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RECAPITULATION - THE PRACTICAL TOOL FOR SOUL RETRIEVAL

6/28/2015

 
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"The world is like it is because you tell yourself it is like that." Carlos Castaneda

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius


"Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realise there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." - Lao Tzu.


Would you like to be simple and have the whole world belong to you? Is there a possibility of revamping your life, so you take it breath by breath with equanimity?
We all have times when we are deeply relaxed and in harmony with ourselves and our environment. Beauty or something we enjoy or aspire to catches our attention. Maybe an incredible sunset, walking in nature, or a child chuckling.

So much of the time though we are lost to the realities of our situation. Our attention is taken by confusion, regret, or unfulfilled day-dreams. Rather than rejoicing in the way things are, we project a world that we are never happy in. Then this world claims all our attention and we become a puppet of our unexplored tendencies.
We all know that worrying solves nothing. It is not a worthwhile use of imagination and embroils us in a self-sustaining nightmare of our own making. Life is too mysterious and intense and we hide in patterns of thought supported by our emotions and our postures of breath and body.

Rarely though, do we realise that life is passing us by. Why should any of us accept living in a way that doesn't suit us?

Our mystery schools and religions all have as part of their teachings sitting and walking practices where we engage in silence. Silence brings its own reward. Yet so many people say "I can't be silent".

In silence practice, in meditation or contemplation we actually get to see the workings of the mind. Often it seems horrendous. We see very clearly that our life is of our own making fuelled by our thoughts and emotions over which we have no control.

This ability to be in the moment detached from the play of our life in silence is a hard won skill. It is a question of commanding our attention.
Unfortunately our attention is on being distracted, on talking to ourselves. As we approach a state of alignment with other facets of our being, then we see our self-sabotaging dialogues that create our experience of life.

This inability to connect beyond the scope of our dialogues has been addressed in many cultures. We have the idea of forgiveness, of letting go. Soul-retrieval, the same as recapitulation, is based on the idea that aspects of our energy are lost to us and can be reclaimed.
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The energy we need to live an authentic and vital life is already invested in our hurts and confusions, it needs unearthing and redeploying. Incidents, especially from our childhood, and our reaction to them, have configured us in a certain way.

The process of seeing where our energy is invested, considering whether the investment is viable for us still and withdrawing it, to apply to what is current for us, is called recapitulation. The practice was introduced to us by Carlos Castaneda. Yet it is seen in many forms cross-culturally under many names.

Toltec seers realised that our life depends on the free flow of energy. They faced the same dilemma as we do and solved it. 
They discovered techniques to free up energy and make it available. This in turn changed their perception of being alive and the way they lived their lives. For them breath was and is a magical activity. Deeply immersing themselves in the free flow of breath and reviewing the incidents of their life, they were able to bring a new perspective.

This process allowed forgiveness of themselves and those they had come in contact with. They were able to discover caches of energy locked by their reactions and reclaim it. This is a pragmatic way of soul retrieval; it leads to expanded awareness, acceptance and self-love.
It freed perception and allowed them to approach the wonder of being alive in the moment. It allowed them to live their life with detachment, independence and passion.


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These techniques have been taught to Ena and Gammadian. For over a decade we have entered into this process and benefited from it. It has moved us to the extent that we have chosen to make it available to others. We are registered teachers of this knowledge through Being Energy®.

Now we offer this knowledge in online courses accessible to all from the comfort of their homes. 
​By the use of sacred shamanic movement, dreaming, recapitulation (soul retrieval) and silence practices, participants will attain a completely new perspective on their life and be led to enact new strategies to live the life of their choice.

This process is deeply pragmatic. All lives benefit from review and self-observation. If you would live life authentically expressing your life force, do consider what is on offer here.

It is possible for you to reclaim the energy you were born with and use it consciously to re-dream your life. Exercise choice; invest in yourself while the opportunity is here.

On our website are several blogs about my experiences of recapitulation and dreaming and the links to enrol in our events.

Our nightmares or day-mares of being inadequate, stressed and often achy or ill can be alleviated with conscious intent. Life is too precious and short to spend it in a way that doesn't suit us.

Be healthy, be joyful and dance to your own rhythm. You are unique - find and understand your uniqueness and express it to your heart's content in your new life.

Affection,

Gammadian

Quan Yin - Goddess of Compassion

6/17/2015

 
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It was dawn I was sat on the beach in Koh Pangang, Thailand. As I opened my eyes I saw a Nordic looking, blonde haired woman. She asked me about my breatharian practice. I explained that i knew nothing of the practice, that I had been using a practice given to me in dreaming.
As it happened, she was actually living in the next room to me. In the evening she talked to me about her travels. She told me something incredible had happened to her in Bali, she had met a shape-shifter and since then her whole world had shifted.
I was fascinated by her story and elicited all the details to meet this woman. Jeru Arju had been a young successful clothes designer and had her own fashion shop, frequented by travellers to Bali.
Her health deteriorated and reluctantly she took to her bed. The doctor came everyday with medicines and treatments. However the fever intensified and it seemed as if she would die.

