But it is just demonization and projection. You have to look at the effects, not the content of the tale. Human oppression doesn't need aliens to exist.
It doesn't absolve sociopathic behavior by governments or leaders, but Icke is the 'pot calling the kettle black' while exploiting the public itself. If Icke really cared about humanity, would he be charging for his so-called wisdom in the spiritual supermarket? Duplicitous, charismatic tricksters do.
So, who is the shapeshifting teller of tales? Linking aliens, UFOs, and gov-crime conveniently expands the potential audience. Ironically, such appeals probably do ignite the reptilian brainstem and primal fears. The audience stares at Icke like deer in headlights.
But all these views about the bloodline miss the point, which is experiential and may first appear as a "calling" or mission and unfolding like Joseph Campbell’s hero motif. Rather than an outside opinion, it’s a deeply integrative experience.
Rational facts are unlikely to dissuade anyone in a mystic marriage with mythic and emotional appeals. They don't want to hear contrary evidence because they are highly invested in their own identities and certain narratives through such beliefs, right or wrong. Those who are ego invested have an even higher stake in being somehow 'special'.
It's All Relative
All of humanity is related many times over. Ancestors are those people you directly descend from, (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, etc.), not extended family members.
Direct-line research is genealogy focused on one's direct-line ancestors. However, as people are separated by more generations, their genetic relatedness plummets, exponentially. With twenty-five years per generation, you had around three billion ancestors at the signing of the Magna Carta, one hundred billion during the Norman invasion, two quintillion when the Roman Empire fell. Earth did not contain a fraction of that population then. So we must be related to everyone on earth many times over.
After only a few generations any personal genealogy links to that of the World Tree, mirroring the process of our personal unconscious embedded in the deeper collective unconscious. Knowing your genealogy brings that invisible information into consciousness. Sometimes that knowledge is shocking, destabilizing, or permanently alters one's sense of self. There is something to knowing exactly who you are and where you come from, relatively speaking.
Later monarchs descend many times over from earlier ones. Research suggests that everyone in the West is descended from Charlemagne; the entire world is descended from the Ancient Egyptian royal house; almost everyone from Confucius and Genghis Khan. Probably sixty percent or more Americans are descended from kings. These findings do not necessarily have any implications for our DNA. Anthropologists claim everyone on earth is a 40th cousin. Any two people can find at least 1 common ancestor since about 800 AD.
Genetic genealogy is the application of genetics to traditional genealogy. Genetic genealogy involves the use of genealogical DNA testing to determine the level of genetic relationship between individuals and archaic tribes. It provides evidence of tribal migrations, but none about the actual people in genealogical lines, much less their names or history.
To descend from someone does not mean you necessarily inherit any DNA from them. These findings do not conflict with the idea that most of your DNA is inherited from your local area. Descending from the Pharaohs does not mean detecting it in your DNA. In fact, there may be no evidence at all of these findings in humanity's DNA. Yet the findings can still be true.
Game of Thrones
The Da Vinci Code’s Rose Lines are revealed in the royal genealogies with which it is interwoven. The Grail is the source of life, of generativity. To transcend our small selves we need bigger stories.
The deep context of our global heritage is a mythic perspective suited to our age, culture, and sensibilities. Symbols are the currency of consciousness and the highest symbol and value is the Grail. It carries different meaning for each individual in their quest for self-knowledge.
Conspiracy fans project their fascination or animosity for the Bloodline meme onto individuals and groups. The psyche tends to fill in the blanks in our conscious understanding with imaginal and mythic material that is at best symbolic or metaphorical, not literal.
Many claim reincarnations of the famous, or being Mary Magdalene, Jesus, the Antichrist, the Men Who Would Be King, or various archetypal characters. Others bury themselves in deciphering hidden codes or endless pilgrimage searching for treasure or relics, even bodies. All the symbolism of the unconscious can mobilize in a fugue, overwhelming the ego. Different memes (popular disinformation; viral ideas) capture our attention, sometimes to the point of obsession.
Gullible followers increase because people prefer fairy tales to pragmatic truth, or statistical data. The appeal of unsubstantiated or daisy-chained allegations is largely emotional. Many seek only corroborating evidence while ignoring basic research which shows different results, preferring confabulations, misconceptions and self-delusion.
Conspiratorial politics or bloodline paranoia sensationalizes the fact that most Presidential candidates trace to related families, failing to realize that millions of others with Colonial or Revolutionary families have the same heritage. This "plot" involves an enormous amount of tertiary people who carry the bloodline with or without any knowledge.
Tired Memes
Tired memes are repeated over and over again, as if that validates them. They cluster around wild tales of the Anunnaki and mythic beings, Rh- blood, and allegations of racial difference, etc. Such notions originate with those unfamiliar with genealogy, their historical descent, or the basics of biology.
Our early ancestors had only type O blood. Around 40KYA mutations likely occurred creating A and B blood types. Types A and B blood are from dominant genes, that rapidly spread through the population. Genetic mapping reveals a mutation from Rh positive to Rh negative in the Basque area of Europe around 40,000 years ago. Those mutations likely created blood types A and B.
