Force Use Ability Gained or Lost

[Empress Palpatine]

I have read all sorts of accounts about the distant past where people had much more psychic/Force ability, and I always wondered why no one has it much any more. Did man have it long ago and lost it, or is it legend, and it is a new desired ability to be gained?

If we lost it, and we are but a shadow of the great wizards of long ago, then why did we lose it? The book I am currently reading, SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS by Carl Sagan, may offer one possible explanation. He tells of a story of creatures that ended up going in a cave and staying there in the darkness. Initially they had eyes like any other creature. Over many generations, they lost their eyesight. Why? As happens even with people, some are born blind. Usually blind creatures are at such a disadvantage that they are devoured before they can breed. This keeps blindness out. But what if it did not matter? Who needs to see in a cave anyway? The blind ones would breed like anyone else and make more blind ones. Given time, eyes would fall by the wayside. Sagan says that there are the remains of what used to be legs and feet in snakes and in whales. There are birds whose wings do not fly. If you don't use it, you lose it.

I wondered then, did we have Force abilities that are now lost because they did not need to be used for human survival? We used more muggle means so the trait was bread out?

Or, we never had them and it is a new emerging trait? It is a desired trait by many, and that became apparent after people saw the Star Wars films?

To establish as a trait, Force sensitives would have to pass on their genes more so than non-Force-sensitives. If Force sensitivity and ability became necessary to survive, that could happen.

Another possibility, people do have the ability right now and don't know it. It is a dormant ability. I remembered watching a demonstration by this martial artist who did a monkey style art. He moved just like a monkey as if he tapped into humans' primate past and rekindled some of the abilities and agility of monkeys. Apparently there is a lot of unused monkey abilities hidden in our DNA. Perhaps certain Force ability may be there also.

Thoughts?

[Mrs. Darth Vader]

There is a case for these abilities being genetically passed down in the same book.

“Gibbons are, apparently without exception, monogamous. They marry for life. They produce haunting songs heard a kilometer or more away. Adult males often sing long solos in the darkness just before sunrise. Bachelors sing longer than old married males, and at a different time of day. Wives prefer duets with their husbands. Widows bear their grief in silence and sing no more.
Gibbons are also territorial and their matins serve to keep intruders away. A nuclear family, typically parents and two children, tends to control a small turf. Defense of the home territory is accomplished not so much by throwing stones or raining blows as by singing anthems. Perhaps there are cadences, timbers, frequencies, and amplitudes that other gibbons, contemplating a little poaching, find especially impressive and daunting.” Page 329 and top of 330 in book called “Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors” by Carl Sagan Martin is a haunting mournful sound. This is the fore runner of the ancient Runes and other spell craft done by humans. These forms of religious practices have the highest potential for result because they, no doubt by accident, cross into the realm of physics. In this same book it is admitted not all monkeys use this form of defense. Most use the sticks and stones method showing that this ability is rare and is passed down from our primate ancestors. So some of us humans can in fact use this little known physics combined with resonant frequency.
Another genetic factor is the amount of intermediaries you have in your brain because these serve to amplify the electricity in your brain. The more you have the more you can tap into electricity from the out side thus adding to your overall out put of both electromagnetism and resonant frequency.

“The human brain(apart from the cerebellum, which does not seem to be involved in cognitive functions) contains about ten billion switching elements called neurons.(The cerebellum, which lies beneath the cerebral cortex, toward the back of the head, contains roughly another ten billion neurons.) The electrical currents generated by and through the neurons or nerve cells were the means by which the Italian anatomist Luigi Galvani discovered electricity. Galvani had found that electrical impulses could be conducted to the legs of frogs, which dutifully twitched; and the idea became popular that animal motion(“animation”) was in its deepest sense caused by electricity. This is at best a partial truth; electrical impulses transmitted along nerve fibers do, through neurochemical intermediaries, initiate such movements as the articulation of limbs, but the impulses are generated in the brain. Nevertheless, the modern science of electricity and the electrical and electronic industries all trace their origins to eighteenth-century experiments on the electrical stimulation of twitches in frogs.” Page 42 Dragons Of Eden by Carl Sagan. This quote shows how electricity and the intermediaries work together in tandem in every day brain function.

Both of these quotes shows that there is science here no God is needed. Of course the down side is when ever something is a genetic trait not alll humans have this ability. Believe it or not but J.K.Rowling got it right when she invented her three categories of people in the Harry Potter series. Remember there was the wizards (Those who had the ability to practice active magic. ) then on the other extreme was the muggles ( those who could do no magic or even feel anything either). and lastly there was the squibs ( those who could sense, hear feel and see things and do all forms of passive magic but no active magical abilities. ). These three categories where the three dividing lines between humans. Rowling, by accident, was right because there are people who can not sense a Mack truck and do no practice what so ever and never can. While there are people who sense but can not effect the material plane with magic. But there are the few who do seem to do things that makes the rest of us question whether magic is possible or not. figure out the science behind what we today call magic and you figure out how it is done.

[Ahweh]

For me our abilities to access the Force as we know it today has neither been newly gained nor ever lost.
Our abilities have been in continuous development for as long as we have been on this earth.
From what I have been able to figure out about we human beings in the past few years is that every person on the planet has the ability to access the Force at some level.
Those who have gone beyond their fear and learned to access their own personal energy and strengthen it above where it was at it's dormant state can access the Force better.
We human beings are capable of more than anyone has yet to realize.
George (Ahweh)