(08-02-2017, 01:48 PM)GentleWanderer Wrote: Aion, Glow, i'm curious to know more about how your practice of recapitulation and what does it do for you. Some who claims to come from shamanism consider it like a must.Well the first step is recapitulation so its definitely a must. How can you use all your energy for "shamanic things" if you are still feeding all these old emotional dramas and connections.
Many sources (Steiner, mahavira, an old tradition of female kabbalists, the vigyana bhairava tantra commented by rajneesh, even negative philosophies like dianetics...) talk about this kind of practice or a variation of it. It may not be the main purpose of it in shamanism, others sources said it can help to strart to train the faculty of remembering very early memories, past lives, or event in the past that occured without us being there at the time.
And Castaneda is one of the few who associate remembering with a special kind of breathing. He told recapitulation was the only thing who helped him when his practice of dreaming was blocked. Don Juan said that with each recapitulation practice there is a very little and very beneficial movement of the assembly point.
Castaneda tell that everybody perceive the world the way they do depending on the position of their assembly point and that society has kind of imposed on most people a particular position of the assemblage point. In theory if one could move the position of this point the same way as a bird for exemple, one would perceive word as a bird or even change the physical form. Great concepts, hard to tell what to do with them and when Castaneda is saying what he knows and when he's using his imagination.
Even if you wish not to explore energy work, dream work or anything esoteric recap erases the emotional charges so you function from a pattern free, preconceived notion/domestication/indoctrination free mind so you can make healthier, balance rational choices more in keeping with who you are as a being rather than who you have become due to what has happend to you or around you in life.
There is a breathing method involved but where I am learning recap is thorough. Even for the partial recap it takes generally 2 years of daily work. You recap almost everything several different ways, in super high def detail... its extensive and just learning the first stage took 7 classes. I have so much recapping to do for the partial the 2 year guide seems super ambitious but its already changed my life. My energetic awareness and "gifts" has also increased because my energy and consciousness is no longer bound to these old things.
Actually after suffering a brain injury last year and my recovery basically plateauing for the last 6 months I started recapping the injury and the event. Suddenly my brain seems totally back to pre injury state. No it IS back to pre injury state.
Then they have the total recap which is supposed to take you back to who you were born as, your natural predilections before life happened so your perspective is even clearer and less bound to this one incarnation. Apparently thats where the shamanic stuff really starts to happen and is why shamans can do what they do. They have all their energy and no worldly ego dramas interfering with their intuition and seeing. I'm totally hooked so am headed that way at least as far as seems appropriate.
They term it self healing and it really is.