Iona Miller
Writer, Artist & Therapist
We cultivates our own rows or lines of ancestors through genealogy, the pedigree of our origins. Genealogy and even genetic genealogy are pursuits that require interpretation of assembled data, not literal interpretation, due to hidden variables and a variety of other factors, including the interpretive bias of the researcher. Thus, they are essentially Hermetic pursuits and should be approached as such, seeking both their wisdom and their subtle misdirection, outright lies of the past and present, misrepresentations, and other Trickster elements.
Even today, grandiose speculation often passes for science. Those unfamiliar with either subject are most likely to misinterpret their own family's functional relation to others, and likewise to misinterpret the evidence of their alleles in relation to antic origins and their meaning. Identifying SNPs from deep common ancestry, or rare SNPs related to shared characteristics helps us recognize one another as kin.
Even today, grandiose speculation often passes for science. Those unfamiliar with either subject are most likely to misinterpret their own family's functional relation to others, and likewise to misinterpret the evidence of their alleles in relation to antic origins and their meaning. Identifying SNPs from deep common ancestry, or rare SNPs related to shared characteristics helps us recognize one another as kin.
Gene Geni, Iona Miller combines her experience in classical genealogy with original work in bioholography, Genetic Genealogy, Jungian therapy, and personal training in bloodline Mysteries by world experts in royal and noble lines. She writes for the popular press and scholarly journals. http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/articles.html
Iona Miller is a nonfiction writer for the academic and popular press, clinical hypnotherapist (ACHE) and multimedia artist. Her work is an omni-sensory fusion of intelligence, science-art, new physics, symbolism, source mysticism, futuring, and emergent paradigm shift, creating a unique viewpoint. She is interested in extraordinary human potential and experience, and the EFFECTS of doctrines of religion, science, psychology, and the arts. She serves on the Advisory Boards of Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research, DNA Decipher Journal, and Scientific God Journal, as well as the Board of Directors of Medigrace, Inc. & Calm Birth, and the Editorial Board of CRAFT (Community Resilience through Action for Future Transitions).
Ms. Miller is published by Phanes Press, Destiny Books (Inner Traditions), Autonomedia, Nexus Magazine, Paranoia Magazine, Alchemy Journal, Green Egg, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Ecodition (Switzerland), Jungian Analysis Journal (Moscow), DNA Decipher Journal (DNADJ), Scientific God Journal (SGJ), Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research (JCER), Journal of Nonlocality & Remote Mental Interactions (JNLRMI), Dream Network, Chaosophy Journal, OAK-Publishing, PM&E, DNA Monthly, Antibothis, Pop Occulture, and more.
Ms. Miller coordinates the Media and Wellness divisions of The Osborne Group (TOG). Over the last 10 years she also coordinated the ad hoc projects of Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU) alumni from 3 decades, in intelligence, spyence, new physics, paranormal, creativity, consciousness studies, DNA research, superlearning, DIY mind control, biophysics, and other frontier science and blue sky experimentation. This work continues in a variety of forms and outlets. She also oversees numerous curatorial, archival and genealogical projects. She has served in a professional capacity at Southern Oregon Hypnotherapy, Asklepia Foundation, Institute for Applied Consciousness Science, the Wisdom Center, and Life Energies Research Institute.
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Ms. Miller is published by Phanes Press, Destiny Books (Inner Traditions), Autonomedia, Nexus Magazine, Paranoia Magazine, Alchemy Journal, Green Egg, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Ecodition (Switzerland), Jungian Analysis Journal (Moscow), DNA Decipher Journal (DNADJ), Scientific God Journal (SGJ), Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research (JCER), Journal of Nonlocality & Remote Mental Interactions (JNLRMI), Dream Network, Chaosophy Journal, OAK-Publishing, PM&E, DNA Monthly, Antibothis, Pop Occulture, and more.
Ms. Miller coordinates the Media and Wellness divisions of The Osborne Group (TOG). Over the last 10 years she also coordinated the ad hoc projects of Mankind Research Unlimited (MRU) alumni from 3 decades, in intelligence, spyence, new physics, paranormal, creativity, consciousness studies, DNA research, superlearning, DIY mind control, biophysics, and other frontier science and blue sky experimentation. This work continues in a variety of forms and outlets. She also oversees numerous curatorial, archival and genealogical projects. She has served in a professional capacity at Southern Oregon Hypnotherapy, Asklepia Foundation, Institute for Applied Consciousness Science, the Wisdom Center, and Life Energies Research Institute.
