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From: brianp@shark.UUCP (Brian Peterson)
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Subject: Re: Clan of The Cave Bear
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Date: Wed, 18-Jul-84 00:24:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 18 00:24:50 1984
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*  From: heahd@tellab1.UUCP (Dan Wood)
*     I feel that there is something to the idea of racial memory....
*  it works on a more mythological and symbolic level. 
Please describe how mythology and symbology get into DNA.

*  I think that racial memory goes a long way
*  towards explaining why mankind has worshiped some sort of power outside of
*  himself ever since Neanderthal man stared to bury his dead. 
Are you assuming racial memory of Adam and Eve watching God in 
his workshop, turning out zebras on his lathe?
(Anyone read Ursula Le Guin's "Lathe of Heaven"?)

*  As evidence of a
*  racial memory I offer the striking parallels between the mythologies of
*  cultures scattered all over the world and throughout time. Many of these
*  parallels can not be explained by accidents of history or geography. 
The set of all possible explainations is 
{"history", "geography", "racial memory"}   ???
Maybe there is some characteristic of Man which tends to produce such religion?

*  Our very *  consciousness is programmed into our DNA and I see no reason 
*  why a collective unconsciousness could not have been programmed 
*  into the DNA at the same point on the evolutionary tree of mankind. 
Do you see any reason why it SHOULD be programmed in?

		Brian Peterson	 {ihnp4, ucbvax, } !tektronix!shark!brianp