Survival despite centuries of erasure

Persistence paves roads over time

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the wilow bent when it must and survived."

— Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

I saw this video on the Sami People who are found to have DNA that defies history.

I transcribed some parts of it. Here it is:

Study of Sami genetics revealed associations to ghost populations with language traits found nowhere else. Sami genetics preserves history found nowhere else. Study of Sami immune system genes in 2020 found genes having adaptations to pathogens specific to arctic environments and reindeer husbandry. Other studies are examining how Sami genetic variants affect traits beyond cold adaptation. Researchers have identified adaptations affecting skin pigmentation, and other physical characteristics, that may have been shaped by arctic life and limited sunlight exposure. Researchers have identified language influences in Finnish and Estonian population without there being genetic modifications in their population signifying how language could influence across cultures even if genetics stay unmoved. Perhaps the most important finding is what Sami genetics teaches us of human adaptability and survival. The Sami represent a population that found ways to thrive in an environment that should have been lethal to humans. They developed cultural knowledge and genetic adaptations that allowed them to survive where agriculture couldn’t support human life. Their existence challenges simplistic narratives about human progress that frame agriculture and urbanisation as inevitable stages of advancement. The Sami maintain hunter-gatherer life ways successfully for 10000 years, not because they were primitive or backwards, but because those life ways were superbly adapted to arctic conditions and their genetic preservation through 1000s of years proves that isolation isn’t always a disadvantage. The Sami maintain distinctiveness while other European populations were repeatedly transformed by migrations, conquests, and population replacements. Their genetics are a window into what Europe looked like before the agricultural revolution, before Indo-European expansions, before the population movements that homogenised most of the continent. They are living links to Palaeolithic Europe, the last carriers of the genetic signatures from the very first humans to colonise the arctic after the ice age and their DNA teaches us that European history is far older, far more complex and far more diverse than the standard narratives acknowledge. What it means for how we understand human history, that learning about Sami genetic uniqueness change how we think about European history, that an indigenous people preserved signatures from 10000 years ago and how genetic evidence inform indigenous rights and land claims today because genetics keep proving that every population had hidden complexity in their ancestry, that migration, mixing and survival create patterns far more intricate than nationalist narratives want to acknowledge, that DNA is a historical record more reliable than any document ever written. The Sami carry the oldest bloodline in Europe but their story is really the story of all indigenous people whose genetic heritage proves they were there first even when centuries of colonialism and cultural erasure tried to make them invisible. Your ancestry is a message from the past. The question is are you ready to hear what it’s trying to tell you."

What I am about to type may not have been heard anywhere else. The highlighted text refers to what becomes possible when someone or a body of people stop running/quitting/giving up. I speak from experience. Somewhere around, what I call the 'Holocaust' of my life when there was inflammation of several kinds and had probably a TIA (transient ischemic attack) and my performance at office was going suboptimal to the point that I thought I had autism spectrum disorders with syntax, difficulties with social cues, relatedness concerns, and ability to feel humane connections (I refused to put up with pretense or things that didn't make sense and acted out once at my birthday party asking people to cut a cake if they want but don't have to cut it in my name as a excuse; a sort of 'Seabiscuit' before being tamed moment). There was a point where I hit ground nothing and found a reason to be a productive citizen of Earth, at least, and to figure out everything I didn't understand (don't understand) one step at a time. I, basically, refused to quit and to stop running, and to instead turn around, face the bull and take the bull by its horns. I thought of the mateo and several bulls that have been trained to be at each other since some time, but I stopped running.

