Ancestral Spirits

Quite frequently entity attachments are family members who after death still feel compelled to complete their unfinished business with either the living or the familiy line. An example would be a mother or father who died prematurely and continue to want to protect their children. Another example might be a baby who was aborted and stays with its mother because it still desires to be born. Ancestor attachments can be passed down from the generations, from ancient ancestors that a person never knew. Modern psychology recognizes that family patterning of such issues as addiction, incest, abuse and other psychological complexes and issues can be passed down from generations past and linger in family lines even if the current parents did not have these issues. It has been shown in studies that sometimes issues skip generations; the most common explanation for this is that it is ‘genetic’. The ‘shamanic’ understanding of this is that that the spirits of the generations past still need healing, so that the current generations can live unfettered from these unresolved issues.

Anna’s father committed suicide when she was young. When asked to focus on her father, she reported feeling his presence. She was guided into dialogue with him and they had a tearful reunion. I then asked to talk to ‘Father’ directly through her. ‘Father’ was regressed back to the point of his death, which was relived through Anna. ‘Father’ was remembering all the depressive thoughts that drove him to commit suicide.  It became apparent that the weight of his suicide and his thoughts were something Anna had been unconsciously carrying since childhood and had been present in her adult life as an all pervasive desire to die. ‘Father’ was asked if he wanted his child to carry this for him any further, and Anna was asked the same. Both agreed they wanted it resolved. ‘Father’, after some further help and healing on the issues that drove him to suicide, was then asked to lift the weight of suicide, from him and Anna’s body. Anna reported seeing it as a steel ball of black energy in her right lung being lifted from her chest. ‘Father’ was then asked to check the family line to see if some of his experience had originated from an earlier ancestor. It appeared to go back a few generations to his great grandfather. I encouraged the ancestors to pass it back down the family line. Anna watched this process and reported that it was finally dispersed into a black hole in space. Not surprisingly, Anna told me later that she did some research and found out that the father’s side of the family had a long history of suicides. She also reported that the heaviness in her chest and feelings of despair were gone.

Often ancestral entities simply need to just tell their story. For various reasons they may have been shunned by the family, or never had the chance to tell anyone of their pain. Sometimes they have not yet joined with familiy members that are on the other side and when they are assisted to do so they find relief and no longer need to linger among the living. Spirit releasement can also help complete the grieving process for family members that are still living. Often when a loved one has died, a person may have been unable to express all their thoughts or feelings. The weight of these unspoken words can keep them stuck from moving on in their own lives.

Ancestral work is not meant to replace ones own personal process of healing issues, and isn’t meant to shift ‘blame’ or place causative factors onto the spirits of the departed. Our own personal karmas and complexes can act as magnets for lingering spirits with similar issues. We often choose to incarnate in families that we have unfinished business with or that reflect our own unhealed dynamics. Spirits that attach or hang around us, only add to our own complexes making them more difficult to heal.  In this work, personal issues are worked with alongside any complications caused by spirits.