Cultural nostalgia signifies a shared longing to reclaim severed ancestral roots, restoring civilization's inheritance to nourish more harmonious visions ahead.
“ As seasons revolve from life to death in endless rotation, we glimpse a deeper truth - endings do not sever the secret beginnings ripening just below sight.”
I just posted a thread about how human life is a metaphor for the setting sun and a completion of a journey! Just right before I opened your post! Something greater reminding me this morning the Creator dwells among us and connecting us to each other. That thought brings me much hope and encouragement for the future of mankind. 💫✨💖
Thank you, Charlotte - that's beautiful!! I love the synchronicities among this group so much - there's such a strong positive frequency here! We're proof of what happens when words and thoughts and feelings are openly expressed and not suppressed or otherwise shackled by censorship algorithms. It feels even better than open communication used to feel, and I'll say that's partially appreciating having back what we had sorely lost, but even more than that, it's the amazing energy that the people who have come together here are bringing to the table - and one frequency bolsters the other. It's inspiring to watch and it makes my heart happy!! 🙏🏻💜💫
I'm not just saying this I really mean it. This is an absolute masterpiece. I can't imagine what it was like to write. Thank you so much for writing this! I sometimes use quotes in my posts from famous people but I have no doubt in the future I will be quoting you. Your writing, like this post, is timeless. I don't have the book, but I bet anemoia is in the book the "Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows." First time I saw that book was on Truthstream Media. Have you ever watched Truthstream Media with Aaron and Melissa Dykes (husband and wife)? If you haven't, get on that. I recently went to Cahokia Mounds with my boys, day after Christmas when visiting my parents. My 15 year old filmed on my phone while I talked cause I'm thinking of cutting it and putting it on Substack. He did ok, it's no Kubrick Fear and Desire, ha! Honestly though, I see myself coming back to read this post over the years. It hit home, which of course is the whole point of the shared nostalgia, the anemoia.
For sure. They have a YouTube channel and their stuff doesn't really get banned so it's easy to watch on the TV. My kids like them too. If you start watching it, hit me up somewhere in a comment. I'm curious to know what you think.
This was a new word for me and coincidentally, I experienced it on Saturday. My wife and I visited a 1950's themed diner in West LA. Both of us were born after the 50's but we both share a longing for that decade that seems partly rooted in the pop cultural motifs that endure to this day. The restaurant's walls were full of that decade's cultural artifacts and the jukeboxes played old Happy Days-ish tunes. The experience evoked a nostalgia which was not explained by anything directly experiential.
Since our parents grew up in the 50's, I'm intrigued by the theoretical concept of genetic memory and epigenetics. Do our parent's memories have a way of imprinting themselves in their offspring? What else could explain such a strong sensory identification with the 1950's?
Very insightful essay! I enjoy "big picture" examinations of societal evolution like this.
Thank you so much! Yes, I believe the signature of the events the parents and ancestors experienced do imprint upon the offspring and descendants. There is a lot of evidence of this from studying separated twins and how trauma and certain inclinations will pass down regardless of nurture. I think we store it in the consciousness of our internal water and pass it down that way. Water holds memory and consciousness. And the majority of us are mainly exposed to polluted, toxic, and/or destructured water, some of which tends to not even originate from the places we know, inhabit, visit, frequent. So we are disconnected from the memories of the places we inhabit and the people who once lived in them when we don't take in natural structured water from the place where we live and/or from the places where our families came from originally. You can sip on natural structured water from a specific place and set the intention to remember the memories of that place. It might come through as memories, but more often, as dreams. Most of us are more receptive to dreams.
“Humility is in order as we confront the wounds of what we have lost, still fresh today. Reweaving whole tapestries demands courageous effort to revive and preserve the voices and practices that once connected us back to this sacred space and shared context over time.”
Love this part, of course the whole thing is so well written, thank you!
Civilization's fraying roots. Wow, that section really hit home. Great writing 👏🏻
Thank you so much! 🙏🏻💜💫
“ As seasons revolve from life to death in endless rotation, we glimpse a deeper truth - endings do not sever the secret beginnings ripening just below sight.”
