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This is an excerpt from an article in the latest World Wildlife
Federation Newsletter:
"For reasons not fully understood, millions of
North American butterflies from southern Canada and the eastern United States
migrate south each year to just a few mountaintops in Michoacan........the
monarchs that return to the butterfly sanctuary in Mexico are approximately five
generations removed from those that left Mexico the previous spring.....how
monarchs are able to locate the same forest ecosystem year after year without
having been there before remains an unsolved biological mystery".
When I read this, I had also just read about the same phenomenon in a book
called "Psychic Roots", except that they said it took about eight generations
for the butterflies to make the round trip. Talk about serendipity!
Are we like those butterflies? What is it that calls us to locate the
records of our ancestors from eight generations past when we have not
been where they lived? Why do so many of us feel compelled to travel
such long distances and endure the risks and hardships of foreign travel to look
through dusty tomes and tramp through old ruins and panteones? Why do
we feel such a thrill for each discovery? Does our RNA/DNA hard-wire us to
seek the locale of some of our ancestors, just like the butterflies'
RNA/DNA? Oooooooo. Sounds like a Siren's Song that calls us. That is
an unsolved mystery.
Emilie Garcia
Port Orchard, WA ----
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