Invoking Your Ancestors

*This delayed post is four days after the full moon.

In the movie The Lion King, King Mufasa tells his young cub that the spirits of their ancestors look down on them from the stars. In the T.V. series Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Airbender Aang invokes his predecessor, the Avatar Roku, for wisdom and guidance. In Star Wars, Luke Skywalker converses with the spirit of the departed Obi-Wan Kenobi.

I could go on and on with many more examples of this phenomenon of invoking one's ancestors in popular culture, but that would be a very tiresome task. But there is truth to this practice, since our ancestors have been invoking their ancestors, who also invoked their ancestors before them. Your ancestors were once life forms on this planet; they once walked this earth, breathed our air, and drank our water. They were alive, and were once live forms of energy. When they died, they merely changed forms. Their knowledge, and their entire energy configuration, has joined the Force, or the super energy field that encompasses everything.

So when one invokes their ancestors, one is not merely calling out to your dead relatives; one is actually tapping into the eternal energy source. There are actually many other methods of tapping into the great energy, and calling on your ancestors is simply one way of going about it. It is one of the easiest ways where ordinary people can feel the awesome power of the universe without resulting to anything that borders on the occult.

For proof of the truth of this phenomenon, read my law school blog. And then try it out yourself. But you must be sincere. Any slight hint of skepticism will guarantee failure from the onset.