Parallel Perception

I recently visited Lujan in Bali to learn Dragon’s Tears. I had never learnt any kind of martial arts, bar one lesson in Tai Chi many years ago and some Judo lessons for a while as a young child, nor had I undertaken dance lessons since being a very small child, but after deciding to learn Dragon’s Tears I found that my body really was looking forward to it and I felt quite excited about learning these movements.

I was not sure how I would go though and I had some doubts or fears that I would be able to learn. As I met with Lujan, prior to commencing, he sensed my wavering, and my self doubt revealed itself in ways that have shown me how this ongoing detrimental focus toward myself has tended to permeate areas of my life and affect myself and others in a negative way by unconsciously drawing them into uncertainty as well.

Before I had even begun tuition layers of my behaviour were being revealed and I was having to face myself! After this meeting I felt very dislodged and petulant behaviours that I rarely see in myself came to the surface and I had a very physical sensation of these ‘behaviours’ moving over the surface of my body. It was very strange.

The first day of tuition arrived and I went to Lujan’s house. When I arrived we sat down and talked for a little while. Underneath my social mask (which Lujan is very good at seeing and dislodging) I can be a nervous person, but being with him I began quickly to sink into a state of deep happiness, and move beyond my superficial nervous behaviour.

I said that I was often better undertaking practical tasks and so we began ‘Dragon’s Tears’. From that moment on my body began to embrace these movements like I had done them somewhere before, they were new and at the same time familiar to me. They are beautiful and powerful and peaceful all at once.

The first night I went to Lujan’s again to learn gazing techniques and again in his presence I felt deeply at peace. As we gazed I sunk into a state of heightened awareness quickly and easily. My hands began to feel ‘charged’ with energy. The room vibrated with palpable energy and I felt still and quiet in a way that I had only felt when taking psychotropic substances.

That night I woke up in the early hours with the thought that my hands were keeping me awake, so filled with energy they were. It was the same sensation as I had had when waking up from a dream I had dreamt a little while before I went to Bali, where Lujan and I had been playing a strange game and I had felt that my heart was so filled with joy it would burst.

Sometimes while practicing ‘tears’ with Lujan I would see soft light radiating or flowing from his hands as he moved. It seemed perfectly normal at the time. I witnessed Lujan’s room and Lujan’s garden dance with colour and shadows and blue balls of light.

I watched him pull the chimes to and fro with just his energy. I felt something akin to coming home after a long wearying journey. I wanted to ask Lujan many things, but while in his presence I forgot to; I was so happy just to be. I felt I had returned to something I had been long before.

It felt like it had taken a lifetime, but I know I remember this place within myself and every day I look forward to darkness so I can see within it the hues of eternity.

To say these things somehow seems ‘trite’ but this experience was one of deep joy. I feel like I have just scratched the surface of a wondrous journey into life itself, stripped of the social construct that robs us of our energy and consumes the precious moments of our brief journey here.

Lujan said ‘ we are meant to be like this, beings filled with mystery and magic’. Being in his garden and practicing ‘Dragons Tears’ was exquisite. I felt overwhelmed at one point because I knew I would have to return to my ‘real’ life. But, I have brought something of this with me, and I will ever be thankful for this.

With love and gratitude

Gabrielle

Brisbane, Australia

coolandblue@gmail.com

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It was to be a powerful journey. I was a student of Lujan’s when i was a nineteen year old and he had a great impact on me then; a special person teaching more than meets the eye. Fifteen years later we would meet again in Bali where I underwent private tuition in The Dragon’s Tears.

The Tears are such a gracious, powerful form that are so invigorating. From the moment you begin the movements you instantly feel the flow. It is like your hands shouldn’t be anywhere else.

On the third day of training came the turning point of my journey. As I was to show Lujan what I had learnt in the previous two days of training I began the Tears and suddenly went blank, yet I knew the first sequences. Then some anger within me surfaced and my gestures became defensive. Something wanted to come out.

