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Your Genotype

Posted by Alfred K. LaMotte | Mar 6, 2019 | Featured, Healing | 1 |

Your Genotype

Only 1% of our genes come from our parents, and most of that we share with a host of animals. The other 99% are microbial.

Our human bodies are gossamer veils covering vast colonies of microbes. And the elements that make us all were forged with the galaxies long before the earth was born.

Biologically, race does not exist. Geneticists have provided all the evidence that there is no “white” race and no “black” race. Europeans are made of genetic streams from other continents, and so are Africans. The notion of independent “races” is a political construct invented by the ego-mind that loves separateness. We are richer than this.

One human family, one earth tribe, one cosmic clan, we are all rainbows, great grandchildren of the stars.

The solution is not for each “race” to fight for its political rights, but for each human being to dissolve the ego-mind, and dwell like wine in this exquisite earthen cask – with hints of mahogany and rose, caramel and citrus, oak and apple wood. Every one of us is cosmic consciousness incarnate.

 

 

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Alfred K. LaMotte

Alfred K. LaMotte

Alfred K. LaMotte is the author of six books of poetry. His newest, Strangers & Pilgrims is now out from Saint Julian Press.. A graduate of Yale University and Princeton Theological Seminary, Fred is a meditation teacher, interfaith college chaplain, and instructor in world religions. He loves to gather circles for meditation and poetry. He lives in a small town on Puget Sound with his beloved wife Anna. His poetry/meditation site is yourradiance.blogspot.com

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  1. Connie Pwll Walck Tyler
    Connie Pwll Walck Tyler on March 7, 2019 at 7:24 am

    This is all very true and quite beautifully put, but we do need to fight against the oppression of others who are perceived as being different whether or not that perception is false. In the US people of African descent have been and still are being treated as “less than” those of us who are “white” as are Native Americans, Latinx, and others. This must stop. We must all fight for the rights to equal access to opportunity for all people.

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