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The Eight Gates of Dreaming Awake involves techniques that were transmitted to me by an ancient shaman. These techniques employ consciousness to utilize ancient trapdoors that one falls backwards into.

As one dives into the depths, from one technique to the next, subtle elements of the previous follow, until one gets to a very deep visionary state, where light explodes into visions that is our natural inherited state of dreaming.

Even though this is a non-ordinary state of awareness it is not influenced by external forces. One is naturally carried by the ebbs and flows of ones bioelectromagnetic energy that corresponds absolutely to the state of awareness that the warrior currently traverses upon.

These techniques are to be used in correspondence with the non-dreaming technique elucidated in Awakening the Third Eye, so as to bring the waking world, dreaming realities, into acute focus that manifests a third type of awareness that corresponds with the third eye process, opening to déjà vu, precognition and transmission of body consciousness beyond its limited threshold, which reveals the greatest contradiction there is; our single point of existence, coupled with our multidimensionality that falls into a state of non-existence when realized.

The technique of dreaming awake also has, as physical support to its existence, a technique called Whispering Palms.

The Eight Gates of Dreaming is offered online and can also be an addition to any of the other programs. The eight gates can be practiced after any of the shamanic movement series’ or as an independent practice.

Online program (4 weekly sessions): $500

Click here to read more about the Eight Gates of Dreaming Awake

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We are excited to announce a new venue for shamanic tuition in 2012:

Boracay Island in the Philippines.

Boracay is an island of the Philippines located approximately 315 km (196 mi) south of Manila and 2 km off the northwest tip of Panay Island in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines.

Boracay Island and its beaches have received awards numerous times. Boracay was awarded in the “Travelers’ Choice 2011″ by TripAdvisor as the second best beach (out of 25) in the world. Boracay made a debut appearance on the Top 10 Islands list in the Travel + Leisure travel magazine World’s Best Awards 2011, ranking fourth.

Weather

Daytime temperatures on Boracay generally range from 77-90°F (25-32°C) from October- March, and increase to the 82-100°F(28-38°C) range from April-September.

Activities

Leisure activities available on or near Boracay include scuba diving, snorkeling, windsurfing, kiteboarding, cliff diving, and beach relaxation.

Boracay is the site of a 18-hole par 72 golf course designed by Graham Marsh. In addition, as of 2010, Boracay has in excess of 350 beach resorts offering more than 2,000 rooms ranging in quality from five-star to budget accommodations, so tourists are sure to find whatever they are looking for.

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Events

Dragon boat races are held annually on Boracay under the auspices of the Philippine Dragon Boat Federation, with teams coming from around the Philippines and from other Asian nations to compete. The races usually take place sometime in April or May.

Language

Many languages are spoken on the island, however most Filipinos speak English well.
Food

There is a wide variety of different restaurants specializing in a range of ethnic cuisines. Those on a budget should head for the local market where you can purchase fresh fruit and have local fresh seafood prepared to order.

A wide of variety of unique tropical fruits are available including custard apple, jackfruit, duhat, mangosteen, marang, papaya and mangoes.

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Here are a few of the most popular restaurants on the island.

Prana Restaurant located in Mandala Spa is an organic vegetarian restaurant serving breakfast, salads and light vegetarian meals including tofu with peanut sauce. They also offer a variety of organic French wines.

Dos Mestizos is the Best Spanish Restaurant in the Island. Their specialties are tapas and paella.

Cyma’s original restaurant in d’Mall is the most popular Greek restaurant on the island. Menu offerings include Greek salad, seafood and lamb.

Lemon iCafe - This place is famous for its lemon desserts and other treats like chocolate cakes, cheesecakes, coconut pancakes and banana muffins. They serve breakfast and light meals including salads, sandwiches, seafood and pasta.

Manana Mexican Restaurant - known for its Mexican delicacies and cuisines. Traditional and modern recipes are available and favorites include nachos, enchiladas, burritos, salads and mango margaritas.

