A guide to connecting with your ancestors and healing your lineage
- Shares traditional veneration rites and practices to connect with
your ancestors, including limpia rites, trance journeys, energy work,
and sacred gardening
- Explores ancestral altar-making practices, sacred tools for altars,
and how to invite your ancestors to take an active role in intervening
on your behalf
- Describes the deification process of esteemed ancestors and how this
opens access to special powers for those sharing that ancestor's lineage
Exploring the diverse and dynamic ancestral veneration rites of the
ancient Mesoamericans as well as those practiced in contemporary
curanderismo, Erika Buenaflor shows how we can draw from these
traditions to reconnect with our ancestors, deepen our healing journeys,
and shape our lives. She explains how ancestors contain a sacred energy
that can continue in their direct physical heirs, be reborn in the
landscape at sacred sites, or manifest in other beings that inhabited
the same lands. She describes the deification process of esteemed
ancestors and how this opens access to special powers for those sharing
that ancestor's lineage.
Buenaflor examines the sacred offerings and ceremonies used to invoke,
renew, and strengthen an ancestor's soul energies, which in turn ensured
their aid, guidance, and intervention, as well as their well-being and
comfort in the afterlife. She shares numerous veneration rites and
healing practices to strengthen your bonds with your ancestors,
including limpia rites, ritual craft-making, trance journeys, shamanic
breathwork, energy work with past and present lives, sacred gardening,
and ancestral altar-making. She introduces you to nepantla spirituality,
the path of reclaiming sacred liminal space, and shows how you can heal
your ancestral lineage and reclaim your esteemed ancestors, those who
anchor you with a feeling of belonging to something greater, divine, and
beautiful.
Whether you are able to create a long and detailed family tree or have
no knowledge of your grandparents or even parents, this book offers many
ways to connect with your spiritual forebears, heal your lineage, and
receive spiritual aid as you reclaim your ancestors and welcome them
into your life.
