Shamanism
The Benefits of Connecting with Your Ancestors
Why Everyone Needs to Connect to their Roots
“No man can outwit the ancestors.” ~ African proverb.
“If the family is together, the soul is in the right place.” ~ Russian proverb.
“To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.” ~Chinese Proverb.
What’s up with the ancestors?
I remember when I was young, the older people used to say that some people can’t really be changed because those habits are simply in their blood. One of my Caribbean friends used to say; “People don’t change they simply get smart enough to create an illusion of that change.”
According to science, our traits are predicted by our genes, the genes that we borrowed from the family tree, our ancestors.
I am not saying you can’t change, but here I am referring to how people do things, their ways of doing things never change. And that these can indeed be altered. It’s just that as you modify these things you are really going against the grain, you are working against the current.
Who are the Ancestors then?
The definition of ancestors is straightforward, however, we are trying to look at it from a different angle. Your great-great-grandparents are most likely not on this plane of reality, they passed away a long time ago. But the thing is when you begin to see things from a holistic point of view, that degree of separation becomes thinner.
The wave-particle duality phenomenon in quantum mechanics entails that sometimes a particle can behave as a wave, and sometimes it can act as a particle. That’s where we begin to see that an individual can behave as a group of people or as a separate person. So you see that, without a person’s roots, that person has no identity and will simply not exist.
In the shamanic view, we as individuals are an embodiment of all of our ancestors, even our offspring. This means that we are the convergent product of all the past ancestors at that time and place, whose energy concentration will diverge over time.
So, all of our aunties, uncles, grandparents, and so on, sum up as one body which is us as individuals. When in an ancestral shamanic session, these old aunts and great uncles can be connected to and communicated with because they never really left but they are within us.
A metaphysical understanding of our ancestry heritage
A lot of traditions around the world honor their ancestors. In Mexico, for example, they would pour out a bit of drink on the ground to honor their ancestors. The Chinese bury their ancestors’ bones beneath their houses. Other cultures do not bury their ancestors because they believe that they are alive.
In many of my channeling sessions and other sources, it has become clear to me that even a single cell in our body is conscious.
The nature of the material substance is that it has other unseen layers of realities. For example, a person has a physical body that we can perceive. Besides this, we know that a person also has emotions that we only recognize when they use them as an expression. In addition, they also have a mind, that we can’t really see but we can observe how they do things, and there are also other things like spirits. And so on. As a result, we see only a tiny fraction of the whole picture. And that our bodies are but part of a larger system. Where our ancestors are connected to us and are alive in unseen realms.
The importance of connecting with your ancestors.
When you initiate a connection with your ancestors, you are first recreating a rhythm and harmony within your own town. What does this mean? It means that there is an unseen society besides the visible one whose members are your family and ancestors.
By initiating contact with your ancestors, their wisdom will be bestowed upon you and you will have access to their years of accumulated wisdom and knowledge. Perhaps it won’t occur in a mysterious manner. However, you might be surprised at how some opportunities will come your way. You might make new friends who will stick by your side.
You will gain unseen protection. By connecting with your ancestors, it means you are in touch with your physical senses as well. This means if something is not healthy for your body, you might not find them pleasant to eat. You may find yourself avoiding certain routes, certain types of people who have hidden motives, avoiding places that might lead you into potentially dangerous situations, and so forth.
When you have fully connected with your ancestors, it means that they reside in the realm of unseen energies and that every place, item, or person gives off certain types of vibrational energies, where they may hide these energetic scents but they can’t hide it on higher energetic levels, whenever even the intention of a person gives off a certain frequency. For this reason, your ancestors will lead you to the right path even if you don’t see them, they can cause you to be late to avoid an accident, they can cause a little accident so you don’t go on a certain date, or make your friend lost so they can’t invite you to a party that might bring harm to you.
Just look at how parents protect their toddlers from fire, from pits, dirt, and so on. It is the same way your ancestors will guide you and protect you. This is not limited to spiritual attacks or psychic attacks.
It is interesting to note that even science acknowledges that some diseases are genetic in origin. You know what this means, it indicates that there are unsettled conflicts either between your ancestors and someone else or within your ancestral tree. That means there is an energy blockage somewhere in your ancestral tree that needs to be investigated.
I have personally witnessed a lot of these situations where you find, a certain family member marries a certain family who has unresolved ancestral conflict, which causes deaths, birth defects, diseases, and such just because in the past there were conflicts between these two families that were not resolved.
