How ancestral wisdom, science, and soul work converge to shape the healing path
“How do we know we’re healing seven generations back and seven generations forward?”
Someone asked me this recently.
And the honest answer?
We don’t know in the way the mind wants to know.
We feel it.
We sense it.
We witness it in the body, in the breath, in the tears that don’t belong to this lifetime.
This teaching first came to me during a healing training. A teacher shared it as a simple truth: “Your healing ripples through seven generations behind and seven generations ahead.”
I didn’t need evidence. I felt it in my bones.
Years later, while studying Ancestral Soul Medicine, it came again. And again, I knew: this wasn’t just a poetic metaphor. It was something ancient, something cellular. A truth that lives in the lineage of healing.
Later, through research, I learned that this teaching has deep roots in Indigenous wisdom, particularly from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (also known as the Iroquois), one of the oldest participatory democracies in the world. Their Great Law of Peace encourages decisions to be made with the wellbeing of the next seven generations in mind.
What began as a felt truth became even more profound when I discovered its cultural origins and the sacred responsibility it represents
The Seven Generations Principle, A Sacred Responsibility
In Haudenosaunee culture, the Seven Generations Principle is both practical and spiritual. It teaches that our choices today affect not only the present but also the lineage that comes after us.
Many Indigenous traditions echo this worldview: that time is not linear but cyclical, and that healing or harm travels through family lines, land, and memory.
We are not separate. We are part of an unbroken chain of breath, blood, and becoming.
In Aboriginal Australian teachings, the ancestors live on through story, land, and spirit. In African spiritual traditions, the ancestors, the living, and the unborn are intimately linked in a sacred triad.
When we heal, we do not heal alone.
What Science Is Beginning to Reveal
The field of epigenetics is now validating what Indigenous and spiritual teachings have long known:
Trauma, stress, and resilience can be passed through generations by altering gene expression. Research shows that the effects of trauma can echo across generations, particularly in communities affected by war, displacement, or systemic oppression.
But healing also has an effect.
Intentional work, nurturing environments, therapy, ritual, and spiritual practice can shift those patterns.
We may not change the DNA itself, but we change how the story is expressed.
This science mirrors what soul work shows us: your healing creates a ripple. A softening. A new possibility.
Soul Time Is Not Linear
In spiritual traditions across the world, time is not viewed as a straight line but as a spiral.
We feel this in ritual. In ceremony. In moments of profound stillness.
When you cry without knowing why. When you feel the presence of someone who’s gone. When you make a new choice and feel something shift inside your lineage.
This is not imagination. It is remembrance.
Inside the Mystery School, when we walk the Seven Sacred Doors, Ka, Ba, Sa, Ra, Ib, Sheut, Sekhem, we see these ripples unfold. A pattern clears in one woman, and her daughter begins to dream again. Another reclaims her power, and the voice of her maternal line seems to rise with her.
We remember: this work is not just ours.
How Do We Know?
We don’t always know in the way the intellect demands. But we know in the body.
We know in the softening. In the breath. In the tears.
We know when old patterns dissolve.
We know when we feel lighter after a ritual, even if nothing external has changed.
And sometimes, we know because something whispers from beyond:
“It ends with you.”
You Are the Threshold
If you’ve ever wondered whether your healing truly matters, let this be your reminder:
✨ You are the turning point.
✨ You are the bridge between what was and what will be.
✨ You are the prayer your ancestors whispered and the blessing your descendants will feel.
This is why we walk with devotion.
This is why we light the candle, speak the name, make the choice.
Your healing echoes through time.
With reverence,
Maria x
