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How language loss affects connection to ancestral spirits

I can feel my ancestors trying to speak to me during meditation, but I never learned their language and it breaks my heart that colonization put this wall between us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Linguistic colonization creates a barrier between the seeker and their spiritual heritage, making communion with ancestors feel impossibly distant.

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