Parallel Perception - Testimonials

If I had never met Lujan, the individual, and experienced what he has to offer the world, it would be difficult to imagine he existed beyond the pages of a book. Like the old Nagual Lujan, Juan Matus, or any one of the impeccable warriors from Castaneda’s books or from “The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception”- his own book, Lujan has achieved a practice comparable in terms to a living myth.

Fortunately for us all, Lujan is real, and, with mythology intact, a teacher and adept practitioner of his art. No exaggeration either. His capacity to adapt himself to his circumstances and maintain a fluid position required me to immediately address elements of my own dysfunctional behavioral patterns, which Lujan was of course the channel for making me aware that he was aware of also.

The exercises of Tapping are powerfully invigorating and strengthening and the movements themselves integrate with the internal sensations that arise. For the first two sessions of Tapping I became physically ill due to a blockage around my solar plexus region. The blockage related to power issues associated with subtle aspects that were slumbering just below the surface of my normal awareness and had become socialized. The way in which energy rises in the body as a result of the Tapping is impossible to ignore. The practice itself has in only a short time delivered comprehensive boosts of energy that I would have been unable to anticipate beforehand.

Learning the advanced series of Dragon’s Tears movements, complete with mudras and gestures is absolutely essential for anyone who has learned the initial series.

Words are limited when it comes to relaying the full implications of the experiences of energetically interacting with Lujan Matus. Energetic results speak for themselves energetically. When it comes to what Lujan knows that he is responsible for, the student is in good hands. I would not hesitate to say to anyone who was interested in getting the best from themselves, go and see Lujan.

I got an e-mail from amazon.com recommending me the book” The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception”, because I had purchased similar books in the past. I read the reviews of the book and purchased it immediately.

What got my attention in this book was the story with Nicholas. In the past I had also some lucid dreams and visions; but today I think everyday life situations are much more important in a spiritual path. How Lujan introduced this story was very promising for me.

So after reading the book, I decided to visit Lujan in Bali. Actually I found it always important to have mutual contact with teachers. By the way you can't learn “Dragon's Tears” reading a book. Learning “Dragon's Tears” is an experience by itself, and this in beautiful Bali!

Lujan is a very powerful man in every aspect: physically and spiritually. While doing “Dragon's Tears” with him I sensed that I was filled with energy. Lujan showed us how he could move our bodies from a distance by waving his hands at our back. We would rock back and forwards in time with his hands. I saw this while I watched him demonstrate on my wife.

We would visit Lujan in the evening after making a Bali tour all day long and being tired. But after working with Lujan on “Dragon's Tears” we would be fit again and filled with energy, and could go out at night. This is not only “Dragon's Tears”, but Lujan's attitude also! His great laughter would make us feel all happy. I think in the spiritual path friendship is most important and you can find this friendship by Lujan.

That's why I advise you to visit Lujan and to know him. You will have another good friend on the planet!

Early this year I went to a dragon's tears workshop and felt the need to write about my experiences. What I came away with I would consider pure sorcery. I've had many unusual experiences in my life and seen many things but nothing that defies description as what I experienced with Lujan.

There are movements in dragon's tears that Lujan called gestures or mudras. These movements open channels that allow you to connect with the energy lines of the world but the lines are actually connected to the hands and the particular movement.

What I don't understand is how it is changing me but I am definitely changing. All I can say is that this is very magical but personal.

One night I woke up falling into an abyss. And it reminded me of the feeling I had when I was watching Lujan demonstrate the Dragon's Tears.

An emptiness enters the room but at the same time the room felt electric, like there was a soft buzzing in the air. He seems to be a very quiet man yet the pressure that my body feels around him is quite often unbearable. Many other people in the group said they felt the same thing. Like there is something that is watching us through him but at the same time it is teaching us to watch ourselves.

I feel like I have learned so much about myself and grown on my journey. The movements are very powerful but what is most amazing is how much more silence and awareness I am experiencing in my daily life. I feel like I am on the threshold of discovering hidden secrets about myself and the world.

I came to Bali in May 08 to learn Dragon's Tears and Tapping and the following is an account of my experiences that have taken place over the last two weeks.

