Communing with the Ancestors : Your Spirit Guides, Bloodline Allies, and the Cycle of Reincarnation

Explore the realm of the ancestors with author and Pagan scholar Raven Grimassi. In this fascinating and far-ranging guide, you will learn practices and rituals both ancient and new for communing with the ancestors, specifically: How to build shrines and altars and make offers. Where to find and work with sacred sites, power places, and special portals to the ancients. Guided imagery that will take you into the “Cavern of the Ancestors,” the spiritual corridor where the ancestors can be directly approached. How to access the Spirit-Rider, an ancestor that can travel between the realms of mortals and ancients. How to see and understand the restless dead who remain bound to the Earth realms. The role of reincarnation in the soul’s relationship to ancestral lineage. Plus some of the extraordinary folklore, legend, and superstition surrounding the topic. This book demonstrates how to communicate and make contact with ancestral spirits, including practical methods for seeking their guidance. Raven Grimassi explores the realm of the ancestors and the role of reincarnation in the soul{u2019}s relationship to ancestral lineage. He explains the interactions between ancestors, the living, and the dead and examines how communication with the ancestors is strengthened through various techniques and ritual practices. True to Raven{u2019}s style, the book includes folklore, legend, and superstition surrounding the topic. Shrines, altars, and offerings are discussed in detail. Ancient practices related to communing with the ancestors are revived, and new rituals are provided, including an exercise to lead readers into the ?cavern of the ancestors? through guided imagery. Sacred sites, power places, special portals to the ancients, reincarnation, and the ?restless dead who are still bound to the earth realm"{u2014}he covers it all "This book demonstrates how to communicate and make contact with ancestral spirits, including practical methods for seeking their guidance. Raven Grimassi explores the realm of the ancestors and the role of reincarnation in the soul's relationship to ancestral lineage. He explains the interactions between ancestors, the living, and the dead and examines how communication with the ancestors is strengthened through various techniques and ritual practices. True to Raven's style, the book includes folklore, legend, and superstition surrounding the topic"--Publisher's description Spiritual heirlooms Ancestors: old lore and memories The long winding road There and back again (the soul's return) Death and rebirth Ancestors and the serpent wisdom The starry path of the round Through the gates of evening The rites of connection.