Boracay Crab House @ Escondido - Their specialties are a wide variety of dishes with crabs and other seafood.

True Food Indian Cuisine - The Best Indian Food in Boracay Island. Comfortable seating with low tables and big cushions. Features a good choice of vegetarian dishes.

Smoke Restaurant The best restaurant for Filipino food in Boracay. If you are on a budget, you can bring your own ingredients and ask the chef to prepare a dish for you. They also have ala carte Filipino food. Their specialties include Bicol Express, Bulalo, Chicken Curry, Lechon Kawali, Sinigang, and Stuffed Squid with Sizzled Vegetables.

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Transportation

Boracay island is separated from Panay island by a narrow strait. The island is located opposite the barangay of Caticlan in the municipality of Malay, Aklan. Transportation across the strait is provided by boats operating from the Caticlan jetty port.

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By air

Boracay is served by two airports in Aklan province: one in Kalibo and Godofredo P. Ramos Airport (commonly referred to as “Caticlan airport”) in Malay.

By sea

The western part of the Strong Republic Nautical Highway (SRNH) passes through Caticlan, with car ferries from Roxas, Oriental Mindoro docking at the Caticlan jetty port. Several bus companies operate provincial bus routes from Manila which pass through Caticlan via the SRNH.

On the island

The two main modes of transport are via motor-tricycles along the main road or by walking along the beaches. Pedicabs are also available for transport along the Beachfront Path. Other means of transportation include mountain bikes, quadbikes and motorbikes, all of which can be rented.

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Tuition Availability

April 9th-13th: Windlock Series
April 16th-20th: Three Treasures
April 23rd-27th: All programs available
April 30th-May 4th: All programs available
May 7th-11th: All programs available
May 14th-18th: All programs available
May 21st-25th: All programs available
May 28th-June 1st: All programs available

If you are interested in reserving a position please register on the Parallel Perception website: Program Registration

For more information about the programs visit this page: Shamanic Tuition Programs

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Over the years I have received many emails from around the world requesting free tuition and have decided to have a scholarship program so as to allow people to undertake shamanic tuition courses who would otherwise be unable to attend.

I am proud to present the Parallel Perception Scholarship Program as an annual event. There will be a competition where those who are interested in this program will write a short essay and the winner will be selected by the public.

The scholarship will include one week of tuition in the Earth Energy Tapping program. This special program will also include the Windlock System and Whispering Palms. Every year a different program will be offered.

The winner will be entitled - as is everyone who has completed any of my shamanic movement programs - to return to review the movements for free, for a lifetime.

These are the requirements to enter:

1. Write a 250-800 word essay about what you have learned from the books and teachings of Lujan Matus, how it has impacted your life and why you would like to learn shamanic movement with Lujan Matus.

2. Give permission for your essay to be published online by Parallel Perception.

The essays will be published on the Parallel Perception Blog. Readers will have the opportunity to vote for the person they would like to win the competition by leaving a comment on the blog post.

All entries must be received by December 18th 2011 and the winner will be announced on January 2nd 2012. 

The winner must attend between April and December 2012 in Costa Rica and dates are subject to availability. The prize cannot be transferred to another individual.

Please email your completed essays to info @ parallelperception.com. If you have a photo of yourself that you would like to be published with the essay please attach it to your email.

You have to be in it to win it! Good luck.

With deepest and warmest regards,

Lujan Matus.

Due to popular demand the workshop in South Africa has been moved to Costa Rica. We are now focusing on the Mayan Quetzalcoatl Winged Serpent Series.

The Mayan Quetzalcoatl Winged Serpent Series is a very potent ancient set of movements that originally were meant to be opened up in Central America around this time and the fortuitous consequences of relocating the workshop from South Africa has now made this possible.

This series is linked to the cycles of the moon and is purposefully performed at the time of the full moon to enhance our connection with our earthly environment and the heavens above. All aspects of moon gazing will be reviewed and discussed.