After being made aware of these gestures we sat down facing one another as we would do between sets but this time would be different. Looking into each others eyes I saw something quite amazing, within Lujan’s face I saw an octopus like effect whereby shades of luminosity seemed to pulsate around his face. This sight continued as I explained to Lujan what I was seeing.

By this time my gestures had ceased and I was filled with an overwhelming sense of calm and stillness. It also felt like a part of Lujan had gone inside me. This was a truly magical experience.

While practicing the Tears poolside at the hotel before our last session a butterfly started to fly around me. Beckoning it with my open palm it landed on it. I turned my hand upside down then back again and it stayed clinging on as it waited for a moment then flew off, so delicate. It was such a fitting moment.

Take a journey, step out of your comfort zone and not only will you leave with a beautifully powerful form in the Dragon´s Tears you will experience the profound energy and warmth of the Nagual Lujan. I look forward to the next phase when I see him again. Many thanks Lujan!.

Mat
Sweden

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I recently returned to see Lujan again and learn more of the system that he offers. I had learned the dragon’s tears and tapping six months before and felt there should be more still. Something in me didn’t feel complete after the last visit and while I could readily perceive the benefits of what I had received, I knew I needed something else.

He structured exactly what I needed with the time I had available. I had two weeks and adjusted the tears and tapping I had first learned and undertook lotus and jaguar series training. These are designed to be combined with the tears and tapping to magnify the sessions daily. I was surprised that there was anything to add to either initially, but when we began, I realized that both would have been very difficult for me to have remembered in their completion before, so he had summarized them.

The tapping was challenging as it usually is, but I achieved much more throughout the day as far as overall energy than I had before. Everything became consolidated into one really intense daily series, with an added energetic compacting set which I find extremely enhancing, this set is very strengthening. At one point I saw Lujan’s energetic double amidst this. The lotus which integrates with the second half of the tapping, but is strong in itself equated to become another powerful addition which is a daily necessity now for me to feel really awake and balanced. There is a soft yet enduring intensity that I experience now which lasts throughout the day which is exactly what I had been seeking. The tears also had much more to them which increased their effects.

I had difficulty learning the Jaguar series as I have not undertaken much martial arts instruction and Lujan adapted to this by dissecting the form into slow and manageable portions as well as utilizing some awakening swirling movements from the dragon’s breath series which as with the jaguar movements were very potent and immediate in their effects.

I was tired from not having had much sleep coincidentally and I began to have involuntary energetic responses. Lujan saw some white energy which looked like lightening emit from my finger and I began projecting and employing destabilizing techniques I had learned as a child to effectively manage my circumstances. Just one set of movements and I had achieved more than I had with the rest of the system as far as revealing something unseen about myself, yet I was fully aware of what I was doing despite having no intention in doing it. Old memories surfaced and I began feeling unusual and unhinged.

There was orange fire whipping out of my eye he saw used to lash out and suppress. “ That’s interesting, “ he said. “ I’ve been waiting for something like this to come out of you, but it hadn’t until now, this is great. “ I could see the benefit in what he was saying and felt something like a snake inside me ready to strike, it was a form created to fit past circumstances, which had endured, relations and tolerances which should have been adjusted and foregone which had not. But I had talked off and on for nearly three years with him and never had I felt at all uncontained like this.

Something invisible had been shaken free and I felt this was truly progressive for me and saw what had been hidden clearly. Something I had not supported or allowed had invaded and become mine. I discussed with Lujan what had led me to adopting these techniques and he helped reveal how I had been altered and why. This led me to a profound sense of release which aided me in navigating beyond that unseen mold.

I was surprised when he said that very few people had learned the framework of the system which was what I had started. I had been under the impression still that many had learned this entire series, or at least most of it. I again feel compelled to recommend to anyone to see him and if you already have to return as everything becomes much more rewarding. I intend to continue to learn from him again as soon as possible.