To start with, Dragons tears is a beautiful set of flowing movements that from the first session allowed me to become aware of the energy around my body, some movements making my fingers tingle and making pockets of air thick and warm as my fingers passed through them, while practicing in low light with Lujan I started to see things like translucent trails following his fingers, one evening I could see a glove of energy about 1cm thick around his hands, and another evening as Lujan closed out the set I saw a huge trail of deep blue energy about 6 or 7 inches long slowly trail back into his hand, another time, in the morning Lujan showed up at my door and as we talked I could see the air behind him shimmering like heat waves, this I could see peripherally, and when I looked directly at it, it went away.

Lujan is a wonderful teacher and demonstrated many times his control of the body's energy, I watched him move a plant using gentle hand gestures, without being touched the plant bent towards his beckoning hand and sprang back on withdrawal, another time as we sat gazing at a candle lit ball we both observed it multiple times move with a jerky motion back and forwards, it was a strange sensation, I cant describe it well, Lujan explained that rather than it moving physically, we were merging our energy fields and this allowed us to shift into an altered state to observe the movement, Lujan also used a similar gesture as that which he used to move the plant, but instead over my upturned palm and I could feel a tickling or vibrating sensation from inside my hand.

Another strange thing is that I started to recall memories of seemingly mundane conversations that I had with Lujan that never happened, twice I recalled him in my house commenting on various things, very strange.

And then there is the tapping, which I was told to train for, and I thought I was, but I was in no way prepared for the intensity of the practice, the first time I attempted it, I basically collapsed, completely unable to function, and in Lujan's words, "had to be escorted by the elbow like an old lady back to your room and put to bed" during the practice I felt a tight bundled knot of energy rise into my solar plexus and it stayed there, making me nauseous, later Lujan explained that he stayed with me until the energy had cleared and risen to my heart centre, he explained that this was a block of some kind as the tapping causes energy to rise up through your body and will run into any hidden emotion you are trying to hold onto.

After the first time, I continued to train and by the end of the sessions had become able to go through all the exercises, although every time seemed just as intense, I became more relaxed and felt better after each time, at one point Lujan pointed out to me that my whole body was actually steaming.

On the night of my last day here I had a dream where I was practicing the Tears and the movements were transformed into sounds which made beautiful harmonies.

Both the Tears and the tapping are invaluable and powerful tools for energy conservation and self mastery, I would recommend them to anyone.

Luke

Australia

Shamanic Healing in Bali

On the evening of May 22nd Lujan introduced me to a gazing technique he called Gateway Gazing.

The experience was to become the most profound and dramatic of the many gazing techniques Lujan taught me during my week in Bali.

The technique began innocently enough with a couple of plants . After going through several steps which resulted in the plants becoming luminous. Lujan caught me off guard and had me switch my gaze to a star that was approximately directly above the plants in our field of view.

This resulted in the plants that I was still watching out of my peripheral vision changing color in a manor that I can best describe as a very dramatic light show at a very good dance club. The plants appeared to be incased in a room with lights of every color imaginable flashing brightly and randomly.

At this point I was content to simply watch the spectacle in front of me however something even more profound happened as the star we were gazing at appeared to blink brightly several times then extinguish.

At this point Lujan became quite enthusiastic, I on the other hand reverted to using my rational mind which suddenly switched back on to explain the phenomena I had just witnessed.

Lujan, as usual a few steps ahead challenged me to look for the clouds I silently needed to complete my explanation with. Upon closer inspection of course there were no clouds in the vicinity of the now missing star.

What's more the surrounding stars were still present and accounted for. After our usual (debriefing ) and several more attempt at finding the missing star which persisted the following 2 nights, I was forced to come to the conclusion that the star had indeed burned out in a most spectacular fashion before my very eyes. The ramifications of this event are and will likely continue to affect me in untold ways. Perhaps someday I will even find my now missing star.

Sincerely
Michael Walking Bear

"Visiting the Nagual" It's so neat to be able to write those words. It's been about a month since my visit with Lujan, in Bali. Knowing that a nagual is a direct conduit of the spirit, I looked forward to meeting the man. Not just a nagual, but also the author of what I believe is the most important book ever written!