2012 is a very potent transitional time for humanity.  It is now possible to learn this series in a group format in a workshop with a focus that revolves around transformation, our adaptability as human beings to discover where our true power exists within.

All facets of whatever presents itself from the group will be examined thoroughly so all spheres of the workshop will be dedicated to the energetic units of information that appear to be witnessed collectively. It will be a true journey of power.

February 13th-17th 2012

Cost: $695 (Workshop Only)

Accommodation is available offsite or at the tuition venue. Prices per person for one night at the tuition venue are below, for a minimum stay of six nights:

Single $132

Double $66

Triple $44

Participants will be put into contact with each other via email to arrange shared accommodation.

Alternative accommodation is available within five minutes of the venue starting at $45 a night.

Click here to register for shamanic workshops with Lujan Matus

The nagual Lujan Matus is now accepting applications for the Shamanic Healing and Shamanic Tuition programs in 2012 in Costa Rica and the Philippines.

Click here for more information.

The Three Treasures are a vital practice that I am now releasing to the public because of the great interest being shown in terms of devotion to the warrior’s way by my students. It is the gift of gifts. The secret of longevity, vitality and happiness.

It is practiced in the morning upon awakening, utilizing the base energies of the sexual center, transforming them into a bioelectromagnetic potential that will awaken the practitioner to the biocognition that necessitates the first step; the essential element that awakens one to be conscious of the expansive aspect that grounds itself by virtue of its own density, free of the intervention of the warrior, thus displaying its independence, even when cultivated with steadfast fortitude.

There is no prerequisite for this program. It can be learned before Dragon’s Tears, Earth Energy Tapping and the Jaguar Series and is a complete practice within itself. The Thunder Dance will be also taught in conjunction with this program.

As is the case for Dragon’s Tears and Earth Energy Tapping, students can return to review the program for free as many times as they wish, so as to fortify and refine the subtleties of the movements. This offer is valid for a lifetime.

Click here for more information about The Three Treasures Shamanic Movement Program.

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Part 1

By Howard Vadnaiss

The Nagual knocked on the door. I had skipped dinner and was in bed with the lights out because I hadn’t slept in almost two days due to long flights and layovers. I found and put on a pair of shorts in the dark, searched aimlessly for a light switch, and finally opened the door.

Facing the Nagual in person for the first time forced me to confront an increasingly uncomfortable feeling that had been building in me for some time. Over the course of our association I had developed a great deal of respect for Lujan, yet the amount of my respect for him was equaled only by the uneasiness I felt in his company.

We sat down at the kitchen table and talked as I struggled with my apprehensiveness. I ended up making excuses for myself at certain points in our conversation. Despite anticipating this meeting, I felt the unmistakable urge to get the hell out of there. I had this unshakeable feeling that some unspeakable part of myself was deeply distressed and threatened by the mere presence of the Nagual.

I knew without doubt he was seeing something nobody else has in me, and having my walls of defense penetrated so easily was quite unnerving. He of course was very gracious and magnanimous, but that didn’t stop these feelings from festering in me.

The next afternoon was my first session learning Dragons Tears. After practicing only the initial sequence I started to hallucinate.

Lujan gave me a stool to sit on and made the comment, “Well, this is going to be an interesting two weeks.”

As practice continued he would stop and make repeated comments about how careful he had to be with me, that I was probing him for weakness and inconsistency. He told me that my hand gestures were as good as he’d ever seen, as if I’d practiced martial arts all my life, but that if I couldn’t get a hold on what was distorting our interaction, that he may be forced to stop his instruction altogether.

When he would make these comments I felt his words exposing and stirring these strange feelings I was having since before my arrival; as if he were relentlessly pulling something to the surface that I had absolutely no interest in facing. In fact, it felt like I was building a sand castle in the rising tide, and I couldn’t keep up with rebuilding the walls that he was tearing down. He would stop whatever he was doing and speak to these feelings in me the instant they would arise, which in turn alerted me to these slight shifts that he was exposing.

