What the ancients did for their dead! You seem to believe that you can absolve yourself from the care of the dead, and from the work that they so greatly demand, since what is dead is past. . . . Do you think that the dead do not exist because you have devised the impossibility of immortality? . . . The dead produce effects, that is sufficient.1 —

Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were already present in the ranks of our ancestors. . . . Body and soul therefore have an intensely historical character. . . .We have plunged down a cataract of progress which sweeps us on into the future with ever wider violence the farther it takes us from our roots . . .

Destiny, according to Meade, is the “divine errand set deeply within us.”

Bernstein uses the term “‘transrational’ to refer to . . . observable phenomena and connections that do not ‘make sense’ by generally accepted scientific and rational criteria.”

“primeval ancestors.”

Fate is more like an intention that is woven into the fabric of our being. Michael

A human life is nothing in itself; it is part of a family tree. We are continuously living the ancestral life, reaching back for centuries, we are satisfying the appetites of unknown ancestors, nursing instincts which we think are our own, but which are quite incompatible with our character; we are not living our own lives, we are paying the debts

Meade, in his book Fate and Destiny: The Two Agreements of the Soul, writes, “Fate is the inner

Jung concludes that “inner peace and contentment” depends on whether or not one creates harmony between the “historical family”