What could cause such mutations in the Upper Paleolithic era? In the Laschamp event, a short reversal of Earth’s geomagnetic field 41,000 years ago, our magnetic shield went down to 5%, exposing humanity to unusual amounts of cosmic radiation.
The transition lasted only 250 years, resulting in greater radiation reaching the Earth followed by a population explosion in a warm spell. During the last ice age, a compass at the Black Sea would have pointed to the south instead of north.
Genes mutate all the time - useful, harmful or neutral in their effects. Often they simply turn a gene off. In large populations, even helpful mutations tend to get “swamped” by non-mutant genes and vanish over time.
DNA tells us the stories of our forebearers from the first human who walked on the earth to YOU. It tells us whether our ancestors interbred with Neanderthals, while other regions show migratory paths. It all depends on what you want to know and your ability to interpret the genetic code. No scientific definitions for genetic ethnicity are universally accepted.
We determine genetic relationships among people by comparing sequences of nucleotides in their DNA. Even with both a pedigree and genetic genealogy tests, the results require interpretation. Different members of the same family can display different features. Mesopotamians, Scythians, Saxons, Gauls, Picts, Franks, Nordics, Iberians, and Celts merge in the melting pot.
University of Arizona geneticists discovered that the oldest known branch of the human Y chromosome (300,000 years) is the hereditary factor determining male sex. It passes unchanged from father to son. Yet, there is no exclusive or conclusive DNA signature for the Grail lineage, and there are gaps in the legends, histories, and pedigrees which require interpretation, if not leaps of imagination. This is as true for those of unbroken dynastic Houses as it is for those of ‘mixed blood’, since both refer to the same recognized source material.
Two Y chromosomes carry the same mutation if they share a common paternal ancestor at some point in the past. The more mutations that differ between two Y chromosomes the farther back in time that common ancestor lived.
Mitochondrial DNA is passed only through the female line. Mitochondria is a symbiotic organism, a separate life form from ourselves. They can live 15 generations. Your 15th gr-grandparents' living cells are alive in you.
Most British ancestors were hunter-gatherers, 15,000 -7,500 years ago. Basque STRs (genetic markers used to identify a DNA sequence) reveal 21 founding clusters, which could only have arrived direct from the Basque country. Their descendant twigs are unique to the British Isles.
Grail houses can have different Y haplogroups (paternal) as well as different mtDNA (maternal) signatures. Typical medical problems of a line don’t all appear in one individual. A single DNA change led to the blue, green, hazel, and other ‘mood eye’ colors.
While the “red gene” is significant, it may or may not distinguish noble ancestors.
Neanderthals also had red hair, but studies show the mutation responsible for this differs from the cause of red hair in modern humans. Genetic drift favors the fair skinned who could absorb more Vitamin D in less-sunny northern climes. It helps in heat retention.
Research shows that inbreeding changes the shape of the genetic covariance matrix. Inbreeding of ancient lines historically included brother-sister marriage for conserving sovereignty, wealth and social control in the same families. Ancestors bred their horses and themselves the same way.
Divine Pride
Finding their noble lines, many leap to royal ego trips, declaring themselves princes of their imaginal realms, seeking spurious titles. Others fancy themselves channels of ancient ancestors such as Mary Magdalene or even Jesus. While such identifications have always been popular, they may be no more than 'misguided inner authority'.
The unconscious psyche can produce great wisdom; it can also churn out endless rubbish or Trickster distortions. Ego inflation is an over-expansion of the personality through identification with an archetype or, in pathological cases, with a historical or religious figure, which exceeds individual limitations.
No credible DNA experts support such memes. Mystification abounds among those who don't know the basics of genetics or genealogy, and are persuaded by oft-repeated but unprovable tales told with great enthusiasm and gravity, as if that makes them more reliable.
An individual living today would carry only three thousands of 1% of the DNA of an ancestor who was “pure” anything 15 generations (360 years) ago. With today’s technology, this is simply untraceable in autosomal DNA. (Miller)
Direct Ancestors
Life and consciousness are the ultimate emergent phenomena, but we still don't know their real origin, which remains veiled in Mystery. We are cosmic psychophysical beings. Our core reaches down into the microcosm of quantum dynamics and the still center of Zero-Point.
Genome sequencing shows that modern humans interbred with other now-extinct species, including Neanderthal, Denisovian, and an unknown Asian species, possibly Homo heidelbergensis . The relic biology of other hominids remains part of our genome (Nature). Western European DNA has shown up in Siberia and Native Americans.
You have ancestors from whom you have no DNA. Your individual DNA fingerprint depends on how the chromosomes line up at conception. Some traits from both parents’ potentials will be there, while others get excluded. Some siblings can be redheads, others not; some can have family medical problems, others not, some may be Rh neg., others not. We may find things we never imagined and find no evidence for traits known within our lineage.
In genealogy, "direct line" includes parent to child, grandparent, great-grandparent, etc. Blood relations refer to the underground stream, the Red River of Memories that flows within us. The Blood is real and it's fresh; it flows in your veins.
