@iamthatis Would you know if who youre connected to is your ancestor, decesed relatives, other STO beings or your higher self?
That's a great question.
Personally speaking, I don't think I would know in my day-to-day if a benevolent influence was coming from a 4D STO being, one of my saintly ancestors in 5D, or if I was just plain ol' feeling good that day. On the other hand, when you read a C's session, that's one way of knowing that you're connected to STO beings!
I should also mention that being in a place of caution about spiritual influences is really important. I had a bad habit of talking to spirits in the past, hearing voices in my head and having conversations with them - and not questioning what I was doing. It was very dangerous and I should have known better. Only recently did I discover that they were not benevolent at all and probably contributed to a whole lot of physical, emotional, and mental problems that I'm only just now recovering from. So caution in connection to higher density beings is very important - after all, demons tempt us by masquerading as angels.
Back to your question, I think that in part it depends on what is meant by those terms. Ancestors can refer to our progenitors, or our genetic line, our grandmothers and grandfathers going all the way back. Then there are our dearly departed loved ones, including our chosen family or Soul family who reside in 5D. However, ancestors can also mean something else entirely:
(L) Well, on an adjacent topic to DNA, I would like to know why I feel... Um... compelled or obsessed by my genealogy database. [laughter] I'm embarrassed to talk about it because it's taken SO much time, and yet it's like I WANT TO KNOW!
A: Keep in mind that there is a certain power transmitted by awareness of ancestors.
Q: (L) How can there be power transmitted by awareness of ancestors? They're dead, first of all. Second of all, maybe those that had the potential have reincarnated and would be living other lives in other places. Or they'd be floating around in 5th density or whatever dead ancestors do...
(Artemis) Well, in a roundabout way, it's almost like knowing about your past lives.
(Andromeda) Yeah.
A: Yes
Q: (L) So, knowing past lives is helpful. Knowing ancestors is helpful. Well, the ancients believed that if you remembered your ancestors, they helped you. If you didn't take care of them or you forgot about them, they could bring bad luck on you. Can it? [laughter]
A: Something like that. You can help to heal some things and draw strength via your DNA antennae which, you must remember, is also their DNA antennae.
Q: (Andromeda) Makes sense.
(Chu) You inherited their receivers.
(Andromeda) And you can learn things from their experiences thereby.
(Pierre) You were wondering about how you relate to them. They're dead, they're far away. Sharing the same DNA antennae, if we are connected via DNA to an information field, and you have other people with similar DNA connected to a similar part of the field, and time really doesn’t exist on other planes, then you can access these kinds of memories or information shared by ancestors...?
A: Exactly.
Q: (Pierre) Wow.
(Joe) There's also epigenetics...
(L) I keep saying that reading all this early American history tells me why Americans are the way they are. They are completely messed up. But then, so is everybody else!! It's terrible.
(Chu) Epigenetics is only about this life, right?
(L) Oh no! Oh no! Your parents can have methylation that gets passed on to you. All kinds of weird stuff can happen. You just would not believe it. So in other words, we're back to ancestor worship! [laughter]
(Artemis) Get some incense and a shrine!
(Pierre) Is one of the reasons for the importance of the cult of ancestors this relation to the information field via DNA?
A: Yes. They went a bit far with it and forgot why it was important.
Q: (Andromeda) Like Halloween.
(L) Yeah. It just got distorted. But then...
A: We keep telling you that we are you in the future. You are them in the future.
Q: (L) So, my present is their future.
(Andromeda) We're the Cs ancestors! [laughter]
(Artemis) They're honoring us!
(Joe) So, maybe some of your ancestors are on a Ouija board trying to contact you. They're trying to get some information.
(L) This is getting too weird... [laughter] So, it would be useful for people to at least know as many of their ancestors as they can possibly know?
A: Yes and some ancestors are stronger than others.
Q: (L) So, if you have a strong recent ancestor, that's pretty good. So, in a certain sense, you could tune in to your ancestors and derive strength from them? Kind of like... a choir of angels sort of thing?
A: Close but don't go all woowoo on us now!
