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Who are Your Deep Ancestors? · Remember Why You Are Here

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  When you make that strong intention to connect to a guide who really has
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  healing powers for you and your lineage as a whole,
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  who shows up will be exactly who you need to speak to.
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  Hello and welcome back to Remember Why You're Here,
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  a podcast for seekers and sensitives where you can relax, receive,
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  reconnect to yourself and remember that most important thing of all,
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  why you're here. I'm Asia Suler, author,
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  earth intuitive teacher. And in this episode today,
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  I wanted to revisit a recording I put out several
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  falls ago now. It was actually before my daughter was born.
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  She was just a little babe in my belly when I first recorded this.
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  And I wanted to return to this recording called Who Are Your Deep Ancestors?
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  Because right now in this moment, as this is being released,
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  I am in Southern France visiting the paleolithic caves
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  of the deep ancestors. I am in the Dordogne region of
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  France in Les Eyzies, and I am here once again.
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  So I was here last year for the first time fulfilling a dream
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  of mine that I have been holding and nurturing
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  within myself a dream that I talk about in this recording.
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  its genesis, how it first came in,
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  working on my next book or working on this book that really has
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  been a part of my world now for almost seven years.
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  That's nutty to me that the idea for this book first came in seven years ago.
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  If you are curious more about what this book is,
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  I talk more about my first journey to Southern France and the
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  overall tenets of the book,
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  what I'm actually doing with this book in episode 40 called What Am I Doing in
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  Southern France?
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  So you can go back and listen to that episode from last year. But this
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  book, which will still be years in the making, it's just one of those books,
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  but this book is about what I call the deep ancestors,
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  these ancestors of our lineage and of the earth
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  that are here to help us reconnect to what it means to be human,
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  these deep ancestors who are profoundly connected to the earth,
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  who knew how to live in relationship with the earth.
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  And my experience with these deep ancestors are that they have so much to
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  teach us and so much that they want to say.
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  So for me in my connection with the deep ancestors,
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  it has brought me to these caves in Southern France.
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  So many of these caves date back upwards of
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  30,000 years ago. So these are ancient,
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  ancient places. Some of these decorated caves,
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  painted caves have these images inside of them
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  of animals, of faces,
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  of hand prints that predated
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  agriculture,
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  that predated anything that we know of in terms of the
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  written record. These engravings in these paintings are
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  upwards of 17,000 to 36,000 years old.
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  And so it has been just really the honor of my lifetime to be here and
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  inside of these caves.
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  I'm getting to visit some of the caves that I saw last year,
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  but I'm also getting to visit a few caves that I was unable to see last year
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  because they were closed for various reasons.
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  So it has just been such a treat so far to
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  be here,
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  to wake up in this beautiful place with this ancient river moving
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  through these limestone cliffs,
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  to wake up and have my tea and look out over the green and
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  the snaking river. To be inside this valley,
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  that just feels like home in so many ways.
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  It's everything a human could hope for in terms of the shelter and the
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  fertility.
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  And I see why humans have come here to make their home for so
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  very long,
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  including humans that existed before homo sapiens came onto this planet. This
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  was also a place in which the Neanderthals lived.
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  And so as I am just deeper in this exploration this
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  week, coming back for this second trip,
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  hopefully tipping more into the writing of this book,
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  I thought it would be particularly potent to revisit this
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  recording,
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  this episode that I made really not so long after
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  the first message came in for me to start working on this book. And so again,
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  this was when my daughter was just a little seed in my belly.
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  I recorded this in 2021. I think it came out in 2022.
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  And yeah,
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  it just feels like such an honor to return to this and just see this long thread
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  throughout time.
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  And it feels particularly potent now to visit because we've officially
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  tipped into fall.
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  We're officially in this season of the thinning of the veil of the ancestors.
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  It's such a rich time to work with these deep ancestors,
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  so let's go ahead and meet them. Let's meet your deep ancestors
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  and explore the ways in which they may want to work with you.