By contrast, collateral line is a term that describes family relationships not in direct descent, (siblings, spouses, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc). Proving a direct line of descent is generally required for membership in heritage societies. Just seven generations back we have over 200 people in our immediate, or father-mother, grandfather-grandmother line.
Genetic matrix includes the complete set of instincts and response patterns responsible for the survival of your two genetic streams in the first place. These inherent patterns are what Jung called the Collective Unconscious. Genealogy functions as a therapeutic portal, much like dreams or symptoms, allowing us to enter the imaginal dimension.
Epigenetics is the heritable changes in gene activity not caused by changes in the DNA sequence, but rooted in our ancestors' experience. Genes are expressed or silenced depending on famines or fortunes.
Genealogy is about identity. It is an art, a quest for truth within, mobilizing the soul for creative self-expression, self-discovery and self-healing. Much benefit and fulfillment comes simply by remembering, writing, recording, sharing, painting, enacting or otherwise birthing into the physical world. Genealogy takes tremendous effort, affecting the psyche with both known and unknown historical and imaginal elements. It has its own magic, alchemy, and synchronicities.
Some seek social status through their genealogies when other avenues elude them. In search of their identity, they wind up finding the Shadow. Others use it to build a persona or mystique that becomes their main way of connecting in the world, an excessive commitment to a social mask or psychological armor. Recovery, the aim of individuation, means re-adaptation in outer life.
Genetics demonstrates that traits are not inherited preferentially from the ancestral matrix. While you may have a demonstrable royal line, you inherit far more genetics from commoners who did not have their lines recorded. While it is true that the Y-haplotype is passed directly from father to son, generation after generation, we all also inherit the even more persistent mitochondrial DNA from our maternal ancestors, up to 400 generations, or so.
With mtDNA the surname changes each generation. Every once in a while a mutation -- a random, natural (and usually harmless) change -- occurs in that sequence, like a spelling mistake. After one of these mutations occurs a woman passes it on to her daughters, and her daughters' daughters, and so on. Sons also inherit mtDNA, but the sons do not pass it on. Geneticists use these markers to construct one global mitochondrial family tree.
Even siblings may or may not inherit the slightest bit of any given ancestor or line. Thus, there is no single haplotype for the royal lines, nor any single identifying gene of that inheritance. Those with a royal genealogy may not have a single "royal" gene in their genome, making any claims of extraordinary inheritance moot.
No one knows where Rh-negative originates. Rhesus negative blood simply means that the blood doesn't have any Rhesus antigens on the surface of the red blood cells. Absence of a protein does not have to originate from anywhere. Rh+ has the antigen; Rh- does not. The gene quit working.
There is nothing alien here, no alien genes present. Actually the “absence” of our own genes produces the RhD antigen. Transport of CO2 is the ancestral function of Rh proteins. It potentially helped breathing in northern climes. The role of RhD, is to help maintain the flexible, flattened shape of the red cell.
Plausibly, a mutation on the first chromosome rendered Rh- individuals incapable of producing functional Rhesus proteins. Few have it because it is a recessive trait. 5% of global population is currently Rh-negative. It rises to 15% in the UK and USA, and 50% in the Basques who descend from indigenous Paleolithic inhabitants.
Conceivably, only one sibling in a dozen might be Rh-, descended from Rh+ parents. Even siblings get varied genetic packages and may not have genes from all the ethnicities or ancestors of their genealogical lines. There are different ethnic signatures. Some siblings might carry the signature of Native ancestry; others not.
As a recessive trait, Rh- blood may or may not express in a family. It could be ten or more generations since anyone had Rh- blood in his family. To express, both parents must carry the recessive gene.
Two parents who have O positive blood could easily have an O- child. Most O- children have parents who are positive. Some or perhaps none of a couple's children may inherit the trait. Siblings can be mixed Rh- with other blood types that are dominant. Some people wrongly believe that O Negative blood is "pure" or "alien". Every group overlaps genetically with every other.
There is no singular gene, mutation, allele, STR or SNP that tells the whole story. There are clusters of mutations that show deep relationship patterns of regional origin in some individuals. There is no DNA report that is 100% conclusive. They use the statistical “educated guess”. Many families conduct their own DNA research projects.
Statistical sampling flaws can lead to misinterpretations, based on too small of samplings and comparison studies. So, our own conclusions about our own DNA tests are, in part, interpretations of an interpretation. We can only draw inferences about the past based on the patterns observed in human DNA. And this is what keeps our quest alive.
Curated Lines
Most Europeans descend largely from farmers who migrated out of the Middle East 9,000 years ago. As offspring left their parents’ farms and moved into new territory, they interbred with existing hunter-gatherer populations. This produced gradients of genetic change radiating from the Middle East.
Only in mountainous areas unattractive to farmers—the Pyrenees of the Basques, for example—were the genes of the indigenous peoples left intact. Other historical events influenced the European gene pool. For example, a genetic trail leads from the area north of the Black and Caspian Seas into the rest of Europe. This trail helped spread the descendants of nomadic warriors and herders who first domesticated the horse about 4,000 B.C.
