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Book 1: The Ancestors Within: Reveal and Healing the Ancient Memories You Carry

Cover Artist: Kevin “Chasing Wolf” Hutchins  artwork: “Wakanda”

The world of ancestral healing opens up possibilities for mind, body, soul, and spirit wellness you’ve never imagined. The Ancestors Within offers a collection of life-changing experts’ stories and practical tools in the field of ancestral healing so you can understand what’s possible and experience improved health, wealth, and happiness.

Michelle Troupe, {Chapter 13} – The Heart Space – The Portal to Ancestral Healing

Michelle Troupe created a tool to connect you to your ancestors through your heart space. The tool directs you to gather your ancestors in a circle as you connect to them through a portal of light from your heart. The light radiates from your heart creating a beautiful space for healing on all dimensions, spaces, places, and lifetimes. You also experience a strong grounding and connecting technique you can use daily. The heart is the key to healing on all levels. You can access the tool from Michelle’s website at www.earthangelhealingllc.com/resources-to-assist-you-on-your-path/

Michelle Troupe is a Quantum Multidimensional Healer, Integrated Energy Therapy® Master Teacher, Certified Sound Healer, and Reiki Master Teacher. Michelle has a unique ability to awaken you to the light within and open your heart to the truth of who you are.  Her work is a catalyst to shifting into higher levels of consciousness. 

Sondra Lambert: {Chapter 5} Planting a Family Tree from the Land of My Fathers: Digging Through the Past and Preserving it for the Future 

Collecting the actual soil, the family dirt can be both fun and intriguing.  Where did they live? What messages still linger for you to find?  Your ancestors planted you in their thoughts, prayers, and dreams.  Collect soil from as many of your ancestors’ lands as you can identify and access, bring it home, and then plant a tree in the land of your fathers. Watch yourself grow in the shade of the tree you planted. https://www.amazon.com/Land-Fathers-Collecting-Family-Dirt

Sondra Lambert is an incredible encourager. She loves speaking heart to heart as the stories begin to co-create themselves.  If you just want to smile and feel better, you have come to the right place.  

Noah Smith {Chapter 4} – Ancestors and Autism: Real Thoughts from Your Past

Books 1 & 2 – Noah & Adriana Smith (nonverbal autistic authors)

Noah used telepathy and facilitated communication to write this important chapter to teach us about ancestors and autism. He reminds us to get out of our heads. 

Chapter excerpt: “Thoughts that come from someone else are your spirit guides. You are already in tune with your ancestors! This is the start of understanding what I do. You need to relax and listen to these voices or feelings. Trust your instincts. 

Moms of children with nonverbal autism may have a harder time with this because those children attract more spirits and energy than other children. It may appear chaotic and overwhelming. Your energy is often really overpowering to them, and you interrupt the natural flow that these children are used to hearing in their heads. Just know they hear you, and you don’t need to raise your voice. Understand they sense your frustration and your fear.”

Book 2: The Ancestors Within: Discover & Connect with Your Ancient Origins

Cover Artist: Nari Anastarsia  artwork: “World Within Worlds” from Oracle deck: The Cosmic Cards (published by Rockpool Publishing)

The Ancestors Within, Discover and Connect with Your Ancient Origins is a collaboration that brings the best of the world’s ancestral healing professionals together to help you understand how to open up a magical door to a better life, mind, body, and soul.

Adriana Smith:  {Chapter 17}:  Embracing Ancestral Chaos: Managing Your Body Control from the Autism Perspective 

Adriana used telepathy and facilitated communication to write this important chapter to teach us about ancestral energies and autistic energies and challenges with body movement..

Chapter excerpt: “My head is swirling. The pressure in the frontal lobe is exhausting. There is a pinching pain that is running down my neck and shoulders. My heart is thumping with excitement. My eyes see clearly through my glasses. I’m here in this present moment. But it’s not always that way. A lot of times I don’t have the ability to be within my body or be completely in the present. I’m ready to tell this world my story.                  

I am Adriana. A manipulator of energy. A keeper of time. A watcher of the spirit realm. What your world would consider an adult with autism. What does that mean? I don’t know what it means to you, to me it means that I’m halfway in this universe and I’m halfway out of this universe.”

Tools: Get out of your own head. Thoughts you get may not be your own!  Keep the energy moving.  Noah and Adriana meet with people for readings or healing and the first thing they always have people do is FEEL. If someone is non-speaking for any reason, break communication down to YES/NO whether its pointing on a letterboard or using muscle testing or a pendulum to reach the higher self. 

Since the writing of their chapters in the Ancestors Within Volumes 1 and 2, both Noah and Adriana continue to share abilities in various healing modalities and love collaborating with others. Find them on social media or at events listed on www.sharonsweb.com  

Bio: Noah and Adriana Smith are autistic non-speakers with extraordinary abilities. They are powerlifters, authors, mediums, energy healers and the list keeps growing!  In 2016 they began using facilitated communication. In 2020 they demonstrated telepathy and made friendship connections building their tribe to support and enhance each other.  