I was planning originally to go alone, but by wonderful chance the timing was right for my wife and children to join me. As I have been inspired by Don Juan's words in one of Castaneda's books, that under the guidance of some seers, "whole villages moved on". This then fell nicely into place.

Anyway, as the atmosphere and energy of Bali permeated my being, I became so relaxed that I laughed at the apropos titled 'lazy warrior program' that I had enrolled in.

As a person, I am used to being self-assured. I am a big man physically and, in the realm of the spirit, I feel close/clear most of the time! Well Lujan isn't relaxed or lazy. He has the spirit at his side and he is almost as big as big as me, but in better shape LOL. All hell broke loose, like two big cats fighting, one prodding cat (Lujan) the other of course me reluctantly having to engage, at times with heated parley. All in all, I would have to say; it's the first time in my life I was challenged in this area that I value. It is also the first time that I have talked with someone whose vocabulary, and cognitive view of reality is in alignment with mine.

There is a current of energy, the beginnings of a new cycle in the momentum of this man! Go to Bali & see for yourself!

I first met Lujan in feb 2007 where I attended his first Dragons Tears workshop. During the past 15 months I have felt a potent connection with Lujan and have returned a few times to Bali to work more with him. I felt a strong calling to work deeper with Lujan and was drawn towards his Shamanic Tuition and Healing course.

All i can say is from the depths of my heart i truly unconditionally love and respect Lujan and I am so grateful for what he has shared with me.
The time i have spent with Lujan has been full of abundance and magic! I feel as though a flame of warmth and light has been ignited within. I cannot, nor want to find the words to express my experience for it remains sacred, beyond words...What i do want to express is my heartfelt gratitude to Lujan for sharing his time and energy with me.

What i learnt and experienced with Lujan was so invaluable, so important, and a gift i will carry eternally with me on the journey.

I feel like i have shedded many layers of skin, and through the peeling off of these many layers i have found a restful emptiness, silence and peace...

The tools i was taught have opened diamond gateways and are helping me along my journey in so many magical ways and I feel so much more awakened in my dreams.

These techniques are so powerful and easy to utilize. Theres something so special about being in Lujan's presence which i feel so uplifting, every time im with him i feel awakened, aware and so alive! Even with no words needing to be spoken, i feel a language beyond words, beyond verbal sound....

Thank you Lujan for your sharing and your radiant presence! i look forward to our next meeting! I feel an infinite friendship with you, so sacred and so pure. Thank you!

Nat

I recently attended the Shamanic Healing Program in Bali. I was propelled to come for physical reasons but felt the effects on many levels. I feel that Lujan addressed a part of myself that I normally wouldn't have been able to reach. And now that I've been back for a
few days and have had some time to reflect, I would say that the advice I received is something that I never would have been able to come to otherwise.

I really do think that I felt the effects of the healing before arriving, and after starting the program I felt that the healing sessions were very powerful. I really look forward to incorporate the suggestions that Lujan gave me into my life. I also felt that being in Bali really amplified the effects of the program.

I'm really grateful to have had the chance to be part of this and for everything I learned. I definitely would recommend it to anyone who is interested.

Lujan

Well I've been back from Bali for over a week now. I just want to write and say again Thankyou so very much for everything you taught me. The lessons have been powerful, much more that I had imagined them to be.

Spirit has been presenting me with many opportunities where I must decide how to stay in my Power.... so very thankful for every one of these experiences. Life has become even more magical for me.

There has been a change of perception that has taken place deep within my being, subtle yet very strong. For this I'm very grateful.

Jill

If you seek change in your life, I highly recommend going to see the Nagual Lujan Matus in Bali. This is what I did.

First I will say that upon meeting Lujan, I was struck by his strong affectionate nature and openness. I also recognized his leadership qualities and sense of responsibility towards my visit.

It is not easy to convey in words what my encounters with him were like. On one hand, he was able to touch my heart very deeply and fill me with extreme hope and comfort; I felt truly accepted for who I was in his presence. On the other hand, he relentlessly confronted false parts of me that were keeping me in captivity through repetition and unwillingness to release. He helped me to dig deeper than ever before to uncover secret aspects within. Sometimes what surfaced referred to empowering aspects that needed further cultivation, other times what became apparent were things that were holding me back from expressing my personal power.