Again, it requires interpretation. It is a truism that genealogy without proofs is speculative, and even those lines accepted as "best practice" in genealogy have gaps and presumptions that ultimately lead back to mythical progenitors, like Wotan, Hercules, or Aphrodite – and yes, even Cain. Any viable genealogy must be curated with citations and evidence at every stage to be reliable.
Once you locate a ‘gateway ancestor’, one who links your family to a known noble ancestry, the door opens to a world of recorded and published pedigrees that can lead back to royalty. These gateways provide a personal link to the highly inbred medieval world, in the form of descents from medieval kings, queens, popes, crusaders, troubadours, heroes, villains, and saints and their descendants.
Early immigrants with traceable royal ancestry are the best ‘gateways’, but not really out of any class-oriented prejudice. Among early immigrants from Europe to the Americas, individuals with noble connections are likely to be traceable to a far larger number of ancestors, and thus sustain more interest and offer more connections.
Gateway ancestors link your family to published pedigrees that can lead back to royalty. Chances are the line from your gateway ancestor leads to Charlemagne. Most of these ascents go through the English or French kings, such as Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine back to the Merovingians.
Do the Math & Get Over It
Most Americans with sizable New England Yankee, mid-Atlantic Quaker, or Southern "planter" ancestry are descended from medieval royals -- kings of England, Scotland, and France especially. Following those lines back into the mists of pre-history we find direct links to all so-called racial divisions. Most of our ancestors will remain "invisible". This is the main reason people emphasize ancestral nobles.
The ancient royal lines include Asian Siberians and Han Chinese dynasties, sub-Saharan African, Jewish, and Muslim lines among the direct ancestors. Some will have Turkish, Persian, and Indian lines. Ultimately, this means 'race' is an illusion, other than the human race. The math backs this up, indicating we are all related within perhaps 40 generations.
So you find you come from royalty -- get over it. The Pyramid Theory, a doubling of ancestors each generation back, claims you have 2048 ancestors by the 12th generation in your past, and possibly 60,000 direct ancestors going back to the Crusades. By Generation 40, you would have more than one trillion ancestors!
We are at the end of a long and winding genetic journey that continues after and through us. We are probably all connected by the 25th gr-grandparents. There is a great possibility that we are descendants (or are related) from almost everyone alive some seven hundred years ago.
Many of those ancestors are the same persons. The genealogical evidence shows that many of the families intermarried for generations. By the 12th generation you have possibly 60,000 direct ancestors going back to the Crusades.
Yet, somehow a determined gene can survive intact through all those descendants and become a particle of memory that will give you a dejá vu once in a while. Ancestral memories may not be of actual events - it is not to be confused with the idea of past life or reincarnation - but of reactive response patterns and emotional states brought about by environment. The past has gone and the future has yet to come. All we ever have is the present.
Mixed Blood
So, how do we relate to those we perceive as kin? Anthropologist Nancy Thornhill contends that the prohibitions against incestuous marriages in most societies are not public-health measures to reduce birth defects but the society's way of fighting back against extended families.
Successful coalitions and charlatans may pose as "kin". Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker warns misperceived kinship makes people vulnerable to manipulation and cultish mind control: kinship is in the mind of the beholder. This kind of mind control is a strong temptation to cults and religions who want to foster cohesion among people who are not closely related.
It isn't merely our noble genealogy, shared with millions, that makes us who we are. What is unique is our personal reaction to such knowledge and how our relationship with it evolves as we assimilate and integrate that expanded awareness -- the Mystery of the whole matter. We are all in it together.
We need to know genealogy much like we need to know physics and psychology to comprehend what matter is, as well as what makes us matter. We have thousands of ancestor lines that are not preserved, making the small slice of royal descent largely archetypal as well as material. The part stands for the Whole - the cosmic process of Big History.
Perhaps, we should focus on the invisible thousands of ordinary ancestors who play just as big a part in our makeup.
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Iona Miller is a nonfiction writer for the academic and popular press, clinical hypnotherapist, and multimedia artist. She is an advisor to DNA Decipher Journal, and other scientific journals. Her main site is http://ionamiller.weebly.com
This author has traced her own bloodline back to Sumeria, and is an advisor to a peer-reviewed DNA journal, so speaks from some experience. Genealogy has become the world's biggest hobby, second only to the subject of sex online. The Underground Stream has spawned many underground scenes of varying credibility.
The widely-misunderstood Bloodline "conspiracy" looks different from inside than outside its own culture. Those actively pursuing their royal genealogies or involved in the numerous organizations and loose-knit heritage groups often hold radically different viewpoints on the subject from sensationalistic articles generated and endlessly recycled online.
They tend to be fascinated with certain eras, issues, or philosophies -- with magical personas, illustrious or nefarious ancestors, or alternative lifestyles. Some are metaphysical, spiritual, or deeply religious. Most are “lone wolves”, finding meaning only they value. The other side is profoundly skeptical, antagonistic or political, considering the bloodline malignant and controlling -- a nonhuman cabal of evil intent. Clearly, it means many things to many people.
