Those that have gone before- are they still here? Though the physical evidence of their existence has mostly disappeared, is their energy still present? 
       And who were the ancestors, anyway? Does anybody really know? Archeologists and historians give us suggestions on what might have been here, taken place here, wherever 'here' may be, but what actually happened?
     There is so much we don't know so we have to probe, we have to go into our feeling selves in our particular locales to detect any energy traces and tendrils that might give us clues. 
     Our civilization, if we can call it that, is overlaid upon thousands and thousands of years of what has been there before. In America, it is said that Indians lived there before the white settlers, but who came before the Indians? Anybody? Far as we know, not a lot seems to have taken place, which seems really odd. Such a vast area and no human presence? 
     Even in sunny Florida? 
     Europe, on the other hand, is literally teeming with history and its associated energies. England, France, Germany, Italy...... .....this royal house, that one, all the highly detailed lists of Who was Who, along with their title, rank, offspring, and associated class structure privileges like castles, chateaus, and villas....
     ...China and Japan too, their lineage structure goes way back......
    But that kind of thinking was then, in the 'old' days, when people cared about lineages and such.

   Modern folk mainly live as if they're the first ones here (or the only ones that matter) 'cuz everybody that has come before has died, fled, was involuntarily relocated, got conquered, caught up in a cataclysim, or (perhaps) ascended. 
    We 'civilized' really don't know. But the indigenous know. They have oral traditions that go back hundreds and hundreds, even thousands of years. 

    Without connections to our past, we don't know where we came from, why we're here, or where we're going. Seems to be that life is a random event. We're born, here for awhile, wonder about it, and that's it. 
    Or is it?
     If, as Einstein and others postulate(d), all is energy and energy can never be lost, only showing up again in a different state, where did all those people from the past go? They couldn't have simply vanished without a trace. 
  Something to think about. After all, it's scientific! Rational. Logical. 
  Maybe those people's energy is still around, but it's too subtle to feel, unless you're walking through Antietam, the old Civil War Battlefield that I came across on one of my road trips. There's energy lingering there, it's sad and anguished, oh yeah. 
     Or how about Washington, D.C., where so much has gone on? D.C. is a powerful place, containing layers and layers of vibes.
     The White House! Does Lincoln still occasionally sleep in his old bedroom?
     What of The Declaration Of Independence, The Constitution, and The Bill Of Rights? Just pieces of paper, or is each one imbued with the energies of the men that wrote them?

     What if the earth is a vast storehouse of all the energies that humans have ever experienced and those energies are present in the very ground we walk on and in the air that we breathe?
    Why, that sounds like we have just might have an investment in this place!