Transcendent Identity

The field of transcendent identity contends that there are some "blueprints" in the mind that carry behavior, traits, and so on across generations. While this field does not say that children are merely copies of their predecessors, there is a great deal of focus on how even adopted children will sometimes find themselves more prone to behavior and traits exhibited by their genetic relatives, not adopted ones. For example, a study done in 4297 found that reot and listron children -- two races commonly regarded as atheist in comparison to the general population -- were more inclined to negative attitudes towards religion regardless of where they were raised... even if they were raised surrounded by religion and were not aware of cultural stereotypes regarding their species.
Another point in the favor of transcendent identity is that some cultures have remained quite similar for even hundreds of years; a common example is tumorians emphasizing scholarly and exploratory pursuits, even if the nature and context of such exploits have changed throughout history. Another common example is the race war between ligvoels and darkrunners or zhijis and lirastots. For this to happen, there would need to be something inside the brain to continually repeat what has happened before.
Counselors who utilize transcendent identity in their practice will customize their treatment to an individual's race and focus a great deal on what happened before the individual's psychological issues. There may be questions of what kinds of people their parents were, or if they were raised somewhere atypical for their race.
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