Notes from April 27, 2025

Ancestral work: Inheritances

Dear all,

we continued with our topic of ancestral work, taking a closer look at “inheritances”— the continuity of certain beliefs, patterns, experiences, emotions in our lineage—, as well as invisible loyalties or alliances with certain ancestors or living relatives, a family value, or the family ethos.

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“Addiction floods in where self-knowledge— and therefore divine knowledge— is missing. To fill the unendurable void, we become attached to things of the world that cannot possibly compensate us for the loss of who we are. […]

[W]hen I neglect that which is eternal within me, I detach from the authentic source of my strength and lose my voice. […]

In a state of spiritual poverty, we will be seduced by whatever it is that can make us insensate to our dread. That, ultimately, is the origin of the addiction process, since the very essence of that process is the drive to take in from the outside that which properly arises from within. […]

The sparser the innate joy that springs from bein…