I just posted a thread about how human life is a metaphor for the setting sun and a completion of a journey! Just right before I opened your post! Something greater reminding me this morning the Creator dwells among us and connecting us to each other. That thought brings me much hope and encouragement for the future of mankind. 💫✨💖
Stay beautiful Demi! 🤗
Thank you, Charlotte - that's beautiful!! I love the synchronicities among this group so much - there's such a strong positive frequency here! We're proof of what happens when words and thoughts and feelings are openly expressed and not suppressed or otherwise shackled by censorship algorithms. It feels even better than open communication used to feel, and I'll say that's partially appreciating having back what we had sorely lost, but even more than that, it's the amazing energy that the people who have come together here are bringing to the table - and one frequency bolsters the other. It's inspiring to watch and it makes my heart happy!! 🙏🏻💜💫
Here here!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I'm not just saying this I really mean it. This is an absolute masterpiece. I can't imagine what it was like to write. Thank you so much for writing this! I sometimes use quotes in my posts from famous people but I have no doubt in the future I will be quoting you. Your writing, like this post, is timeless. I don't have the book, but I bet anemoia is in the book the "Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows." First time I saw that book was on Truthstream Media. Have you ever watched Truthstream Media with Aaron and Melissa Dykes (husband and wife)? If you haven't, get on that. I recently went to Cahokia Mounds with my boys, day after Christmas when visiting my parents. My 15 year old filmed on my phone while I talked cause I'm thinking of cutting it and putting it on Substack. He did ok, it's no Kubrick Fear and Desire, ha! Honestly though, I see myself coming back to read this post over the years. It hit home, which of course is the whole point of the shared nostalgia, the anemoia.
Wow. Thank you so much - that is so kind of you! I'm honored. Seriously - thank you! I need to get that book also - thanks for the heads up!
I have not seen this show - I will look into it! :)
Melissa is funny too. Goes off on rants sometimes with added sarcasm, wit that you would like. They are Gen X.
That definitely sounds like something I would like! Thanks!! :)
For sure. They have a YouTube channel and their stuff doesn't really get banned so it's easy to watch on the TV. My kids like them too. If you start watching it, hit me up somewhere in a comment. I'm curious to know what you think.
Awesome - will do!!
perfect read for a time like this!
Thank you!
“anemoia”
This was a new word for me and coincidentally, I experienced it on Saturday. My wife and I visited a 1950's themed diner in West LA. Both of us were born after the 50's but we both share a longing for that decade that seems partly rooted in the pop cultural motifs that endure to this day. The restaurant's walls were full of that decade's cultural artifacts and the jukeboxes played old Happy Days-ish tunes. The experience evoked a nostalgia which was not explained by anything directly experiential.
Since our parents grew up in the 50's, I'm intrigued by the theoretical concept of genetic memory and epigenetics. Do our parent's memories have a way of imprinting themselves in their offspring? What else could explain such a strong sensory identification with the 1950's?
Very insightful essay! I enjoy "big picture" examinations of societal evolution like this.
Thank you so much! Yes, I believe the signature of the events the parents and ancestors experienced do imprint upon the offspring and descendants. There is a lot of evidence of this from studying separated twins and how trauma and certain inclinations will pass down regardless of nurture. I think we store it in the consciousness of our internal water and pass it down that way. Water holds memory and consciousness. And the majority of us are mainly exposed to polluted, toxic, and/or destructured water, some of which tends to not even originate from the places we know, inhabit, visit, frequent. So we are disconnected from the memories of the places we inhabit and the people who once lived in them when we don't take in natural structured water from the place where we live and/or from the places where our families came from originally. You can sip on natural structured water from a specific place and set the intention to remember the memories of that place. It might come through as memories, but more often, as dreams. Most of us are more receptive to dreams.
I like the metaphor of water and consciousness. Reminds of Bruce Lee's "be like water."
“Humility is in order as we confront the wounds of what we have lost, still fresh today. Reweaving whole tapestries demands courageous effort to revive and preserve the voices and practices that once connected us back to this sacred space and shared context over time.”
Love this part, of course the whole thing is so well written, thank you!
Thank you so much, Alexander! 🙏🏻💜💫
https://open.substack.com/pub/starfirecodes/p/part-two-nostalgia-for-the-future?r=1rfjvv&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Loved this as much as the first one. I wrote about Edgar Ende today - he lived through a fraying civilization - beautiful phrase, by the way - and lost a majority of his art in an air raid. You'd like him, he meditated, cleared his mind and made paintings out of what came up from his subconscious. Wild stuff! https://rightfootforward.substack.com/p/carafe-art-by-moi-and-visionary-edgar?publication_id=1911127&post_id=141049608&isFreemail=false&r=1l7dfa&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
If you are really into metaphysics you need to get the information in the life of
Dr.George King (I919-1997) in his biography, and creation of "The Aetherius Society.
A Master of Metaphysics inventing devices for stabilising earth and more, in the time of threats which could have finished us.
Thank you, Bill! 🙏🏻💜💫