Those who disbelieve the Grail paradigm might be surprised when it turns up in their family history. That is the best and perhaps only way to truly grasp its deeper meaning -- from the inside out. You can read the history of the world in your own genealogical lines, in the lives of your great-grandparents. Finding 4-5 generations is enough to plug into the World Tree.
Exploiting the Gullible
Most people with any interest in the bloodline are invested in some theory -- perhaps, in ancient aliens or hybridization scenarios, like the Sitchin Sumerian story. Political viewpoints range from monarchist to anarchist ideas about ruling elites, who have a stranglehold on social control and the bloodline.
David Icke was foremost in promoting his theory that the elite are shape-shifting Reptilians. He even accused his ex-wife of being the same during their divorce. His hysteria has earned him big money. Salacious stories tend to sell. But it is just demonization and projection. You have to look at the effects, not the content of the tale. Human oppression doesn't need aliens to exist.
It doesn't absolve sociopathic behavior by governments or leaders, but Icke is the 'pot calling the kettle black' while exploiting the public itself. If Icke really cared about humanity, would he be charging for his so-called wisdom in the spiritual supermarket? Duplicitous, charismatic tricksters do.
So, who is the shapeshifting teller of tales? Linking aliens, UFOs, and gov-crime conveniently expands the potential audience. Ironically, such appeals probably do ignite the reptilian brainstem and primal fears. The audience stares at Icke like deer in headlights.
But all these views about the bloodline miss the point, which is experiential and may first appear as a "calling" or mission and unfolding like Joseph Campbell’s hero motif. Rather than an outside opinion, it’s a deeply integrative experience.
Rational facts are unlikely to dissuade anyone in a mystic marriage with mythic and emotional appeals. They don't want to hear contrary evidence because they are highly invested in their own identities and certain narratives through such beliefs, right or wrong. Those who are ego invested have an even higher stake in being somehow 'special'.
It's All Relative
All of humanity is related many times over. Ancestors are those people you directly descend from, (i.e., a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, etc.), not extended family members.
Direct-line research is genealogy focused on one's direct-line ancestors. However, as people are separated by more generations, their genetic relatedness plummets, exponentially. With twenty-five years per generation, you had around three billion ancestors at the signing of the Magna Carta, one hundred billion during the Norman invasion, two quintillion when the Roman Empire fell. Earth did not contain a fraction of that population then. So we must be related to everyone on earth many times over.
After only a few generations any personal genealogy links to that of the World Tree, mirroring the process of our personal unconscious embedded in the deeper collective unconscious. Knowing your genealogy brings that invisible information into consciousness. Sometimes that knowledge is shocking, destabilizing, or permanently alters one's sense of self. There is something to knowing exactly who you are and where you come from, relatively speaking.
Later monarchs descend many times over from earlier ones. Research suggests that everyone in the West is descended from Charlemagne; the entire world is descended from the Ancient Egyptian royal house; almost everyone from Confucius and Genghis Khan. Probably sixty percent or more Americans are descended from kings. These findings do not necessarily have any implications for our DNA. Anthropologists claim everyone on earth is a 40th cousin. Any two people can find at least 1 common ancestor since about 800 AD.
Genetic genealogy is the application of genetics to traditional genealogy. Genetic genealogy involves the use of genealogical DNA testing to determine the level of genetic relationship between individuals and archaic tribes. It provides evidence of tribal migrations, but none about the actual people in genealogical lines, much less their names or history.
To descend from someone does not mean you necessarily inherit any DNA from them. These findings do not conflict with the idea that most of your DNA is inherited from your local area. Descending from the Pharaohs does not mean detecting it in your DNA. In fact, there may be no evidence at all of these findings in humanity's DNA. Yet the findings can still be true.
Game of Thrones
The Da Vinci Code’s Rose Lines are revealed in the royal genealogies with which it is interwoven. The Grail is the source of life, of generativity. To transcend our small selves we need bigger stories.
The deep context of our global heritage is a mythic perspective suited to our age, culture, and sensibilities. Symbols are the currency of consciousness and the highest symbol and value is the Grail. It carries different meaning for each individual in their quest for self-knowledge.
Conspiracy fans project their fascination or animosity for the Bloodline meme onto individuals and groups. The psyche tends to fill in the blanks in our conscious understanding with imaginal and mythic material that is at best symbolic or metaphorical, not literal.
Many claim reincarnations of the famous, or being Mary Magdalene, Jesus, the Antichrist, the Men Who Would Be King, or various archetypal characters. Others bury themselves in deciphering hidden codes or endless pilgrimage searching for treasure or relics, even bodies. All the symbolism of the unconscious can mobilize in a fugue, overwhelming the ego. Different memes (popular disinformation; viral ideas) capture our attention, sometimes to the point of obsession.
Gullible followers increase because people prefer fairy tales to pragmatic truth, or statistical data. The appeal of unsubstantiated or daisy-chained allegations is largely emotional. Many seek only corroborating evidence while ignoring basic research which shows different results, preferring confabulations, misconceptions and self-delusion.
Conspiratorial politics or bloodline paranoia sensationalizes the fact that most Presidential candidates trace to related families, failing to realize that millions of others with Colonial or Revolutionary families have the same heritage. This "plot" involves an enormous amount of tertiary people who carry the bloodline with or without any knowledge.