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  Lately,
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  ancestor work has been coming back into our imagination in the Western world and
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  the ancestors couldn't be more delighted. Right now we're in autumn,
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  known as Samhain Season in the Celtic Wheel of the Year.
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  This is the time of the year in many different cultures where it becomes easier
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  to speak to the ancestors, to communicate across the veil,
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  and in the Celtic understanding to access the other world.
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  There's a lot of different kinds of ancestors to connect with.
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  I wanted to talk about one specific variety of ancestor that is eager to
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  speak with you. When it comes to ancestor work,
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  many people are familiar with the concept of working with those in your lineage
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  who you can name, who you can find on your family tree,
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  or who are connected to you by name. Now,
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  this is a beautiful way to go about ancestral work and important healing can
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  happen with this. And it can sometimes feel fraught if you have a challenging
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  relationship with your family or to your family's history, for example,
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  your family's histories as settlers or colonizers. This can feel challenging,
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  like there's a lot to wade through and perhaps trauma to heal.
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  One way to connect with your ancestry in a way that might feel a bit gentler,
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  but still just as profound is to connect to your deep ancestors.
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  So who are the deep ancestors?
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  This definition might change depending on where in the world you come from,
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  but I consider the deep ancestors as those who lived before written
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  history, those whose names likely have been lost with time,
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  and those who come from a culture and a time where the
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  environment that they lived in and the society that they lived in very much
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  lived in harmony with the earth.
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  So depending on where in the world your family hails from,
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  this could be quite recent or it could be pretty far in the past. As someone of
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  European descent, to me,
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  my deep ancestors feel that they reside in the neolithic or the paleolithic.
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  So both the neolithic and the paleolithic are considered to be pre-history
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  because there's no written accounts of these times.
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  We are mostly going off of artifacts and what we can deduce from
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  archeology. If you've ever heard of the concept of deep time,
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  this is looking at the scale of earth time and its grandiosity and
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  its fullness. Well, we can apply the same concept to the ancestors.
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  We have deep ancestry.
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  We tend to focus on just the last few hundred years,
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  especially because that's what's normally recorded in our family trees.
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  But your tree,
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  the tree of your DNA and your ancestry goes all the way back to the beginning.
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  So if you wanted to,
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  you could commune with deep ancestors a hundred thousand years ago,
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  or if you'd like to commune with ancestors that are outside of the
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  Homo sapiens species specifically,
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  you could go back even further. I like to think as deep ancestors as those
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  who live outside of the current systems that we live in.
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  So these systems of capitalism, patriarchy,
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  and the exploitation of the land.
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  I want to commune with those who experienced a reality that
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  is outside of what I was handed,
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  a reality that is actually here to help us remember what
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  it means to be human and how to move about the world.
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  These deep ancestors have a perspective on life that we're really
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  just remembering now and they have so much to share with us.
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  These deep ancestors lived in a paradigm that for some of us might even be hard
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  to imagine now, but when we connect in with them,
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  they can begin to share these mindsets with us,
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  these ways of interacting with ourselves and the world,
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  and profound gifts can come out of this connection.
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  These deep ancestors in your lineage have very
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  specific,
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  powerful gifts to share with you. I believe that there's a wisdom that lives
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  in our deep ancestry and now wisdom is wanting to come to the surface again.
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  Even 2000 years ago,
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  Daoist philosophers in China were already talking about the fact that their
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  ancestors knew something and were aligned with the Dao in a way
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  that had already been lost. So even 2000 years ago,
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  advanced cultures in the world were seeing that there was a way that their
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  ancestors were operating in the world that was actually more in harmony with
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  the earth and therefore more in harmony with their own Dao and the thread of
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  their own soul.
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  Through my explorations in connecting with the deep ancestors,
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  I have seen time and time again that they deeply want to communicate with us.