While in his presence, there were indications from spirit, also known as omens that pointed out matters of significance. The memories of these occurrences have become “symbolic lessons” to be assimilated into awareness to enhance my understanding of how to proceed in dreaming myself forward.

Lujan used massage techniques to bring forth physical strength and healing. He also taught me gazing techniques that had a profound effect. The techniques produced altered states of awareness and greatly increased my inner silence. I look forward to implementing these techniques here at home, as their beneficial qualities are extreme.

All else I can say is that I simply love Lujan with my being. I really, really enjoyed his company. His heart is very giving, his power is very strong, his mind empty. Go see him, he will help you to reclaim your power.

I picked up Lujan's book about a year ago, after reading it I decided to do a few months of phone sessions over Skype. Going into my sessions I was filled with questions that after I found answers I believed would help me progress. But I was mistaken. Lujan automatically noted that answers will not bring growth until I dealt with issues from my past that were keeping me fixed. These phone sessions turned into something I was not expecting them to be, and made me confront myself which took a lot of effort and understanding.

A few months later I ended up on the other side of the world. Alone. In Bali. I definitely was excited but remember thinking what am I doing here, and what am I going to get out of this. I did the Shamanic Healing with Lujan and I can't even begin to describe my achievements, and even if I wrote down every experience and all the knowledge I took from it, it wouldn't make a difference to you, because these were experiences were mine. I can say I gained a life experience, priceless knowledge and faultless groundwork to help me unravel and am grateful for having Lujan teach me.

Lujan has not only a comprehensive knowledge and generosity to give but also endless encouragement for us, his students that embed vital teachings. I felt so content, Lujan truly was so humble, caring, loving and comical that I did not want my time with him to end. The techniques I learnt were specified towards me, I was able to acquire, obtain and practice. I experienced an effortless but profound ecstasy of Being when I let go of indications and became. Have faith in yourself, because you too are capable to learn here and beyond.

I did not go to see Lujan to get healed in the sense that you go to see an osteo or chiropractor, but indeed Lujan did fix a physical problem that had previously been with me for a very long time (20 years?).

I had a painful lump on the muscle at the back of my neck. It had been there for years and I saw a masseur regularly to relieve the tension and headaches that emanated from this area.

In a short treatment, and I mean short, 2 minutes, the lump disappeared and he said to me’ Geoff, where’s your lump?”

The lump’s gone! It’s amazing. After all these years it’s just gone! My neck feels a great deal better.

I would absolutely recommend a visit to Lujan to anyone who wants to change and improve their lives both physically and spiritually.

Crossing into the new year of 2008 I went to Beautiful Ubud in Bali for the Shamanic healing program with Lujan.

At first nervous, being the first time coming to Indonesia and by myself, all uncertainty dissolved at once in Lujan's warm and engaging presence, and I have come away feeling both peaceful and invigorated at the same time.

Each day I would meet Lujan in the early afternoon and he would give me a massage that would create the tingling sensation of waves of energy washing over my body, and in the afternoons and evenings, Lujan would share different meditation and gazing techniques.

Throughout the sessions I would laugh and talk with Lujan, he would share his understanding, and would help me to release any emotions that were surfacing as a result of the practices, he helped me to release a large amount of guilt that I was chaining myself down with, which has left me feeling that a part of myself has been freed.

In between sessions I would explore the town, or relax in the tropical heat which seemed to soak through me just as the meditation and gazing would, leaving me feeling relaxed and satisfied, the food at Made's is absolutely wonderful.

Lujan is fluid and loving, taking the role of whatever is most appropriate at any moment, and he would adapt the techniques he would show me according to what was most effective at the time.

The resulting effects are hard to define, on arriving back in Australia I found myself suddenly crying as I drove back home from the airport about how beautiful life is, I feel much clearer than before, open, and I find myself falling out of bad habits without realizing it.

If anyone has the opportunity to go to Bali and meet with Lujan and learn from him, then I would say go, life is so short, create your opportunity, and you will not regret it.

Over the past three weeks I have been training with Lujan learning Tapping. I have some difficulty in writing about this because it has already become a very personal affair, but I wish to share some of my experience to give an idea of what it is all about to anyone who is interested.