Tired Memes
Tired memes are repeated over and over again, as if that validates them. They cluster around wild tales of the Anunnaki and mythic beings, Rh- blood, and allegations of racial difference, etc. Such notions originate with those unfamiliar with genealogy, their historical descent, or the basics of biology.
Our early ancestors had only type O blood. Around 40KYA mutations likely occurred creating A and B blood types. Types A and B blood are from dominant genes, that rapidly spread through the population. Genetic mapping reveals a mutation from Rh positive to Rh negative in the Basque area of Europe around 40,000 years ago. Those mutations likely created blood types A and B.
What could cause such mutations in the Upper Paleolithic era? In the Laschamp event, a short reversal of Earth’s geomagnetic field 41,000 years ago, our magnetic shield went down to 5%, exposing humanity to unusual amounts of cosmic radiation.
The transition lasted only 250 years, resulting in greater radiation reaching the Earth followed by a population explosion in a warm spell. During the last ice age, a compass at the Black Sea would have pointed to the south instead of north.
Genes mutate all the time - useful, harmful or neutral in their effects. Often they simply turn a gene off. In large populations, even helpful mutations tend to get “swamped” by non-mutant genes and vanish over time.
DNA tells us the stories of our forebearers from the first human who walked on the earth to YOU. It tells us whether our ancestors interbred with Neanderthals, while other regions show migratory paths. It all depends on what you want to know and your ability to interpret the genetic code. No scientific definitions for genetic ethnicity are universally accepted.
We determine genetic relationships among people by comparing sequences of nucleotides in their DNA. Even with both a pedigree and genetic genealogy tests, the results require interpretation. Different members of the same family can display different features. Mesopotamians, Scythians, Saxons, Gauls, Picts, Franks, Nordics, Iberians, and Celts merge in the melting pot.
University of Arizona geneticists discovered that the oldest known branch of the human Y chromosome (300,000 years) is the hereditary factor determining male sex. It passes unchanged from father to son. Yet, there is no exclusive or conclusive DNA signature for the Grail lineage, and there are gaps in the legends, histories, and pedigrees which require interpretation, if not leaps of imagination. This is as true for those of unbroken dynastic Houses as it is for those of ‘mixed blood’, since both refer to the same recognized source material.
Two Y chromosomes carry the same mutation if they share a common paternal ancestor at some point in the past. The more mutations that differ between two Y chromosomes the farther back in time that common ancestor lived.
Mitochondrial DNA is passed only through the female line. Mitochondria is a symbiotic organism, a separate life form from ourselves. They can live 15 generations. Your 15th gr-grandparents' living cells are alive in you.
Most British ancestors were hunter-gatherers, 15,000 -7,500 years ago. Basque STRs (genetic markers used to identify a DNA sequence) reveal 21 founding clusters, which could only have arrived direct from the Basque country. Their descendant twigs are unique to the British Isles.
Grail houses can have different Y haplogroups (paternal) as well as different mtDNA (maternal) signatures. Typical medical problems of a line don’t all appear in one individual. A single DNA change led to the blue, green, hazel, and other ‘mood eye’ colors.
While the “red gene” is significant, it may or may not distinguish noble ancestors.
Neanderthals also had red hair, but studies show the mutation responsible for this differs from the cause of red hair in modern humans. Genetic drift favors the fair skinned who could absorb more Vitamin D in less-sunny northern climes. It helps in heat retention.
Research shows that inbreeding changes the shape of the genetic covariance matrix. Inbreeding of ancient lines historically included brother-sister marriage for conserving sovereignty, wealth and social control in the same families. Ancestors bred their horses and themselves the same way.
Divine Pride
Finding their noble lines, many leap to royal ego trips, declaring themselves princes of their imaginal realms, seeking spurious titles. Others fancy themselves channels of ancient ancestors such as Mary Magdalene or even Jesus. While such identifications have always been popular, they may be no more than 'misguided inner authority'.
The unconscious psyche can produce great wisdom; it can also churn out endless rubbish or Trickster distortions. Ego inflation is an over-expansion of the personality through identification with an archetype or, in pathological cases, with a historical or religious figure, which exceeds individual limitations.
No credible DNA experts support such memes. Mystification abounds among those who don't know the basics of genetics or genealogy, and are persuaded by oft-repeated but unprovable tales told with great enthusiasm and gravity, as if that makes them more reliable.
An individual living today would carry only three thousands of 1% of the DNA of an ancestor who was “pure” anything 15 generations (360 years) ago. With today’s technology, this is simply untraceable in autosomal DNA. (Miller)
Direct Ancestors
Life and consciousness are the ultimate emergent phenomena, but we still don't know their real origin, which remains veiled in Mystery. We are cosmic psychophysical beings. Our core reaches down into the microcosm of quantum dynamics and the still center of Zero-Point.
Genome sequencing shows that modern humans interbred with other now-extinct species, including Neanderthal, Denisovian, and an unknown Asian species, possibly Homo heidelbergensis . The relic biology of other hominids remains part of our genome (Nature). Western European DNA has shown up in Siberia and Native Americans.
