The Post Post-Christian Opportunity
In Thumotic spirituality, we have an opportunity to once again understand the importance of our ancestors. We owe them our lives. We would not be here without them. Their life, their spirit lives on in us. It spirits us and gives us life. We are a continuation of them in body, mind, and spirit.
Unfortunately, we know little about our ancestors beyond our grandparents. We cannot tell their stories or sing their songs. They are lost to us. At best we might be able to discover their names, birth and death dates, and where they lived. Depending on who they were and what they did, we might stories about them in books and other written records.
Under the dominance of Christianity, nationalism, and capitalism we lost a great treasure. We lost our conscious connection with our ancestors, the ones who gave us life and who live on in us. Our lack of knowing them means we know ourselves less.
How to Begin Reconnecting With Our Ancestors
The good news is that we can begin now to reclaim our lost treasure. If we know our parents and grandparents and their siblings, we can harvest their stories, record them in a variety of ways, and tell them to the next generation and the one after that.
We can trace our ancestry and fill out our family tree. As we do, we can research historical writings to see if anything was written about our ancestors.
We can also learn about our ancestry from genetic testing. Genetic testing can show us where our ancestors originated and migrated down through history up to the present day.
In these and other ways we will once again remember, honor, value, and give worth to those who gave us life and whose spirit spirits us.
In knowing and valuing our ancestors, we will better know and affirm our own spirit as well.