But if a ceremony is done then the problem disappears. Even these diseases might sometimes be caused by a conflict between family members. Maybe one brother stole from the other, or someone slept with the wife of a brother. If those conflicts are not resolved on time, they manifest as physical illnesses. So upon connecting with your ancestors you become aware of these things, you begin to notice these things where it is easy to resolve them.
How can you connect with your ancestors?
There are many ways to establish a connection with your ancestor. In most cases, if it is critical your ancestors will initiate contact with you. It mostly happens through dreams. I remember dreaming about my late grandfather when he was young. He took me to different places and showed me a lot of things. I didn’t know it was a dream until I woke up, a couple of days later he passed away.
- You have to accept them in your heart by recognizing that they still exist and that they can also look back at you.
- Then connect with your heritage, your customs, and traditions. Once in a while learn about your heritage, where you came from, your traditional food, clothing, music, art, and even language.
- Place a traditional art piece in your living room. These arts invite your ancestors into your space. It can be a painting, a sculpture, an article of furniture, and so on. It’s like a Star Wars fan visits your house to find out that you have a lightsaber hanging on your wall. They will take a special interest in you.
- Consider attending traditional festivals. Heritage festivals are always filled with good spirits. Therefore, you never know when a wise spirit will notice your interests and cast alight on you.
- To connect to specific ancestral spirits, find their items. It can be a photograph, clothes, hats, and so on.
- If you commemorate, you can find a date that connects you to your ancestors. This can be Sunday if they used to visit the church, or it can be their birthdates, or a festival day, etc. You can light a candle, visit their graves, plant a plant for them, etc, just be creative and let the spirit guide you.
Conclusion.
As soon as we realize our connection with our ancestors, the less lonely and abandoned we feel. Unfortunately, the church has demonized this tradition of connecting with our ancestors, where many people are afraid of the devil.
Our ancestors are not the devil, if they had any ill intention for us, they would have harmed us when they were still around. Roman Catholics pray to the saints all the time. Aren’t these saints the spirits of the dead? Why would it be any different for you to connect with your ancestors?
There is one more thing I want to mention, some people have experienced a traumatic experience with their family, maybe their dad was abusive, maybe their mother was abusive. The key here is healing oneself and forgiveness. If you can let it go, and try to see that experience from detachment, then you will see the root cause of whatever happened to you and bring healing.
Shamanism
The Benefits of Connecting with Your Ancestors
Why Everyone Needs to Connect to their Roots
“No man can outwit the ancestors.” ~ African proverb.
“If the family is together, the soul is in the right place.” ~ Russian proverb.
“To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.” ~Chinese Proverb.
What’s up with the ancestors?
I remember when I was young, the older people used to say that some people can’t really be changed because those habits are simply in their blood. One of my Caribbean friends used to say; “People don’t change they simply get smart enough to create an illusion of that change.”
According to science, our traits are predicted by our genes, the genes that we borrowed from the family tree, our ancestors.
I am not saying you can’t change, but here I am referring to how people do things, their ways of doing things never change. And that these can indeed be altered. It’s just that as you modify these things you are really going against the grain, you are working against the current.
Who are the Ancestors then?
The definition of ancestors is straightforward, however, we are trying to look at it from a different angle. Your great-great-grandparents are most likely not on this plane of reality, they passed away a long time ago. But the thing is when you begin to see things from a holistic point of view, that degree of separation becomes thinner.
The wave-particle duality phenomenon in quantum mechanics entails that sometimes a particle can behave as a wave, and sometimes it can act as a particle. That’s where we begin to see that an individual can behave as a group of people or as a separate person. So you see that, without a person’s roots, that person has no identity and will simply not exist.
In the shamanic view, we as individuals are an embodiment of all of our ancestors, even our offspring. This means that we are the convergent product of all the past ancestors at that time and place, whose energy concentration will diverge over time.
So, all of our aunties, uncles, grandparents, and so on, sum up as one body which is us as individuals. When in an ancestral shamanic session, these old aunts and great uncles can be connected to and communicated with because they never really left but they are within us.
A metaphysical understanding of our ancestry heritage
A lot of traditions around the world honor their ancestors. In Mexico, for example, they would pour out a bit of drink on the ground to honor their ancestors. The Chinese bury their ancestors’ bones beneath their houses. Other cultures do not bury their ancestors because they believe that they are alive.
In many of my channeling sessions and other sources, it has become clear to me that even a single cell in our body is conscious.
