We know that Anakin Skywalker has become a Force Ghost — at the end of Episode VI, Anakin's Ghost is a wallflower at the ewok party on the Forest Moon of Endor.
We also know that it doesn't necessarily take special training in order to commune with Force Ghosts — while Yoda mentions in Episode III that he can teach Obi-Wan to speak to Qui-Gon's Ghost, Luke can speak to Obi-Wan's with no special training.
In The Force Awakens, Kylo Ren meditates in the presence of the helmet of Darth Vader and pleads to Vader,
"Show me again the power of the darkness..."
I assume that Anakin has not actually appeared to Kylo, for if he did, he would have surely advised Kylo to return to the Light and to give up his obsession with the dark period of Anakin's life.
Given that Kylo is Force sensitive, given the stakes involved, and given the familial connection between Anakin and Kylo, why hasn't Anakin's Ghost appeared to Kylo Ren?
Answer
I'm afraid the answer is something unanticipatingly simple and banal: there was no point.
Assuming that you meant Anakin the Good Guy's Force Ghost from ROTJ Special Edition:
Anakin's Force Ghost has absolutely nothing worth saying that Kylo Ren doesn't already know and taken into consideration.
What is he going to say to change Kylo's mind?
- AFG: Ben, I turned back towards the Light in the end!
- KR: Yah OKTHX Captain Obvious, I just discussed it with my Master. Your point?
...
- AFG: Ben, you really shouldn't trust Snoke, he'll use you and betray you
- KR: My daddy told me that already. Can I stick a Force Ghost with my Christmas Tree Lightsaber too?
...
- AFG: Ben, the Dark Side will lose!
- KR: Looks like we're winning, ain't we? Because unlike you I'm a successful Dark Sider who has no flights of misguided positive emotions! Also, go Ghost-See Spaceballs, and listen to wise words of Dark Helmet who was WAY cooler than your Hayden Christiansen romcom visage.
And Kylo Ren has no respect for Anakin, to boot.
Or, as J.J. Abrams himself put it in IGN interview:
“Kylo Ren idolizes Darth Vader, not Anakin Skywalker, ... He idolizes what Vader represents and what Vader was trying to do. The idea that Vader didn’t succeed, if you look at it from Ren’s point of view, he was seduced by the enemy and failed because of that seduction. So the idea is that Ren wants to complete the thing that Vader started.”
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