You have ancestors from whom you have no DNA. Your individual DNA fingerprint depends on how the chromosomes line up at conception. Some traits from both parents’ potentials will be there, while others get excluded. Some siblings can be redheads, others not; some can have family medical problems, others not, some may be Rh neg., others not. We may find things we never imagined and find no evidence for traits known within our lineage.
In genealogy, "direct line" includes parent to child, grandparent, great-grandparent, etc. Blood relations refer to the underground stream, the Red River of Memories that flows within us. The Blood is real and it's fresh; it flows in your veins.
By contrast, collateral line is a term that describes family relationships not in direct descent, (siblings, spouses, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc). Proving a direct line of descent is generally required for membership in heritage societies. Just seven generations back we have over 200 people in our immediate, or father-mother, grandfather-grandmother line.
Genetic matrix includes the complete set of instincts and response patterns responsible for the survival of your two genetic streams in the first place. These inherent patterns are what Jung called the Collective Unconscious. Genealogy functions as a therapeutic portal, much like dreams or symptoms, allowing us to enter the imaginal dimension.
Epigenetics is the heritable changes in gene activity not caused by changes in the DNA sequence, but rooted in our ancestors' experience. Genes are expressed or silenced depending on famines or fortunes.
Genealogy is about identity. It is an art, a quest for truth within, mobilizing the soul for creative self-expression, self-discovery and self-healing. Much benefit and fulfillment comes simply by remembering, writing, recording, sharing, painting, enacting or otherwise birthing into the physical world. Genealogy takes tremendous effort, affecting the psyche with both known and unknown historical and imaginal elements. It has its own magic, alchemy, and synchronicities.
Some seek social status through their genealogies when other avenues elude them. In search of their identity, they wind up finding the Shadow. Others use it to build a persona or mystique that becomes their main way of connecting in the world, an excessive commitment to a social mask or psychological armor. Recovery, the aim of individuation, means re-adaptation in outer life.
Genetics demonstrates that traits are not inherited preferentially from the ancestral matrix. While you may have a demonstrable royal line, you inherit far more genetics from commoners who did not have their lines recorded. While it is true that the Y-haplotype is passed directly from father to son, generation after generation, we all also inherit the even more persistent mitochondrial DNA from our maternal ancestors, up to 400 generations, or so.
With mtDNA the surname changes each generation. Every once in a while a mutation -- a random, natural (and usually harmless) change -- occurs in that sequence, like a spelling mistake. After one of these mutations occurs a woman passes it on to her daughters, and her daughters' daughters, and so on. Sons also inherit mtDNA, but the sons do not pass it on. Geneticists use these markers to construct one global mitochondrial family tree.
Even siblings may or may not inherit the slightest bit of any given ancestor or line. Thus, there is no single haplotype for the royal lines, nor any single identifying gene of that inheritance. Those with a royal genealogy may not have a single "royal" gene in their genome, making any claims of extraordinary inheritance moot.
No one knows where Rh-negative originates. Rhesus negative blood simply means that the blood doesn't have any Rhesus antigens on the surface of the red blood cells. Absence of a protein does not have to originate from anywhere. Rh+ has the antigen; Rh- does not. The gene quit working.
There is nothing alien here, no alien genes present. Actually the “absence” of our own genes produces the RhD antigen. Transport of CO2 is the ancestral function of Rh proteins. It potentially helped breathing in northern climes. The role of RhD, is to help maintain the flexible, flattened shape of the red cell.
Plausibly, a mutation on the first chromosome rendered Rh- individuals incapable of producing functional Rhesus proteins. Few have it because it is a recessive trait. 5% of global population is currently Rh-negative. It rises to 15% in the UK and USA, and 50% in the Basques who descend from indigenous Paleolithic inhabitants.
Conceivably, only one sibling in a dozen might be Rh-, descended from Rh+ parents. Even siblings get varied genetic packages and may not have genes from all the ethnicities or ancestors of their genealogical lines. There are different ethnic signatures. Some siblings might carry the signature of Native ancestry; others not.
As a recessive trait, Rh- blood may or may not express in a family. It could be ten or more generations since anyone had Rh- blood in his family. To express, both parents must carry the recessive gene.
Two parents who have O positive blood could easily have an O- child. Most O- children have parents who are positive. Some or perhaps none of a couple's children may inherit the trait. Siblings can be mixed Rh- with other blood types that are dominant. Some people wrongly believe that O Negative blood is "pure" or "alien". Every group overlaps genetically with every other.
There is no singular gene, mutation, allele, STR or SNP that tells the whole story. There are clusters of mutations that show deep relationship patterns of regional origin in some individuals. There is no DNA report that is 100% conclusive. They use the statistical “educated guess”. Many families conduct their own DNA research projects.
Statistical sampling flaws can lead to misinterpretations, based on too small of samplings and comparison studies. So, our own conclusions about our own DNA tests are, in part, interpretations of an interpretation. We can only draw inferences about the past based on the patterns observed in human DNA. And this is what keeps our quest alive.