Thanks again Lujan

Three-Pronged Nagual
USA

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My experience learning the first part of the Jaguar Series was very fascinating. Practicing with Lujan had a very surreal quality to it. I initially and still do feel sort of like a rising pressure and heat in the center of my body that is very cleansing, and I’m starting to get a sense of the explosiveness contained within the movements.

Lujan told me when first starting that the mind would shut off during practicing…I’m not sure this completely registered with me until I discovered at one point that I was having trouble thinking of what movement to do next. It was like every time I tried to think of the next step I would get tripped up. However, I quickly adjusted as I found that when I was about to hit a wall or a limit as to what I
could do Lujan magically navigated me around it.

After returning home, I’ve found that my mind just randomly seems to shut off and have no thoughts at times, which is a very pleasant feeling. Which has happened again right now as I’m thinking about the Jaguar Series while writing this! Similarly, after practicing for some time I’ve also noticed that I’ve started to have dreams of just being in a complete black or empty space…like I would walk from a normal dream into a dream that contained nothing or something would trigger the dream to change to one of nothingness.

Having the Dragon’s Tears series I had learned refined was also profound. Practicing feels much more fluid and energetic now…sometimes when the electromagnetic energy is very intense it almost feels as if I’m holding something in my hand while at other points it’s as if I’m running my hand through a ball of heat. I know there was one day after practicing where we went to sit outside with our feet on the tile…which felt warm. Then Lujan mentioned to touch the tile with my hand and it was actually cold. I believe this heat was from the energy generated from the earth, which is pretty amazing.

Tapping never ceases to amaze me as well. I feel it allows me to start each day with a clean slate…very little if anything is carried over from the previous day. And the physical results are very apparent as well. I might have to start buying new clothes soon

Eric Van Houten
USA
mikitzli@gmail.com

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When I reflect upon my time in Bali with Lujan my body is filled with magic. On my individual path I have gained so much just from being around him, interacting with him, watching him interact with others, his loved ones, and friends. I was skeptical before I had met him, even after having explored his peerless work through the multitude of posts on the forum, and his brilliant book. I am now convinced. This man is an absolute consummate master. A true magician. To bear witness to a man who is divinely connected to spirit was a blessing. I felt cradled in his presence. Unusually at peace.

Through my life I had built up such a rigidity in terms of the conceptualizations that I felt were the necessary outlines one must embody in order to be ’spiritual’. Being around Lujan was radically shifting in these terms, unbelievable, and so pleasantly relaxing. There is such a naturalness with this man, only reminiscent of children at play, liquidity. He started something in me which is still unfolding, the derailment of my past, and its effect on the present moment. My essential self is now within reach through the awakening which is happening all over my body.

I have struggled with deep emotional issues for about 7 years. I was unable to, of myself, come to terms with what was happening within me, I was unable to grasp how I was constructing my reality, I was a very miserable man. Everything has changed since I met Lujan. He was sensitive to my needs, he delicately gave all of his being to my issues and concerns, and made certain I would leave with what it is I needed to start the formless ball rolling. Just writing this, I am becoming filled with gratitude and gracious love.

In Bali I took Lujans Dragons Tears and Tapping classes.

Firstly, Dragons Tears are visually the most beautiful form of movement I have come across. They have the aesthetic semblance of primal eras of wizardry, the mystic feeling of times before time, and the magically powerful ancient texture of being in dreams. After Practice, I experience an overwhelming calmness within my heart region. One becomes collected, and tranquil, and the effects linger onward. This is a gem I will carry with me for the rest of my life.

Tapping I see personally as a necessary tool that everyone should be engaging. It is the complete physical and energetic workout and awakening arrangement. In terms of the physicality, every part of the body is strengthened, revivified, stimulated, and activated daily. No matter what I am experiencing emotionally before I commence, after I finish I am contained, and eager for the days events. Energetically I have found that Tapping diverts awareness and energy to necessary elements of the physicality rendering the mind obsolete. The practice is consuming to the extent that one has no choice but to enter the nonce. And once this is experienced, the minds constant direction becomes muted gradually. Vast amounts of awareness can be accessed from this practice.

