Parallel Perception

As it pertains to human awareness the subject of perception is at once a subject of power, since it calls to mind questions surrounding the very essence of what it means to be a sentient being.

In "The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception", Lujan Matus strides confidently into powerful territory to speak from within the center of the maesltrom which surrounds the human condition on all sides. The subtitle of the book, "The Living Tapestry of Lujan Matus" is in no small way a message to the reader that merely reading this book invites one upon a shamanic path to receive the light of one who knows. It is an open invitation to engage in the formidable task of reconfiguring one's perceptual framework to the perimeter of one's integrity, and in weaving the web of personal power which leaves no visible trace of itself, to therein recover the lost art of stalking the shadow.One who knows and is lost is the shadow.

Fine lines separate wisdom from the contingencies of wisdom: the same old things that pass as fair-seeming truths.Lujan delivers powerful gentleness to a subject matter which by nature is hard to pin down but which ultimately must be grappled with. The inspiration one draws from the Dream Maker's Realm, from the tales of dreaming portrayed throughout the book, are the gems buried deep in the mine of one's own heart of dreaming. Multi dimensional insights that possess curiously psychoactive properties which retain active constituents of effect long after the initial encounter.

What I have found since reading this book a few times is that I have felt compelled to adapt to a re-creation of everything I thought I knew. It has served as a catalyst for me to travel to Bali and learn Dragon's Tears from Lujan, and much to my amazement has contributed to a wondrous rearrangement of the synchronic order of my life.

My friend and I happened upon your book by complete chance. Reading it has been the most powerfully transfomative and magical experience! Its arrival in our lives could not have come at a more appropiate moment. We have every intention of re-reading it often - no doubt every time we do it will open up new vistas of possibilty and healing. Thank you from the depths of our hearts for this liberating and empowering gift. We are deeply grateful.

I have just finished reading, The Art Of Stalking Parallel Perception. It is one of the most important documents I have ever read. It is a battle ship cruising the sea of infinity laying depth charges set to explode when they find corresponding awareness. Some of those lightnings have already illumined the landscape while others sink even deeper as I anticipate their drift, silently waiting, gathering my resolve…what is left of it.

This book is the clearest elucidation of what it is that we are up against that I have come across. For me the book began to gather momentum with Haunted Awareness, each chapter from then on just building on each other. After each chapter I kept thinking, what can one possibly have left to say after that. It just kept getting better.

There were times while reading the earlier chapters that I noticed that apprehension would surface. At first I would try to dismiss it as I found it distracting from my reading and I would have to re-read a paragraph. In the end I stopped fighting the apprehension and just let it be. For years I have been aware that not every thought I have is “of me” and “my own”. Yet now it seemed that the infiltration was far greater than I imagined. In the apprehension thoughts were laying claim, “Are you sure you want to do this?” “You know what this means?” “Remember the tension, nothing has changed!” Yet in retreating I have complied amidst a myriad of private justifications. Then I read on. My resolve began to gather.. not to do this is not an option. There is no choice! Wow how liberating is that? Let the tension come. Apprehension runs both ways! No more compliance.

I was stunned reading the chapter about the Completion Hieroglyph and what it represents. I have been aware of this possibility for the last 10 years or so. I have read accounts of people that try to describe this state and what has happened to them. Bernadette Roberts and Suzuki to name two in particular. However their words lacked the visual component of your work. They operate almost exclusively on an intuitive level. Intuitively I have been groping towards this, trying even to imagine it. Just to find the words to describe it more fully to myself, to abstractly approach it. I have been like a blind man trying to imagine color. This chapter has been like the approach of dawn before the sun actually breaches the horizon. The landscape is becoming lighter (shadows becoming apparent, now who is apprehensive lol.)

The paragraph where you find yourself on the stairwell, the dreamer, the sleeper and the “third perspective” I recognized immediately in a corresponding account of Bernadette Roberts as she falls down on a hillside and as she lays there her eyes fall upon a flower right in front of her face and the flower smiled at her and she “knew” that the “smile” and the one “being smiled at” and “the smiling” were one. The explanation found in your work gets beyond this poetic description. I wish to cast off everything that would limit awakening to this “unification of awareness.” Your work is a beacon. Thank you.

After reading Castaneda I must say I did not expect to find such a generous concern with our plight and opportunity. I found Castaneda more mythic and your work more pragmatic and immediate with a greater sense of urgency that patiently appeals to a species. I find this “new” mood refreshing. Again, thanks.

Lujan’s book delivers knowledge of a most elusive subject.
To few are the moments when we as human beings can look to what is taking place within our social interplay and understand this process that we partake in mutually within a truth that does not come back later to show it’s inconstancy, it’s fabrication, and emotional irrationality.

This book brings one insight to their most important contribution in this mutual exchange that we individuals partake in, the insight is of our intent…
Our intent without a mask of descriptions, our intentions true and pure as what they are without a buffer to confuse or trick us into a false premise about what we are doing.

Reading this book will give you an understanding of the process which takes place that conditions our beings through our experiences into the behaviors which we express.
And it will give you insight in how to understand what is taking place within your own, and your fellow people, in terms of intentions which do not appear overtly when we express our selves. It will expand your awareness of human interactions and behavior.

