Genetic Memory: How We Know Things We Never Learned - Scientific American

Genetic Memory: How We Know Things We Never Learned - Scientific American

Indeed recent cases of “acquired savants” or “accidental genius” have convinced me that we all have such factory-installed software. I discussed some of those cases in detail in the August issue of Scientific American under the title “Accidental Genius”. In short, certain persons, after head injury or disease, show explosive and sometimes prodigious musical, art or mathematical ability, which lies dormant until released by a process of recruitment of still intact and uninjured brain areas, rewiring to those newly recruited areas and releasing the until then latent capacity contained therein.

This seems to pertain to shamanism as a traumatic injury that produces results.