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  Not only are they invested in human beings flourishing and you
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  flourishing as one of their lineage,
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  but they're invested in human beings being able to be here on earth,
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  being able to be in communion with this earth,
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  to living in harmony. And so they want to be
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  communicating with you and they want to help guide you, not only in your life,
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  but in your ancestral work as a whole.
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  They can be a sentinel on one end of the spectrum that can
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  help you heal whatever trauma or hurt has happened in between.
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  So I have a really interesting story of how I got into working with the deep
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  ancestors.
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  I was doing a series of pilgrimages to visit the countries and the
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  lands that my family are from in Europe.
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  And right before I went to England, I did a journey,
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  so sometimes called shamanic journeys.
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  I did a journey to connect with the ancestors there to say, "I'm coming.
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  I'm excited to meet you." And what was so interesting is in the journey,
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  as I was drumming,
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  I actually found myself going into a cave and coming out into this limestone
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  cliff in what looked like Southern France. Now, this was confusing to me.
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  I had never been to Southern France before. At the time,
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  I didn't even know that there were limestone caves there,
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  but I just had this feeling like this reminds me of something I've seen.
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  Maybe it was Southern France, but this definitely is not England.
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  And as I moved through this landscape and in this journey,
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  I met with people who said they were my ancestors who looked quite
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  different than what I expected.
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  They looked as if they were from paleolithic times,
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  the clothing that they were wearing, how they were traveling in a small band.
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  And it was one of the most powerful journey experiences I ever had.
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  And I remember they looked directly into my eyes and they said,
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  "We are the ancestors we want you to connect with.
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  This is your work." Of course,
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  I still went to England and had an incredible time connecting with my
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  matrilineal line there,
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  but that encounter with the deep ancestors never left me,
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  and it ended up becoming this torch for me to continue to do this
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  ancestry work in an even deeper way. Now,
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  what's really fascinating about this is right before I went to England,
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  I did a genetic test to find out my DNA history.
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  And while I was there, I got the test results back.
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  And what is so interesting is that part of these test results was actually to
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  look at my haplo group.
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  Your haplo group traces your mitochondrial matrilineal DNA,
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  so following your matrilineal line as far back as that specific
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  variation can go. And I found out that I was haplogroup H,
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  which a large majority of people of European descent are.
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  But what's so amazing about this, as I was reading,
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  is that haplogroup H can be traced back to the limestone
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  caves and landscape of Southern France in the paleolithic.
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  My mind was so blown by this.
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  It's one thing to have an experience in a journey or meditation and feel like
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  this was meaningful to me. Doesn't matter whether or not it's true,
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  it really gave me something profound.
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  It's another experience entirely to have that profundity and hold onto it
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  and know that it's an important guide for you,
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  and then to have this fascinating,
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  interesting piece of your history come in to affirm this,
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  that actually I did have ancestors living there and what I was experiencing was
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  not just a figment of my imagination,
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  it was a true connection with my deep ancestors.
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  The really cool thing about working with the deep ancestors is you don't need to
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  know very many specifics at all about your heritage or your lineage.
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  You can just ask to connect to an ancestor from the deep past who wants to work
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  with you. And in fact,
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  you might know countries that your family is from,
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  but the deep ancestor who wants to work with you might have never been to that
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  country. That might be further back than even your family established roots in a
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  specific place. So be open to just who shows up and where you end up.
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  So how do you start talking to your deep ancestors? Well, first of all,
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  they want to talk to you. So once you open that door,
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  you might end up finding that actually they're right there and they're going to
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  start coming into your dreams, coming into synchronicities in your life,
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  or just into ideas that seem to lead you forward.
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  If you've never tried a shamanic journey,
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  I think this is an incredible place to start.
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  And I will put a link here to a video that I have all about how to
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  undertake a journey so you have guidance about how to do this.
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  Any kind of meditation practice will also help you tune in.