So from this we can guess that if the C's are us in the future... then we are actually their ancestors? So weird - and somewhat confusing. Especially if we add in the bits about Transient Passengers:
Q: (L) You said the other night that there was a planet between Mars and Jupiter that was destroyed and became the asteroid belt. Was this planet ever inhabited by sentient beings?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) What caused this planet to be destroyed?
A: Psychic energy.
Q: (L) And where did the beings come from that lived on this planet? Did they evolve there?
A: No.
Q: (L) Were they also, like us, created beings?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Who created them?
A: Same.
Q: (L) The Cassiopaeans?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Okay, who created the Cassiopaeans?
A: Your super ancient spiritual ancestors.
Q: (L) Do these beings have a name?
A: No.
Q: (L) What are they called?
A: Transient Passengers.
Q: (L) Now you mentioned the creators of your group as the super ancient ancestors called the transient passengers, what is the meaning of this term and who are these beings?
A: Transient passengers are not beings. Transient Passengers are unified thought form.
Q: (L) Why are they called transient passengers?
A: Because they transit all forms of reality. And they spring forth from the Unified form of existence.
I'm not quite sure what to make of all of this. I have my guesses, but I don't know if what I have to say would be all that helpful. It has to do with flows of information and energy, time and consciousness and lessons, and Soul cycles that have no beginning OR end and yet somehow appear to be in motion! I'll just pop this bit in for now:
Q: (L) If the mother planet that the human race was seeded on originally, is burned up, or turned into a cinder, I would like to know how it burned up?
A: Star expanded.
Q: (L) Well, if the star expanded, it must have expanded recently, is that correct?
A: Time does not measure that way in that realm.
Q: (L) What realm is that?
A: Time/space warp.
Q: (L) What do you mean by a time/space warp?
A: Too complicated but you already have some understanding of concept.
Q: (L) So, the star expanded and the mother planet was turned into a cinder. If this was the case, it means that it must have turned into a cinder very close to the point, using time loosely, when human beings were created?
A: You can't even use it loosely.
Q: (L) Would you help me out here. I'm trying to figure out why, if that planet was turned into a cinder, why were human beings seeded there... what was the point in being brought into being on a planet that was very shortly to become a cinder... a crispy critter...
A: Okay. Now: "Shocker" For you. It hasn't become a cinder yet.
Q: (L) Okay. What is it. You told us it was a cinder... burned up... what is the real story here?
A: It will be at the same "time" that you go to 4th density. The human race is currently being formed on D'Ahnkiar.
Q: (L) What do you mean that the human race is currently being formed on that planet? Is that because that planet is this planet?
A: No. That closes realm grand cycle.
Q: (L) Are you saying that there are human beings being created on that planet at this current time...
A: Yes, you are. Your race is forming there.
Q: (L) How?
A: Realm crossing understand?
Q: (L) Are you saying that there are 4th density bodies being formed there...
A: No. 3rd.
Q: (L) There are 3rd density bodies... are we going to leave the bodies we are in and go into other bodies?
A: You are drifting... Think carefully. Realm is derivative of reality. Cycle.
Q: (L) So the human race is being formed on this other planet at the present time...
A: Yes.
Q: (L) And at the time of the realm border crossing, this other planet will then become cindered... burned up...
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Where will the human beings go that are being formed on that planet at the time of the realm border crossing?
A: Ancient earth.
Q: (L) They will go to ancient earth?
A: There is no time as you know it; its all just lessons for the collective consciousness.
Q: (L) So at the closing of this grand cycle everything will just start all over again?
A: Not exactly; you see, there is no start.
Q: (L) Are a lot of souls on the earth going to recycle into these new bodies coming onto the earth?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) As ancient mankind?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) And do the whole thing all over again?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) So, in other words, a lot of people are going back to square one?
A: Close.
Q: (L) Is this punishment.
A: No. Nature.
Q: (L) Are some of the souls, at that point, going to move into a higher density level?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Could you give us a percentage on this?
A: No. Open at this point.
Q: (L) Now, getting back to the planet, if at some point in the cycle, bodies were generated on this planet and brought to earth, who brought them?
