Recapitulate the Future
January 16th, 2012 § 10 Comments
The idea that time moves in a straight line from past to future is completely primitive, something that goes against the experience of sorcerers and even of modern science. Due to that limited interpretation, most of humanity is kept prisoner in a tunnel of time, where their destiny becomes an infinite repetition of the same. ~ CC, Encounters with the Nagual
Recapitulate the future! I wonder why Carlos and Don Juan never talked about this? I guess with all the goals laid out to dart past the eagle to be free, make death an advisor and merge with total awareness, it would have somehow lost its punch if it was inferred to recapitulate the future and yet I believe the point is to recapitulate everything, every thought, every action.
To recapitulate is to stalk our routines, subjecting them to a systematic and merciless scrutiny. It is an activity that allows us to visualize our life as a totality, and not just as a succession of moments.*
Think about it. Every spiritual belief system has you preparing for the afterlife in some way, shape or form, the Toltec path is no exception. These preparations are routines. It doesn’t matter if you are darting past eagles or flying with angles or becoming free of the karmic loop or ascending into heaven, these are all goals that ultimately fixate your assemblage point and trap your energy into preparing for the future. RECAPITULATE IT ALL! When you have recapitulated your past and have gained the personal power necessary for living freely in the moment, then, recapitulate the future! Most of the future is borne of past experience/knowledge anyway.
Warriors recapitulate when they are walking down the road, in the bathroom, when working or when eating; whenever it is possible. The important thing is to do it. What counts is the intent. Breathe in when you try to recover something, and blow back all that doesn’t belong to you. If you do that with the totality of your history, you will stop living entangled in a chain of memories and instead, you will be focused in the present. Seers describe that effect as facing facts as they are, or seeing time objectively.*
If warriors are preparing for any outcome, then we are potentially losing energy to the outcome by envisioning how it might be. So how do we recapitulate the future? By aligning with intent. Right here, right now. When we align with intent with fluidity, we dance along the lines of awareness that are unfolding. And we create the present moment however we want to.
We cannot be warriors of freedom when thoughts of freedom fixate the location of our assemblage point. We amass personal power and energy when we recapitulate the past. We amass personal power and energy when we recapitulate the future. When we do this we are able to live without distractions and in total 360 degree awareness. And in freedom. We return to being the creative force that we were born to be when we sit within silent knowledge, completely aligned with intent.
The immediate effect is that it (recapitulation) stops our internal dialogue. When a warrior is able to stop his dialogue, he tightens the relationship with his energy. It liberates him from the obligation of memory, and from the burden of feelings, and leaves a residual energy that he can invest in enlarging the frontiers of his perception. A warrior begins to appreciate the real thing, not the interpretation of it.*
*Quotes by Carlos Casteneda from Encounters with the Nagual
You write
Most of the future is borne of past experience/knowledge anyway.
We cannot be warriors of freedom when thoughts of freedom fixate the location of our assemblage point.
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Anyhow recapitulate the future ends up recapitulating the past, in my experience.
But it is an useful way to find unseen parts of hung up energies. Therefore useful.
Envisioned future is glued to past. And any bit of hung up energy unglued is useful to see more.
Glad you agree
OMG ! I am thrilled with this insight ‘recapitulating the past’. That’s it Dear Female Warrior. i teach recapitulation as a part of my transformational Medicine therapies and it is very insightful ! …Dr Yugandhar INDIA
Thanks Dr. Y and keep helping to free people from the illusion!
Once I have done an “experiment” with past life regression (a guided meditation). I simply reversed it to get into the future. (Okay, ONE of the possible futures.
) And then, as I liked the future I have seen, I went back in time tracing what would be necessary to get there… 
In fact, it was a major shift of my life as it has shown up some self-imposed limitations that were just beginning to form at that time… (Sorry for the sequence of tenses; I have never been good at that but I hope the idea has come through: it works. 
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If you don´t mind I´ll take your article and translate it for my readers, too.
Hi Helar, I like your technique of tracing it back. I call that “looping it back”. Feel free to translate.
When I read this, three things come to mind:
First, this is all wonder-full.
Second, yes, as we say here, recapitulation of the future is freeing oneself from notions of what the future may hold, or is like. On a very practical level, one could divide what one holds for the future into two realms/rooms: expecting and intending.
Expecting something for the future is bound by personal preconceived notions of what the future should be like. In its worst form, expectation appears in the form of entitlement. For example, “I have worked so damn hard all my life, and thus I am entitled to a decent pension and an easy-going retirement.” Horse-feathers!
This expectation, this anticipation, is un-real-istic because the rules for what is yet to come are ever-changing. They become less as rules, and more as hints. Amorphous at best! Best to go with the flow…
And yet… you can have some say in what’s to come if you so wish it. And this “wishing” is actually called intending.
In this forum, we sometimes speak of “aligning with intent”, or “becoming one with intent”. For some, this can be likened to words spoken of in more trendy religion-speak as “Let go and let God” or as “Give in to the Holy Spirit”. All of this is well-intentioned, however, it implies submission – a complete submission, even of one’s own will, to an-other. And thus the possible entrapment here is becoming a slave to the ever-present duplicitous external force: the predator.
I have spoken here about intent within the context of the future. A question comes to mind now about intent. Is intent time-bound? Anyway…
I say: Yes, give yourself to “Spirit”, but not “The Spirit”, the same spirit that is constrained by whatever preconceived notions you may still have of whatever that spirit is, and what that Spirit will bring in the future. And yes, do have a say in what you intend for the past, the present, the future, and the very awareness that obliterates all three notions of what we have been taught this time thing is.
In the end, don’t just intend, but be. Be. And through being, become awareness, which brings me to the third comment…
Recapitulation of the future is a really groovy romantic invitation! Aside from being almost inconceivable, it is an invitation to be utterly aware. Again, complete awareness. On and on, and on…
Totally… just there. Here and there, everywhere, and wherever in whatever form.
Now I laugh so hard that I must fart!
Thanks for pointing that out. That’s why I said, “When we align with intent with fluidity, we dance along the lines of awareness that are unfolding. And we create the present moment however we want to.” As warriors, we don’t have to accept the present moment, we can create it as it unfolds. If the present moment has a gunman demanding my money I can create my response; give it to him or kick him in the knee and run!
Yes, just be! When we intend or create an intention, we are praying, asking, wishing. So much simpler to just “align”. Thanks!!!
idea.
I think it could be found another name, and not recap.
“Turn the tables, well burn the fables
Lies beneath the visions and daydreams…
Fooled by now, we mystify the past
Like a dream, like it never happened…”
- Tears for Fears, Swords and Knives
(listen to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3N-fFV-f3Q )