Introduction
Welcome! You belong and you can connect to belonging. The door to the ancestral realm has already opened for you even as you opened this book.
Ancestral healing and being in right relationship with one’s ancestors, and with the land, is not a new practice. Various cultural traditions of ancestral reverence, connection and healing have been and continue to be practiced by indigenous communities around the world since the birth of humanity. By design, these practices have been demolished, desecrated, demonized, pathologized, outlawed and forbidden through centuries of colonization.
There are many paths to connection and healing through the ancestors. The particular ancestral lineage healing practice referenced by the authors in this book is not derived from any single ethnic or cultural tradition, spirituality or religion. We honor all healing practices this form of ancestral lineage healing may parallel, compliment, or mirror.
Ancestral lineage healing is a vitally important medicine for these times. We are living in an existential crisis. Big trauma is being re-enacted every day. The wrath of history seems to be repeating itself. We honor whatever spark, whatever longing or despair brought you to this book. Anti-blackness, white supremacy, antisemitism, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia, racism, classism and systemic harm currently rage and wage destruction all around us. How are you called to respond? How do you resource yourself? How do you support your life force energy? How do you connect to Source or the wisdom of generations before you? How do you preserve who you are?
As you read this book, we invite you to listen to your intuition. You are naturally connected to your ancestors. Invite curiosity about how they may show up for you? If you feel pulled to start with a certain chapter, go for it. We encourage you to explore any callings you feel, any whispers you hear, and any synchronicities that emerge as you read this book.
These shared stories and wisdom are a living energy that holds medicine.
May the medicine that emerges from this book land softly and kindly in your system.
May this book serve as a healing agent in and of itself.
May this book counter the energy of toxic and destructive harm by giving you a deep drink of communal belonging in the voices of the ancestors.
May this book offer hope as you navigate the uncertain waters that we are swimming in at this moment of time on the planet.
May the wisdom shared in this book be an offering to honor the ancestors.
May this book remind you that you are not alone.
May this book generate a path to remember your ancestral gifts, a path to deep inner listening.
May this book offer energetic alchemy to meet you where you are.