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Teal Swan: THIS could explain your irrational fear + ancestral memories

29 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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Teal Swan describes a personal anecdote linking an irrational fear of whales to her family history: after a casual remark from her father she hired genealogists who discovered a lineage of eastern U.S. whalers including a fifth great-grandfather described as a founding whaler and a great-grandfather lost at sea fighting a sperm whale. The clip emphasizes the brutality and danger of 18th–19th-century whaling and suggests ancestral memory may influence present fears.

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Because I'm like, I'm a complete animal lover, right? But whales, they come around, panic. One day, my dad just casually drops when he watches me have one of these reactions to a whale on the screen. He's like, that's kind of funny. I think if I remember it, we have a whaler in the family. I'm like, wait, wait, wait. You are just now telling me this? Two years later, I hire these genealogists. They go down the trail and they're like, oh, your fifth great grandfather was literally the father of whaling on the east coast of America. And it was four generations of whalers. Turns out that I have one great grandfather who was actually lost at sea in a fight with a sperm whale. And the sperm whales were the ones who had this tendency to turn on boats. Whaling was intense business. It's not like these guys went down gently, right? You would get out in this little boat with four men and try to spear this thing to death. And then it would drag you for miles and miles and miles and miles. You know, these men, this would have been the.