Curated Lines
Most Europeans descend largely from farmers who migrated out of the Middle East 9,000 years ago. As offspring left their parents’ farms and moved into new territory, they interbred with existing hunter-gatherer populations. This produced gradients of genetic change radiating from the Middle East.
Only in mountainous areas unattractive to farmers—the Pyrenees of the Basques, for example—were the genes of the indigenous peoples left intact. Other historical events influenced the European gene pool. For example, a genetic trail leads from the area north of the Black and Caspian Seas into the rest of Europe. This trail helped spread the descendants of nomadic warriors and herders who first domesticated the horse about 4,000 B.C.
Again, it requires interpretation. It is a truism that genealogy without proofs is speculative, and even those lines accepted as "best practice" in genealogy have gaps and presumptions that ultimately lead back to mythical progenitors, like Wotan, Hercules, or Aphrodite – and yes, even Cain. Any viable genealogy must be curated with citations and evidence at every stage to be reliable.
Once you locate a ‘gateway ancestor’, one who links your family to a known noble ancestry, the door opens to a world of recorded and published pedigrees that can lead back to royalty. These gateways provide a personal link to the highly inbred medieval world, in the form of descents from medieval kings, queens, popes, crusaders, troubadours, heroes, villains, and saints and their descendants.
Early immigrants with traceable royal ancestry are the best ‘gateways’, but not really out of any class-oriented prejudice. Among early immigrants from Europe to the Americas, individuals with noble connections are likely to be traceable to a far larger number of ancestors, and thus sustain more interest and offer more connections.
Gateway ancestors link your family to published pedigrees that can lead back to royalty. Chances are the line from your gateway ancestor leads to Charlemagne. Most of these ascents go through the English or French kings, such as Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine back to the Merovingians.
Do the Math & Get Over It
Most Americans with sizable New England Yankee, mid-Atlantic Quaker, or Southern "planter" ancestry are descended from medieval royals -- kings of England, Scotland, and France especially. Following those lines back into the mists of pre-history we find direct links to all so-called racial divisions. Most of our ancestors will remain "invisible". This is the main reason people emphasize ancestral nobles.
The ancient royal lines include Asian Siberians and Han Chinese dynasties, sub-Saharan African, Jewish, and Muslim lines among the direct ancestors. Some will have Turkish, Persian, and Indian lines. Ultimately, this means 'race' is an illusion, other than the human race. The math backs this up, indicating we are all related within perhaps 40 generations.
So you find you come from royalty -- get over it. The Pyramid Theory, a doubling of ancestors each generation back, claims you have 2048 ancestors by the 12th generation in your past, and possibly 60,000 direct ancestors going back to the Crusades. By Generation 40, you would have more than one trillion ancestors!
We are at the end of a long and winding genetic journey that continues after and through us. We are probably all connected by the 25th gr-grandparents. There is a great possibility that we are descendants (or are related) from almost everyone alive some seven hundred years ago.
Many of those ancestors are the same persons. The genealogical evidence shows that many of the families intermarried for generations. By the 12th generation you have possibly 60,000 direct ancestors going back to the Crusades.
Yet, somehow a determined gene can survive intact through all those descendants and become a particle of memory that will give you a dejá vu once in a while. Ancestral memories may not be of actual events - it is not to be confused with the idea of past life or reincarnation - but of reactive response patterns and emotional states brought about by environment. The past has gone and the future has yet to come. All we ever have is the present.
Mixed Blood
So, how do we relate to those we perceive as kin? Anthropologist Nancy Thornhill contends that the prohibitions against incestuous marriages in most societies are not public-health measures to reduce birth defects but the society's way of fighting back against extended families.
Successful coalitions and charlatans may pose as "kin". Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker warns misperceived kinship makes people vulnerable to manipulation and cultish mind control: kinship is in the mind of the beholder. This kind of mind control is a strong temptation to cults and religions who want to foster cohesion among people who are not closely related.
It isn't merely our noble genealogy, shared with millions, that makes us who we are. What is unique is our personal reaction to such knowledge and how our relationship with it evolves as we assimilate and integrate that expanded awareness -- the Mystery of the whole matter. We are all in it together.
We need to know genealogy much like we need to know physics and psychology to comprehend what matter is, as well as what makes us matter. We have thousands of ancestor lines that are not preserved, making the small slice of royal descent largely archetypal as well as material. The part stands for the Whole - the cosmic process of Big History.
Perhaps, we should focus on the invisible thousands of ordinary ancestors who play just as big a part in our makeup.
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Iona Miller is a nonfiction writer for the academic and popular press, clinical hypnotherapist, and multimedia artist. She is an advisor to DNA Decipher Journal, and other scientific journals. Her main site is http://ionamiller.weebly.com
Debunking the Bloodline, DNA and Rh- myths and memes.
Rh-negative blood is not derived from Neanderthals, Reptilians, ancient aliens, gods, or Illuminati. It is a mutation of gene deletion. Those with both copies deleted are Rh-.
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Rh-negative blood is not derived from Neanderthals, Reptilians, ancient aliens, gods, or Illuminati. It is a mutation of gene deletion. Those with both copies deleted are Rh-.
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