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Recapitulation is a core Toltec technique used
to heal emotional charges. On a deeper level, it is used to reclaim
energy and return it to self. Recapitulation was first introduced
into mass consciousness by Carlos Castaneda in his book, The Eagles
Gift, published in 1982. However, its roots go deeper. In his book,
The Toltec Path of Recapitulation: Healing Your Past to Free Your
Soul, Victor Sanchez speaks about learning procedures from the
Wirrarika people (native to Mexico), who he calls the 'surviving
Toltecs', similar to the process of recapitulation. I studied with
Mother Sarita, don Miguel Ruiz's mother who was in her 80's at the
time, who spoke about recapitulation like processes with don
Miguel's grandfather.
One purpose of recapitulation is to eliminate emotional charges.
Emotional charges cause one to misperceive the
world around them and make it impossible to perceive the Nagual with
clarity. For example, if a young girl is relentlessly teased about
her curly hair by her father, she may become emotionally charged.
Later, when she is a adult, whenever someone compliments her,
particularly her hair, she becomes angry. She may not know why
compliments cause her to get angry as she doesn’t remember how her
father used to tease her as a young child. What is worse is that she
misperceives another person’s good intent, i.e. giving her a
compliment, as teasing her about her looks. This misperception
causes upset both in her life and other people in it.
The average person is full of emotional
charges, many that they are not aware of as they were suppressed as
painful memories during childhood. This causes the average person to
misperceive the world and the people in it. Systematic
recapitulation decharges emotions and frees one up to perceive the
world clearly. Recapitulation releases negative emotions that are
trapped in one’s subconscious freeing up their life. Many people
have a habitually negative emotional state, or are moody for reasons
they do not know why. More times than not, the reason lies in the
suppressed emotional charges that lie in their subconscious.
On a deeper level, recapitulation is used to
reclaim one’s energy. Everywhere one has lived they leave an
energetic piece of themselves. In every person you interact with you
live energetic cords or filaments that, unless reclaimed back to
self drain you of your vital energy. This is particularly true of
sexual encounters. Through the consistent use of recapitulation you
restore the vital energy necessary to progress on a spiritual path.
Most do not realize how much energy is required to break free of the
Dream of the Planet. You need every ounce of energy you have. This
is why Toltecs place so much importance on the Recapitulation.
Classes on the recapitulation can be found at
the Toltec Mystery
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