Ancestral Forces

How do the actions of our ancestors live on in us, and in what ways do these actions influence us and our lives?

The new generation of human beings carries forth a conglomerate of our ancestors’ genes, and we clearly acknowledge the shaping power of our genetic makeup. However, despite our genetic predisposition, it may be both easy and desirable to consider ourselves as a tablua rasa; a clean slate to be filled with our experiences and our experiences alone. But what is it that drives us towards certain kinds of experiences, and steers us away from others in the first place. How come we experience so much “history repeating” in our lives? Do the stories of our ancestors act as predispositions ingrained in our genetic make up for us to experience similar kinds of experiences, until our modern expression of these stories have found some kind of resolution to the issues that our ancestors struggled with?  Even when the stories of our ancestors have never been openly discussed, and we are oblivious to what impact they might have had upon the world, and the people in it, their stories still has an effect on us. Maybe the effect is even stronger when the stories have been kept in the dark all these years. All we can do is acknowledge our ancestors as being one of the forces that actively contribute to shaping our lives. We can then work with shedding light on the material that has been passed down through generations, integrate it into our being, and release old blockages and patterns that no longer serve us.