Farmer Steven - Healing ancestral karma: free yourself from unhealthy family patterns

We are in a pivotal age, one where the rational sciences are rapidly finding connections with what shamans and sages have taught for thousands of years. Dr. Steven Farmer is a bridge builder, providing clear, fascinating information delivered with an open hand. What if we can liberate our DNA from ancestral wounds and tangled patterns? This book shows us how that is possible.

Jacob Nordby, author of The Divine Arsonist

Dr. Steven Farmer's new book is a gift of many blessings for people who yearn to understand our relationship with ancestors, seek their support, or hope to heal our karmic inheritance. Here are sensible, powerful practices to deepen our connection to the ancestral world and thereby enrich our lives

Tom Cowan, author of Fire in the Head
and Yearning for the Wind

With deep insight, Dr. Steven Farmer journeys with us into the heart of the spirit world, helping us connect with the ancient wisdom of our ancestors. It is here, in this awakened space, that we are able to heal beyond time.

Sara Wiseman, author of Writing the Divine
and Living a Life of Gratitude

Healing Ancestral Karma is a fascinating journey which answers the question Can consciousness survive bodily death? Dr. Steven Farmer offers new and exciting information that links our own healing with that of our ancestors'. The idea that our ancestors are us and we are our ancestors validates a truth I have long known, but never remembered.

Sunny Dawn Johnston, author of
The Love Never Ends and Invoking the Archangels

As a person of Native American descent, a connection to and with our ancestors is simply part of who I am and how I live. The Old Ones have spoken to me all my life, and now, through this important and perfectly timed work, the ancestors' voices can be more easily and clearly heard, understood, and used to bring about profound healing. Healing Ancestral Karma teaches us how to connect with our ancestors to heal the past, the present, and the future all at once. Through working with our ancestors in this healing way we may also come to understand more completely who we are and where we came from, which will have a positive influence on future generations.

Eva Black Tail Swan, author of Creator's Song

Dr. Steven Farmer's Healing Ancestral Karma should be mandatory reading for everyone. This well-documented, straightforward, and profound guide will make clear to even the biggest skeptic that consciousness does survive the physical body upon death, and our ancestors are always with us, guiding, assisting, and loving us. Can you imagine what our transformed society might achieve if we all lived with this knowledge?

Lisa McCourt, writing coach and author of Juicy Joy

Dr. Steven Farmer answers the question Who am I? by exploring the physical and metaphysical links to our ancestors. In this book, he invites us to answer the bigger question, Who am I meant to be? by providing tools for releasing what we no longer need and celebrating the freedom to love ourselves and each other.

Hollister Rand, author of I'm Not Dead, I'm Different

Books

Earth Magic: Ancient Shamanic Wisdom for Healing Yourself,
Others, and the Planet

Animal Spirit Guides: An Easy-to-Use Handbook for Identifying and Understanding
Your Power Animals and Animal Spirit Helpers

Pocket Guide to Spirit Animals: Understanding Messages
from Your Animal Spirit Guides

Sacred Ceremony: How to Create Ceremonies for
Healing, Transitions, and Celebrations

Power Animals: How to Connect with Your Animal Spirit Guide

Oracle Card Decks

Earth Magic Oracle Cards: A 48-Card Deck with Guidebook

Messages from Your Animal Spirit Guides Oracle Cards:
A 44-Card Deck and Guidebook

Power Animal Oracle Cards: Practical and Powerful
Guidance from Animal Spirit Guides

Children's Spirit Animal Cards, with Jesseca Camacho

CDs

Children's Spirit Animal Stories CD, vol. 1

Children's Spirit Animal Stories CD, vol. 2

Messages from Your Animal Spirit Guide: A Meditation Journey

Copyright 2014

by Dr. Steven D. Farmer

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this work in any form whatsoever, without permission in writing from the publisher, except for brief passages in connection with a review.

Some names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals.

Cover design by Adrian Morgan

Cover art: Leaf border image by Kittichai/Shutterstock, tree of life image by Lindwa/Shutterstock, paper texture by R-Studio/Shutterstock

Book design by Jane Hagaman

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2014911454

ISBN: 978-1-938289-33-0

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For the Old Ones and generations to come

Walking, I am listening to a deeper way.

Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me.

Be still, they say.

Watch and listen.

You are the result of the love of thousands.

Linda Hogan

Throw away the idea that people die. The ancestors have seen the mistakes that are made here on Earth; they have seen all the wrong. They want us to avoid making these mistakes. They have seen peace, they know peace, and therefore want to reduce wars and jealousy.

Makhosi Petros Hezekial Mtshali, Zulu shaman

My parents loved to read. They loved the language of a well-told story, especially historical fiction, and they passed that love for reading down to my sister and me. Sometimes they would share a story from their childhood as a value lesson. My grandmother in Oregon loved to take me out into her garden where I would help her pick peas or feed her flock of chickens that cackled and scratched around the yard. I always felt as if my parents and grandparents, especially my mother and maternal grandmother, saw me as their hope for a better future. They courageously dreamed new dreams for me, hoping to release old family limitations and patterns in their own lives.

I remember times during my childhood that were filled with laughter, times when my mother, my sister, and I would be thrown into hysterics by an unexpected mishap during one of our songfests or while on a family outing. We would roll on the floor giggling! I have passed many of those stories on to my children and hope they will be shared long after I am gone.

But I'm also keenly aware of the many secrets my parents and grandparents harbored. There are family secrets that I have spent a lifetime uncovering, trying to unravel the patterns that have unfolded throughout my own life; patterns that have repeated themselves over and over again in my family's history. What was my mother hiding, and why? Why were my grandmothers so angry with the world? Why did my father mistrust anyone who got too close to him? Was it shame, guilt, fear, or self-judgment? How can I shift their grief into positive lessons for healing, not only for myself but also for my ancestors and my descendants?

These unanswered questions have guided my adult journey, leading me to explore inner dimensions in a way that I never expected. Something deep within urged me forward with the prayer that I could contribute to shifting old family patterns between men and women, parents and children. The realization that I could not change anyone else, only myself, was the greatest gift I ever received from the Divine! If taking responsibility for my actions was the solution, I was willing to take it on.