CONTACT IONA MILLER - [email protected] or
Subscribe at facebook.com/iona.miller
Homepage: http://ionamiller.weebly.com
Video Channels: http://www.youtube.com/user/ionamiller
and http://www.vimeo.com/user3547022
Selected Articles by Iona Miller
Pre-Print Links
JUNGIAN ANALYSIS JOURNAL
(Moscow, Fall 2013)
"Natural Philosophy & the Vacuum Potential"
by Iona Miller, 2013
JOURNAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS
EXPLORATION & RESEARCH
JCER - Vol 5; Issue 3, 2014
Sub-quantal Phenomena in Mind-Brain Problem
by Iona Miller, 2014
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/364
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/x.html
JCER - Vol. 4; Issue 6, July 2013
SCHUMANN RESONANCE
Psychophysical Regulation & Psi
by Iona Miller, 2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/schumann-resonance.html
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/lewis-hainsworth.html
GEOMAGNETICS & CONSCIOUSNESS
Geomagnetic Field Effects & Human Psychophysiology
Iona Miller, 2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/geomagnetics.html
THE SEDONA EFFECT
Correlations Between Geomagnetic Anomalies, EEG Brainwaves, &
Schumann Resonance in Sedona Vortex Areas
by Iona Miller and Ben Lonetree, (c)2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/vortex-phenomena.html
JCER, Vol 4 No 2
http://www.scribd.com/doc/129040316/JCER-V4-2-Various-Contents-of-Consciousness-and-Theories-of-Their-Origins
Holographic Dreams, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/holographic-dreams.html
The Value of Dream Work, Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/286/314
The Fractal Nature of Active Sleep & Waking Dreams, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/fractal-dreams.html
Pineal Gland, DMT & Altered States of Consciousness, Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/286/314
JCER Vol 3 No 9
http://www.scribd.com/doc/109662982/JCER-V3-9-Science-of-Compassion
Article: The Creative & Persecuted Minority I: An Artful Look at Science & a Scientific Look at Art.
Iona Miller & Paul Henrickson
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/creative-minority.html
Article: The Creative & Persecuted Minority II: The Nature of the Creative Process,
Iona Miller & Paul Henrickson
Article: A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness-Mapping of John C. Gowan I.
Iona Miller http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/gowans-paranormal-i.html
Article: A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness-Mapping of John C. Gowan II.
Review Article: A Transdisciplinary Look at Paranthropology: An Emerging Field of Exploration.
Iona Miller http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/paranthropology-review.html
JCER: Vol 3 No 6
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101059652/JCER-V3-6-Entheogens-Existential-Reality-Review-of-Remote-Mental-Interactions
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 1 PDF Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/remote-mentation-jcer.html
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 2 PDF Iona Miller
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 3 PDF Iona Miller
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 4 PDF Iona Miller
JCER: Vol. 3 No. 5
http://www.scribd.com/doc/99034439/JCER-V3-5-Metaphorms-Informational-Reality
(1) Metaphorms: Physics Is Not Beyond You and You Make It Matter Part I; Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/218/236
(2) Metaphorms: Physics Is Not Beyond You and You Make It Matter Part II; Iona Miller
(3) A Hundred Years of Archetypes: When You Face Reality, You Know “Nothing” Part I; Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/220/238
(4) A Hundred Years of Archetypes: When You Face Reality, You Know “Nothing” Part II, Iona Miller
JCER Vol 3 No 3, March 2012: Iona Miller Focus Issue
http://www.scribd.com/doc/87564600/JCER-V3-3-Holographic-Archetypes
Iona Miller, The Nonlocal Mind Paradigm: A Transdisciplinary Revision of Mind-Body in Philosophy, Art & Science.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/206/222
Article: Iona Miller, How the Brain Creates the Feeling of God: The Emergent Science of Neurotheology.
Article: Iona Miller, The Whole Sum Infinity: Merging Spirituality and Integrative Biophysics.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/208/224
Article: Iona Miller, Holographic Archetypes: Top Down & Bottom Up Control of Personal & Collective Consciousness.
