Recapitulation

[Eilias123]

i haven't attempted a recap in quite a while. I would try the breathing technique, and write down a few names... nothing would happen. Then days, weeks, or
months later some vivid memories would just flood back to me outta no where. I would then write everything down.

[ARNWAY]

Something that Doctor Green posted and he is someone that I deeply respect.





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Recapitulation is a technique used to regain energy lost in the world. It is a technique associated with stalking [cc6, Florindas chapter], but it is very important to dreamers as well [cc9]. The basic premises (axioms about the world) on which the theory behind recapitulation is based is as follows:

1. By acting and interacting in the world a person binds up alot of energy. There is an exchange of energy between people, and this locks up alot of energy. The greatest source of such energy expenditure is in sexual encounters.
2. This locked up energy can be restored by a special technique called recapitulating.

This is, however, not the only explanation/reason to why one should recapitulate. Another reason given in 'The Eagles Gift' [cc6] is that recapitulation is a key to freedom given to every living creature. The Eagle is, according to what Castaneda tells us, the force in universe from which everything emanates. Awareness is given to to us from the Eagle, and when we die our awareness returns to the source and are 'consumed'. By recapitulating our lives, the Eagle may accept this as a substitute for our awareness. The Eagle only wants our life experiences. This is called "the Eagles gift". Victor Sanchez draws the conclusion that the 'seeing ones life passing before ones eyes', reported by people believing they are about to die, is the natural form of recapitulation [The Teachings of don Carlos]. Castaneda says that when we die, we enter, for a short moment, into the third awareness to be cleaned, before the Eagle consumes us.

Recapitulation also serves the purpose of making one aware of the routines and patterns of ones life.

The Technique

The technique is described in a number of places, and there actually seems to be different descriptions in different places. There have even been some diversity between the team around Castaneda about the direction of the 'fanning' movement of the head.

The clearest description in my opinion is the one in 'Art of Dreaming', chapter eight 'The Third Gate of Dreaming' [cc9, p148]:


" Don Juan had given me very detailed and explicit instructions about the recapitulation. It consisted of reliving the totality of one's life experiences by remembering every possible minute detail of them. He saw the recapitulation as the essential factor in a dreamer's redefinition and redeployment of energy. "The recapitulation sets free energy imprisoned within us, and without this liberated energy dreaming is not possible." That was his statement.
Years before, don Juan had coached me to make a list of all the people I had met in my life, starting at the present. He helped me to arrange my list in an orderly fashion, breaking it down into areas of activity, such as jobs I had had, schools I had attended. Then he guided me to go, without deviation, from the first person on my list to the last one, reliving every one of my interactions with them. He explained that recapitulating an event starts with one's mind arranging everything pertinent to what is being recapitulated. Arranging means reconstructing the event, piece by piece, starting by recollecting the physical details of the surroundings, then going to the person with whom one shared the interaction, and then going to oneself, to the examination of one's feelings.

Don Juan taught me that the recapitulation is coupled with a natural, rhythmical breathing. Long exhalations are performed as the head moves gently and slowly from right to left; and long inhalations are taken as the head moves back from left to right. He called this act of moving the head from side to side "fanning the event." The mind examines the event from beginning to end while the body fans, on and on, everything the mind focuses on. Don Juan said that the sorcerers of antiquity, the inventors of the recapitulation, viewed breathing as a magical, life-giving act and used it, accordingly, as a magical vehicle; the exhalation, to eject the foreign energy left in them during the interaction being recapitulated and the inhalation to pull back the energy that they themselves left behind during the interaction."

-The Art of Dreaming



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[bluedreamer]

Thanks arnway and dr green

[dreamgirl]

I want to add here that I have been resistant to recapitulating, and so for months have just done the Soul Star techniques, as I thought this would help me
build up strength so I could eventually get back to recap. I started back when Dr. Lee made this post. My first day, I recapped 10 things, mostly current
things, and I had a renewed sense of energy, then after a few hours, OMG, emotional explosion, everything looked black, bleak, useless, and I lost my temper
with my kids and husband as I was resentfully cooking dinner, ect. This experience scared me off for a day or so, then right back to it I went, so far it has
helped me immensely with dreaming, and after only a few times.




