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Автор Виктория Райдос
Viktoria Raidos
The Cult of Ancestors. The Power of Our Blood
Raidos Viktoria
THE CULT OF ANCESTORS. The Power of Our Blood
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© OJSC Ves Publishing Group, 2017
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Наш замечательный коллектив с большим вниманием выбирает и готовит рукописи. Они вдохновляют человека на заботливое отношение к своей жизни, жизни близких и нашей любимой Родины. Наша духовная культура берёт начало в глубине тысячелетий. Её основа – свобода, любовь и сострадание. Суровые климатические условия и большие пространства России рождают смелых людей с чуткой душой – это идеал русского человека. Будем рады, если наши книги помогут Вам стать таким человеком и укрепят Ваши добродетели.
Мы верим, что духовное стремление является прочным основанием для полноценной жизни и способно проявиться в любой области человеческой деятельности. Это может быть семья и воспитание детей, наука и культура, искусство и религиозная деятельность, предпринимательство и государственное управление. Возрождайте свет души в себе, поддерживайте его в других. Именно это усилие создаёт новые возможности, вдохновляет нас на заботу о ближних, способствуют росту как личного, так и общественного благополучия.
Introduction
Ghosts come to me.
That is just what I do – I see them and hear them.
But they also come to each of you. There is not one person to whom this has not happened, considering all our dearly departed are in fact with us nearby. They might even be here with you now as you read these lines.
My job is to see them and hear them and, as their trusted person, to pass on to people what they want to say. Remember that these ghosts were once living people, parts of whom you are carrying around in your genes – your ancestors.
And they need one thing, which only the living can give them – memory.
“Can give” and, really, must give.
Memory is even a mark of respect that we all should give to those who brought us into this life.
Those who gave us our character traits, talents, patterns of behaviour, complexion, eye color, and hair.
In many ways – our fate.
They are nearby in order to give us strength. Teach us to overcome difficulties, save us from mistakes, help us to achieve what we – and they – want.
What happens when we push away their help? When we do not think that there were millions of years of successive lives and loves of these people who led to our appearance into the world?
In a case when descendents cannot draw strength and experience from previous generations, they have no strength left for carrying on the family line. This can happen for various reasons. Sometimes a person can start considering themselves more successful, smarter and more educated than his ‘illiterate’ ancestors. Sometimes ancestors are forgotten as the result of revolutions, civil wars or catastrophes. Sometimes it might even be frightful to have an ‘undesirable’ relative or ancestor. So they get forgotten, or – to be more precise – disowned.