Article: Iona Miller, Natural Philosophy: Beyond The Undulant Quiescence.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/210/226
SGJ - Scientific God Journal
Advisory Board, Guest Editor
SGJ Vol 5 No 3, 2014
Quantum Aspects of Brain-Mind Problem
http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/303/350
http://scigod.com/
SGJ Vol 4 No 1
http://www.scribd.com/doc/123390321/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-4-Issue-1-Welcome-to-the-Age-of-Scientific-GOD
Holographic Godforms, Spirit of the Times, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/holographic-gods.html
Holographic Godforms, Holographic Archetypes, Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 10
http://www.scribd.com/doc/115086833/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-10-The-Eve-of-December-21-2012
Article: God's Fingerprints: Using Reflexive Praxis to Identify Underlying Social Neg-entropic Patterns,
Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 9
http://www.scribd.com/doc/109943767/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-9-Cosmic-Insight
Article: Glocalization As a Key Human Survival Technology, Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 8
Article: Reflexive Practice, Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
http://www.scribd.com/doc/104748236/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-7-On-Matter-Spacetime-Materialist
SGJ Vol 3, No 6
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101888193/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-6-Higgs-Discovery-God-Particle
Article: Paul Wildman & Iona Miller, The Esoteric Thesis: Unspeakable Things & Unknowable Truths.
Article: Iona Miller & Paul Wildman, Ancient Wisdom in Modern Age: An Archaic Renaissance.
Essay: Iona Miller, The Weak Force as Manifestation of Anima Mundi: An Exploration.
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/weak-force-sgj.html
SGJ: Vol 3 No. 5
http://www.scribd.com/doc/98802448/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-5-Toward-the-Unification-of-Science-Spirituality
(3) Ultraholism: The Field of Infinite Meaning, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/ultraholism-sgj.html
(4) Demiurgic Field: Its Patterning Role in Chaos, Creation & Creativity, Iona Miller & Paul Wildman
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/demiurgic-field-sgj.html
(5) Zero Sum Game: Pre-Physical-Existence & Psychophysical Reality, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/preexistence-sgj.html
SGJ: Vol 3 No 3
http://www.scribd.com/doc/87567496/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-3
(2) Synchronicity: When Cosmos Mirrors Inner Events, Iona Miller;
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/synchronicity-sgj.html
(3) Luminous Ground: The Zero with a Thousand Faces, Iona Miller;
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/luminous-ground-sgj.html
DNADJ - DNA Decipher Journal
Advisory Board, Guest Editor
http://dnadecipher.com/
Vol 2, No 2; Guest Editor, Iona Miller
http://www.scribd.com/doc/94679796/DNADJ-Volume-2-Issue-2-Novel-Approaches-to-Genomic-Science
Article: (1) Novel Approaches to Genomic Science: Retrieval & Curation, by Iona Miller
http://dnadecipher.com/index.php/ddj/article/view/25/35
(2) Embryonic Holography: An Application of the Holographic Concept of Reality;
(3) The Bioelectronic Basis for “Healing Energies”
(4) Outline of Biological Magnetohydrodynamics;
5) Biophysical Mechanisms of Genetic Regulation: Is There a Link to Mind-Body Healing?
(6) A Proposal for Inferential Evidence of the DNA Phantom Effect.
Vol. 1, No 2
http://www.scribd.com/doc/51906435/DNA-Decipher-Journal-V1-2-Wave-Genetics-Quantum-Bioholograhy-Quantum-Evolution
Article: From Helix to Hologram, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/helix-to-hologram-nexus.html
Article: Quantum Bioholography: a review of the field from 1973-2002, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/biohologram-dnadj.html
(Moscow, Fall 2013)
"Natural Philosophy & the Vacuum Potential"
by Iona Miller, 2013
JOURNAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS
EXPLORATION & RESEARCH
JCER - Vol 5; Issue 3, 2014
Sub-quantal Phenomena in Mind-Brain Problem
by Iona Miller, 2014
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/364
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/x.html
JCER - Vol. 4; Issue 6, July 2013
SCHUMANN RESONANCE
Psychophysical Regulation & Psi
by Iona Miller, 2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/schumann-resonance.html
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/lewis-hainsworth.html
GEOMAGNETICS & CONSCIOUSNESS
Geomagnetic Field Effects & Human Psychophysiology
Iona Miller, 2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/geomagnetics.html
THE SEDONA EFFECT
Correlations Between Geomagnetic Anomalies, EEG Brainwaves, &
Schumann Resonance in Sedona Vortex Areas
by Iona Miller and Ben Lonetree, (c)2013
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/vortex-phenomena.html
JCER, Vol 4 No 2
http://www.scribd.com/doc/129040316/JCER-V4-2-Various-Contents-of-Consciousness-and-Theories-of-Their-Origins
Holographic Dreams, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/holographic-dreams.html
The Value of Dream Work, Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/286/314
The Fractal Nature of Active Sleep & Waking Dreams, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/fractal-dreams.html
Pineal Gland, DMT & Altered States of Consciousness, Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/286/314
JCER Vol 3 No 9
http://www.scribd.com/doc/109662982/JCER-V3-9-Science-of-Compassion
Article: The Creative & Persecuted Minority I: An Artful Look at Science & a Scientific Look at Art.
