Perception is one of the cornerstones of our attention, being what enables us to perform one of the most important functions we have as living beings: that of embodying the observer. Every observer appears to exert a quantifiable effect on the object of observation. Based on this premise, one can imagine that, in the process of perceiving, a flow of some kind of energy-information is emitted from the observer towards the observed, since it would be difficult for the former to influence the latter if there were no exchange between the two. The energy of the observer, which is actually the focus of his or her attention, triggers an automatic reaction in the observed. Thus, a new emission of energy will be sent back to the observer, affecting him or her in some way. We can continue to envision these flows of energy as lines, or as waves that inevitably produce an entanglement between the observer and the observed. As such, it can be categorically said that perception is a form of relationship.
In a relationship there must be at least two elements or systems that exchange energy-information by means of processes of attention. Certain resonating components must be present, some transmitters and others receivers, as well as a channel or means of transport through which the exchanged energy-information will circulate. The channel has the effect of linking the different systems participating in the relationship-perception within the bubble of existence that they share. The world can only exist thanks to the relationships between its components.
The repeated use of a channel through which the observer-perceiver relates to the observed consolidates the structure of the channel-link. This becomes literally true in the realm in which we are formed by subtle matter and energy. At the beginning of a relationship, the subtle channels through which perceptions, thoughts and feelings flow between human beings are weak and temporary. As contact and exchanges become more intense and continuous over time, the channels are configured as permanent. We could say that the luminous spheres that we represent are the points of departure and entry of a multitude of lines of subtle matter or strings that are the product of the consolidation of personal, social, family, affective relationships, and so on.
Since we are permanently influencing and being influenced through these channels-links, there comes a moment in a person’s life in which the collective becomes a true mesh, a spider's web in which we consolidate and maintain our contents of energy, information and attention. As a result, there is little room for maneuver to continue our development as luminous beings, given that most of our energy is trapped in sustaining the social person. When the bonds become rigid, part of the contents stagnate. The whole world pressures the individual to be what is expected of them, only what is known is valid within the social order. What others know and think about us is used in an attempt to lock us, to confine us and turn us into one more piece of the collective puzzle, making it difficult for our subtle and emotional energy to flow freely. In today's world, this has reached a point that is beyond ludicrous, in which social networks, comment sections on websites and messaging applications are used as to reinforce the construction of the great social spider's web. To preserve everyday sanity, ordinary human beings who, by their own choice, are practically all humans, strive to become the image of what others want of them, a crude version, a tape recording that is played over and over again in a loop. Until, over time, the tape is broken or scratched. To counteract this fixedness, to cleanse the bonds and to get rid of the dense energy associated with them, we need to make use of recapitulation.
Recapitulation was conducted by some lineages of Central American shamans by means of a special breathing technique that is explained in the books of the anthropologist and shaman Carlos Castaneda. In ancient times, when shamans developed the ability to see the aura and subtle aspect of reality, they realized that an important characteristic of this level is that it is comprised of strands of energy which connect everything to everything else. They observed how human beings and other living beings are actually luminous cocoons formed by infinity out of those same vibrant fibres. They witnessed how this conglomerate of subtle matter and energy that we are, naturally projects large amounts of filaments towards its surroundings, thus producing a constant exchange of energy-information with it. After some time had passed, they realized how the permanent subtle connections formed by interacting with one another often resulted in rigid and limiting structures that made it difficult to evolve one's consciousness, since they trapped the individual in a kind of mesh that kept them at the same attentional level as their peers. To remedy this, they developed the first recapitulation techniques, with the aim of breaking those subtle strings, so as to go beyond the social consensus of their time. In the lineage of Castaneda, the modern heir to Nagualism, a meticulous procedure was required prior to commencing recapitulation. First of all, it was necessary to make a list with all the people who one had met throughout one’s life, in order to later organize this information according to places, times and various events. It was also necessary to have a special space for one’s practice (a cave or cabin built for this specific purpose). Recapitulation was to be carried out over time under the supervision of the nagual master and lasted an entire lifetime. In Emoenergetica many of the prerequisites found in traditional nagualism have been simplified. As a result, anyone can benefit from this discipline in a much more immediate and straightforward way, although, at the same time, the practitioner can go deeper and commit themselves to reaching the levels of excellence required along the warrior’s path.