Their healing tools can also be found in The Ancestors Within, Journal 1, which won the gold COVR award in 2022 for “Journals” and “Anthologies.

Joy Andreasen {Chapter 3}. Your Missing Link:  Healing for Flawed, Forgotten or Outcast Ancestors

All of us have ancestors we would rather not remember or acknowledge. Maybe they had character flaws. Maybe they wounded us personally or wounded the larger community they lived in. Maybe you just don’t know anything about a particular ancestor.  In Joy’s chapter, she relates stories involving healing the wound of an ancestor or relative, either blood or by adoption, and why including and acknowledging their story and their own pain is important in the process of healing the soul. Here is her link to a blog post on how to create an ancestor altar:

https://www.whispersofjoy.net/blog-1/tags/ancestor-altar

Joy Andreasen is a psychic, medium, spiritual healer, teacher and best-selling author of four books on various metaphysical subjects. She specializes in assisting clients in healing wounds of the soul. She sees clients at her home in Winchester Virginia and by Zoom and phone. 

Here is a link to a YouTube video I made with my husband about a particularly meaningful case we did together involving a suicide. https://youtu.be/i_g-ggvZzz4

Dr. Judith A. Zwack  {Chapter 6}:  Heal Original Sin Brainwashing: Connecting with an Original Ancestor.

Heal Original Sin Brainwashing and Experience Real Happiness & Success Without Feeling Guilt. 

Our tool is the Seduction Pattern protocol from Healing from the Body Level Up™ (HBLU™) methodology. Seduction patterns are some of the most energy-draining, perverse, and frustrating patterns a person can experience. People with seduction patterns get tricked into doing things they don’t want to do.  They are unable to let go of bad relationships, jobs, family, or other upsetting situations. This simple and powerful protocol clears a religious brainwashing pattern that makes people unconsciously feel that they are bad and undeserving of good things and frees them to live the life they truly want. 

Judith A. Swack, Ph.D., originator of Healing from the Body Level UpTM methodology, is a Biochemist/Immunologist, Master NLP Practitioner, Certified Hypnotherapist, Mind/Body Healer, visionary and leader in the field of Energy Psychology. Dr. Swack has presented her dramatic results live on national television and at international conferences. She has published numerous articles in scientific, professional, and popular journals and authored the chapter “Healing from the Body Level Up” in the industry-defining publication, Energy Psychology in Psychotherapy: A Comprehensive Source Book. Dr. Swack is a recipient of the 2015 ACEP award for major contribution to the field of Energy Psychology. She offers trainings both nationally and abroad. Dr. Swack has a private practice in Needham, MA. She and her associates offer individual client sessions in person, by Skype or by telephone. For more information please see her website www.hblu.org.

Free Video:  https://hblu.org/index.php?page=learn&id=439&category_id=7

Discount Price for Healing the Deathwish Pattern Video:  https://hblu.org/index.php?page=course&id=281&product_id=74

Book 3: The Ancestors Within: Recognize & Embrace the Gifts of Your Origins

Cover Artist: Saleire (Ireland)   Artwork: Card X of The Inner Realms Tarot: The Wheel of Fortune by Schiffer Publishing

What if you had an opportunity to discover and connect with your ancient origins, and the gifts passed on to you from those ancestors? What if those discoveries brought healing you never thought possible?

Donald R. Dodson, Jr.: {Chapter 18} Exploring Artisan Crafts: A Path for Self-Discovery

Discover the amazing world of Donald R. Dodson, Jr. and how he walked away from a career, teaching history to a life of living history through leatherworking time pieces of another era. Don teaches us, “I certainly didn’t start my craft and, subsequently, my leather business to learn about myself, but there was a positive outcome.”

Dodson uses his positive outcome to actually teach us how to make our own journal cover – even using the worn or used leather of those who have passed before us to make a commemorative and practical keepsake for the following generations! What a gift! www.dodson-designs.com/ANCjournal.

bio: Donald Dodson is the owner of Dodson Designs, where he crafts fine handmade leather goods with a creative flair. A life-long artisan who loves sharing his interests with others, he has explored many arts, including jewelry, printmaking, pottery, woodworking, and painting, all of which he uses in his current work. He is most passionate about creating something that is artistic, interesting, and creative and has an inherent practical use to the client.

Donald has been a graphic artist, web designer, and high school history teacher. He is a combat veteran and has served for 20 years. www.dodson-designs.com

Crystal Rasmussen: {Chapter 14}.  Activating and Awakening Ancestral Gifts:  You Are the Medicine of Your Lineage

Your ancestors play a large role in your life. You carry the medicine of each one that walked the Earth before you.