The nature of the material substance is that it has other unseen layers of realities. For example, a person has a physical body that we can perceive. Besides this, we know that a person also has emotions that we only recognize when they use them as an expression. In addition, they also have a mind, that we can’t really see but we can observe how they do things, and there are also other things like spirits. And so on. As a result, we see only a tiny fraction of the whole picture. And that our bodies are but part of a larger system. Where our ancestors are connected to us and are alive in unseen realms.
The importance of connecting with your ancestors.
When you initiate a connection with your ancestors, you are first recreating a rhythm and harmony within your own town. What does this mean? It means that there is an unseen society besides the visible one whose members are your family and ancestors.
By initiating contact with your ancestors, their wisdom will be bestowed upon you and you will have access to their years of accumulated wisdom and knowledge. Perhaps it won’t occur in a mysterious manner. However, you might be surprised at how some opportunities will come your way. You might make new friends who will stick by your side.
You will gain unseen protection. By connecting with your ancestors, it means you are in touch with your physical senses as well. This means if something is not healthy for your body, you might not find them pleasant to eat. You may find yourself avoiding certain routes, certain types of people who have hidden motives, avoiding places that might lead you into potentially dangerous situations, and so forth.
When you have fully connected with your ancestors, it means that they reside in the realm of unseen energies and that every place, item, or person gives off certain types of vibrational energies, where they may hide these energetic scents but they can’t hide it on higher energetic levels, whenever even the intention of a person gives off a certain frequency. For this reason, your ancestors will lead you to the right path even if you don’t see them, they can cause you to be late to avoid an accident, they can cause a little accident so you don’t go on a certain date, or make your friend lost so they can’t invite you to a party that might bring harm to you.
Just look at how parents protect their toddlers from fire, from pits, dirt, and so on. It is the same way your ancestors will guide you and protect you. This is not limited to spiritual attacks or psychic attacks.
It is interesting to note that even science acknowledges that some diseases are genetic in origin. You know what this means, it indicates that there are unsettled conflicts either between your ancestors and someone else or within your ancestral tree. That means there is an energy blockage somewhere in your ancestral tree that needs to be investigated.
I have personally witnessed a lot of these situations where you find, a certain family member marries a certain family who has unresolved ancestral conflict, which causes deaths, birth defects, diseases, and such just because in the past there were conflicts between these two families that were not resolved.
But if a ceremony is done then the problem disappears. Even these diseases might sometimes be caused by a conflict between family members. Maybe one brother stole from the other, or someone slept with the wife of a brother. If those conflicts are not resolved on time, they manifest as physical illnesses. So upon connecting with your ancestors you become aware of these things, you begin to notice these things where it is easy to resolve them.
How can you connect with your ancestors?
There are many ways to establish a connection with your ancestor. In most cases, if it is critical your ancestors will initiate contact with you. It mostly happens through dreams. I remember dreaming about my late grandfather when he was young. He took me to different places and showed me a lot of things. I didn’t know it was a dream until I woke up, a couple of days later he passed away.
- You have to accept them in your heart by recognizing that they still exist and that they can also look back at you.
- Then connect with your heritage, your customs, and traditions. Once in a while learn about your heritage, where you came from, your traditional food, clothing, music, art, and even language.
- Place a traditional art piece in your living room. These arts invite your ancestors into your space. It can be a painting, a sculpture, an article of furniture, and so on. It’s like a Star Wars fan visits your house to find out that you have a lightsaber hanging on your wall. They will take a special interest in you.
- Consider attending traditional festivals. Heritage festivals are always filled with good spirits. Therefore, you never know when a wise spirit will notice your interests and cast alight on you.
- To connect to specific ancestral spirits, find their items. It can be a photograph, clothes, hats, and so on.
- If you commemorate, you can find a date that connects you to your ancestors. This can be Sunday if they used to visit the church, or it can be their birthdates, or a festival day, etc. You can light a candle, visit their graves, plant a plant for them, etc, just be creative and let the spirit guide you.
Conclusion.
As soon as we realize our connection with our ancestors, the less lonely and abandoned we feel. Unfortunately, the church has demonized this tradition of connecting with our ancestors, where many people are afraid of the devil.
Our ancestors are not the devil, if they had any ill intention for us, they would have harmed us when they were still around. Roman Catholics pray to the saints all the time. Aren’t these saints the spirits of the dead? Why would it be any different for you to connect with your ancestors?
There is one more thing I want to mention, some people have experienced a traumatic experience with their family, maybe their dad was abusive, maybe their mother was abusive. The key here is healing oneself and forgiveness. If you can let it go, and try to see that experience from detachment, then you will see the root cause of whatever happened to you and bring healing.
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