In Emoenergetica there are three principal techniques for performing recapitulation. Two of these are based on biological-energetic mechanisms: the yawning breath and recapitulation with the fingers. The third method is by means of the mantra of emoenergetic recapitulation, which is a subtle technological device that I have created and programmed especially for this purpose. In later chapters I will detail how to practice recapitulation with each of these modalities, but now we will go deeper into their principles.
The first objective of emoenergetic recapitulation is to mobilize the contents of the psychic and subtle energy trapped in the belief systems (especially that belonging to the quaternary system of images, which are those that the individual has been acquiring throughout his or her life) as well as to recover the energy that has been trapped in the matrices of autobiographical memories.
The mere act of living and perceiving generates memories. These, at the moment that they are formed, are charged with a certain amount of energy of intensity, a by-product that appears when reality and the light of consciousness graze against one another. More than with the sensory part of the event, the intensity is related, above all, to the emotions experienced during this event. It is not necessary for this energy to be trapped in the memory since it does not have any special function therein, beyond initially helping its fixing within the matrix of autobiographical experiences and participating in the construction of the matrix of indexes and in the formation or reinforcement of the automatisms connected to the experience. Moreover, this energy of residual intensity is a precursor to excessive emotional reactions, which are fueled by the memory files and the automatisms associated with them. When we relive an experience that is similar to a past one, the new event, by association, remains linked to the previous one. Thus, constellations of interconnected experiences are formed by means of the corresponding indexes. These constellations help in the reinforcement of memory and also in the process of acquiring and enhancing skills, but the problem is that they can continue to accumulate residual intensity with each new experience.
The events that occur in the external world, in relation to others and to the environment, are a type of experience. This is also true of the events on which we focus in our inner world and our thoughts. Those moments in which we remember a past event or when we feel something whose origin is a projection of memory towards the body, also represent experiences. All conscious experiences, both internal and external, generate memories and indexes. Since, in turn, memories are connected not only to the mind but also to the body, this means that automatic reactions can occur that can be consciously felt, thus recharging the associated memories with even greater intensity. If, instead of experiencing a similar event again, we simply remember it, the effect is similar; the very act of remembering can strengthen the constellation. This can lead to major problems when one has had traumatic or difficult experiences, because the burden of these experiences can increase over time, becoming harder to bear. As a consequence, it is necessary to recapitulate this intensity, not only to stop producing disruptions, but also to recycle and convert it back into usable vital energy. As we shall see, we do not really have to focus directly on the energy of intensity in order to recover it, but we will release it indirectly by recapitulating the different events, thoughts and feelings.
Another very important effect of recapitulation is that it promotes the reconfiguration of the energetic and emotional bonds through which we perceive and relate to other people, to ourselves and to the environment, giving an opportunity for flexibility to our facets as social and egoic beings – an essential requirement if we wish to develop the original being. By working on the bonds, the contents of energy-information that are interacting through them are shifted. By recapitulating any stagnant cognitive content, the connections that originate from them acquire a new fluidity. Secondarily, when practiced as part of the warrior’s path, recapitulation can help increase fluidity in perception and balance representational processes, that is, those relating to one's own thoughts and identity processes.
