for this thread I believe. Frank MacEowen states:

"The mist filled path teaches us that the road of life can be a road of peace, awe and wonder. It whispers to us that our paths of seeking comfort on and movement between worlds is crucial. These sacred realms exist below us, beside us and they overlap one another. An awareness of these worlds is in fact an unbroken holy tradition. It is a collective human tradition. One that is steeped in an awareness of the primal land. We may be in a different land than our ancestors, laboring in different ways than our ancestors labored, but the same dedicated path of deep love for the natural world and the natural wisdom of the spiritual world are our birthright. We merely need to open ourselves to the same numinous way of seeing the world and the same pattern and practices that our earth honoring ancestors knew. Be they Celtic, Nordic, African or Asian. This vision of life and these ancestral patterns and practices, offer an important antidote to the rampant loss of soul in the world today. They can assist us in rediscovering the sacred shape of the soul.

I know this from my own personal experience. I found myself unable to cope with the death of my husband in Iraq, until recently when I realized I was not alone. Since the day his soul left his body....I have been helped in my grief but had not known for the pain blocked my spirit so much my mind could not comprehend until one day I finally awoke, heard and saw the keening women. They had been there the whole time. I recognized them for who and what they were....my maternal ancestors sharing my grief and that of generations before me helping in relieving a burden to allow me to finally begin to heal.