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  I find simple instruments like a flute or a drum instruments that
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  likely your ancestors did have access to because we know that these are very
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  ancient instruments in humankind that can really help you tune
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  in and sort of get into the flow. Or if you have particular music that to
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  you helps you drop into the feeling sense of your deep ancestors,
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  definitely play that music as well.
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  Any kind of ancestral arts is also a direct way to communicate
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  with your ancestors. So ancestral arts could be music or dancing,
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  but it could also be crafts, for example, leather working,
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  sewing, or molding clay.
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  So all of these are ways to start talking to your deep ancestors.
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  And I think as long as you go in with the intention to really connect to
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  benevolent, wise, shining, intelligent,
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  deep ancestors, those who have wisdom to share with you,
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  then you don't need to worry about who necessarily shows up.
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  When you make that strong intention to connect to a guide who really has
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  healing powers for you and your lineage as a whole,
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  who shows up will be exactly who you need to speak to. This is a
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  really powerful time of the year for doing this kind of work.
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  Because the veil between the worlds is thin,
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  it's just much easier to hear these messages,
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  to receive communications and dreams.
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  So your willingness to harness this time of the year will
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  bring so much depth and so much profundity to these
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  explorations.
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  And if you'd like any support on this journey of connecting to your
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  ancestors and this concept of the other world,
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  then definitely check out my course Herbs for the Otherworld. In the course,
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  we talk about specific plants and practices that really help you
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  to communicate across the veil,
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  to harness this really special and powerful time of
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  being able to work with the unseen realm and have the wisdom and guidance from
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  the unseen realm stream into your life and uplift and support you
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  as you move into your next step. So now I would love to hear from you.
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  If you've started doing ancestor work or it's an established part of your
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  practice, I would love to know who do you talk to?
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  Have you had a deep ancestor in the way that I describe it show up for you
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  in your journeys or in your connections? And if so,
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  what have you received from this relationship?
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  So wherever your explorations take you this autumn,
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  may the path be guided by those who love you beyond all reason,
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  by your deep ancestors,
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  by those who are here to guide and support you every step of the way.
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  So if you do end up working with your deep ancestors this fall,
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  if they too are calling to you or talking to you, I would love to hear about it.
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  It has been such an amazing place for rich conversation over on my Substack.
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  Remember why you are here.
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  It's been just really authentically fun to create that space,
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  to connect with you all,
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  to have it be a space where I can be sharing expanded
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  episodes, greater writings, more information,
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  just really more opportunity to connect.
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  So if you're interested in deepening the conversation,
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  I'd love to hear from you over there. And this week,
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  I'm actually doing something that's taking a little bit of bravery for me,
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  but this week for paid subscribers,
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  I am releasing part of the first chapter of my
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  book.
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  So I wrote this introductory chapter last fall when I took a sabbatical
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  to work on the book and it required a lot of collation of years and years of
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  research and I have a very in-depth outline of the book and I wrote this intro
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  as a way to really organize my thoughts and help me reenter the world again. And
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  so I wanted to share
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  a piece of this introduction for all those who are joining me as paid
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  subscribers over there. If you're not a paid subscriber,
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  you can still read a little bit of that introduction and read me talking about
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  its creation. So if you're interested in that,
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  I will put that link here for folks who want to check
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  out the Substack and check out some of this first chapter of the book.
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  It's always pretty tender to put something that you've really just been working
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  on your own within out into the world. It's like your little cache,
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  you're like a squirrel with this little cache that you've been saving and is so
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  precious and to put it out in the world feels really big,
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  but it also feels like an important step into really going
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  deeper into writing this book and to taking the next step in its creation.
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  So I would love to see you over there if you are feeling called and whatever the
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  winds of autumn bring to you this season,
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  may it bring with it these tidings from the deep ancestors,
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  these rememberings of how deeply you belong on this planet,
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  how you were made for this time,
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  you have within you all of your ancestors' resilience, their knowhow,
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  their magic, their connection to this planet,
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  and may this shift into this new season help you
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  remember that most important thing of all why you're here.