To the eyes of a perceiver of subtle energy, a person's energy field in good physical and mental condition appears as a taut, vibrant and luminous ovoid structure. However, when one observes someone who is ill or has significant psycho-emotional conflicts, their aura is shown with seemingly darkened and sometimes deformed areas, giving the impression that they do not vibrate in the correct way. The way of perceiving ourselves and the world – in other words, the way in which we relate to ourselves, to others and to our own existence – influences the state of our own subtlesoma and the quality of the interconnective filaments that form with the environment and with other people. Although not all of these filaments are pathological, relationships based on low self-esteem, negative belief systems, or emotional dependence cause large numbers of subtle strands of others to be incorporated into one's own subtlesoma and emotional core. At the same time, the individual emits an important number of parasitic fibres that he or she will try to introduce into the subtle fields of others. These perverse ties, in addition to binding people, are channels through which dense and debilitating energy-information circulates and which is distributed among the members of the relationship. Negative thoughts and beliefs about oneself or others also block the free flow of energy into the fibres of our own luminous cocoon. When the fibres that comprise the luminous cocoon itself have a low energy, are blocked or are weak, they end up becoming less consistent. If many of the fibres become less consistent, we can see how the luminous sphere that we are partly diminishes its integrity, losing its shape and giving the sensation that it drags itself along. However, if the majority of the fibres are well-energized, then they give the whole field an appearance that is tense and vibrant, strong and fluid and beautifully symmetrical. It seems that the states which are conducive to health and psycho-emotional balance are distinguished by a configuration in which the vibratory frequency of the subtlesoma and the luminous cocoon is relatively high and harmonious. When states of illness or psycho-emotional conflicts are evident, one can observe how the energy seems to vibrate at a lower speed, flowing with greater difficulty. The fluidity and correct circulation of energy in the field of a living being facilitates the adequate levels in the different vibratory frequencies of its components, as well as a more synergic relationship between them. This, in addition to favouring balance, promotes the development of the individual matrix. Development means conserving, improving and increasing the available functions, eliminating useless-entropic energy-information, reaching ever-increasing energy levels and symmetry. Fluidity is a characteristic that allows changes and transitions in structures without the need for catharsis and fragmentation.
Conquering higher levels of energy, regularly improving the organization and efficiency of the individual matrix, is highly recommended because there is a fundamental element in our universe that is continually generating disorganization and wear: entropy. The passage of time increases entropy and causes the phenomenon of senescence or aging. That which exists has a natural tendency to become increasingly disorganized over time. Disorganization promotes homogeneity, while symmetry creates uniqueness. Life is a unique phenomenon and therefore needs symmetry. The more entropy there is, the more energy loss and disorganization arise in a system. When a system reaches a certain level of entropy, it disappears because it can no longer maintain the cohesion-relation-perception amongst its parts. That which ceases to exist, ceases to perceive-relate and to be perceived. Symmetry is apparently the least probable state. Its maintenance requires a permanent and efficient expenditure of energy. As a result, it seems obvious that our life is, in large part, a race against entropy. Illness as well as old age or psycho-emotional disorganization are products of increased entropy in the individual matrix, with the consequent decrease in energy resources, functions, symmetry, and sometimes perception-consciousness.
As living organisms we have a certain level of energy and consciousness, which are conserved and transformed through a structure – the individual matrix – made up of the physical body, the subtle body and the container of the mind. With the passage of time, due to the aging of the physical component, it becomes necessary to increase the level of organization in the parts of the individual matrix that relate to the psyche and the consciousness of being, reaching configurations that are capable of conserving and managing a greater amount of the energy of consciousness. If this is not done, the level of entropy increases, vital and psychic energies decrease, and the individual matrix tends to become disorganized. It is the law of "if you stop, you cease to advance". For some reason, senescence has a much greater impact on the physical plane than it does on the subtle plane. As long as we are alive, part of the loss of physical symmetry inherent in aging can be compensated for through a progressive increase in emotional, experiential, and conscious symmetry. These facets, though largely dependent on the physical plane, are strongly connected to our subtle element. In addition, it is necessary to take care of the physical body through the persistent provision of exercises and nutritions adapted to its needs and to look after the subtle body through specific healing systems. The physical body is the anchor through which the impersonal consciousness has the opportunity to live and accumulate experiences in this world in order to be able to expand, evolve and develop individually. The mind is the recipient of the observer and the ability to decide. The subtle plane is the matrix in which all levels link, integrate and connect with each other.
