(Message of Himalaya Master – 204/209)
(1) Subconscious connections with ancestors that arose at the time of the creation of the first cell, i.e. at the time of conception and during the formation of the foetus, up to the moment of birth, is a topic that has fascinated yoga masters and sages since ancient times. Rishis discussed with their students and described in tantric treatises how the emotions and experiences of parents and the home environment influence the shape of the later subconscious, the internal psychological structure of the newly emerging human. In yoga teachings, we have always found detailed descriptions of the adoption of family and social patterns by the foetus in the mother’s womb and by small children during their unconscious period, usually up to the age of several years. Most people do not remember their early childhood or their time in the womb, and some people spontaneously have some vague, usually single memories that amaze their family and friends because how could anyone remember their first birthday or the touch of a midwife. However, the sharp, highly sensitive senses of a small person sometimes allow for such vivid memories, and yogic methods of releasing tensions, stress, traumas and energy blockages from childhood allow for the awakening of even many interesting memories that lie dormant deep in the recesses of the subconscious mind, the lower or otherwise animal self. Similarly, around the first cell called the zygote, around the embryo and later around the foetus and newborn, gather family emotions, conditioning and multi-generational patterns, flaws, habits, addictions, and advantages and abilities or talents considered to be inherited.
(2) In essence, throughout all time, from the creation of the first cell called the zygote, we have had contact with members of our own family, with previous generations, and with the ancestors of both families, which have become connected by begetting a new offspring. Genetic defects inherited within this contact of forming a new human being can manifest themselves in different periods of our lives, similar to those inherited from ancestors’ tendencies to addictions, gambling, mental illness or suicide. Both in the mother’s and father’s line, in connection with close family members, and connection with more distant relatives or ancestors even seven or ten generations back. The most important things deposited in the zygote and the foetus are traits and inclinations, patterns and conditions from the last four generations, counting our parents as the first generation from which we receive a psychological legacy. Just as two physical cells, an egg and a sperm, merge to create one new cell and the embryo of life in a new human being, so too do the etheric structures of the sperm and the egg merge, as if they were energy matrices of the seed cells, creating a new common energy matrix with all the resulting traits, inclinations, karmic conditions. We inherit through the physical plane and the etheric plane (energetic or energy-informational matrix), but also the astral and mental planes of the seed cells collectively called śukra in yoga. This means that through our parents, we take on emotional inclinations and the beginnings of thought patterns, which means that inheritance is quite rich in various information and concepts, or rather inclinations towards various concepts, behaviours, and emotional reactions. As the embryo develops, and then the foetus matures and grows, becoming human-like, the nadi networks develop and activate – streams or channels of the human energy-information field, traditionally called the etheric body or, in yoga, the pranic body (pranamaya manakośa) or the lingamic body (linga śarira). According to the basics of Chinese medicine, these nadis are known as meridians (mei), and their sensitive points, known for their use in acupressure and acupuncture, serve to exchange information with the environment, especially with one’s lineage, with people from the environment, with those people who are our relatives, with those who are spirits in the land of our ancestors. Yoga and Ayurveda, when mentioning sensitive points on the meridians, use the old name marman, associated with both Indian acupressure and acupuncture, and with the processes of exchanging energy and information with the environment, with ancestors, and even with planets and stars in the sky.
(3) Marmans or marmas, points or rather sensitive areas, capture the energy and energy information signals from the environment and space, including from the more subtle worlds from the spirits of the ancestors, and send them to the brain, internal organs, the etheric or astral field network, depending on the sphere from which the energy information comes and for which it is intended. The basic energy systems of the subtle or etheric body are divided according to the elements into earth, water, fire, air (wood) and space (akaśa, gold, metal). Traditionally, the rank of marmans is distinguished according to their size and diameter, and the largest have a diameter of about four thumb widths. The smallest marmans used in practice have a diameter of half the width of one’s thumb, which is used in acupressure and acupuncture by aiming a needle or a crystal blade at the very centre of the area occupied by the marman. In order to stimulate a sense, mental function or psychic ability, even pressure is usually applied to the designated areas over the entire area of the marman according to its size. Therefore, for many subtle effects, including stimulating intuition or the ability to see the aura, it is necessary to know not only the location of the marman but also its diameter and the method of stimulation because a slight circular movement in one direction stimulates the vision of the aura or the vision of spirits, but movement in the opposite direction can weaken the vision of the aura and cause the loss of the ability to see spirits. Even among advanced adepts of Ayurveda or yoga, there are few specialists in these matters, but one can relatively quickly learn to reduce the negative influences of ancestors, which is also dealt with by the more popular Chinese acupuncture, unless the practitioner has not been properly trained in this matter and is only concerned with the basics, such as reducing pain.
(4) Through sensitive points, through marmans, we have free access to the family energy field and patterns, to the energy-information field of our family and environment. As children, after the formation of the foetus, but still during life in the mother’s womb, we absorb a lot of information, including emotions and patterns from our environment, the family and the spirits of our ancestors. After birth, this channel of perception is strengthened and works actively until a certain conscious individuality is formed, which begins to remember a much greater number of events from its life. This formation lasts until the sixth or even seventh year of life, when individual consciousness prevails, and the subconscious, with its patterns, becomes the archive of our unconscious. Negative, bad, and harmful patterns taken from ancestors become hereditary problems, which are part of the family pathology in which a person is locally entangled from youth. Such absorbed content sometimes becomes physical dysfunctions, such as poor eyesight, difficulties with speaking or difficulties with walking, and sometimes they become negative beliefs about oneself, people and the world, negative states of emotions and thoughts, addictions, phobias or anxiety psychoses. In modern times, we can say that many programs inherited from our ancestors from their energy, astral and mental spheres become nothing more than a virus or a Trojan in the computer, i.e. in our subconscious, in the lower self. The human mind, emotions, and body become such infected equipment that cannot be used correctly, functions badly in relation to other equipment, and is quite possibly also nastily infected. A person cannot then develop his innate internal potential, cannot become who he should become, cannot develop his true individuality, and his soul, divine self, true self is stifled and suppressed by accretions of the family ego.
