Collective Unconscious : Genetic Memories.

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One of the groups that I am a member of on facebook is : Postcards from Ireland. I don't actually see a lot of their posts show up on my newsfeed, but the ones I do are often very beautiful. A member today mentioned that they felt as if they had been there before, just by seeing the pictures. They asked if anyone else had experienced it. One person stated that they also felt this way, and that they came to realize it was essentially a genetic predisposition. I know that I have felt as if I have been places I have never been as well. Some are as close as my family's ancestral homes here in North Carolina... Some are as far away as Ireland. It is, simply put, a gravitational calling that is hard to explain. It could all be cacamamie of course. I don't think so. We already inherent genetic traits that have been passed down to us from our parents, our grandparents, our great grandparents.. you get the idea. Why then, would it be so far a stretch to believe we inherent their memories? The collective unconscious isn't exactly linked in with deja vu. Deja vu is a feeling you have experienced something before. Collective Unconscious, as I understand it, is a primordial knowledge of something. It's a bone deep understanding of something that we have never experienced. Deja Vu is the butterfly (fleeting) and collective unconscious the window. Anyway, I'm really not all that good at this waxing poetic stuff, so I'll leave it there. Here's a wikipedia article about it, of which I read nary a word :