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from montalk q&a
How might genetics relate to spirituality?
Genetics is kind of like car models, in that you can ask yourself what kind of person drives a BMW versus a Toyota. This has to do with what kind of soul chooses a certain genetic profile (if the choice is available) over another. To answer that question properly though, race is too general a classification since it has more to do with specific bloodlines or particular genes. For example a soul may incarnate into a body that appears to be of African descent not necessarily because it fits the “black” profile, but may because that body has 6 to 7 specific useful genetic traits unique to that body, and these traits may or may not have anything to do with the African ancestry. However, if a soul wants to go through the whole racism thing, feeling oppressed, working through issues of self-image, etc. then maybe it’ll choose that body in a particular place and time to face that challenge.
So it’s about the skills, biases, predispositions, self-image, how one relates to society, how it affects one’s relations in life, etc. that are behind what genetics are chosen by what incarnating consciousnesses.
Now, you can look statistically at different races and make generalizations about majority tendencies. And in turn, that would mean that statistically the souls who occupy these bodies might likewise have certain profiles / patterns that generally are attracted to those genetic factors. The coupling is weak but it’s there. But it’s weak enough that you can’t say, oh that particular person is white or black, therefore that particular person has this or that soul. That would be actual racism. But it’s not racism, in my opinion, to objectively observe the more general trends and coupling/correlation factors.
In my observation, people with light colored eyes and fair hair and lighter skin are less grounded, more prone to neurotic tendencies, more aloof, less emotional, not as deep and real and here, less outgoing, less animated, and quite frankly more cold, reptilian, alien, intellectual, disconnected, and potentially psychopathic. Like any stereotype, it’s a weak general pattern but doesn’t prevent individuals from defying that pattern. Therefore if you are none of these, no big deal, you are the exception then to the pattern.
Similar stereotypes can be made about the other races. But again, race is such a general category that to be more accurate you’d have to drill down into specific bloodlines. There are bloodlines that are given to math and science. Others to music and art. Others to being drug and alcohol addicts. Others to want to be defenders and protectors. Others to want to climb the social/political ladder. They may all be white. They may all be black. Hard to say, as it’s about specific genetic threads here, rather than the complete package that makes up a race.
That said, if you go back far enough in history, it does appear that certain tribes back then were naturally more given to soul-based things like art, music, industry, poetry, literature, and so on … while others were content to remain as animals. In the Middle Eastern history for example, there were a group among the Amorites who were known to the Akkadians as being backwards, animalistic, nomadic sub-humans. They didn’t bury their dead, they eat all their meat raw, they didn’t know how to farm, they stank, and they had no spiritual inclinations. Was that all completely culture? Or was there some genetic-spiritual correlation factor? And what happens if those genetics intermixed with the other cultures? Would it result in a mixed culture where one out of every X people would lack the genetic profile attractive to a soul interested in art, culture, music, altruism, or spirituality? That’s the only way I can see race factoring into spirituality nowadays, except I think the genetics today are so diluted and intermixed that it’s impossible to give a free pass to anyone because of their race, or condemn them because of their race.