A: Realm crossing.
Q: (L) It was not a who, it was a what, is that correct?
A: All is who and what.
Q: (L) Well, the other night you mentioned something about the Transient Passengers hauling these bodies off that planet and bringing them to earth, is that correct?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Well, are these Transient Passengers Realms?
A: Yes. So are you.
Q: (L) Do you guys know what you are doing to the linear mind here?
A: Can of worms.
Maybe it makes sense to focus on our deceased relatives in 5D, keeping in mind that the larger picture is pretty complex.
Anyways, in the first session snippet, there's some good info about what it might mean to connect with your ancestors - luckily, in very practical and easy-to-understand terms! It means reading up on the history of your people, looking into your own family line, or even learning more about your grandparents or great-grandparents. This can be very interesting - for instance, I recently learned that my great grandpa lived in Crimea! I knew he lived in Siberia, but had no clue about Crimea. So research is one way of knowing that you are connected with your ancestors.
Then there is also the connection with one's ancestors in more energetic terms. I think that might be more what you're asking? For some people who are intuitive, it may be clear as day who they are connected to - such as feeling a grandmotherly energy watching over them, guiding them, or having a dream about being protected by their favourite Uncle, things like that. Luckily, doing the practical work of researching your family history can connect you with your ancestors on an energetic level. It's like building your antenna to pick up their good vibes. Prayer can also help with the energetic connection, too. Even if we don't know them by name, we can still ask the saintly ancestors in 5D for guidance and protection.
Apparently we are all connected to 5D at all times by a silver thread, according to this session below:
Q: (L) Now, the question has arisen that, since other dimensional beings have the ability to kidnap or abduct or forcibly extract souls, do they also have the capability of manipulating our soul essences after they have left our bodies during the transition to fifth density?
A: Not correct.
Q: (L) They do not?
A: No, you see when your physical body expires, and you enter fifth density, this is done one way and one way only: by passing through a conduit which opens specifically for the purpose of transference from third density to fifth density. Now, something often referred to in your terminology as a silver thread, is like a closed line which opens when this conduit is needed. That's rather awkward, but it's the only way to describe it.
So that when the physical body terminates, this line is opened forming a conduit through which the soul passes naturally. However, part of the existence of this conduit is that it is absolutely impenetrable by any force from any density level. Therefore, souls in the process of transferring from third density to fifth density are not in any way able to be molested or tampered with. And it should be mentioned here, also, that the soul imprint of the physical body always has a connection to fifth density and that is through the so-called "silver thread."
That always exists as the third density soul's doorway to fifth density. It can be opened at a moment's notice whenever needed. When it is opened it becomes a conduit. Through that conduit the soul passes. And it is not subject to interference by anything. This is not a deliberate construction, it is merely the natural process similar to what could be described as the protection mechanisms existing on second level density for creatures which are not capable of protecting themselves through their own conscious thought processes.
For example, your turtle is contained within a shell that protects it. That shell is impenetrable by any natural forces, therefore nothing that is natural can harm that turtle. However, the same can exist for any creature when it is connected by the silver thread to fifth density. Once it is passing through the conduit produced by the opening of the silver thread, then, of course, it cannot be tampered with. Do you understand?
Q: (L) Yes, but why do so many souls, when they leave the body, not traverse this conduit, and why do they stay earthbound, and why do they attach to other bodies? Why does this condition exist?
A: That is a complicated question, however the best answer is choice is involved there for those souls who wish not to leave the plane of third density. The only possibility to do this is to be detached from the now expired physical body but still be within the third density plane, which, of course, is not natural, but nonetheless can occur. In situations such as this, though it has been incorrectly reported, the silver thread is still attached and still remains a thread rather than a conduit. The soul is still attached to the silver thread but detached from the host body which has now expired. So the effect is very similar to being consciously aware of third density surroundings without a third density unit to accompany. Do you understand?
To add to this, the research on the forum indicates that it is usually unresolved karma (ie. relationship issues or unresolved emotions) that causes a Soul to stay earthbound after the body has died.
I'm curious - is there any particular reason why you're asking?