He tirelessly confronted me with my fixations, which in turn threw me for a tailspin. It was not long before I started feeling like an utter and complete failure. I had worked and saved up for this trip only to be revealed as a fraud and an incompetent. My self-doubt and confusion exploded when he insisted that this crap was becoming a loop, and if we were to move forward I would have to stop doing what I was doing.

The problem was, on the one hand I had no idea what the hell he was talking about – and intellectually that was true. I mean, I wasn’t doing anything, besides having these strange feelings exposed. But on the other I felt exactly what he was saying, I just couldn’t put my finger on it and therefore found stopping it impossible. The only thing I knew for sure was that my inner turmoil began spiraling out of control.

The next day when I went to our session Lujan walked past me and asked me to wait for him. He told me that he was going to go show the landlord the Nagual’s teeth. I knew enough of the Nagual that he doesn’t do things without purpose, and I knew if he wanted to bring up an issue with his landlord, he could have done so at a different time. By telling me that he was going to show them the Nagual’s teeth, I became extremely agitated while waiting at his door.

When he got back we went inside and he sat down across the room from me and stared right through me with the most piercing gaze I have ever felt in my life. His stare was unwavering and intense, but had a quality of distance, trance like. Looking at him I could feel this distance, as if there were no end, no thing behind it – a gaze from infinity. That gaze punctured me, and feeling its pressure, I wanted nothing more than to get the fuck out of that place. I assumed an extremely defensive posture as he began to speak, and the storm that had been brewing inside me began to rage.

Early in our conversation he asked, “Go ahead, why don’t you tell me what it is you want to say to me.”

“Fuck Off!” I shot back like a cannonball.

“OK then. While you’re at it, why don’t you tell me what you think of me?” he continued.

“I fucking hate you, that’s what I think of you,” I smugly retorted.

“Well then, why do you hate me?” he continued, incredulous to my outburst.

“Because you’re so, sooo fucking uncompromising, that’s why!” I said matter-of-factly.

There was venom in my words, in my eyes, oozing out of my pores. At one point I tasted an unmistakable metallic taste in my mouth that made me repeatedly smack my gums because of its extreme distaste.

Lujan alerted me to the hatred streaming from my eyes, the daggers I hurled at him, and he didn’t release his pressure on me until the hatred retreated and I could finally embrace him with my gaze. At that point I felt like a stretched rubber band inside me had snapped, yet I was more confused than ever. How was it possible that I was so disconnected from my own feelings? What was it that concealed my own truth, not somebody else’s, or some idea of it, but my own truth? For Christ’s sake, who the fuck am I?

That night I lay in bed kicking, punching, and trying to push and will this maelstrom out of me. Try as I might, I could not separate myself. Not only could I not separate myself, I could not detect a seam. I wanted more than anything to just cut this shit out of me! It felt like I was free falling and gathering speed, but for the life of me I couldn’t find the rip chord.

The next morning I didn’t want to get out of bed. I had great difficulty rising and I labored to get down to the cafe for breakfast. Those uneasy feelings that had started before I ever got off the plane, had by now completely enveloped me, and I was absolutely upside down. I felt that this must be like what it is to go mad - I was rapidly losing my grip on reality.

Click here to read part 2 of The Nagual Knocked on the Door.

Discover the calm vitality of Dragons Tears, the profoundly energizing effects of the Three Treasures, and cleansing and awakening impact of Shamanic Recapitulation, with the Nagual Lujan Matus, in a three-week intensive shamanic movement workshop in Cape Town, South Africa in February/March 2012.

Participants have the choice to attend for one week, two weeks or the entire three-week series. There is a discount of 10% for participants attending two workshops and 15% for participants attending three workshops.

Dragon’s Tears

Visually, Dragons Tear’s resembles the ancient practices of Qi Gong and Kung Fu, but has its own unique fluidity, directness and propulsive power that distinguishes its characteristics and results in a timeless form that flows like water, generating powerful and soothing energy which courses in and around the body.