Although Lujan’s lessons within the book mainly take place within dreaming, in my opinion only lightly does this book touch upon the abstract in a easily comprehendible way, One must look deeply into the words to be confronted by the immensity of that Abstract. But within the lessons an emphasis is put on our minds, and our intentions as individuals which we share with our fellow human beings within an energetic interplay that becomes the solidification of our social construct here, within this world, that we all must be faced with.

Kyle Milliken

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.

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.

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!

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.

I just discovered this site, and by reading the information as was suggested in a state of inner silence and acceptance, it feels as if I've opened up inside. I've gained more energy for my life purpose and my behavior is shifting as well to more positive action from a calm perspective. Thank you sooo much!

The book is on it's way, and I can't wait to dive in.

Hi, Yes I definitely benefitted from your book. I have read other Toltec books before, and this one touched me very deeply. I have no other choice but to walk this path.

Exceptionally rare is a book that can be read over and over again many times and still enthral and compel you to read it yet again. Your book is such a book. And furthermore every time I have re-read it the contents seem to shift and change. Specific sections stand out that didn't before, becoming more detailed each time they are re-read and to my surprise they correlate with my past and present personal events, highlighting information that wasn't obvious before.

The section that affected me more deeply than any other was 'The Threads of Intention'. What occurred when I read this section was that my internal organs began to shake at the shock of what was on the page. It was as if something inside of me was being confronted that did not want to be revealed. To have experienced something so foreign yet so deeply ingrained inside of me was a contradiction that made me feel so divided and shaken up inside to say the least. I needed this shock because I am divided and not loyal to myself or to my immediate environment. This has heightened on a personal level within me the internal devices that need to be analysed and removed that obviously I've trained into myself through acceptance of something that should not have been there in the first place. I am very grateful that such a person as you, Lujan, has come along to point to the real pertinant issues we need to deal with as individuals within humanity.

Your book has also acted as a guide on how to behave. I've needed this all my life and now I have got it.

Having read this book more than once and been so profoundly affected in so many ways, it is hard to know where to begin in offering feedback, as I don't know anymore where the book ends and my life begins. 'The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception' has a way of interweaving with the fabric of ones life, which makes the subtitle "The Living Tapestry of Lujan Matus" so appropriate, and is also why this book continues to have so much value for me as a unique reference landscape of immense depth.

Over the past few years Lujan Matus has been my teacher and friend and so I had the honour of reading this book as it was being written. The extent of the synchronicity and true resonance that has been apparent over this period - in terms of lessons, encounters, personal upheavals, inexplicable events and dream occurrences - has been an endless source of amazement, confirmation, shock, confrontation and delight that has pierced through every layer of my being and ALWAYS delivered me to exactly where I needed to be.

I can honestly say that there is nothing in my life that has not been positively affected by reading this book and also the years of being in contact with Lujan. To be introduced to this way of looking at and beyond the world is an inestimable gift.

For me, the effect of these accounts upon my perception has been multifold. Firstly, the atmosphere that surrounds Lujan and his companions absorbs my attention within a realm of integrity and beauty that dissolves my own petty fixations and calls upon the better part of me to match up to what is put forth. Lujan and his powerful cohorts have become a yardstick to measure my behaviour against because I know without a doubt that where they are coming from is totally uncompromised without being rigid or trapped within fixed ideology. This in itself is incredibly rare. I personally have never been comfortable with allowing anyone to be in this position for me because at some level or another I have always sensed a point of hypocrisy or compromise, whether or not I can put my finger on it consciously. The trap has been that this can be used as a tool. I can either see myself as above that person, feeding my own arrogance as a means to overcome them (whether openly or in private) or I can allow compromising behaviours in myself because "everyone else does it".
This has been one of the key areas that Lujan has helped me to clear, never allowing me to surreptitiously harbour degrading attitudes and always bringing out into the open what is going on beneath the surface in order to honestly face up to that which is keeping me and those I am close to from standing within nobility and truth.

I am amazed at the difference it makes in my everyday life to have an example of genuine fluidity and power to refer to. Essentially it means that I can now recognise the difference between integrity and underhandedness, in myself and in others, because the knowledge of it has become available as a living experience, not just an ideal. Encountering the extraordinary men and women that appear within the book is like visiting beloved friends. Upon each reading I am always impacted afresh and left with new insights. It is so refreshing to make this discovery time and time again and I am truly excited to think of all the other people who will share this experience in the future.

Emotionally I have had every possible response to this material. Coming to terms with what has arisen within myself has not been easy by any means but it has been literally a life saver to receive this wake up call. The information that is transmitted is impossible to ignore because the body recognises it so deeply. What is given is like the installation of a new operating system that places responsibility squarely in the hands of the one who receives it. It is an inescapable infusion of awareness that presents new ways to view ourselves, our relationships, our past events, our future dreams and everything about the world that we exist in.