I have read numerous accounts of the enchantment people were experiencing upon visiting Lujan. I was inspired by them. However, being with him was such a beautiful thing, completely beyond the syntax used to share the experiences. The depth hidden beyond the words presents itself in his presence. This man has been gifted from beyond this world, and it is experienceable in a very real sense. Lujan is a wellspring of hope.

These are the things dreams are made of.

Lujan, thank you from my heart.

Desmond,

Las Vegas, USA

desmondbanner@cox.net

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I spent two wonderful weeks with Lujan in Bali. We did the Dragon’s Tears and Energy Tapping. The Dragon’s Tears is just beautiful. I was feeling tranquil and hypnotized by watching the hand movements. The movements are so graceful, so nice.

Lujan said, when the hands are performing the movements, they move along the surrounding luminous fibers and leave a trace on the body sphere, like a stamp. This stamp is knowledge acquired by the body, and it is automatically remembered in everyday life. Lujan said, in ancient China calligraphy was the same principle. The graceful movements of calligraphy were accumulated into the body.

The body sphere has numerous possible traces, which correspond to numerous possible ways of movements. They are already there, yet unknown. Dragon’s Tears enlightens what was previously unknown, dark, which means it shifts perception to unexplored territory.

Energy Tapping is difficult but is worth the effort. It is a complete set of internal work. It has such a big variety of exercises that every tendon is engaged and all the meridians are accessed.

The centers are compressed, which cuts the flow to the meridians. Then the centers are released
flooding the meridians, which returns to the person as a feeling of inner calmness and joy. This is how we were, what we’ve lost and forgotten.

Now the body knows what to look for, and by knowing it is becoming it. How we were not strictly speaking in the past, but how we were ideally outside of time. And we have forgotten by being within a linear time line, or, equally, within confined space.

Lujan is a very strong man, and at the same time very kind. He was helping me and encouraging me throughout the whole training. He is strong with people when need be, when people are behaving weak. He is strong for them, not against them, so that neither he nor the other person is weakened. The strength he displays actually is passed down to the other person.

At first I was complaining about the difficulty of the exercises, he said “stop bitching”. Later he said, “your face has changed, where did that bitch go? I see the face of a strong young boy now.”

Another highlight that really impacted me was when he said “turn the pain into power”. Another
highlight: me: “I’m crazy”, Lujan: “That’s the only sensible thing you said today”.

Lujan is really kind and loving to people, and he is giving credit to people’s effort. His jokes made me feel comfortable.

That was it, 2 weeks in Bali. I loved the nature, I loved the food, I loved the girls on the beach, I loved the Tears, I loved the Tapping, I loved the meditation and gazing. Most of all I loved discussing with Lujan.

Till we meet again.

My thoughts after a conversation with Lujan:

A myth is outside of time, constantly reshaping with our evolving awareness. In everyday life, each time an ambitious or predatory person is fluxing inorganic energy to distort reality for his own sake, or locate a victim, a small part of that myth is re-enlivened.

What saved/saves humanity from total degeneration was/is the fighting spirit, the spirit of the Warrior. The fighting spirit within martial arts and within the war dance is more help than one has ever hoped for.

The fighting spirit is undermined by pity. A person perplexed in pity will indulge into the bitter-sweet state of retirement-despair, or will find all sorts of justifications for peoples’ unfair deeds, and because of these and many other complexities, the person will not fight.

A warrior in the place of no pity is free of this perplexing process. His fighting spirit is no longer threatened by pity. A warrior is not cruel. He has heart. Witnessing the cruelty in the world outside of him, his heart is crying. But he has no pity.

A warrior is impeccable, since with his heart open he retains his fighting spirit under the circumstances presented. Over-amplification of the yang element would also mean destruction. The fighting spirit would be replaced by killing frenzy, and carnage will reign.

Today in the world, what reigns isn’t carnage, but cold-blooded stagnant peace-perfection. This is what law enforcement is doing, establishing cold-blooded peace.

