REDISTRIBUTING DISPERSED ENERGY: Introduction
I'm Kylie Lundhal. These are my associates Reny Murez et
Nyei Murez. The movements that you are about to see have been taken directly
from other movements which shamans, seers, who lived in Mexico in ancient
times used to call magical passes. Everything we
know about those movements was taught to Carlos Castaneda, Taisha Abelar,
Florinda Donner-Grau and Carol Tiggs by don
Juan
Matus a yaqui Indian shaman from the state of Sonora- Mexico. Don
Juan's four disciples in turn taught the three of us everything they know
about those magical passes. The seers of ancient Mexico performed these
passes in order to condition their bodies and minds for activities pertinent
to shamanism. Shamanism was understood by them as the acquired capacity
to expand the limits of our normal perception. The peculiarity of the magical
passes which is most meaningful to us is that by practicing them one can
become aware of some cohesive force that bind together the conglomerate
of energy fields that we are. This binding effect is something similar
to what modern day astronomers believe happens at the core of every galaxy
that exists in the cosmos. They believe that, at that core, a force of
incalculable strength, holds the stars of galaxies in place. This force
called a black hole, is a theoretical construct which seems to be the most
reasonable explanation of why stars do not fly away, driven by their own
rotational speeds. Likewise, the conglomerate of energy fields that we
are, is kept in place cohesively by a tremendous binding force without
which, seers believe, we would explode from within and vanish like a puff
of air. The seers of Antiquity were capable of handling that force once
they became conscious of it. Their expertise in dealing with it became
so extraordinary that their actions were transformed into legends, mythological
events that could only exist as fables. After years of hard work and dedication,
the three of us, guided by don Juan's four disciples were able to rescue
the magical passes from their esoteric setting and adapt them to more conventional
surroundings. The result of this restoration process we have called: Tensegrity,
which to us is the art of using the magical passes for the purpose of becoming
conscious of the binding force, which holds a human being together as a
concrete unit. In our first volume, "Twelve Basic Movements to Gather Energy
and Promote Well-Being", we dealt with complete magical passes and with
fragments of magical passes which were used to arrive at a minimal awarness
of what seers believe is the counterpart of our body. They call it the
energy body. Seers argue that we can learn to perceive energy directly
as it flows in the universe, and that when we do this, we are capable of
perceiving a human being as a conglomerate of energy fields that resembles
a luminous sphere. The energy body is an identical luminous sphere which
exists at a very great distance from us. Seers maintain that we are not
complete until the energy body is with us, and that through performing
the magical passes we can bring the two, closer to each other. In this
volume we are going to deal with the utilization of internal energy that
has been dispersed by the wear and tear of daily living, from the core
of the luminous sphere to the periphery of it. To make use of our own energy
that is normally inacessible to us is considered by the seers to be the
most important step towards well-being and completion.
This is the transcription of the speech of one pass
taken from Carlos Castaneda's Tensegrity video number 2
1:A Structure Made Out Of Energy
With our first magical pass " A structure made out of energy"
we aim at creating a structure in our immediate energy horizon. Seers give
the name of energy horizon to energy fields which are immediately adjacent
to us when we are perceived as luminous spheres. This magical pass is basic,
seers said, because it creates a dwelling so to speak for the energy body.
Their idea is that energy body had been separated from us at birth and
pushed away by antagonistic forces. By creating a magical energetic dwelling
seers believe we put out the invitation for energy body to come closer
to us.
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The emphasis of this first magical pass is on the area of
the kidneys and adrenals. By making a body stoop slightly forward we create
the adequate pressure on that area.
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Then the body is brought to a vertical position with the
upper chest fully extended, the back's straight, the eyes looking onward
fiercely. The eyes are always kept looking to the front with as much fierceness
as possible. Seers say that eyes must reveal our unbending intent.
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The next movement brings even greater pressure to the adrenal
area because the arms shoot out in front bent at the elbows with tremendous
force, the greater the force, the greater the effect on the adrenal area.
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The trunk straightens up when the arms are raised above the
shoulders as if carrying a tray.
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The palms are then turned over with great force.
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The hands cross over one another and the arms are extended
lateraly.
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The hands are brought down then and pressure is brought to
bear again on the adrenals by stooping the trunk slightly and bending the
knees.
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The magical pass is closed with a quick lateral movement
of both arms.
