We hold this ancestral grief in our beings, even after many generations in the new land. This sorrow becomes concentrated over time, gathering grief unto itself, and is carried in our psyches unconsciously as a diminished inheritance. The psychic inheritance from our ancestors was meant to be a blessing, but instead it is a layer of heaviness. The stoic façade and behaviors of these generations left behind a legacy of unattended pain. Mayan shaman Martín Prechtel says that we are surrounded by the ghosts of unwept ancestors.