I will say here that it is a lifetime practice. Once you understand what it is for there is no turning back.

In Tapping you are forced to face yourself every morning. It is a set of very demanding physical exercises which go deeply into your muscles, especially the legs, stirring up any emotions which are stored there, bringing them to the surface. What you do with these is up to you.

For me, within a few days I had some major upheaval, a lot of stored anger came up. The Tapping brought out and magnified this anger which I had been strongly identifying with to the degree that I was on the verge of exploding for a few hours after the practice. There came a point where I had to question it. Is this necessary? At this point I realised that I could turn it on and off. It was quite funny. I could go from a genuinely violent shaking rage to being completely placid in one second. After this realisation the anger kind of just disappeared. I also experienced severe pain in my throat for the first few sessions, which was related to my inability to communicate, and as the days went on, as I opened up more and more the pain lessened and lessened. .Having to face it everyday puts you in the position where you either deal with it or you continue to experience pain. This is what it is all about, pushing yourself to the brink of what you can handle physically and emotionally, to the point where anything unnecessary manifests very obviously.

The benefits you receive from the practice are proportionate to how willing you are to face yourself. The practice will open you up and empty you out. The feeling that I have after practicing is that every cell in my body is activated, vibrating and alive, and I am experiencing a calmness which I have never possessed before. Magical things will occur, but they are no more important than anything else. The practice is a never ending process, an endless challenge.

I cannot thank Lujan enough for sharing with me a gift that will be with me for the rest of my life. To anyone is a sincere seeker this may be the most valuable tool you will ever find and it will make you realise how many other systems just do not work as effectively. Within two weeks of practicing Tapping I was experiencing a rising of energy from the ground, through my root chakra, through each higher chakra to my crown, which I felt as a tangible sensation of tingling heat which had nothing to do with imagining it. I could feel a line of energy passing through the centre of my body.

Another thing I will mention that Lujan showed me was the "silk veil technique" which dramatically increased my awareness of the energy surrounding my body in the air around me.

Lujan - THANK YOU.

It’s really weird how we work as human beings. I remember reading Nicholas' experience in 'The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception' saying I never wanted to be in his position, maybe I knew then I would be, or I was. I thought for the first time in my life I was taking responsibility for who I was but I wasn’t really taking responsibility for anything.

You are such a master, I laugh and laugh when I think about your artistry. You are clearing people’s burdens, healing the world, one person at a time. I think the world of you and i will never in my life be able to Thank You enough for the beautiful things you have done for me.

You are truly the most wonderful person I have ever known and the only way I can express my gratitude is love. I truly feel pure love for you and would do anything for you. That is what I feel right now. The purest feelings of
respect and admiration.

THANK YOU!

Greetings all my name is Charles Daniel Sherman IV and this is a message to those whom seek inner truth. I undertook 12 sessions with Lujan Matus.

After reading his book I felt the need to clarify my findings, between his work, my personal findings and other works concerning Toltec knowledge.

Very shortly into our first session Lujan laughed in a way I didn't know was possible. All my doubts were erased and I knew he was whom I had hoped he was. I was a very closed person during our sessions.

I unconsciously was keeping secrets about quite a few things; he was somehow able to detect these things which I was not even aware of myself. He gave me tasks during our sessions which I didn't end up doing, and so he adapted to me quite rapidly and gave me task's which seemed tailored to me.

Lujan brought quite a bit of insight into my life and he did it in such an open way so that the proposed information was left to evolve any which way my path would take me.

I would highly recommend taking his sessions to just about anyone. I can't imagine Lujan not having a highly beneficial affect on those who are willing to open their minds and their hearts.

When I read “The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception" I realized immediately something transformative was occurring in my awareness.

I had read Castaneda’s books and, like everyone else, felt the pang of disappointment when he died and the accusations of fictionalization began surfacing. Yet I reread them because something in them resonated with what I knew deep inside to be an essential truth. Call it an internal sensitivity: I know it’s there when I read or write it.

“Just what is a Nagual?” Is it a unique energy body configuration, as Castaneda implied? Or is it a title, like “Teacher” passed down through tradition, as others claimed? I concluded that the title of Nagual had to be bestowed directly by energy, the spirit itself. My reasoning was that, genuine or fraud, it would take an enormous amount of self-awareness just to sustain such an appellation; which meant there was the possibility I could learn something from Lujan either way.