Iona Miller & Paul Henrickson
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/creative-minority.html
Article: The Creative & Persecuted Minority II: The Nature of the Creative Process,
Iona Miller & Paul Henrickson
Article: A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness-Mapping of John C. Gowan I.
Iona Miller http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/gowans-paranormal-i.html
Article: A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness-Mapping of John C. Gowan II.
Review Article: A Transdisciplinary Look at Paranthropology: An Emerging Field of Exploration.
Iona Miller http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/paranthropology-review.html
JCER: Vol 3 No 6
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101059652/JCER-V3-6-Entheogens-Existential-Reality-Review-of-Remote-Mental-Interactions
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 1 PDF Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/remote-mentation-jcer.html
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 2 PDF Iona Miller
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 3 PDF Iona Miller
Remote Mental Interactions: A Review of Theoretical Modeling of Psychophysical Anomalies Part 4 PDF Iona Miller
JCER: Vol. 3 No. 5
http://www.scribd.com/doc/99034439/JCER-V3-5-Metaphorms-Informational-Reality
(1) Metaphorms: Physics Is Not Beyond You and You Make It Matter Part I; Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/218/236
(2) Metaphorms: Physics Is Not Beyond You and You Make It Matter Part II; Iona Miller
(3) A Hundred Years of Archetypes: When You Face Reality, You Know “Nothing” Part I; Iona Miller
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/220/238
(4) A Hundred Years of Archetypes: When You Face Reality, You Know “Nothing” Part II, Iona Miller
JCER Vol 3 No 3, March 2012: Iona Miller Focus Issue
http://www.scribd.com/doc/87564600/JCER-V3-3-Holographic-Archetypes
Iona Miller, The Nonlocal Mind Paradigm: A Transdisciplinary Revision of Mind-Body in Philosophy, Art & Science.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/206/222
Article: Iona Miller, How the Brain Creates the Feeling of God: The Emergent Science of Neurotheology.
Article: Iona Miller, The Whole Sum Infinity: Merging Spirituality and Integrative Biophysics.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/208/224
Article: Iona Miller, Holographic Archetypes: Top Down & Bottom Up Control of Personal & Collective Consciousness.
Article: Iona Miller, Natural Philosophy: Beyond The Undulant Quiescence.
http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/210/226
SGJ - Scientific God Journal
Advisory Board, Guest Editor
SGJ Vol 5 No 3, 2014
Quantum Aspects of Brain-Mind Problem
http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/303/350
http://scigod.com/
SGJ Vol 4 No 1
http://www.scribd.com/doc/123390321/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-4-Issue-1-Welcome-to-the-Age-of-Scientific-GOD
Holographic Godforms, Spirit of the Times, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/holographic-gods.html
Holographic Godforms, Holographic Archetypes, Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 10
http://www.scribd.com/doc/115086833/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-10-The-Eve-of-December-21-2012
Article: God's Fingerprints: Using Reflexive Praxis to Identify Underlying Social Neg-entropic Patterns,
Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 9
http://www.scribd.com/doc/109943767/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-9-Cosmic-Insight
Article: Glocalization As a Key Human Survival Technology, Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
SGJ Vol 3, No 8
Article: Reflexive Practice, Paul Wildman & Iona Miller
http://www.scribd.com/doc/104748236/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-7-On-Matter-Spacetime-Materialist
SGJ Vol 3, No 6
http://www.scribd.com/doc/101888193/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-6-Higgs-Discovery-God-Particle
Article: Paul Wildman & Iona Miller, The Esoteric Thesis: Unspeakable Things & Unknowable Truths.
