The Cult of Ancestors. The Power of Our Blood. Виктория Райдос

completely differently to our world. Our physical laws do not apply there; space and time are arranged alternatively there. Therefore, spirits in that world cannot develop: there are no conditions for this, no difficulties that need to be overcome or mistakes that can be learned from. In fact, it is even impossible to change there, because there is no time in our understanding of it. How can you change if you constantly exist in one instant?!

      Therefore, the physical world and the very possibility of being born here are so important to spirits. Since there is time and matter, evolution is also possible, and as such the spirit can be improved here. On the physical level, this is evolution; on the spiritual level, this is karma.

      The development of the spirit begins with simple forms of life, such as crystals. Gradually, a spirit, life after life, masters new stages and moves up the evolutionary ladder to plants, animals, man and so on. Spirits and souls are not the same thing. The soul is that which the spirit inhabits in the world of the living, as its shell. A soul is connected with the very personality of a living creature, its emotions, feelings, thoughts, and can change. A spirit is that divine spark that is present in all living things, that unknown particle of Eternity, which we can barely influence. We can only help it improve and develop; as a woman’s womb carries a foetus, so the soul carries the spirit.

      Just as that world is Other for us, for the spirit the physical world is Other. The spirit goes into the physical body in much the same way as the living go into death.

      On Earth, the spirit is only a guest. We can say that it is like a student who is receiving their required experience here.

      After each life, the spirit returns to another world a little different. Changed, ideally, it is now one step closer to perfection, although the inverse can also happen. But – and this is crucial – the spirit itself, being in another world, cannot grasp the experience it received on Earth. The spirit is energy, and energy does not have consciousness as such (nor a brain). The spirit receives experience energetically and unconsciously, so it cannot comprehend when its energy state has become worse because in the physical world it has made some specific mistakes. Theoretically, in the next incarnation it can do the same, further worsening its condition and moving away from perfection. On a purely biological level, this is regulated by evolution, with the energy of the spirit manifesting itself as a tendency inherent in all living things to continue, survive and leave offspring – that is, the impulse of life is largely automatic. If an individual behaves inappropriately, it is rejected. Otherwise, its entire bloodline will die out. Of course, at levels below the human, ‘wrong’ behaviour of a spirit is not ‘hatred of one’s neighbour’ or ‘disrespect of the Divine’, but simply behaviour that does not correspond to its position. For example, for the spirit in the body of a wolf, it would be a mistake to consider oneself a hare and behave accordingly. The wolf pack and the whole world around will quickly explain that it is mistaken. So this spirit will have to live the next life a level lower down (in the body of a hare, perhaps).

      But the transition of a spirit into human existence is already a fundamentally different level, and so the situation becomes more complicated. A person has a spiritual dimension, for which karma (the causes and consequences of actions) and the state of a soul begin to play a big role. The development of the spirit, among other things, is the development of free-will and responsibility for itself. It is clear that a stone or a flower can answer very little, but a person does have such a possibility. The purely biological in a person fades into the background, with the development of a human spirit being influenced by its actions, relating little to its biology and instincts.

      The mechanism of transmitting a purely human experience is not so much biology or genetics, as much as culture.

      Perhaps you know that the tale of Mowgli is based on reality: in history, there have been quite a few cases when a child from infancy was raised by wild animals as their own cubs. In reality, such stories tend to have a sadder ending than in literature. As a result, even if they are taken away from animals in childhood or adolescence and there have been efforts to educate them as people for many years, such people always remain inwardly animals. That is, in these cases the child has the vital energy to survive in the world, but loses out on all the genuine human experience. And so the soul will most likely no longer remain human. At the same time, he or she retains all the genes and evolutionary experience accumulated by their ancestors, but which cannot be used since the necessary tools for this are not automatically transmitted.

      The spiritual dimension does not directly obey biological and physical laws. Instead, it supports itself. It exists and develops in the information field of the Earth, that is – in the space that humanity creates with its culture, thoughts, ideas and so on. And for the spirit to continue its human existence and perfection, from one life to the next, it needs access to this spiritual dimension, the information field and human experience.

      But, in addition to this access to universal human experience, it also has access to its own experience of its previous incarnations. The fact is that the spirit itself has no memory – it is just energy. Of course, its experience always remains with it and does not depend on culture, but this experience is energetic and unconscious, and will not help the spirit to correctly continue its further evolutionary path, if it does not fit into the human spiritual dimension and information field. Human experience can only be in the human sphere – in consciousness and in culture, which is the tool that a spirit needs in order to perfect itself in the human body. Incarnating once again, the spirit must connect to the information field in order to take advantage of human experience.

      After a spirit leaves this world when a human dies, the soul remains here in the information field. If the living forget about it, it disappears; if they remember, it continues to be here. Its memory can be preserved even after the spirit incarnates in a new body and receives a new soul. In this case, the spirit will have access to information about its previous incarnation – that is, an understanding of its experience, which will help it to further improve on its strengths and correct mistakes. The information field is formed by living people and their thoughts, which is why people strive to ‘remain in the memory of their descendants’, giving a spirit additional knowledge about itself. Therefore, the memory of ancestors is so important. The living memory of the soul creates a connection between the spirit and the human world. If none of the living think about the dead, do not remember them, then souls lose their ‘records’ in the information field of the Earth and spirits lose their memory. In this case, a spirit cannot take advantage of its experience, and will need to live again and again in order to truly learn and move to a new level.