[PDF] Ancestral Feeling eBook

Author : Renie Chow Choy
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334060907

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The language of heritage permeates Scripture, encouraging Christians to approach church history like a family history. But the notion of ancestry also constrains the world’s Catholics and Protestants to trace their confessional descent from Europe, rendering them perpetual latecomers in the historical chain. "Ancestral Feeling" systematically diagnoses the postcolonial problems generated by an ancestral outlook. But, applying critical theories in cultural studies to the study of church history, the book experiments with ways that the Western Christian inheritance can awaken the memory of one’s own ancestors. Writing a personal reflection on her family’s history in British-ruled Hong Kong, Renie Chow Choy engages autobiographically with England’s ecclesiastical art, architecture, music, and literature, in order to affirm her attachment to a heritage normally associated with English national identity. For global and immigrant Christians brought into a relationship with English Christianity by colonialism but are bypassed by its history, this book makes a bold declaration: England’s Christian heritage is also our story.

Author : Renie Chow Choy
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334060923

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The language of heritage permeates Scripture, encouraging Christians to approach church history like a family history. But the notion of ancestry also constrains the world’s Catholics and Protestants to trace their confessional descent from Europe, rendering them perpetual latecomers in the historical chain. "Ancestral Feeling" systematically diagnoses the postcolonial problems generated by an ancestral outlook. But, applying critical theories in cultural studies to the study of church history, the book experiments with ways that the Western Christian inheritance can awaken the memory of one’s own ancestors. Writing a personal reflection on her family’s history in British-ruled Hong Kong, Renie Chow Choy engages autobiographically with England’s ecclesiastical art, architecture, music, and literature, in order to affirm her attachment to a heritage normally associated with English national identity. For global and immigrant Christians brought into a relationship with English Christianity by colonialism but are bypassed by its history, this book makes a bold declaration: England’s Christian heritage is also our story.

Author : Maud Newton
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0812987497

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“Extraordinary and wide-ranging . . . a literary feat that simultaneously builds and excavates identity.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize • An acclaimed writer goes searching for the truth about her complicated Southern family—and finds that our obsession with ancestors opens up new ways of seeing ourselves—in this “brilliant mix of personal memoir and cultural observation” (The Boston Globe). ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Esquire, Garden & Gun Maud Newton’s ancestors have fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother’s father was said to have married thirteen times. Her mother’s grandfather killed a man with a hay hook. Mental illness and religious fanaticism percolated Maud’s maternal lines back to an ancestor accused of being a witch in Puritan-era Massachusetts. Newton’s family inspired in her a desire to understand family patterns: what we are destined to replicate and what we can leave behind. She set out to research her genealogy—her grandfather’s marriages, the accused witch, her ancestors’ roles in slavery and other harms. Her journey took her into the realms of genetics, epigenetics, and debates over intergenerational trauma. She mulled over modernity’s dismissal of ancestors along with psychoanalytic and spiritual traditions that center them. Searching and inspiring, Ancestor Trouble is one writer’s attempt to use genealogy—a once-niche hobby that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry—to make peace with the secrets and contradictions of her family's past and face its reverberations in the present, and to argue for the transformational possibilities that reckoning with our ancestors offers all of us.

Author : Dr. Steven Farmer
Publisher : Hierophant Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1938289331

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A breakthrough book on breaking destructive patterns. Is it possible that you have inherited the karma of your family members? Could this explain why family members often go through the same trials and tribulations generation after generation? And if so, is there anything you can do to break the cycle? Bestselling New Age author Dr. Steven Farmer claims that each of us inherited karma. If you come from a long line of saints and humanitarians, your life is probably pretty sweet. However, if you are like most folks, your forebearers are probably a mixed bag of the good, the bad, and the ugly. As a result, you are living with some appalling karmic consequences. This is a book that shows readers how to free themselves from the negative cycles of the past, and how to tap into the ancient wisdom of their ancestors! No matter what your current spiritual philosophy or practice, you can tap into your ancestral spirit guide for guidance, teaching, and healing.

Author : Lisa B. Iversen
Publisher : Lisa Iversen
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2009-09
Category : Family psychotherapy
ISBN : 057802859X

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This book is a psychotherapist's reflections on the relationship between psychotherapy, truth, ancestry, tribe, and democracy. Ancestral Blueprints: Revealing Invisible Truths in America's Soul provides a way to relate to the silence that is passed from one generation to the next by offering: insight into the wisdom of our elders and the influence of their lives on ours; consciousness regarding the consequences of unacknowledged truth in our families and country; a compassionate look at American history through the eyes of a psychotherapist who works with transgenerational loss and trauma; a unique perspective on the place of psychotherapy in American culture; and a framework for observing and interacting with life, inspired by our ancestral blueprints.

Author : Shelley A. Kaehr
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 2024-06-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0738777757

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Heal Inherited Family Trauma with All-New Techniques Expanding upon Shelley A. Kaehr's award-winning international bestseller Heal Your Ancestors to Heal Your Life, this book features hands-on workings from her revolutionary Ancestral Healing and Genealogical Regression practice. In addition to examples from her case studies, Shelley presents nearly fifty exercises and nearly fifty journal prompts designed to help you connect with immediate family lineages and repair troubled relationships. Discover the profound healing potential of rituals, meditations, trance work, and other practices as you overcome challenging chapters in your genetic heritage. These exercises help you meet your spirit guides, embrace your soul gifts, and reimagine difficult ancestral events by creating a new experience and narrative. Shelley also teaches you how to send love and support to future generations and receive your ancestors’ wisdom so you can make better decisions in the present. Includes a foreword by Cyndi Dale, bestselling author of Energy Work for the Everyday to Elite Athlete

Author : David Furlong
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Families
ISBN : 0955979544

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Healing imbalances in our family patterns is crucial to health and wellbeing. In this book international healer David Furlong explains the relevance of our ancestors to the healing process. He shows how the character and experiences of our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents shape our lives in all sorts of subtle ways and stress the importance of healing the patterns from past generations which continue to affect us today. By learning to connect with these energies from the past we can free up and balance their impact on our lives and of future generations.

Author : James J. Fox
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 176046192X

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This collection of papers is the seventh volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers in this volume focus on societies from Sumatra to Melanesia and examine the expression and patterning of Austronesian thought and emotions.

Author : Menelaos Apostolou
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 24,47 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1351520032

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Every day, people make life choices that, ideally, increase their evolutionary fitness the chances of survival and successful reproduction and lead to positive feelings of fulfilment, accomplishment, and happiness. Sometimes, however, individuals experience quite the opposite: feelings of sadness caused by fitness-decreasing choices. Fortunately, many advancements in evolutionary theory and evolutionary psychology have increased humans' capacity as a species to address the question of how to live a life characterized by more positive than negative feelings.Feeling Good reveals anyone can learn how to trigger mechanisms that generate positive feelings and increase positive fitness levels. The key is to employ an evolutionary perspective on how mental mechanisms generate feelings in relation to our life choices.From an insightfully evolutionary perspective, Feeling Good examines how to find and keep a mate, make good career decisions, build a solid social network, deal with death and negative influences, and make life choices in general that can lead to better and more sustainable mental and physical health. Menelaos Apostolou deepens our understanding of human nature by exploring what is good and evil in an evolutionary sense as well as in relation to religious dogmas; and whether making fitness-increasing life choices can lead to more good or more evil acts.