Article: Iona Miller & Paul Wildman, Ancient Wisdom in Modern Age: An Archaic Renaissance.
Essay: Iona Miller, The Weak Force as Manifestation of Anima Mundi: An Exploration.
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/weak-force-sgj.html
SGJ: Vol 3 No. 5
http://www.scribd.com/doc/98802448/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-5-Toward-the-Unification-of-Science-Spirituality
(3) Ultraholism: The Field of Infinite Meaning, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/ultraholism-sgj.html
(4) Demiurgic Field: Its Patterning Role in Chaos, Creation & Creativity, Iona Miller & Paul Wildman
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/demiurgic-field-sgj.html
(5) Zero Sum Game: Pre-Physical-Existence & Psychophysical Reality, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/preexistence-sgj.html
SGJ: Vol 3 No 3
http://www.scribd.com/doc/87567496/Scientific-GOD-Journal-Volume-3-Issue-3
(2) Synchronicity: When Cosmos Mirrors Inner Events, Iona Miller;
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/synchronicity-sgj.html
(3) Luminous Ground: The Zero with a Thousand Faces, Iona Miller;
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/luminous-ground-sgj.html
DNADJ - DNA Decipher Journal
Advisory Board, Guest Editor
http://dnadecipher.com/
Vol 2, No 2; Guest Editor, Iona Miller
http://www.scribd.com/doc/94679796/DNADJ-Volume-2-Issue-2-Novel-Approaches-to-Genomic-Science
Article: (1) Novel Approaches to Genomic Science: Retrieval & Curation, by Iona Miller
http://dnadecipher.com/index.php/ddj/article/view/25/35
(2) Embryonic Holography: An Application of the Holographic Concept of Reality;
(3) The Bioelectronic Basis for “Healing Energies”
(4) Outline of Biological Magnetohydrodynamics;
5) Biophysical Mechanisms of Genetic Regulation: Is There a Link to Mind-Body Healing?
(6) A Proposal for Inferential Evidence of the DNA Phantom Effect.
Vol. 1, No 2
http://www.scribd.com/doc/51906435/DNA-Decipher-Journal-V1-2-Wave-Genetics-Quantum-Bioholograhy-Quantum-Evolution
Article: From Helix to Hologram, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/helix-to-hologram-nexus.html
Article: Quantum Bioholography: a review of the field from 1973-2002, Iona Miller
http://holographicarchetypes.weebly.com/biohologram-dnadj.html
Genealogy and even genetic genealogy are pursuits that require interpretation of assembled data, not literal interpretation, due to hidden variables and a variety of other factors, including the interpretive bias of the researcher. Thus, they are essentially Hermetic pursuits and should be approached as such, seeking both their wisdom and their subtle misdirection, outright lies of the past and present, misrepresentations, and other Trickster elements. Those unfamiliar with either subject are most likely to misinterpret their own family's functional relation to others, and likewise to misinterpret the evidence of their alleles in relation to antic origins and their meaning.
Genetic genealogy is the application of genetics to traditional genealogy. Genetic genealogy involves the use of genealogical DNA testing to determine the level of genetic relationship between individuals. Genetic genealogy is a science in great flux. In April 2000, Family Tree DNA began offering the first genetic genealogy tests to the public. This offering marked the first time that a personal theory on the Y chromosome could be tested outside of an academic study. Additionally, Sykes’ concept of a surname study, which by this time had been adopted by several other academic researchers outside of Oxford, was expanded into online Surname Projects (an early form of social network) and the effort helped spread knowledge gained through testing to interested genealogists worldwide.
In 2001, Sykes went on to write the popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve, which described the seven major haplogroups of European ancestors. In the wake of the book's success, and with the growing availability and affordability of genealogical DNA testing, genetic genealogy as a field began growing rapidly. By 2003, the field of DNA testing of surnames was declared officially to have “arrived” in an article by Jobling and Tyler-Smith in Nature Reviews Genetics. The number of firms offering tests, and the number of consumers ordering them, had risen dramatically.
Another milestone in the acceptance of genetic genealogy is the Genographic Project. The Genographic Project is a five-year research study launched in 2005 by the National Geographic Society and IBM, in partnership with the University of Arizona and Family Tree DNA. Although its goals are primarily anthropological, not genealogical, the project's sale by April 2010 of more than 350,000 of its public participation testing kits, which test the general public for either twelve STR markers on the Y chromosome or mutations on the HVR1 region of the mtDNA, has helped increase the visibility of genetic genealogy. Such tests show biogeographical and ethnic origins and revealed vast patterns of human migration.