Gregory
Greece
konstant@iesl.forth.gr

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Seeing Lujan again was like returning to see a very dear friend. Because besides being my teacher, that is what he is, a true friend. Always sincere, always helping by doing what is best and not born of personal motives.

The first day I arrived there was a lesson awaiting me. My own stalking was to be shown to me in its subtlest layer. Lujan initially mirrored my emotions to me, which I took to be his. Then in a most graceful maneuver, he pulled the rug from under my feet by showing me just how aware he was. And that his actions were being of service to me and that he in fact was not the emotional perspective he was exhibiting but what I saw from him was reflecting me back upon myself.

To know he had seen me in this way, seen how I was stalking him, was a relief for me to reveal to him. My transparency opened a new door for me with him. And made me respect enormously just how much he sees yet on the surface this is not revealed because it is not a matter of him proclaiming all the time just how much he knows, it’s a matter of his doing what is necessary in a circumstance to help another person, and this puts him in the realm of controlled folly. His actions are not based on self promotion in any way, they are always adapting in support of the being in front of him. One cannot pin point a system in Lujan because he simply has no system. And this is a beautiful thing, because it means he helps in proportion to what is needed, always.

Later that first day, after I had revealed my emotions through transparency and we had an open and honest chat that warmed my heart, he appeared like an elderly man, gentle and calm. I thought to myself “Lujan has changed since I last saw him.” But again I was left wondering at a later time, “was that simply a reflection of my own calm at that time?” because at other times during my visit, he was different again. At times he was like a youthful man, playful and not resembling the elderly presence I had observed the first day.

Lujan remarked to me on about the third day I was there “it’s strange how I’m always different yet the same.” And I thought about it too. Yes, he was different each time I saw him, but always the indescribable foundation of nothingness was there to be felt. Nothing stuck to him, no matter what he said or did, and the fact that he always was changing in terms of his presence, there was a consistency but such a consistency could not be understood, only felt as a feeling of abandon.

No matter what he said, I knew it was gone as fluidly as it had arrived. Sitting with him and having discussions, I felt the same within myself. Nothing I said was going to stick around and dig its heels into me, why should it?

Aside from all the events that transpired while I was there, my primary reason for going to Bali this time was to learn Dragon’s Tears. The movements are magical. When I practice them my body feels a kind of joy. It likes to move this way is the best I can describe it. And the air around me gets a thickness and I can feel substance in various areas as I move.

My body has a sense of being concentrated after I practice. There is a firmness to my walk and overall a feeling of strength that is not muscular, but is energetic. I would say it is a type of confidence, not of the mind but of the body.

The grace the movements impart carries over into the rest of my day. I move with fluidity and the hand gestures become subconsciously incorporated in my daily activities. Again the best I can describe this is to say my body wants to move this way, it likes these movements and this is separate from “thought”. And the movements are more than just enjoyable, among other things, they increase longevity via the redeployment of electromagnetic energy to the body.

I had a night of gazing with Lujan. He showed me many things about the world around me, how magical it is if we only know how to look at it. What stands out is how he kept instructing me to gaze at something different, to not get caught upon one object of interest. Consequently, I realized that the way I had been taught previously by all that raised me was to stare at an object of interest to make it adapt to one’s needs, to force compliance upon the world at large through a type of linear mentality that has at its core an insistence on getting “its way”. Instead Lujan was inviting me to wake up to the magic around me by forgoing this need to control things for an outcome and instead acquiescence which is where our real magic lies.

On many occasions he revealed what I had been thinking. We had a funny moment one day when I had used his bathroom and then the next day he said to me “by the way, thanks for complimenting me on how tidy my bathroom was.” And I just busted up laughing when he said this because I had in actuality not said anything verbally to him but the day earlier I had looked around as I was in their liking how everything was arranged.