In order to preserve or promote balance in the individual matrix, it is very important to reprocess any subtle and emotional contents that have stagnated. These perverse stores, by the mere fact of having accumulated, absorb and use vital and psycho-emotional energy, without contributing symmetrical functions to the system: they are waste, dead weights, useless energy-information. Energetic or psychological links with beings or objects that help to stagnate or wear down our own contents of energy-information-consciousness increase entropy in the individual matrix. Therefore they are a loss of energy and a certain source of problems at some level.
Recapitulation has a direct impact on the perverse and subtle bonds and contents, but only acts indirectly on the structures of the subtlesoma (the aura, the chakras, etc.). In order to work with the subtle structures it is necessary to turn to energetic healing. The advantage of recapitulation is that anyone can practice it with minimal training. The disadvantage of energetic healing is that an intense and long training is necessary, with complete and specialized dedication; therefore, it is advisable to rely on a good healer and carry out regular maintenance. This statement will come into conflict with some people connected with the spiritual world or alternative therapies. Many people today believe that it is sufficient to do a weekend course in order to dedicate oneself to healing. There is also a widespread fashion that tries to convince people that we all have unlimited healing resources and infinite awareness within. This is just as true as the idea that we can all be great geniuses of mathematics, art, medicine or economics by simply desiring to be so. Without countless hours of practice and dedication, in addition to having adequate resources and means, it is unlikely that this potential will unfold by magic alone. I have seen a great many people in my practice who have said that they have performed and received a good number of energy therapies. However, as soon as I begin to perform an aural reading, what I normally see are highly unstructured chakras, blocked and weakened aural bodies, and generally poorly distributed subtle energy. For me, this is what is shocking. An energetic therapy that does not have healing effects on the subtlesoma is nonsensical or a delusion. I have known very few people capable of doing serious energetic healing work, surely because almost no one has developed the ability to see the subtle fields and even less to read them and to understand those readings. This is a widespread problem in the world of alternative therapies. Nevertheless, this is a topic for another moment.
Any technique that modifies the configuration of the subtle bonds that the individual matrix holds internally and externally, allowing the stagnant energetic and psycho-emotional contents to move again, promoting the recovery of adequate fluidity and vibrational levels, can be considered a form of recapitulation. The latter, as a rule, must also retrieve its own contents that have been lost and dumped in other people's subtle bodies, as well as freeing the energy cocoon itself from external contents that function as dead weights (recovering one's own fluids and expelling other people's fluids). A certain amount of the extraneous incorporations in our individual matrix do not come only from other individuals, but from the so-called fields of collective information (suprasystems). Depending on where we were born and the time into which we were born, we will have assimilated a series of collective beliefs, paradigms and archetypes that will settle into the different systems of images. These will be externally and internally projected through the value judgments and interpretations that we make about ourselves and the world. The personality, which is largely inherited, will be refined or enhanced depending on the process of identifying the self with the different beliefs, judgments and archetypes of the time. On the one hand, the collective offers us the amazing wonder of this known world, and on the other hand it makes us slaves. The collectivized ego has inherited and sustains limiting beliefs about our true nature. It reduces us to biological-reproductive entities or, in any case, to beings that fight in the roles of dominator and dominated. This puts us in the centre of the possibility that each of us has of being able to perceive energy as it flows in the universe. Until now, human beings have had little interest in something like recapitulation, perhaps for fear that they might break the familiar chains imposed by the collective.
In addition to the shamanistic-subtle approach to recapitulation, this may also be practiced from a more psycho-emotional perspective, working on circumstances, feelings, difficult situations, concerns, and so on. When an event or issue is consciously affecting us there are at least two signs that will become clearly visible: one is that we will frequently experience feelings related to the issue, the other is that we will devote a good deal of internal or external dialogue to it. Emoenergetica is based on the assumption that any negative feeling, physical pain or discomfort of any kind, that is, anything that may be generating suffering at any level of our existence, is caused and simultaneously is the cause of a disturbance or blockage that will manifest, at the very least, in our subtlesoma. In this way, if we manage to get the subtle, vital or emotional energy to move and flow properly in the area of the blockage, then the somatic or emotional pain-suffering has the potential to be reduced or even disappear. A common feature of both recapitulation and energetic healing is that both attempt to dissolve subtle blockages, undoing endogenous (anomalous or perverse connections in one's own system of meridian channels, chakras and aural bodies) and exogenous (subtle and emotional ties with people or other beings, or with objects, ideas, collective information fields and groups) pernicious ties.