Even with scientific linkage to specific ancestral groups, self-discovery should not be confounded with personal mythology though both necessarily overlap. There is what the evidence shows or suggests, then the narrative which we construct from that limited evidence, which suggests certain things about our families, current and former cultures, and the future of society.
Hermeneutics is the study of theories and methods of the interpretation of systems of meaning, including interpretations of experience, or human behavior generally, including language and patterns of speech, social institutions, and ritual behaviors. It is a specific method or theory of interpretation, such as Freud or Jung's depth psychologies, for example. The word hermeneutics is a term derived from 'Ερμηνεýς, the Greek word for interpreter. This is related to the name of the Greek god Hermes in his role as the interpreter of the messages of the gods. Hermes was believed to play tricks on those he was supposed to give messages to, often changing the messages and influencing the interpretation thereof. The Greek word thus has the basic meaning of one who makes the meaning clear. A DECODER. DNA still manages to preserve its deepest secrets about who and what we are. The bounds of fact and fancy blur in an incoherent reading -- creative misreading of SNP mutations, much like a dream interpretation.
Most people with a lot of New England ancestry descend from one or more ‘gateway’ ancestors – i.e., early colonists who descend, themselves, from English kings, primarily the Plantagenets. The latter, in turn, have their own gateway ancestors, through whom we derive our longest possible ‘ancestral lines’ – into the Dark Ages (roughly A.D. 450-750),
and perhaps (though far more conjecturally) even the Classical (Greco-Roman) and Ancient (Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian) worlds. ALL such descents are hypothetical – that is, all entail many filiative links that are not, in fact, attested in writing, but postulated by scholars on the basis of an assessment of the known chronology, ethno-political situation, and onomastic patterns of the relevant era, locale, and race. In short, ‘ancient’ pedigrees have many ‘dotted lines,’ which are plausible, even likely, but NOT susceptible to proof.
Unfortunately, popular American genealogical literature is rife with supposed ‘ancient’ pedigrees which are neither likely nor plausible, and in some cases provably bogus, passing, as they do, through long chains of supposed personages who never existed. How, short of acquiring a comprehensive knowledge of many phases of world and national history, half a dozen ancient and modern languages, the various branches of philology, and an immense (and highly specialized) research literature (surely a job for several lifetimes!), is the ‘lay’ reader to tell the plausible from the preposterous, the reasonable from the ridiculous?
We can identify the major geographic areas, ethnicities, and pre-Plantagenet ‘gateway’ ancestors through whom we MIGHT descend from Dark Age, Classical, or Ancient kings, warlords, consuls, emperors, and pharaohs, and can outline the major sources of data and forms of reasoning upon which such descents are predicated. It will also draw your attention to proposed ‘ancient’ descents which are known to be false, or have been seriously questioned, and identify the absolute historical limits beyond which it will never be possible to go.
About 360 years, or just short of 15 generations mtDNA peters out. At 15 generations, an individual living today would carry only three thousands of 1% (00.003052%) of the DNA of an ancestor who was “pure” anything 15 generations ago. So even if one ancestor was indeed Mediterranean or whatever 15 generations ago, unless they continuously intermarried within a pure Mediterranean population, the amount would drop by 50% with each generation to the miniscule amount that would be found in today’s current generation. With today’s technology, this is simply untraceable in autosomal DNA.
Joseph Campbell: "What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There is nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, become a realization of your own personal myth."
Genetic genealogy is the application of genetics to traditional genealogy. Genetic genealogy involves the use of genealogical DNA testing to determine the level of genetic relationship between individuals. Genetic genealogy is a science in great flux. In April 2000, Family Tree DNA began offering the first genetic genealogy tests to the public. This offering marked the first time that a personal theory on the Y chromosome could be tested outside of an academic study. Additionally, Sykes’ concept of a surname study, which by this time had been adopted by several other academic researchers outside of Oxford, was expanded into online Surname Projects (an early form of social network) and the effort helped spread knowledge gained through testing to interested genealogists worldwide.