2:The Seers'Window
Our second magical pass "The seers'window" is performed to
create an energetic opening to the outside of the luminous egg. Seers maintain
that by executing this magical pass we are actually capable of manufacturing,
so to speak, a momentary opening for peering into infinity. This opening,
seers maintain, is of crucial value for establishing contact with the force
that sustains our lives and give us nutrients, purposes, vitality, name
it, a force seers call "intent". Upon creating his opening seers yelled
the word "intent" which they say is laid as a bridge from the human being
over infinity to intent.
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The hands come together gently at the center of the body.
The thumbs are held firmly over the palms and only the edges of the hands
touch.
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Next, both hands are moved to the sides as if touching a
flat surface that extend to end of the arms aperture and closes again to
the center of the body.
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The left arm does the same movement alone while the right
one is kept at the same level, at the middle of the body.
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The same movement is executed with the right hand.
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The hands are then moved from the center until they are the
width of the body apart, held in a vertical position with the palms facing
each other.
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The left palm moves as if feeling the exterior edge of a
window frame.
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Then the right hand does the same thing.
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The left hand moves in an arc, pivoting on the elbow to the
interior edge of the invisible window frame. It moves upward and downward
once.
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The right hand does the same movement.
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Then both hands are raised above the head with the palms
facing the sky.
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The hands come together at the inner edges and both are extended
to the sides as if tracing the interior upper edge of a window frame.
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They are held in a central point again and the left hand
performs the same movement.
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Then the right hand.
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Both hands are joined together again.
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The hands draw a small circle until the palms are down and
as if resting on the invisible window sill.
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The upper trunk stoops forward holding the kidney area as
the pivoting center, as if one is peering into a window and the word "intent"
is shouted, immediately afterward a step back is quickly taken.
3:Rallying Dispersed Energy
The third magical pass: "Rallying Dispersed Energy" is performed
in order to rally the energy that has been dispersed by the wear and tear
of interaction in daily life. This rallying gets us from lethargic state
to one of greater alertness. "Rallying dispersed energy" means to move
it, by making it rotate in order to place it on a projection of the solar
plexus which is situated at arms length in front of us on the periphery
of the luminous sphere. Seers believe that storing energy there is the
surest way to make it available at a moment's notice.
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Both hands are brought together with great force over the
right shoulder with the left hand on top of the right.
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Then they are brought diagonaly across the body, as if one
is holding an invisible axe, to the area above the left knee.
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Dispersed energy is stirred around, counterclock wise movement
of both hands held together.
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Both hands clasped together are pulled back to the area of
the liver and gall blader.
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And then they are shoot out to the point directly in front
of the solar plexus.
4:Piercing The Two Columns Of Energy
The forth magical pass called "Piercing The Two Columns Of
Energy" rallies dispersed energy by deliberatly poking it at centers that
seers considered to be key spots. In other words the dispersion of energy
to the periphery of the luminous sphere results in the formation of definite
pockets of energy which seers poke in order to allow it to diffuse and
be rallied more easely. Poking is not done with the hand although the hands
and the arms are used, but it is done with the energy we call tendon energy,
for lack of a better name, which streams out of the limb, when they are
projected out with sufficient force.
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The forth magical pass begins with a vibratory movement of
both hands, a vibration generating from the axis of the forearm.
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The left arm turns in front of the body stirring dispersed
energy, and it pokes high into the column of energy to the right of the
body. A column that seers say, resembles the drippings of a candle.
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The right hand moves backwards in order to allow the left
hand a maximum explosion of tendon energy.
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The left arm rotates backwards one and a half times in the
opposite direction and pokes low at the same column of dispersed energy.
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The same movements are repeated with the right arm poking
high and low at the other column of dispersed energy on the left side that
looks like the one on the right.
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The right hand with the fingers pointing to the ground draws
a circle around the body from the left to right followed by the left one.
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Then the left hand draws the same circle followed by the
right hand.
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The right forearm rolls the ball from top to bottom, followed
by the left hand.
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Both hands hold the ball of energy on the solar plexus and
first push it in, then pull it out forcefully, and push it on to the projection
of the solar plexus, on the outer edge of the luminous sphere.