Whether we practice recapitulation from a psycho-emotional point of view or from the shamanic-subtle perspective, the blocked energy and contents associated with the object of recapitulation we are working on will be moved. This will produce a reaction in the form of adaptations and adjustments in the structure-form involved in the blockage. In this process of unblocking, the individual matrix loses entropy and gains functional energy; it also increases vibratory frequency, harmony and fluidity. Additionally, the unblocking process can stimulate the evacuation-elimination mechanisms themselves. Recapitulation can thus favour a better level of organization, evolution and development in the subtlesoma and the individual matrix, all the more so when it is correctly practiced together with introspection. Although recapitulation does not directly work on the subtle structures, the re-adaptation of the contents may encourage structural changes (re-forming), and profound changes may be observed in the psycho-emotional functions of the practitioner, a symptom that structural changes have also occurred, both in the subtlesoma and in the mind. It will be necessary to recapitulate the stagnant contents (or those with a tendency to become stagnant) over and over again. When done with the right intent, recapitulation will help you create a space in which acquiring new knowledge and evolution can become your favourite activities. As I have mentioned earlier, in the following chapters you will learn how to prepare and practice recapitulation in your daily life.
In summary, the objectives of recapitulation are:
- Improve the fluidity and circulation of subtle energy by unblocking the luminous cocoon and the physical body's counterpart, the subtlesoma, in relation to situations, people, events, belief systems, linguistic commands, feelings, and so on.
- Recovering the subtle energy lost in others' energy fields, as well as reabsorbing one's own filaments involved in relationships and emotional dependencies.
- To give back to others the extraneous subtle energy that, through the social spider's web, has been incorporated into one's own subtlesoma and luminous cocoon.
- Modulate the suffering and feelings associated with past, present or future situations or problems by unblocking the subtle energy involved and rebuilding the bonds that we maintain with them.
The practice of the four emoenergetic disciplines brings about the possibility of cultivating and strengthening attention, so that one can begin to have enough energy to make a real attempt to reduce mental noise, while adopting a position of calm alertness; entropic behaviors are changed, we identify and rid ourselves of toxic relationships, and gradually break the chain of perverse decisions to which we are attached. All this while readjusting and fine-tuning our sensory pathways and the six core emotions. In this way, we can truly commence the titanic task, which we will have to continue for the rest of our days, of changing the image of ourselves and the world. Also, with luck and with proper guidance, we will be able to work on connecting our own energy more intensely with that of Spirit by means of intent, will and intelligence. Because, deep down, that is what every human being is looking for. This spiritual alignment produces an entrance of fresh and valuable energy in the seeker that will make it easier for them to move forward in their adventure of knowledge.
The choice of the warrior of light is to fight every second to increase consciousness and become an authentic impeccable perceiver. For this reason, one decides to remain continuously fascinated by life, keeping always burning the flame of his romance with true knowledge, which is the knowledge of oneself. However, to accomplish this, it is necessary to recruit the enormous amount of subtle and psycho-emotional energy that, under normal conditions, remains trapped and wasted in emotional dependencies, feelings of personal importance, anger, attachment or even in the comfort of a good life among many more things. This is a lifelong endeavour, which is why not everyone is willing to undertake this task. We relate to ourselves and to others; the quality of these relationships determines the breadth and depth of the perception and relationship that the individual has with him or herself and, therefore, with the Spirit. To know and to love oneself (not the idea of oneself) is to know the Spirit. Life is born in perception and this is nourished by the light of consciousness so as to connect us with the universe and with ourselves. This is why some of us seek to fill ourselves with light: to perceive more and in a better way, with the objective of unfolding and knowing the true being that we are, in order to once again be linked with life and existence from the point of realization and not from oblivion. I have long accepted the fact that in this world there are two types of people: those who work to increase light and those who work to increase darkness. Where do you find yourself?
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