editor victoria’s comment ~ i have done similar practice over the years. i am finding now what feels to be most effective is engaging in a forgiveness practice ~ with others and self.
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Warriors recapitulate when they are walking down the road, in the bathroom, when working or when eating; whenever it is possible. The important thing is to do it.” Carlos Casteneda
Recapitulation is for the Toltec warrior the essential and primary discipline to becoming a seer. The act of recapitulating is to re-gather energy lost to others and to our life situation. As we participate in our daily lives, lines of energy, intent, infuses our world and we act and react based on those lines. Think of great cobwebs constantly managing relationships, actions, behaviors and impulses. When we meet with someone that we know, we reconnect with those cobwebs, like plugging in the toaster there is a specific design to our connections and the power needed to maintain these links. The more we spend time with an individual, the more the connections strengthen and repeat. People become predictable and we become predictable to the people we work with, play with and associated with. There is a lot of expectation surrounding these repeated and predictable behaviors and energies. In other words we strengthen these lines every day with our awareness and energy. The average person does this without thinking. The warrior of awareness knows exactly what lines are being energized… he knows this because he recapitulates.
Think of a room that you visit every day, like an office. The repeated actions and energies associated with that office are created every day. The coffee cup in the same place, the computer screen, the feelings of accomplishment or necessary tasks that flood one as the day starts. As the day progresses and the sun shifts along the windows, the energy associated with the clock ticking off twelve noon, lunch time! The clock hitting 4 or 5 PM creates repeated patterns of feeling and perception which dull our direct experience of the now unfolding. Carlos noted that we live our lives “from a distance.” Like we are in a movie and we are watching that movie and approving or disapproving of it all the time like the critic in our heads notes. These daily predictable energies and emotions build up and bind our attention to the day and the people we work with. The more emotional energy, the more rational explanation, the more we are tied to lines, bondage at its most profound!
But the warrior stalks these lines and cleans them up by cutting unnecessary links. The Toltec warrior cleans these lines up at any time. It could be shifting the focus from going into that office daily at 8AM to 7:30AM. It all depends on how much we are attached to those lines what actions or patterns to change or shift. These changes could break a line and allow energy to return to its more flexible and usable state of potential. The seer actually sees these lines and cuts them away.
So what practices are specific to recapitulation? Just about any where we are returning to the energy of wholeness and direct perception of our day… rather than the assumed perceptions from patterned behaviors, which dulls our senses. No one is exempt in recapitulating. Every Toltec warrior practices this discipline with the fervor of a person in battle.
When we start on the path, there are very specific recapitulative processes which really aid in getting these lines cleaned up. The first is to inventory all of our relations… everyone we have ever met. When we do so, we can write down this inventory and the feelings, thoughts or ideas (memories) associated with the people on the list. Some people are very easy to recall and write about… others are very complex. I suggest starting from the easiest and building to the more complex. What we are doing is not forgetting, but removing the energetic lines which have been built up over repeated association with that person.
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