5.Awakening The Center Of Feeling
The seers' idea that sustains our particular series of magical
passes is that, through the effects of daily life, our internal energy
which is amassed around the area of the kidneys and adrenals is dispersed
to the periphery of our luminous sphere. This dispersion does not mean
in any way a loss of energy but rather a loss of our facility to get access
to it. The fifth magical pass "Awakening The Center Of Feeling" has to
do with the delibarate calling of the dispersed energy on the periphery
of the luminous sphere in order to bring it to a specific center of feeling,
a center located on the left side right above the edge of the ribcage at
the high of the upper tip of the pancreas and spleen, a spot which seers
believe is the epicenter of feelings. With this movement we are preparing
the bond of indubitable affection that must exist between the body that
we know and the energy body that we don't know, but every one of us intuits
it.
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In our fifth magical pass we keep the knees slightly bent
in order to allow the body stability.
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The hands join in a forceful, yet very controlled movement.
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They come together and pierce the dispersed energy accumulated
right in front of us.
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They rip it upwards and they are turned clockwise to stir
it.
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The hands come down to the mid-section, to the stomach level,
then they are turned over with the right hand on top.
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They cut upwards in a ripping movement and then they are
brought to the areas of the pancreas and spleen.
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From there the hands push out to the sides and they rip what
seers consider to be the heaviest concentration of dispersed energy: the
energy that accumulates next to the right and left sides of the body. Seers
refer to that concentration as columns of wasted energy that give the impression
of the dried up drippings of gigantic candles.
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The hands are brought again to the center of the body, they
rip upward, they stir the energy once again in a clockwise direction and
are brought once more to the pancreas and spleen areas and then they projected
out to the front of the body.
6.Transferring Energy To The Assemblage Point
Our sixth pass "Transferring Energy To The Assemblage Point"
deals with the transfer of dispersed energy from a frontal area to the
back in order for this force to serve as a crutch for the assemblage point.
When seers perceive human beings as luminous spheres, it becomes evident
to them that there exists on the already luminous sphere a spot of even
more intense luminosity, the size of a tennis ball, habitually located
at the height of the shoulder's blade and arm's length behind them. Seers
are firmly satisfied with their conclusion that it is there, on that spot,
that perception is assembled and that is why they called that spot the
assemblage point. By deliberatly displacing this assemblage point to another
place away from its habitual position, seers did prove to themselves, that
it is there that perception is assembled. The end result of this maneuver
is the perception of a world that is quite different than the world of
daily affairs. Seers have explained this difference by the observation
that when the assemblage point is on its habitual position, billions of
energy fields from the universe at large converge there, giving as a result:
the world we know. But when the assemblage point is displaced to another
location on the periphery or the inside of the luminous sphere, other sets
of billions of energy fields that resemble luminous fibres converge there,
giving as a result the perception of another world. Transferring energy
from the front to the back, seers believe, solidifies the position of the
assemblage point in all of us, espiecially in the case of extremely sensitive
persons whose assemblage point shifts eratically and who are incapable
of disciplining themselves. As they gain more awareness, however, the same
energy that served as a crutch, serves as a factor that expedites the peaceful
and deliberately displacement of the assemblage point. The magical passes
are always begun with the left arm. The reason for us is that the left
side of the body is always lagging behind the right one in terms of prowess
and dexterity. For the seers of antiquity, the reason was that we are inexorably
heading for a bilateral dissymetry. The left body is being unavoidably
shrunk by the right one if we do not engage our conscious efforts to balance
this.
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This pass "Transferring Energy To The Assemblage Point" begins
by raising the left arm with the palm facing the ground.
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The palm is turn shortly upwards as the elbow is pulled backward.
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Next, the left arm shoots out with the palm facing upward
and the wrist held immobile as straight as possible keeping the elbow bent.
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The left forearm is raised to the level of the eyes as if
it were a mirror in which we can see ourselves.
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We stare at the palm of the hand for a moment, then the hand
close into a fist that pivotes 45 degrees to the right.
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The elbow is raised until the upper arm is parallel to the
ground and the fist points downward, still twisted at an angle.
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The right hand is then placed over the left shoulder as a
support or a buttress of sort while the left arm pivotes as it is twisted
until the fist reaches the area of the right adrenal.
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At the count of three the right hand dislodges itself from
the shoulder and in an elegant arc it moves to the front of the body, where
the left arm straightens and joins the right at the same height.
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And they are both retrieved to the sides of the body.
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The exact same movements are repeated with the right side
of the body.
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