The energy that is accessed when practicing this movement series is immediately tangible and transforms into a sensation of calm vitality. Regular practice of Dragons Tears will dramatically impact your life, clearing stagnant energy, strengthening the body and enhancing perception, health and longevity.

The Three Treasures

Shamanic Recapitulation
Recapitulation is used by shamans to retrace life events so as to recover the essential energy that has been relocated and thereby is unable to be consciously accessed.

Lujan Matus is now offering the opportunity to learn alternate recapitulation techniques that were passed to him from his benefactor. These techniques are not to be mistaken with the recapitulation technique taught to Carlos Castaneda.

These techniques will help the initiate shaman deal with the pressure of eternity. What the initiate can expect from this is an enduring calm, where one’s heart speaks as the eyes see what presents itself through the pressures externally applied to the seer’s energy field.

As a special bonus, Lujan will also be teaching the Mayan Winged Serpent Series as part of the recapitulation workshop.

The Nagual Lujan Matus

My name is Lujan Matus. The lineage that I am immersed in is based on the transmission of awareness that is found in the deepest reservoirs of one’s heart. Connecting us; individually and collectively, on the level of intention.

Until recently these powerful and sacred practices were never made available to the public. I now offer this teaching to you.

Dragon’s Tears

February 20th-25th 2012

The Three Treasures

February 27th-March 2nd

Shamanic Recapitulation

March 5th-9th 2012

Cost of each workshop is 7500 ZAR. Early bird discount 6000 ZAR.

There is a discount of 10% for participants attending two workshops and 15% for participants attending three workshops.

Click here to register for shamanic workshops with Lujan Matus

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Ancient shamans used recapitulation to retrace life events so as to recover the essential energy that has been relocated and thereby is unable to be consciously accessed.

Death is the primary component that a warrior must become acquainted with before death’s inevitable embrace. Recapitulation provides the ways and means to facilitate the awareness of what will eventuate at the end of one’s life.

Upon recognition of this profound state the shaman initiate will become emptied of emotional conditioning, which may be acting as a barrier to one’s innate ability to travel the universe at large, in all its diversity.

Lujan Matus is now offering the opportunity to learn alternate recapitulation techniques that were passed to him from his benefactor. These techniques are not to be mistaken with the recapitulation technique taught to Carlos Castaneda.

These techniques employ the elements of fire, plants, darkness, sound and starlight as the primary components for these deep relaxing meditative practices that relocate the warrior’s minds eye to an alternate perspective.

The gazing technique that Lujan utilizes opens the primary quadrants of each eye. These are divided into 18 segments to open up the panoramic view permanently.

The immediate result of these techniques is that the internal dialogue vanishes without a trace while delivering the shaman initiate to the most profound state of formlessness.

Lujan will also introduce harvesting and skimming techniques; hidden stalking principles that have not yet been taught to the public.

In addition Lujan will teach an ancient guarding mudra which shields the warrior. This mudra is the beginning of a set of mudras that will be taught in the future.

These techniques will help the initiate shaman deal with the pressure of eternity. What the initiate can expect from this is an enduring calm, where one’s heart speaks as the eyes see what presents itself through the pressures externally applied to the seer’s energy field.

The Recapitulation Program is a five-day program and is available on a private basis or for groups of up to four people. Discounted prices will be offered for groups.

This program is also available online.

Click here to register for the Shamanic Recapitulation Program.

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Undertaking this course will give you a unique qualification that will enable you to boost your income potential. As a qualified shamanic healer you will have the opportunity to create a flexible work schedule and you may choose to pursue employment in health centers and spas or alternatively to become self-employed.

On average most people who work in the fields of healing and bodywork will earn a minimum of $30,000 a year for a weekly work schedule involving just 15 hours a week. This will give you the ability to pursue your own personal development while also supporting yourself financially in a career that will bring you fulfillment and allow you to enhance the life of others.

Click here for more information about the Certificate of Shamanic Healing.