I was trying to be careful where my eyes rested upon objects because I knew of his ability to see through another’s eyes. So when he revealed to me what I had been thinking I had to laugh, and partly because a simple thing such as using a friend’s bathroom takes on a whole new meaning around him.

There is so much more I have to say about this visit, so many things transpired. Since I cannot possibly reveal all the events without making a very long account here, I will summarize by saying that around Lujan the frequencies are purer and on a higher level of operation.

Amazing things happen and people behave in ways as to reveal lessons continuously while he is present, and at the same time, those people are given lessons if they are able to see what is being shown them. And it was all these lessons which I absorbed and became a part of my experience as much as learning Dragon’s Tears.

So what I am left with and what I wish to share about my experience is it’s not just about learning movements or being taught something specific, it’s about being altered in his presence, being opened to see more and more what is around. To get beyond the programming we all received and live the way we are meant to live, as seers, as magical beings in a magical world.

The danger is many people seek out magic, seek out techniques and ways and means. Lujan is not about all this. And being with him does not get one more of what they expect to get if they have such expectations. It is the opposite, when going to see him, one gets not all what they expected, they get what they truly need and what gives them the capacity to live in their authentic power.

Lujan, thank you for being the real deal, a true nagual. For being in your integrity, your absolute emptiness which is a gift opening the door for me to fully step into mine. I look forward to my next visit to see you, it can’t come soon enough. You are a true friend, a powerful teacher and I have never met anyone like you, and for this reason I realize I am fortunate to know you.

Love always,

Tiffany
China

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The time I spend with Lujan learning Dragon’s Tears and Tapping was extremely intense and I think saying that what I came away with is very valuable is an understatement.

The first week involved learning Dragon’s Tears. I started out a bit slow and am not sure how I got everything in one week…I mentioned to Lujan that I think he must’ve been doing something that I didn’t perceive so that I caught up.

I haven’t been able to figure this one out yet as well…but the first time I met Lujan and probably 95% of the time I’ve seen him after he is a few inches taller than me. But the other times he’s either been smaller than me or the same size as me (and I went through the usual suspicions such as checking the ground, etc. with no luck!)

In the second week, I found the Tapping practice on a whole another level than what I had been used to physically. To put it lightly…almost anything involving legs for the first week wasn’t my forte but I improved a bit by the end of the week, and at times I was pretty much watching in awe what Lujan was capable of doing.

Also, I recall there were a few times where I seemed to have “leaked” out of my body. One such instance happened when I was next to Lujan and we were just finishing with the morning session for the day. It’s hard to explain but I felt like I was being unavoidably drawn towards him. Not really knowing what was happening I started to panic a bit…and I think I was trying to pinch myself to “get back into” my body.

I was relieved afterwards when Lujan brought this up and mentioned that he has a very strong magnetic field and I was drawn to this. I additionally found that coincidental or synchronistic experiences increased during these 2 weeks I was in Bali and for some time after returning home: I had experiences of dreaming of someone and meeting that person, thinking something and then have someone come to me with an answer, and needing something and having it seemingly
just pop-up out of the blue.

In practicing on my own, I fairly quickly came up against or was confronted with what’s been holding me back (and it wasn’t what I expected). I’m not sure if it was that I didn’t have the capability to
deal with it, or didn’t want to deal with it, or just forgot about it for some time but then I was brought back to it…and the process afterwards has been interesting, although I’m at a bit of a loss to
describe what is happening.

Also, this was very interesting to me but a number of times in the past I’ve encountered beings in my dreams who I viewed as antagonistic (now, I realize or was told they are mostly playful), but before this realization I would always try to struggle when seeing them. The only success I’ve had with keeping them away in a dream has been with Dragon’s Tears, which they tried to stop me from doing after the first time that it worked so well but after I decided to or became able to not fear them it wasn’t necessary to struggle with them anymore.

The physical effects of the practices were very immediate too: on the day I left from Bali I had to wear a belt for pants that I had thought fit pretty well before and shirts that were previously too big now fit decently well.

Eric

New Jersey, USA

mikitzli@gmail.com

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