(5) Dysfunctions that arise as a result of the influence of ancestors can be positive, but in working on ourselves, we usually work out, identify and weaken or neutralise the negative ones, those that are clearly harmful to a given person or may be harmful in specific relationships or areas of life. Very important patterns of conditioning reactions concern our health, work, ability to survive, earnings, love relationships, and relationships with other people. Through the influence of ancestors, subsequent generations often repeat the same completely unnecessary habits, addictions, behaviour patterns, mistakes, errors and sins (crimes). It happens that patients develop destructive beliefs and habits about themselves, which appeared in this family even ten generations ago. Excluding such an addiction, habit or criminal pattern of behaviour leading to the ruin of oneself and one’s family gives a lot of joy, also for the next generations, but it is not necessarily easy and quick. Sometimes, we struggle as therapists together with the patient and his family for even a dozen or so years before the bad conditions are weakened enough to lose their distinct nuisance. Not all therapies in this matter are conditioned by generations and give quick results. Sometimes, the therapy has to last for many years and be maintained even for a longer period, giving the impression that we are not making any progress or even that quite the opposite is happening, and the problem seems to be growing and increasing. And we are not only talking about alcoholism, nicotine addiction, morphine addiction or opiate addiction as a family and social problem lasting in the patient for several generations. When such a burden carried for many years of current life is actually removed as a result of therapeutic processes, then patients feel great relief, joy and lightness, a kind of release felt as salvation, salvation or liberation, although this is just one entanglement they have gotten rid of.
(6) Working with the subconscious mind (kamamanas) and its various connections is undoubtedly very interesting and rich in various things and phenomena that can be undertaken and carried out in connection with the purification and release of the lower self. Knowledge and practical methods of working with the subconscious are well known in traditional systems of yoga and tantra, and all Western, including American, alleged discoveries in this matter are only a carbon copy of rewriting fragments of yoga cut out from the rich resources of Indian and Tibetan yoga. If we start with the methods of relaxation and calming down, we must remember that all methods of relaxation therapy are exercises drawn from yoga, especially from the therapeutically and parapsychologically oriented raja yoga or royal path. Similarly, methods related to developing psychic powers, exteriorisation, the power of thought, affirmation and suggestopedia, and hypnosis. All modern methods of working with the subconscious mind and emotions, astral travel, bioenergetics, and higher self, offered by various creators of alleged own courses and training from America are generally taken from yoga, often already in the 17th-19th centuries, which is often not mentioned, even reserving copyright to the method, which is illegal, because in reality it is theft of what was developed and made available to humanity by ancient yogic sages, rishis, masters of yoga and tantrism. The subconscious mind in people is often something like a storage room for all experiences and traumas that a person could not cope with at the time they experienced them, for everything that they did not understand when it happened in their life. Many of these experiences are incomprehensible and terrible for a child’s experiences from childhood and the womb period. Traumas and shocks are hidden deep behind something like an internal curtain or some kind of event horizon from under which, from time to time, a finished product emerges in the form of a repetition of events and transitions according to recorded patterns and schemes, according to the emerging algorithms of events that seem random to people.
(7) In relation to our ancestors and the so-called karma of the family, we seem to be something like a plant that grows on the nourishment provided by both good and bad patterns of functioning of our ancestors, quite numerous if we look back several generations. Counting parents as the first generation back, we have two people; grandparents are 4 people, great-grandparents are eight people, the fourth generation, called great-great, is already 16 people, the fifth 32 people, the sixth 64 people, and the seventh 128 people. In the eighth generation, there are 256 people; in the ninth, 512, and the tenth generation back, we have 1024 great ancestors. Now let’s add up the whole sequence, and we have a pyramid consisting of 1024 + 512 + 256 + 128 + 64 + 32 + 16 + 8 + 4 + 2 people at the top of which we stand as the final product entangled in as many layers of subconsciousness as generations of ancestors have influenced us over the centuries. In four generations, it is 2 + 4 + 8 + 16, or 30 people in total. In seven generations, it is 254 people, and in 10 generations, 2046 people, great-grandparents, and consequently various entanglements, conditions, patterns and complex schemes from entire human beings. This is only the number of direct ancestors, without aunts, uncles, cousins, and distant relatives with whom something may connect us, from whom something may influence us. The threads of astral perception can, therefore, connect us not only with many people but also with very different inner planes, with astral-mental sub-planes of existence, where the souls of most ancestors stay in their lives between earthly incarnations, cleansing themselves from the last incarnations. Some of our oldest ancestors may already be in reincarnation, but not necessarily within our current family, but such people may seem close to us, or we may have bad experiences with them if, in a past life, they cursed or hated their children or grandchildren.
Many Blessings on the Path of Awakening and Realization! Om Namaśśivaya!
HUM!
The Himalaya Master
Himalaya Tirtha Swami
