Ancestors
In spiritual circles, many people refer to “your ancestors;” this meaning the people in your family line or bloodline that were here before you. They refer to them as if they have some substantial effect on your life today.
From our perspective ancestors only affect life today because of the family behavioral patterns they have passed forward. Other than this your ancestors have no relative importance on your life today. So when people plan for the future of their family line they are planning as if they are going to return or still be connected to this family lineage. When in reality on the earth plane, the likelihood of them ever being in that family lineage again is very slim. It has very seldom been that a soul is reborn into a family line on a consecutive or frequent basis. This is not to say that we should not be respectful of future generations. It is just to say that we do not have to put so much emphasis on them in regards to ourselves.
We suggest that the focus on ancestors is based upon the behavior and belief patterns that they have passed along to you. And this and this alone, is the only importance of ancestors from a spiritual perspective as far as them affecting your life. We could look at some cosmic relationship to the souls that may have been in the family line or energetically on some spiritual level beyond this plane, but as far as practical functional spirituality these things are not that important at this time.
With this information about your ancestors, you will be able to see how it is affecting you in this lifetime; why your personality ego structure is operating the way it is this lifetime. This will give you the beliefs that you need to change to make your life work this time. This will also show you why there are particular illnesses in your family line. This will also explain to you why you feel like you do for the most part in this lifetime.
As far as anything for your future, there will not be much benefit except the knowledge or wisdom of how to change your present based on the past in order to be able to create your future periods.
Sometimes we have heard people place emphasis on respecting your ancestors, and we would suggest that this is not really necessary. Because if you are acting in your integrity you will be respecting everyone at all times in all places. In doing this there is no need to single out a particular family line that you are temporarily visiting. And we will repeat that all of this is not intended to undervalue any existence in the universe, and only pointing out that one can learn from the past without the need to focus on the past while they focus on the present.
From the Human Mastery Course