Short transcript excerpt of a conversation featuring Teal Swan discussing the idea that humans inherit ancestral memories. The speakers frame the self as an amalgamation of multiple ancestral selves and emphasize recognizing and taking ownership of negative ancestral patterns as a step toward healing.
You have every memory of every single ancestor in your body?
Yes.
That means that we are literally inheriting memory. It's difficult for people to conceptualize of themselves as like an amalgamation of selves, multiple selves, and that those selves have a very complex system of relationships.
What's the complexity there that we, that we really should understand?
Once you understand where some of these negative ancestral patterns come from, you can't stand in such powerful rejection of them. All of a sudden it's like, wait, wait, wait. I need to take more ownership of the fact that this is a pattern that's been running rampant through my entire family line. It's mine. Now that I know that it's mine, what am I going to do with it?
That's how we heal ancestry. It's not by rejecting them forever. It's by putting down the swords and the shields. That's what the is needed right now in the world.