What can history, science, and possible curses tell us more about why besides genetics and learned behaviors we have an invisible silver cord attached to our ancestors? How many generations do we go back? In North Korea punishments involve three generations, is there a reason for that? Is the world louder for those families with handed-down trauma? What about children born after rape? Do oppressive or traumatic incidents immediately alter DNA? Questions and more I will be going over below. There is also a biblical point of view where generational sin is passed on.
Inherited trauma can make deep imprints on your overall well-being. Start digging into your past to help your present and future self and generations to come. Here is a simple explanation to start. After studying the lasting effects of the Holocaust, researchers found that a protein called FKBP5 attaches itself to genes showing proof of the existence of generational trauma.
Quoted from Scientific America regarding the effects of the September 11th attack on pregnant women in New York:
“A trauma research team quickly trained health professionals to evaluate and, if needed, treat the women. We monitored them through their pregnancies and beyond. When the babies were born, they were smaller than usual—the first sign that the trauma of the World Trade Center attack had reached the womb. Nine months later we examined 38 women and their infants when they came in for a wellness visit. Psychological evaluations revealed that many of the mothers had developed PTSD. And those with PTSD had unusually low levels of the stress-related hormone cortisol, a feature that researchers were coming to associate with the disorder.
Surprisingly and disturbingly, the saliva of the nine-month-old babies of the women with PTSD also showed low cortisol. The effect was most prominent in babies whose mothers had been in their third trimester on that fateful day. Just a year earlier a team I led had reported low cortisol levels in adult children of Holocaust survivors, but we’d assumed that it had something to do with being raised by parents who were suffering from the long-term emotional consequences of severe trauma. Now it looked like trauma could leave a trace in offspring even before they are born”.
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Keep in mind the control group did not count the effects on everyone else including people who lost people that day, firemen and policemen who became ill, or the effects on Americans as a people in general. The world’s population has been bombarded with traumatic events specifically through Political Ponerology. Defined: The result of the extension of psychopathology from a group of psychopaths to the entire body politic, including its political and economic systems. This trauma is passing down generations. Being the serfs of a feudal class is changing us deeply all by itself. The cogs in the wheel so to speak.
Some ways trauma can be passed down include:
- DNA modifications
- in utero
- memory
- cultural messages and conditioning
- cultural patterns
- cumulative emotional wounding
- dominant family narratives
- normalization of hatred, cruelty, and dehumanization toward others
- parents bypassing or not coping with their trauma
- aggressions and micro-aggressions
There are many ways intergenerational trauma might affect families, including:
- disconnection
- denial
- detachment
- distance
- impaired self‐esteem stemming from minimization of the child’s own life experiences in comparison to the parents’ trauma
- trauma bonding, or an emotional connection between an abuser and their target
- estrangement
- neglect
- abuse
- violence
A rape victim becoming pregnant—what situation could be more emotionally charged with potential for trauma than that? Research has shown that there is a negative relationship between the experience of sexual violence of mothers and the well-being of their children. When a child is born out of sexual violence, the origin of the child is connected to the traumatic experience. Despite the difficult maternal task of navigating this relationship, research on interventions for mothers with a child born of sexual violence has had no attention as of yet. The good news is as of this year in England children conceived through rape will be officially classified as victims of crime under new government laws giving access to money and therapies. It is a cause of many unwanted pregnancies and is closely linked with family and domestic violence. As we address the epidemic of unintended pregnancies in the United States, greater attention and effort should be aimed at preventing and identifying unwanted pregnancies that result from sexual victimization.
Another example of Generational trauma I feel needs to be added here is a topic most disagree on, simply don’t understand, or have never heard of. It is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. At this point, it is labeled a ‘”theory” likely due to a lack of empathy for such people even to today. Hence Holocaust victims and pregnant white women have been given enough research resources to label it otherwise. We could imagine that if 911 and the Holocaust caused generational trauma then slavery did as well.
African Americans experience much higher rates of poverty, unemployment, and negative health outcomes compared to Whites in the US. Michael J Halloran writes that the intergenerational cultural trauma caused by 300 years of slavery – alongside poor economic circumstances and social prejudice – has led to the poor state of physical, psychological, and social health among African Americans.
Personally, Black’s and White’s existences so far have been Psyops. Black people were treated like less than human and unbeknownst to us we were next. One hundred-year plan much? We are all black now. Change my mind. Someday I hope to elaborate on modern slavery, especially privately owned prisons. Our dark-skinned friends were duked like the Indians but with no casino property. Reparations are a good start.
Charles Manson was partly to enhance diversity between two races as seen in the Divide and Conquer technique. As irrelevant as it may seem Manson was partly used to cause racial tension. Imagine if MKultra and communist views had a baby. Let’s not talk even talk about the very planned crack epidemic or the rule to obtain aid from the state a man has to be absent from the home.
Dr. Joy DeGruy coined the theory Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) and defines it as, “a condition that exists when a population has experienced multigenerational trauma resulting from centuries of slavery and continues to experience oppression and institutionalized racism today.” As found on A Blog by the Graduate Students of Penn State College of Medicine.
North Korean law specifies ‘three generations of punishment’. If you commit a crime, your children and grandchildren will also receive the full brunt of punishment, which often involves a lifetime in prison. Children born in prison are raised as prisoners because their “blood is guilty”. Instituted in 1950, this law was supposed to eliminate the blood lineage of counter revolutionary North Koreans after the war.
What the Bible says about Generational curses
Old Testament doctrine: In Romans, chapters 5 through 7, the apostle Paul argues that, from a certain point of view, human sin and death are a corporate problem rather than an individual one. He tells us that “one man’s sin [Adam] brought guilt to all people” (Romans 5:18, NIRV) and that “sin entered the world because one man sinned. And death came because of sin” (Romans 5:12, NIRV).
This is why each one of us remains a “slave of sin” unless we’re “set free” by the redemptive work of Jesus Christ (Romans 6:20-22, NIRV).
So here’s what the “generational curse” is really about: The skeletons in your closet weren’t put there by your dad or your grandmother or your great-aunt. They’re the work of your First Parents. You were in Adam when he broke God’s commandment. You were condemned with him.
Just as you were in Adam when he fell from grace, so now, if you believe in Jesus, you are in Christ through faith. This is what Paul means when he says that “one man [Jesus] did obey. That is why many people will be made right with God.” (Romans 5:19, NIRV).
To get out from under the “generational curse,” you have to be grafted into a whole new family tree (Romans 11:11-24).
New Testament teaching: Salvation is individual there is only one standard God uses to judge the world and determine who is saved and who isn’t: faith in Jesus Christ. The Bible confirms this in several passages, including:
- “Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life” (1 John 5:12, ESV).
- “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:17-18, ESV).
The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah wrote 600 years before the birth of Christ, and he anticipated this New Testament perspective. Ultimately, you will answer for your own actions:
“In those days people will no longer say, ‘The parents have eaten sour grapes. But the children have a bitter taste in their mouths.’ Instead, everyone will die for their own sin. The one who eats sour grapes will taste how bitter they are” (Jeremiah 31:29-30, NIRV).
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Additional Links:
Legacy of Trauma: Context of the African American Existence here
The Signal_Infants Born of Rape here
Unchained: Generational Trauma and Healing here
The Contributions of Pandemic Severity, Government Stringency, Cultural Values and Internet Usage to Post-traumatic Stress Disorder During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis From 35 Countries here
Generational Sin and Demonization within the Framework of SRA/DID here
Spiritual Warfare and Generational Curses here
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