Dreamgirl

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Recapitulation is a technique used to regain energy lost in the world. It is a technique associated with stalking [cc6, Florindas chapter], but it is very important to dreamers as well [cc9]. The basic premises (axioms about the world) on which the theory behind recapitulation is based is as follows:
 
1.  By acting and interacting in the world a person binds up alot of energy. There is an exchange of energy between people, and this locks up alot of energy. The greatest source of such energy expenditure is in sexual encounters.
2.  This locked up energy can be restored by a special technique called recapitulating.
This is, however, not the only explanation/reason to why one should recapitulate. Another reason given in 'The Eagles Gift' [cc6] is that recapitulation is a key to freedom given to every living creature. The Eagle is, according to what Castaneda tells us, the force in universe from which everything emanates. Awareness is given to to us from the Eagle, and when we die our awareness returns to the source and are 'consumed'. By recapitulating our lives, the Eagle may accept this as a substitute for our awareness. The Eagle only wants our life experiences. This is called "the Eagles gift". Victor Sanchez draws the conclusion that the 'seeing ones life passing before ones eyes', reported by people believing they are about to die, is the natural form of recapitulation [The Teachings of don Carlos]. Castaneda says that when we die, we enter, for a short moment, into the third awareness to be cleaned, before the Eagle consumes us.
Recapitulation also serves the purpose of making one aware of the routines and patterns of ones life.
The Technique
The technique is described in a number of places, and there actually seems to be different descriptions in different places. There have even been some diversity between the team around Castaneda about the direction of the 'fanning' movement of the head.
The clearest description in my opinion is the one in 'Art of Dreaming', chapter eight 'The Third Gate of Dreaming' [cc9, p148]: 
   
" Don Juan had given me very detailed and explicit instructions about the recapitulation. It consisted of reliving the totality of one's life experiences by remembering every possible minute detail of them. He saw the recapitulation as the essential factor in a dreamer's redefinition and redeployment of energy. "The recapitulation sets free energy imprisoned within us, and without this liberated energy dreaming is not possible." That was his statement. 
Years before, don Juan had coached me to make a list of all the people I had met in my life, starting at the present. He helped me to arrange my list in an orderly fashion, breaking it down into areas of activity, such as jobs I had had, schools I had attended. Then he guided me to go, without deviation, from the first person on my list to the last one, reliving every one of my interactions with them. He explained that recapitulating an event starts with one's mind arranging everything pertinent to what is being recapitulated. Arranging means reconstructing the event, piece by piece, starting by recollecting the physical details of the surroundings, then going to the person with whom one shared the interaction, and then going to oneself, to the examination of one's feelings. 
Don Juan taught me that the recapitulation is coupled with a natural, rhythmical breathing. Long exhalations are performed as the head moves gently and slowly from right to left; and long inhalations are taken as the head moves back from left to right. He called this act of moving the head from side to side "fanning the event." The mind examines the event from beginning to end while the body fans, on and on, everything the mind focuses on. Don Juan said that the sorcerers of antiquity, the inventors of the recapitulation, viewed breathing as a magical, life-giving act and used it, accordingly, as a magical vehicle; the exhalation, to eject the foreign energy left in them during the interaction being recapitulated and the inhalation to pull back the energy that they themselves left behind during the interaction."
-The Art of Dreaming

[blnmn]

Nagual LoneWolf wrote:The test is to silence your inner mental dialogue.

When you can do that for long enough periods you can now inject your intent and manifest your power.

Go to a mirror, look into your left eye for a long time and see if you see something that isn't you looking at you.

Take this mirror to water and hold it underneath the surfac and stare at it and watc. Often the foreigh installation will appear OR you might see something else.
Hello,
Yesterday, I was in a empty train so I was sitting on the floor looking into my reflect for awhile, and then my left eye became all black, and today as I saw your post I'm asking if is this something similar at what you're talking about? Or it was just a light effect as I tought when it happened?

[NagualHuman]

Yes it was absolutely a light effect; everything is made of light threads in essence.
If your eyes become fully black it means it has opened to nagual;unknown - darkness.
This means that your awareness started to shift and in that time most important is to notice the subtlest "awareness impulses" and it's unfoldings.
The shift creates crack in awareness through which energy begins to flow inside ya world;awareness.
Foreign energy or Inorganic installation you may have seen through that act may not necessarily be a fully self-established beign, but the line on which beign is itself or just a part of bigger whole is almost unnoticable;savourly invisible same as the act of shift through which ya came.
The properties of changing overal configuration of connection towards any energy, accepting or joining a conglomerate on a seemingly new - unknown plane is like that.

[Absyllyon]

Well, this is not my experience at all. I wonder if anybody can shed some more light on what is happening in my case.
I know also that the blackening of the vision indicates the nagual, however I generally experience this in one eye only, namely my right eye, not the left eye. IOW, I see the nagual with my right eye.When I see the filaments this corresponds with what DJ said in that there are sparks and pulses in the left eye and circling and pooling in the right.
I see the tonal with my left eye and the nagual with my right eye at the same time. I feel the split in my energy body at these times - the left side stands as if on solid ground whilst the right side stands in the void.

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