It’s the way a mother’s intuition knows something is wrong with her child before the phone rings. It’s how you walk into a room and sense if the people are happy, sad, or angry. It’s in the moments you smell the rain in the air before the storm rolls in. It’s in the way you follow your heart, even when there is nothing logical about it. It’s in love shared amongst family. 

Your gifts are within you; they are held in your blood and bones and are a part of you. They are not something outside of you.

      Unfortunately, we are not actively taught the skills, mastery, and ancient wisdom passed down from our ancestors. So, we struggle to embrace and know the gifts we carry within us. We battle with the pain, trauma, and wounds focusing on the unwanted aspects of ourselves instead of our light. It’s time to awaken the Ancestral gifts you carry within your DNA so you may live a life filled with joy, happiness, peace and freedom. 

Crystal Rasmussen, Director of Operations for Generational Healing® International supports you in releasing pain and suffering from your ancient bloodline stored within your genetic lineage to heal you today by working directly with your Ancestors. She teaches other women to communicate with the Earth’s Ancestors, awaken their spiritual gifts and heal inherent family trauma as a Certified Generational Healer®. Learn more at her website www.crystalrasmussen.com

Tanio McCallum: {Chapter 21} Unlocking the Secret to Time Travel:  Rewire Your Brain by Retelling Your Love Story

We all have the power to change our lives by changing our narratives, even things that have already happened. Want to learn how? These three tools came to me as a direct download from my ancestors to you!

TOOL #1 – IMAGINATION (THE SOIL)

How do you want your story to go?

In this chapter, we do a releasing ritual, a visualization* and a re-imaging exercise.

TOOL #2 – CREATION (THE SEED)

Re-Write Your Story

Handwriting helps to rewire your brain. In this chapter we *free-write, tapping into the subconscious mind.

TOOL #3 – TELLING (THE SOWING)

Rewire Your Brain by Sharing Your New Story

The more you tell a story, the more you believe it. Repetition is reality-building.

*for free-writing prompts and visualizations go to: www.taniomccallum/resources

Tanio McCallum is a best-selling author and writing coach who facilitates transformational, mixed-genre writing workshops, hosts destination writing retreats and works 1:1 to support budding writers “Birth” their books through her business, Writes of Passage. Her poetry is featured in a Zine called “As We Turn.” She was shortlisted for a residency at Djerrasi and is a first-place winner of a New Millennium Writer’s contest. www.TanioMcCallum.com 

Book 4: The Ancestors Within: Celebrate and Honor Your Sacred Origins

Cover Artist: Melanie (Stuart) Ware: “The Four Directions” from The Native Heart Healing Oracle & Journal, by Blue Angel Publishing

In this powerful book, the fourth in The Ancestors Within series, get ready to celebrate and honor the ancestors who came before you, in order to create the transformation in yourself, and generations to come.

Elizabeth Kipp  Chapter 22:The Ancestral Gift of Prayer: The Miraculous Healing Power of So Purkh

Elizabeth Kipp shares the story of one way the ancestral gift of prayer played out and revealed its miraculous healing power to her. Women carry three wounds: issues with the body and sexuality, being able to stand in their power, and their powers of intuition. Men carry these wounds through their mothers. She offers an Ancestral Clearing Prayer for the Magdalene Wounds as a tool to help readers release old hurts and grow compassion for what you and/or your ancestors experienced around issues of male dominance and its oppressive energies and the effects of carrying these burdens. https://elizabeth-kipp.com/resources/

Elizabeth R Kipp is an Ancestral Clearing Practitioner, Chronic Pain & Stress Management Specialist, Trauma-Trained and Yoga-Informed Addiction Recovery Coach, and bestselling author of The Way Through Chronic Pain: Tools to Reclaim Your Healing Power offering private and group sessions. Contact her here https://Elizabeth-Kipp.com

Dr. Ahriana Platten {Chapter 2}: Flow Like Water: Opening to the Ancestral Power of Sacred Sites 

Explore chapter two in book four of “The Ancestors Within” series, you’ll learn about the ways and places the ancestors can be called upon for guidance. When you visit an historical site, you can assume there are ancestors available to you.

Find a quiet place and close your eyes if you can. Gently breath. Take a few moments to feel into the space. Do you notice an ancient presence? In your mind, ask for a name or an image so you can connect to the ancestor who’s present. Ask them to show you around and notice what wisdom they reveal.

Dr. Ahriana Platten is a speaker, mentor, and bestselling author of “Rites and Rituals, Harnessing the Power of Sacred Ceremony.” She’s a courage builder who guides people to their purpose. As a master ceremonialist and practical mystic, Ahriana leads a global spiritual community. More details can be found at www.asoulfullworld.com.

