Parallel Perception

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I am re-reading Parallel Perceptions for the second time and one of the chapters that struck me with greater impact this second time around was the passage where Barak described fears origin and purpose.

Over the course of my entire life I have always wondered why my mind was always filled with a deeply rooted fear in certain situations. The words that Barak spoke to Lujan described perfectly the effect that fear had on my life over the course of the years.

It stops you dead in your tracks, it murders your possibilities.

There is a song by Jimmy Cliff the lyrics of which says, “I can see clearly now the rain is gone, I can see all obstacles in my way, gone are the dark clouds that had me blind, It’s gonna be a bright, bright sun shiny day”. Another of his songs says, “Sitting in limbo like a bird without a song, sitting in Limbo but I know that my faith will lead me on”.

I can’t say that I can see all of the obstacles in my way but some of the dark clouds are gone and it is a brighter day. I am no longer sitting in limbo and I have found a song.

For the first time in my life I have a handle on the workings of a vital part of my mind.

So my heart felt thanks to Barak, my favorite person in the narrative and to Lujan for bringing us a candle in the darkness.

The way is long and the road is foggy but if our true heart is the driver we will make it through.

Bugs

Dear Lujan, thank you for such a beautiful book. It is a book that requires more than one reading, but I have taken away much already.

Fadell

I’m finally writing you after wanting to do so on so many other occasions. You have had such a revolutionary influence in my life and I can’t exactly pinpoint when your influence started, but it was definitely before I found your book. I had read Carlos Casteneda books starting at age 14 and they shaped my perception and kept me out of main stream thought, generally speaking. I recently (starting last year) was drawn back into my circle of power after an awakening that made me realize I was not experiencing a “real life”–one that is derived from power. While the Casteneda books were always with me, I had turned them into a concreteness that only “seemed” to be a position of growth and power. In truth, I will say that I was growing during those years, but at a slow rate, which I see as normal and progressing at the speed I was capable of. What your influence has done for me has taken the stagnation that was producing a slow trickling steam of truth and made it into a rushing river!

Gratefully, Tiffany

Once I received an email. I didn’t know the sender. The headline was saying something like “news from the toltecs”. There was a little message about news from Carlos Castaneda. Well, that was interesting, I was quite certain before, that a dead man doesn’t speak.

There was a link in the message which brought me to a discussion of people who were not my opinion about this. However, in this discussion was a reference about someone,was a reference about someone, whom’s name jumped out of the page. Lujan Matus. A few minutes later I ordered his book. A few months later I received it. I read the
introduction and it felt like something behind my eyes started to spin. I read the introduction a second time…and a third…and I thought “AHA!!”

…”What does that mean?” Slowly I read the entire book.

When I say slowly, I mean SLOOOOOOWLY. I never read a book so slow. I finished the book and thought…”AHA!!!” …”I think finally I understand the introduction!”.

It left me with the impression that I know, what I have to do, but without any concepts I could think or even talk about. I couldn’t recall ANYTHING in syntax. I read it again. This time without the impression that I can’t fous on the content. In the first run it often felt like the doors behind my eyes were closed. Now I understood the main idea about it.

I was left with little syntactic knowledge and I understood that it is my body, who is understanding the core of it, who gave me the impressions of what I need to change. It felt like the wisdom of my body pushed me into my right direction. I rather did what my body knew, than what I read in the book, but after all I see, the book awakend this bodyintelligence.

With the third time reading TAOSPP I finally felt I understand the entire book. All I actually want to say is, this book is very special, because the most other books give you intellectual concepts and ask you to apply them.
TAOSPP is not intellectual, it is pragmatic. Or better: the intention of it, is pragmatic. I can confirm, it DOES plant a jewel into our cognitive system. This book will do half your work, don’t hesitate, take two!

Richard

Though I have read and studied the Toltec teachings for some time Lujan’s book has answered many questions that I have not been able to understand before. I would suggest it to anyone who is interested in the Toltec way. It is worth reading and rereading several times.

Pat

No matter whats on my mind every time I have a question needing and answer, when I just randomly open up a page the answer is right there in front of me. It never ceases to amaze me how many times this happens. Just today I was feeling restless and unsatisfied and upon opening your book I read.

From the Epilogue in ‘The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception”.

“One of the most precious abilities we have as human beings is to realize that we can be something other than what we are. We can transcend almost any situation and adapt and facilitate interchangeable approaches to circumstances that may seem insoluble”

Dave

Lujan,

Thank you. I have been visiting you web site for a couple of months and have ordered and read your book. I have been studying Toltec wisdom and philosophy for over two years and have worked under a mentor. When I found your web site, or it found me, my attention was hooked. Much like the Toltec work your book contains the silent knowledge and truth that is our birthright. I have been practicing lucid dreaming for a while and look forward to more complete dreaming experiences thanks to your insights. I really enjoyed your Sexual Attention work and found so much of it to be important to my place in life. It reminds me of what I have always known. Thank you for sharing yourself.

I am a dreamer who has been awakened to the true dream that I always Knew. The scope of what you are doing is huge! It is incredible how many lives,beings, spirits, you are going to touch.

Bless and thank you,
Jason

Hi Lujan Matus. Your book has resonated deeply within me and has answered many questions that I’ve carried for a long time. The nagual Lujan has been a being I’ve felt a deep affinity for and I do not quite know why. When I read of him in the “Art of Dreaming” it struck a deep chord. Your work has moved that chord and also given new challenges and direction to the warrior’s path. I want to thank you for sharing your journeys and inspiration. You have great skill in elucidating this immense topic. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Monty Blackberg

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