In 2001, Sykes went on to write the popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve, which described the seven major haplogroups of European ancestors. In the wake of the book's success, and with the growing availability and affordability of genealogical DNA testing, genetic genealogy as a field began growing rapidly. By 2003, the field of DNA testing of surnames was declared officially to have “arrived” in an article by Jobling and Tyler-Smith in Nature Reviews Genetics. The number of firms offering tests, and the number of consumers ordering them, had risen dramatically.
Another milestone in the acceptance of genetic genealogy is the Genographic Project. The Genographic Project is a five-year research study launched in 2005 by the National Geographic Society and IBM, in partnership with the University of Arizona and Family Tree DNA. Although its goals are primarily anthropological, not genealogical, the project's sale by April 2010 of more than 350,000 of its public participation testing kits, which test the general public for either twelve STR markers on the Y chromosome or mutations on the HVR1 region of the mtDNA, has helped increase the visibility of genetic genealogy. Such tests show biogeographical and ethnic origins and revealed vast patterns of human migration.
Even with scientific linkage to specific ancestral groups, self-discovery should not be confounded with personal mythology though both necessarily overlap. There is what the evidence shows or suggests, then the narrative which we construct from that limited evidence, which suggests certain things about our families, current and former cultures, and the future of society.
Hermeneutics is the study of theories and methods of the interpretation of systems of meaning, including interpretations of experience, or human behavior generally, including language and patterns of speech, social institutions, and ritual behaviors. It is a specific method or theory of interpretation, such as Freud or Jung's depth psychologies, for example. The word hermeneutics is a term derived from 'Ερμηνεýς, the Greek word for interpreter. This is related to the name of the Greek god Hermes in his role as the interpreter of the messages of the gods. Hermes was believed to play tricks on those he was supposed to give messages to, often changing the messages and influencing the interpretation thereof. The Greek word thus has the basic meaning of one who makes the meaning clear. A DECODER. DNA still manages to preserve its deepest secrets about who and what we are. The bounds of fact and fancy blur in an incoherent reading -- creative misreading of SNP mutations, much like a dream interpretation.
Most people with a lot of New England ancestry descend from one or more ‘gateway’ ancestors – i.e., early colonists who descend, themselves, from English kings, primarily the Plantagenets. The latter, in turn, have their own gateway ancestors, through whom we derive our longest possible ‘ancestral lines’ – into the Dark Ages (roughly A.D. 450-750),
and perhaps (though far more conjecturally) even the Classical (Greco-Roman) and Ancient (Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian) worlds. ALL such descents are hypothetical – that is, all entail many filiative links that are not, in fact, attested in writing, but postulated by scholars on the basis of an assessment of the known chronology, ethno-political situation, and onomastic patterns of the relevant era, locale, and race. In short, ‘ancient’ pedigrees have many ‘dotted lines,’ which are plausible, even likely, but NOT susceptible to proof.
Unfortunately, popular American genealogical literature is rife with supposed ‘ancient’ pedigrees which are neither likely nor plausible, and in some cases provably bogus, passing, as they do, through long chains of supposed personages who never existed. How, short of acquiring a comprehensive knowledge of many phases of world and national history, half a dozen ancient and modern languages, the various branches of philology, and an immense (and highly specialized) research literature (surely a job for several lifetimes!), is the ‘lay’ reader to tell the plausible from the preposterous, the reasonable from the ridiculous?
We can identify the major geographic areas, ethnicities, and pre-Plantagenet ‘gateway’ ancestors through whom we MIGHT descend from Dark Age, Classical, or Ancient kings, warlords, consuls, emperors, and pharaohs, and can outline the major sources of data and forms of reasoning upon which such descents are predicated. It will also draw your attention to proposed ‘ancient’ descents which are known to be false, or have been seriously questioned, and identify the absolute historical limits beyond which it will never be possible to go.
About 360 years, or just short of 15 generations mtDNA peters out. At 15 generations, an individual living today would carry only three thousands of 1% (00.003052%) of the DNA of an ancestor who was “pure” anything 15 generations ago. So even if one ancestor was indeed Mediterranean or whatever 15 generations ago, unless they continuously intermarried within a pure Mediterranean population, the amount would drop by 50% with each generation to the miniscule amount that would be found in today’s current generation. With today’s technology, this is simply untraceable in autosomal DNA.
Joseph Campbell: "What is it we are questing for? It is the fulfillment of that which is potential in each of us. Questing for it is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself. There is nothing you can do that's more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way you will find, live, become a realization of your own personal myth."
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