Communicating with ancestors (part 1)

I posted the following explanation regarding communicating with ancestors in 2017, and there was a fair bit of discussion on this thread:

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/535187/communicating-with-ancestors

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In October 2017, I was told that it is possible to communicate with deceased ancestors, but I was cautioned to always have a respectful attitude when talking to them.  I decided to try it and see what happened, and it worked…

On the “Day of the Dead” (the day after Halloween), I thought of the names of all of my grandparents and their parents and grandparents, and they started talking to me.  Remorse came up immediately for some of them.  I learned that women often had ongoing connections with living daughters and granddaughters, but most of the men had been isolated since their deaths.  I was told – several times – that after death there is a kind of separation of what we call the soul into two parts.  Each ancestor has a part that remains accessible to descendants, and a part that goes elsewhere.  Memories are incomplete.

Ancestors want to see the well-being of their descendants.  Ancestors also want to be able to talk to their own parents and children.  Ancestors hope that living descendants will work their way back from their parents or grandparents to more distant ancestors, one generation at a time.  This allows children and parents among the ancestors to talk to each other, when a living descendant is open to ancestral communication.

Ancestors want to avoid hearing from descendants who just want to ask questions about the family tree.  Ancestors may not communicate with descendants with only this in mind.  For this reason, it is once again a good idea to work your back from one generation to the next.  Ancestors believe that descendants who are respectful will be pleased to talk about their own lives.  Ancestors want their descendants to live will, and ancestors are concerned when descendants are struggling.  Ancestors have the ability to observe the lives of living descendants, but they often do not do so.  Ancestors may be inclined to be more observant after a descendant contacts an ancestor, especially if that ancestor had not had any communication with descendants before.

Some ancestors, especially those who were devoutly religious, may avoid communicating with descendants who don’t share their moral values.

Husbands and wives who didn’t get along with each other may be able to begin to communicate about issues that they never talked about before death.

One final point – I have heard some disturbing stories from ancestors, and proper respect demands that the ancestor be asked for permission before sharing such stories.  The link below contains the stories of four ancestors, starting with a Swiss soldier in Germany who never made it home.  The words are entirely those of the ancestors: I typed as their words appeared in my mind.  

The ancestors gave their permission to publicly share all that appears here:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Ancestral_Memories:_The_Schm%C3%BCckle_Family_in_Einod