Claire Marie Kohout {Chapter 6} Integrating the Whole Self For a Life of Co-Creation

Claire Marie shares her experience of a past life vision and how that opened a process of healing for her. If we are able to connect with our ancestral history and release whatever is limiting us, we can free ourselves from those obstacles and move forward. One way to achieve this is through a process of engaging with our pure, authentic energetic self by focusing on a space called the Hara. This engagement helps to clear our past to create a future of freedom, transforming karmic debt into karmic resolution. Claire Marie provides a Hara Meditation tool that guides the reader through this process of connecting our awareness to the anchor points of the Hara to sustain strength and alignment with our authentic, individuated self.

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​​Claire Marie Kohout  draws on her 17 years of experience, including her training in martial arts and meditation, to connect clients with the methods which are most comfortable and effective for them. She guides you to engage your pure, authentic energetic self, through a space called the Hara, where you can transform karmic debt into karmic resolution. 

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The ancestors within: Journal II

Cover Artist: Donald Dodson: Custom leather tooled cover 

Instructions provided from The Ancestors Within, Volume III, Chapter 18 Exploring Artisan Crafts: A Path for Self-Discovery

Journal II, Week 18: MAKING A JOURNAL COVER

The Ancestors Within: Journal II includes 52 weeks of creating interactive experiences to celebrate and honor your ancestors as well as unique ways to remember and revive the gifts and talents they had that live on within you! it is in the awards in the categories of “Anthologies” and “Journals” 

Marakai D’ane:  Ancestral Summit Cover Artist: The Philosopher’s Stone

From The Ancestors Within IV {Chapter 4}: Image and Symbol Meditation: Ancestral Body Healing for Transformation & Journal II: Week 30: IMAGE AND SYMBOL MEDITATION

Unlike most meditations that are practiced with the eyes closed guided by an instructor, this form of meditation is practiced with the eyes open while viewing a symbol, with the symbol being the instructor.
Rather than the participant being asked to use their imagination to visualize a positive outcome, the symbol is the visualization fully presented. The symbol is the anchor point or goal to a healing pathway for each individual.

Please visit
https://angelvine.weebly.com/ancestors-within-free-online-resource.html
which will provide you with a free pdf download of the steps of the meditation and a symbol for viewing.

Marakai D’ane, MFA is a visual artist who uses her inner vision to channel and record symbols for healing any inherited ancestral patterns of behavior that have become obstacles to a deeper
understanding of yourself. When viewed with eyes open in a meditative state, each universal symbol is a visual shorthand containing volumes of messages that will be received in a sequence unique to each individual participant.

Hemali V. Vora, From The Ancestors Within IV, Chapter 16:  Sacred Retreat Journey on the Path of Your Ancestors

Week FORTY-TWO:  SACRED ANCESTRAL COMMUNION 

By Hemali V. Vora, MPT

If you’re feeling lost or unsure of who you are, taking a retreat on ancient lands can be an excellent way to find guidance and direction. It can also help you learn more about your authentic self and what brings you joy. When you take a sacred path, you’re embarking on a journey of discovery that will expand your understanding of the spiritual connection between you and the world around you.  

In this meditation, you are guided to come in a sacred, safe circle with your ancestors from beyond to connect, to receive their wisdom, guidance, blessings and release any ancestral patterns, habits, traumas, pains.

Your ancestors are as eager to communicate with you as you are to communicate with them. Allow and create space for their response. Be in this moment with them, in the circle.

Hemali V. Vora, MPT, is a bestselling author, speaker, expert holistic practitioner, intuitive quantum energy healer, channel and spiritual mentor. Her mission is to transform people’s perspectives and expand their view of life & death by exploring the depths of their divinity through modern and ancient teachings.  www.hemalivora.com

Amanda DeCarlo  From The Ancestors Within III:  Chapter 10:  Wheels of Change: Elemental Template for Clarity in Your Life

Week 10: WHEELS OF CHANGE

The medicine wheel is an ancient organizational tool. There is no head. There is no tail. There is only an infinite possibility of self-expression.

In this chapter you will learn how to connect with the elements as a tool for self diagnosis, realization and actualization. Through the characteristics of the elements you have the ability to organize your ideas and gain insight as to where you are in your journey and set practical goals and benchmarks to your goals for the coming seasons. This look within helps connect you to the earth – connecting you to your ancestors in the simplest of ways.

Amanda DeCarlo, RMT, 500 YTT, Standing Woman-Daughter of the Dawnstar

Amanda is a Wyoming native and a Colorado transplant. Her journey took a turn in her teens when she found herself immersed in addiction. At 19 her ancestors spoke to her and she woke up ready for change. Since, she has been on a path of recovery; rediscovering her passion for healthy living in mind, body, and spirit.

Website- https://www.breath.dance/