I shifted house from my parents' place to a rented place for about 2 months and then the present location in South Bengaluru - one to get out of my brother's way for getting married (I'm two years his elder) and two because life needs to move on - I gotta get better, figure out my life and what I can do with what I have while staying connected with parents and their lives need to move to better than the constant physical presence of unmarried daughter. I sort of stepped out of one set of familiar confusion to another set of unknown confusions (being an unmarried single lady who worked, rarely if ever brought friends, had strange ways but didn't cause trouble, and didn't poke into neighbours affairs either), and boy has it been a sort of 'between pillar and post!' I called it the 'Himalayas in the city' experience. Ice Age made sense, in that the coldness of human relationships related by money as the basic transactional agreement (contract) and W.H.O.'s global list of disease (that I came to see in newer perspectives as I began facilitating health clinically with the money I saved used for training) was being appreciated from 'health,' 'wealth' and 'wisdom' perspectives. I trained in different educational groups, and each offered their own unique perspectives on resolving problems; could get quite confusing as there were contractictions in several of them and in several layers. Given how schizophrenic I already was with a mosaic of information with contradicting views from people outside and my stance on being a productive citizen, I had to figure out a way to make sense of things but in a way that contradictions resolved, and i found patterns that no body else seemed to be talking about.

Post uplift of lockdowns, I continued my empirical ethnographic R&D walking on roads, eating in restaurants, visiting friends, reading books, watching movies; there's no dearth of information once there is a reason for paying attention. I was becoming a lifelong student in God Almighty's University.com (Life on Earth as a University).

I saw patterns in cultural ethnicities, between families in neighborhoods, in business organizations, in and between business networking groups, in therapeutic circles, in narratives of how one person lived versus another, between microbial plant animal human behaviors and evolutionary thoughtlines through different sciences, in communication patterns and found the Tower Of Babel. The 7 Wonders of the world (now 8) made sense as flags from #humanityacrossboundaries for puzzles yet unsolved, and that 'a-ha!' moment continued through observing temples, religious textbooks, school books, exam fears, drama triad's victim-perpetrator-rescuer dynamics in such subtle nuances they were normalized and the 'threshold of normal' made sense as 'adjusted for normal.'

In other words, the Sami genetics with codes from 'ghost populations' and 'unknown language' traits and 10000-year-old survival genetic traits is not necessarily a tribe-alone-in-isolation thing. When a person refuses to quit and works to turn around a problem they find needs resolution, yoga and #humanityacrossboundaries and original humane intelligence facilitation becomes possible as a Great Unconformity (unlike this video by @tilscience https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPisa8FkVQv/?igsh=MWdyeGI1NTE3ZXJoaA== where Mother and Father Nature and Nurture addressed what didn't work for sustainable evolution of Life; maybe was the Great Dying or one of the Big Bangs that caused mass extinction on Earth). MITI's Great Unconformity turns around 'sick' economy to 'healthy' I found over 2 years of the pandemic when lockdowns were lifting as I practiced movement-less healthier samudra manthan and number of people found infected lessened over at least 3 waves (to the point that lockdowns were lifted). I thought if one person can affect W.H.O.'s list of diseases, what can many humans from many family lines do if we just stopped cowering to problems and decide to do the right things by which to turn around the situation for oneself, contemporaries and future generations without magic, chanting, energy manipulations, frequency/energy/vibration modifications or any of the things mentioned in the movie, Encanto.

(Clue: You discover you have all of them within one person and without having to move a muscle; kinda like superheroes all of them and fantabulous blockbuster movies and stories and whathaveyous across mankind and womankind's histories and herstories within the genetic make of the single human being you are from just having what it takes to be Meristem Intelligent; that's like the 9th Hanukkah Candle, by the way - makes a world of difference. Gives every room a meaning.🙂 And solves the Hard Problem Of Consciousness amongst other unsolved or not-found-a-context-to-solve-them problems). You see Time differently, and vedic reference to Brahma's Kalpas makes sense differently. I am now in different stages of documenting Math of Faith (from what shows up now as I walk that reflects back on what/how things showed up, like driving a car watching the road as well as the rearview mirror while regularly updating the model and changing the engine oil while living in a room, engaging with people, with your body as the car/vehicle with an office to make your suite of solutions available, such as on learn.dynamicstillnesses.com).

I'd be glad to answer questions.