I recently finished reading 'The Eagle's Gift, and I've started to try recapitulation but without success. Besides the lack of concentration, it seems extremely difficult to reconcile breathing with the memory of past events. Moreover, I haven't understood if each recapitulation session should be done on a specific memory or more than one. Additionally, should it be done in the dark with open eyes? Or is it assumed that it should be done with closed eyes? Thank you in advance for any answers.
10 Comments
https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/wiki/recapitulation/recap_compendium/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Start with memories of your day since it's very easy to remember those.
You can form the scene in your memory and then recap it in parts. Especially if it's one that you remember many detales and you had/ have many emotions about it.
I've added the recapitulation compendium we have so you can read it for reference.
The lack of concentration means only that you're finding it boring.
It's not that difficult exercise to do in reality.
Use closed eyes in darkness, the way they propose in the books.
You don't have to just do one memory in one sitting.
If you close your eyes and remember a conversation, for example, you are still breathing, so just add the movement of the head to it. Or practice the movement with the breath without thinking about anything in particular until that comes more naturally. Then add the memory.
Eyes open in a well lit place is more difficult to do, so close your eyes unless you are in a very dark place. Later with practice you can be more flexible about whether they are open or closed.
If you do it correctly, this sort of thing eventually happens.
Which isn't surprising, everything you see there, is mentioned in the books. And I've done it.
What's surprising is that no one in the entire workshop crowd, including the leaders at Cleargreen, who were supposed to be "empty" from so much recap, never got anything cool to happen.
which tells you, they lied. Didn't do much at all.
That's totally not surprising. It happens in everything. People lie about how hard they work, in order to keep their status in a community.
But EVERYONE????
Apparently so. Because it's inevitable for super cool stuff to happen during recap, if you do longer sessions and intend not to let your internal dialogue dominate them.
Maybe we'll have a few professional recap members in the subreddit soon, who get magic even better than this.
But I must say, it's very fun to do that first picture in the upper left of this. Where you float up into the air in a scene (you really are IN it), and look around.
That is in fact, the precise location I last did that in.
It's Silent Knowledge! You can recap all of time and space.
Even someone else's life!
This image is really spot on. Thank you! I didn't realize what some of these were that I have seen, so that's great. More to poke at. Two other things that I see all the time, are static and strings. I play with them all day long and it's been about 4 years now that I realized I had control over them. I used to think it was me losing my sight, but I've actually gained it. Funny! I went to so many doctors trying to "fix" these things.
They love being on thev actual walls. When I first noticed them on the wall, I thought it looked like a mirage. Like over a hot road. But now they go so very fast. Used to move like a slow snake!
Thanks again! 👍 Your descriptions are most helpful for me. I save the images so I can review later.
But you also need to methodically learn how to move further and further, using such sights.
They're more like "tools" to measure which direction you are going, than they are anything useful
Just seeing them isn't all that rare. All children do that.
And even Yogis and self-entitled Buddhists see a tiny bit of that.
Doesn't do them any good.
The real thing is 23/.5 = 46 times further away from our normal reality.
I gave the Yogis and Buddhists a little credit in that calculation. ASsumed they'd moved their assemblage points a full inches, out of the 23 feet we move it.
But in fact, usually they only see sights created by a 4 inch movement.
If at all.
I still kind of don't understand if I am doing it right. When I try to recapitulate I stick with breathing 4-6 seconds with head movements from left to right (inhale on left, exhale on right) and trying to remember the story line with some person I am recapitulating. It looks to me as if I am trying to observe what was happening at those moments and I am aware that many details are omitted due to memory problem and I am not trying to force myself to remember every every detail (because it can take an eternity to remember just everything I had in my sense fields), I just go forward with that story line and trying to recall as much as I can as I go.
Will this take me anywhere or am I doing it wrong?
Your comment has been automatically removed because your account does not meet our account-age requirement of 10 days.
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.
I would say you are doing it fine.
Here's a facebook post showing the importance of recapitulation.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2722300807929022&set=a.1585701564922291
I only came to realize that last night.
Or maybe the night before?
I'm only sure it was Cholita chant/singing version #4.
That's the only way I can keep track these days.
This one involved talking to someone who wasn't there, except that I could hear him speak back. She was chanting a whole conversation.
Normally I'd jump up and turn off anything making noise, like a fan, heater, or the humidifier. To make sure Cholita hadn't dragged a homeless person into the living room.
But this time I realize the man talking back to Cholita was in the second attention.
And if I moved at all, he'd be gone for sure.
Here's something fascinating about Recapitulation I never noticed before.
It's "directed Silent Knowledge".
Normally with Silent Knowledge, you have 10\^37th power pieces of "knowledge" available, according to ChatGPTs estimations.
Random 30 second periods of humanoid (alien's included) activity comprising something you could know, or remote view.
And it's HOPELESS to figure out how to get what you want.
At some point, I think you just have to stop even trying or caring, and accept any gifts you get, hoping that if you "needed" to know something, whatever it is that selects what you view, would help you out.
Don Juan even said as much to Carlos, when he asked what his seeing could do for don Juan, if someone was waiting to ambush him with a high powered sniper rifle.
Don Juan after commenting how violent his thoughts were, said that if his seeing couldn't "get at something" then that was his fate and he was resigned to it.
So we know that finding which specific passage you want out of all the hundreds of millions of books in the "library of infinity" is in fact an issue.
The library of congress has 175 million things in it's collection. Finding a random bit of information in that, without some indexing help, would take a lifetime.
BUT, we were given the technique to help us learn how to locate things.
Recapitulation!
The design of our sorcery is GENIUS.
But you can't see that, until you're actually doing it for real.
Analyzing that, apparently you can "saturate" yourself with information about what you need to know, and then drop it, and wait for it to appear.
You do most likely have to "drop" it though, so that it can "settle down" and get the specific bundle of emanations which includes all of your "specifications". If you keep adding more (interfering and insisting), then it can't form.
This actually deserves a full post, but I can't afford the time today.