Everything in our universe or perhaps parallel universes is connected.
In the bigger context, we are not exactly sure how, but we know that everything is relational. In a manner of speaking, the power of 10 concept brings this to consciousness, as we peer into the depth of space while peering to through microscopes or at hybridized atomic signals. We see the beauty in continuity that finds humans somewhere on the small side of the continuum, but rather beautifully placed to visualize the large and small of our existence.
In our connectedness, another way of thinking about our eternal relationships is to think about lineages.
A lineage refers to the line relatedness that cuts across generations upon generations of things. Those things could be genes, cells, animals, plants, geological formations, planetary systems, galaxies or universes. Using some kind of tag or marker, we can figure out who came from who, what came from what, in very specific ways. Those lineages can also be spiritual, connections that flow philosophies, beliefs, perspectives, languages, arts from a generation to the next, from a town to a town, across a province, a country, a continent or a world. In the biological context, there is a great interest today in which cells were derived from other others as there phenotypes subtly and steadily change due to physiological, immunological and genetic forces. We are looking at specifics to find new mechanisms, new ways to preserve health, new ways to treat and manage disease, and new ways to detect rogue cells or early warning signs of life science systems gone awry.
For me, perhaps most important in this lineage tracing adventure is to reflect once more on how connected we really are. We are really part of a magical large family of entities, activities and consequences. While this could be termed the diversity that arises from evolving lineages, I like to think of it as the critical message that we are always more the same than we are different.