The language and concepts from this book have become thoroughly integrated in my life, freeing me up to speak about and perceive things which previously would have been inaccessible. Lujan bends words in a way which demands a lateral assimilation of meaning that is very suited to human awareness. We are naturally adaptive and fixed language could never hope to describe the fluid universe that we experience as a mass of contradictions because of the ways we have learnt to perceive it. Somehow the explanations offered are given in a way that makes clear what is usually beyond our grasp, without ever asserting a righteous world view or pretending to know all the answers. I unreservedly recommend this book to the world and I can't wait to see the day when Lujan is honoured as the wonderful teacher and outstanding human being he is. Thank you for extending such a beautiful and powerful offering to us all.

Naomi Jean

My brief encounters with Lujan Matus have been incomprehensibly potent and their repercussions withstand the test of normal life. His movements are of extraordinary quality and have sculpted my essence over the past eight years.

I see in his writing an underlying syntax which is more solid than I ever imagined and my two goals of heart seem clearer and closer than ever before. In light of Lujan's teachings, the positions of emotional honesty and personal control seem attainable.

His words take me back to half memories and genetic reactivation possibilities. His book has power.

Good work Lujan

Infinite in it's practicality, this book pulses deeply with templates of endless possibility, multilateral perception & empowerment. Every time I read the pages contained within "The Art Of Stalking Parallel Perception" I feel elevated, expanded & filled full of joy at the magic that is available in the realms of waking & dreaming.
Lujan, through sharing your experiences & insights you have provided such an amazing gift in awareness. You are a true sage & man of incredible heart & integrity.

To say the least I am absolutely shocked to read the content of this book. I have read all the works of Carlos Castaneda, Florinda Donner and Taisha Abelar. I have considered myself to be a stalker but I can see that you are a true and real dream stalker. I am now applying every principle that I am capable of perceiving, to my life. I am experiencing upheaval after upheaveal, realizing that I have not lived correctly for over 20 years. It is refreshing to be confronted by what seems to be, as you say, encrypted information that corresponds unmistakenly to every single circumstance I review. Your writings have unleashed my true potential. I've heard people say, 'Where is the nagual when you need him?'. I know now exactly where he is.

The integrity and beauty which surrounds Lujan Matus and what lies within the pages of 'The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception' resonated within me, unlocking my true being and expanded my awareness to undeniable truths. Lujan has lead me on a journey of self reflection and has taken me to places of true magic and endless possibilities through concepts which go beyond academic comprehension.
This is a book of power and I believe it is the gateway to that which we are searching for; being who we are truely meant to be, being free.
Lujan has given to all a universal gift of infinite dimensions as its core essence is truth so will impact all who reads it.

Stacey-Dionne Williams, Bsc Hon's Psychology, Post Graduate Child Psychotherapy & Research

There is nothing I have found more stimulating than basking in the after sting of an exposed truth, for I know I am being forced into freedom from, what once, only moments before, I had been a slave to for who knows how long. My contact with Lujan has assisted me in asking for the courage to BE that force behind these almost certain to be painful, and at the least, extremely uncomfortable and embarrassing exposures of my wicked ways.
I have no doubt that by reading this book I will be shown evermore stylish manouvres I can use to free myself of disgusting behaviour and a disturbing enslavement to patterns. Already, having read only the first few chapters, I feel boldness and sincerity emerge. Very cool. Very welcome.

So far I have only read about a third of it, but am impressed, for despite all the heavy-conceptual message bearing, the language is really dynamic and intuitively riveting. It makes multi-dimensional sense to the head as well as the heart. It's most unusual for a book of cosmic and reality shifting proportions to be so poetic and yet intellectually direct in both style and content.
I dig it. It's not an easy book. It's demanding that I bring my total attention and all my available speed to it, and that's been a bit of a challenge of late... I think I'll have to read and re-read it a couple times, just to get it all flowin' true. I already feel that this may be the book that gives me the tools I need to help me recover what I have lost.

When I began reading this book, I found the first section quite difficult - the terminology was sometimes foreign and the sentences seemed long and complex. However, as I read on it began to loosen up for me and I warmed to its pace. More interesting than this superficial observation though, was how reading the book affected my being. I found myself remembering a couple of incidents vividly, these were particular moments in my young life where I had gossiped about people I loved, and left those situations feeling very bad, knowing that I had poisoned something or someone that was special to me. I wondered how I could have ever got embroiled in other situations like that, remembering how awful it had made me feel.

As I read the book too, I found myself wondering how I would have the inner strength to put into practice these good practices. I felt that I might not retain the presence and consciousness to be aware enough in my everyday encounters with people. Surprising to me - the very next time I was confronted with meaningless and unnecessary gossip prying into other people's lives, I found myself like a fly on the wall, observing the present with awareness and the consciousness to choose how to behave - I was aware of my need to look after my energy at this time. I found this extremely interesting, and very refreshing. I would say that this is more than just a book; the experience of reading this book seems to involve a dynamic interaction with the consciousness of the reader, it seemed to promote and highlight my ability to be aware at important moments of choice. This is quite profound from my perspective and I am looking forward to reading this book again. Thank you Lujan Matus.

Gabrielle

I do wish to express my appreciation of "The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception", it aided me in fine tuning that which I had been coming to understand and assisted in clarity, my confidence in it and courage in expressing it. For this I am truly grateful.