In one of her high fevers, the goddess Quan Yin came to Jeru Arju and told her, who she was and that she had called her for a reason. Quan Yin explained that she would die unless she stopped taking the Dr’s medicines and fasted for forty days. 

Her family tried to have her sectioned when she told them. Yet, resolute in her decision to obey the goddess, she locked herself in her room. Near death she spent forty days communing with the goddess.

Quan Yin empowered Jeru Arju to shape-shift into various beings and instructed her minutely in ritual practices and how she could carry out Quan Yin’s work.
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After forty days she awoke healed and ready to carry out the work of the goddess. Although she had doubted that she was suitable or could be successful doing this, she has been highly successful in doing what the goddess commanded.
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​I had received an e-mail address from the Nordic looking woman. However, I had received no reply. I also wrote to Balinese people I knew but received no reply. Yet I intended that something would shift. I was thinking of going anyway but the prices were too high to fly.

​After a month I received two e-mails on the same day, telling me to come. If the price remained so prohibitive I still couldn't go, but I went to trawl through the travel agents around town. I was fortuitous to get an indirect flight that was affordable.

My time and finances were limited. My connection when I arrived didn't answer my e-mails or my phone calls. One day fortuitously I was in an office and I heard someone say his name. I turned and told him I had been in Bali for three weeks looking for him. He apologized pleading commitments but gave me another number to call him the next day. After several more days he introduced me to a Balinese mask-carver who regularly met Jeru Arju.


He told me when next she did a ritual he would take me. I was ill that day with my stomach and wasn't looking forward to a four hour ride on the back of a motorcycle into the mountains. Yet I longed to see this personification of the goddess.
The nature of Bali is beautiful. Though by bike it was a little uncomfortable I was entranced by the flowering jungle. The compound where I met Jeru Arju was ​immaculately gardened. Jeru Arju is an ageless looking very beautiful unassuming woman.
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She apologized for not speaking English and thanked our translator. Everything was light and beautiful and I felt distinctly welcome. We all ate together.
Everything was really low key. We chatted through an interpreter. Balinese coffee corn and sweetmeats were brought and we sat at a low table.

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As dusk came she beckoned me into the shrine where Quan Yin would manifest. Jeru Arju blessed us with water then as we sat at the shrine she said some prayers. There was beautiful Chinese music playing. We had carried our offerings in. 
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A young yellow coconut was offered and then we went outside and did a cleansing ritual to banish negative energy, where we washed in coconut water and then drank three times.
We went back in, the shrine was to our left but we faced NE and sat in the stone courtyard.
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She sang to us along with the music and encouraged us to sit with straight backs. She adjusted me several times until she was satisfied.
While seated she took us into dreaming. I was in a sacred garden - a garden of delight. The incredible beauty, silence and nurturing that was palpable in the physical garden was intensified. 

​The geometric carvings in the garden were also in the dream. Quan Yin appeared as the most beautiful young woman. I was entranced. She danced around me and at one time surrounded me with many of her that circled me.
I opened my eyes and my companion was standing. We then went to the shrine. 

This was so beautiful: red and gold with flowers, orchids and lotuses, many statues and pictures of Deities, Buddhas and Shiva, who I am aligned with by nature.

We did a ritual with incense and water and went into meditation first for Quan Yin, Buddha and Shiva and then for the South Ocean Goddess.

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Leaving, I felt empowered. I would never forget this connection with Quan Yin and the vessel of her appearance. From this time onwards I had many dreams with Quan Yin, infused with elegance, kindness, healing and power. I started writing about my ​experiences in a dream diary. Jeru Arju gave me her and Quan Yin’s permission to use this energy for healing.
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Ena, my partner, had been feeling off and asked me if I would give her a healing session. During the healing session I took Ena into my dream of the goddess. ​

After Ena told me I shouldn't guide her towards a Chinese goddess, she felt reactive about the experience.
I replied that this energy appeared to humans in form that could be recognized for easier alignment. She was insistently unconvinced though.

​The next morning Ena awoke and immediately apologized to me. She said that Quan Yin had visited her in a lucid dream and resolved her issues and healed her. Ena’s dream experience took place in the magical garden temple of Quan Yin, just like mine.

 I was really glad that she too could align with this connection that had been forged in me.
From then on I started using these Quan Yin dreams with clients to great success. I decided to include it in Open Wing’s Colombian Workshop. ​

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Whilst preparing for the workshop I was approached by some musicians who said they would provide music for free workshop entry. It was only a few weeks before the workshop and I knew it would take a lot of preparation but said I would meet them on Skype.

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As soon as I saw them, I knew I could work with them. Together we effortlessly worked through all the forms and guided meditations. At the workshop they were so good, that we decided to record the meditations, so a wider number of people could connect with this empowerment and healing.

A big thank you to Maria Lucia Luna and her partner Rodrigo and their friend Diego for their impeccable work and intent.  
The recordings are available on our website and have an effect that few could duplicate in their own practice. 
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I have been fortunate to deliver something magical. Something divine shines through these recordings. Feel free to download them and experience for yourself.

Affection,
Gammadian

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