word means a border, line, some prohibition or condition. So, for example, the word ‘chereschur’ (‘too much’) means crossing a border or boundary. Very often, dead family members were buried at some sort of border or boundary of roads, fields or under a house’s threshold, so that they would look after their descendants. The spirits themselves are also some sort of border between the two worlds of the dead and the living. So, for an average person, this is the simplest and safest way to touch ‘another’ world.
The Family Spirit
Every bloodline has its own energetic-informational field in which it holds all its memories. It is a ‘database’ with all the information about one’s ancestors: about their biography, their acts, thoughts, feelings and hopes. It is not reality itself, but the way it was lived or experienced. Tragic events that were experienced painfully and the same event lived through more calmly are recorded in different ways.
Every one of us can ‘connect’ to this database in order to receive some advice or help from relatives. This often happens subconsciously: we just do something without even realising that this was the exact way that one of our ancestors acted in a similar situation. Of course, if an individual understands what is happening, then they can use this information from the bloodline in a more effective way.
This database is ‘The Family Spirit’.
This is one example of what is called ‘Egregore’ in esoteric theories.
An egregore is an energetic-informational essence that is created from the thoughts and feelings of a united group of people that can influence each of those individuals in the future. It can be called a collective psyche or spirit, which is fed by people’s thoughts, emotions and feelings. There are many egregores, both global (for example, ‘Good’ and ‘Bad’, ‘Life’ and ‘Death’) and on smaller scales. An individual can be a part of many various egregores. What is forbidden by one egregore might be demanded by another, so that an individual who is getting several contradictory instructions simultaneously can experience ‘bifurcation’ and inconsistency of action. One of the tasks of individuals is to correlate the wishes of different egregores and to harmonize them.
Every egregore has its own goal that it tries to achieve through the people that enter it. For this, an egregore gives an individual opportunities to achieve this: resources, abilities, luck, material and emotional rewards, protection and so on. If someone does not act for an egregore’s profit, that egregore can take these opportunities away from the individual. A person can change an egregore, but for that they must achieve a higher position in this egregore, as well as get some support – for example, from a stronger egregore.
The connection between an individual and the egregore (SPIRIT) of their family is one of the strongest, protecting an individual from other alien egregores that can be fatal for a human – they can take away strength without returning anything. But if this family connection is very weak or absent, an individual becomes defenseless to it.
If an individual does not feel part of their bloodline, most probably they will feel like an orphan for their whole life and will be trying to substitute this ‘psychological orphanhood’ for something else. Because every living creature has a need to belong, a need to have a safe space where they can be themselves.
Every spirit has its own character that differs it from all others. This is the culture of the bloodline that has been developing from one generation to another: family traditions, rules, rituals and so on. The experience and information that members of a bloodline receive by living their lives is something that connects a family and helps to keep its unity. The specific character of this spirit is contributed by every individual who has ever been part of this bloodline. Its strength depends on their work and on the age of the bloodline’s existence. The spirit of the bloodline affects every member of the family. If a specific bloodline has its own strong character, it probably means that there is a specific programme or aim for that bloodline. The members of this family know their direction and tasks to work on intuitively from the very beginning. A bloodline primarily forms protection, so it does not support any drastic changes or innovations. The spirit of a bloodline takes any individual walking into it as one detail of a mosaic that creates the whole picture.
From the beginning, a family is a collision of different egregores: egregores from the family lines of the wife’s and husband’s sides, the family egregore itself and the personal egregores of the individuals (the egregores of their professions, for example). Larger egregores, such as egregores of a country, religious tradition and humanity, also influence the family.
Even if a husband and wife are very similar to each other, belong to the same race and social system and share the same profession, hobbies and interests, they still come from different bloodlines, each of which has its own features and traditions. In some cases, they will even have to reconcile their behaviour with contradicting demands of different egregores. For example, a wife might have to make a choice – to make ‘borscht’[4] according to the traditions of her family or according to those of her husband’s, like how his mother used to make it for him. Of course, this is a very simple example, but what if a husband and his wife belong to different religious traditions and social systems? In many cases, contradictions between egregores are so big that individuals never manage to find any common ground. This can happen not only between spouses, but also among different generations. For example, a child is born into a family of robbers and decides to work in the police. Of course, he or she feels alienated from his own family and does not feel any support, just as his family considers him a traitor. His own children will feel the influence both of his upbringing and the ‘family calling’ – in other words, the temptation to walk the way that was trodden by many generations of ancestors. This also happens in cases when a child has not been told anything about it: they remember the history of their bloodline without consciously knowing about it.
Many cases are based on this, when somebody repeats an event that happened to their ancestors, not remembering or even not knowing about it.
As Anne Ancelin Schützenberger writes in her book The Ancestor Syndrome, it was President Kennedy who decided not to install his car with a roof (let alone a bullet-proof one) 22nd November 1963, ‘forgetting’ a death threat and the fact that his great-grandfather died on 22nd November 1858. He forgot about this event, but did not forget how to take a risk.
If it happens that in a family history there have been many influences that have been pulling ancestors in different directions, then a person might not feel this FAMILY SPIRIT. Instead, they hear inside their family (meaning also themself, from within their personality) only the arguments of various sides that cannot find a way to make peace. Then this compromise will not only be this person’s individual task, but also the debt to their ancestors.
For example, in the case of criminal behaviour in a bloodline, a compromise of this kind might be to not be silent and critical of the past, but aware of the character weaknesses and lack of will of an ancestor who became a criminal and the difficult circumstances of their life – thereby, in the end, showing pity and sympathy towards them.
This is why an individual needs to know what has happened in their bloodline in order to understand what affects them and why.
The strength of the family spirit is fed by the attention and memories of its living relatives. It is therefore a good idea to keep your ancestors’ photographs and to know your family tree. The strength of a bloodline increases when members of one family – even distant ones – maintain good relationships, are ready to help each other and know the history of the previous generations.
Ancestors
A sour soup common in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia, but most often associated with its Ukrainian variant, made with beetroots as one of the main ingredients that give the dish its distinctive red color.
