"When we know about our ancestors, when we sense them as living and as supporting us, then we feel connected to the genetic life-stream, and we draw strength and nourishment from this."
_____ Philip Carr-Gomm, The Druid Tradition
Theoretically, we each have two parents, four grandparents, eight-great-grandparents, and so on, back in time. In practice, though, if each person alive continued that exponential progression for, say thirty generations, we would come up with more people than were on earth at that time. Genealogists tell us that if we each went back about seventeen generations, we would find many family relationships between ourselves and people of our acquaintance. It follows, then, that we are all intimately related to each other, that our personal ancestors are shared with many thousands of people alive today.
These shared ancestors are the ones with whom we can relate, even though we may not have details of their names and places. Not all were wise or clever or happy, for all human beings make mistakes and bad decisions. But the ones who were wisdom-bearers and way-showers in their lives have not ceased from these roles. By asking our spiritual allies meditations to take us to meet one or more of our wise ancestors, the living ancestors, we can travel to the timeless otherworld and visit them. We can discover new spiritual allies in our living ancestors, consulting them about matters to do with our family, our way of life and ways of respecting the spiritual core of all things.
"Ask your spiritual allies to help you meet one of your wise ancestors in meditation and soul-flight."[From: The Celtic Spirit by Caitlin Matthews]
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