What did I have to lose, I reasoned? My own personal life was in turmoil. I decided I had to find out for myself.

My first impression of Lujan Matus was his laughter. The freedom it conveyed brought a sense of hope to me. And his first question, “How can we help each other?” made me realize that I wasn’t going to be spoon-fed answers in response to my childish wants. Not that I didn’t try. I whined and cried, he yelled and mocked me, we laughed and laughed. Over a period of time I came to love him as a man who walks his talk. The message I took with me is that it is possible to live within one’s truth, continuously.

One thing that struck me was his directness. I am still digesting some of his written works. Our conversations, on the other hand, were immediate and to-the-point. Sometimes I questioned how the man I was talking to could possibly be the same one who authored such a powerful book. It felt more like I was confiding in my best friend; sharing viewpoints that were often humorous, sometimes sympathetic, always frank. It wasn’t that he was mirroring me; it was simply a facility for creating a bridge between our mutual understandings of what constitutes communication.

His advice (when I took it) was usually quite insightful. Once I accused him of studying psychotherapy: he just laughed and thanked me. But sometimes he was like that. He would lead me through my line of reasoning until I myself uncovered the inconsistencies. Then he’d confide that he knew he’d gotten through to me because he felt goosebumps and his gecko was agreeing with him. Then upon the insights spoken I myself heard the gecko's agreement. That's when I realized I was dealing with a powerful shaman, not a mere counselor.

I cannot separate the elements of my growth as coming from either Lujan’s or my own efforts. But a definite realignment has occurred that is still in the process of becoming real, I can say I do feel more confident and less attached to my old dramas of identity. And I find myself more giving than before… not out of expectation, but out of love. I like to believe Lujan played a part in this realignment, and hope that he gained something from knowing me as well.

Alexander Plonka

Information Systems Architect

Virgina, USA

Like many of the practitioners and tuition students posting here, I found Lujan Matus's web site via serendipity. I can't remember my motives for cruising through the net that day I stumbled across the site, but once here, I was intrigued. Excerpts from the book gave descriptions that seemed to float up from a depth of silence that I'd never encountered before. I was shifted...and being so, knew I was in the presence of authenticity.

I engaged the forum and was met by genuine warriors who operated from a perspective of affection and purpose. Buying the book came shortly there-after. I now consider it one of the most sophisticated bodies of work revolving around warriorism that I've ever laid eyes on.

My subsequent tuition with Lujan has been pure magic. My expectations (there, regardless of whether they should have been or not) were simply blown away. All that was required was to bring the best of myself to the table with honesty and openness. That being done, and not without some initial reserve to be truthful, Lujan escorted me to essential compartments of myself almost immediately...allowing me access to massive progressive manipulations of this puzzle that faces us all...the puzzle of the self dreaming this dream that we dream. I've been introduced to "heart" perspective, and I know that I'll never let it go!

Thank you Lujan. What a stroke of fortune...of power and Spirit...to have met you here in this exquisite place!

Chris Boyce
Birmingham, Alabama

A year or so ago I came across the Parallel Perception website and was intrigued by the excerpts from Lujan’s book “The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception”. I immediately went out and purchased the book.

I found the book challenged me and reflected back to me what I am and what I could possibly be. I explored the forum in detail and inquired about private lessons with Lujan. After a short email exchange, I committed to 12 sessions. I was a little nervous during the first session but Lujan’s warm and engaging presence made me feel like I had known him for years. I can still hear his joyful laugh.

It is hard to believe that someone thousands of miles away whom you have never met can zero in on those areas that need attention. Somehow, Lujan does it very well. Over the course of the 12 weeks, I can honestly say that the things that I put into practice on the advice of Lujan have increased my personal power.

Some of what I learned seems so simple but I think then in lies its power. For example, staying within your integrity and understanding your agreements. Other slightly more complex lessons revolved around the intricacies of sexual attention. These practices have begun a change in me that is both positive and growing.

Like everything else in life, we must take responsibility for our own journey. A guide like Lujan can point the way but we must take action. Someone a long time ago said ‘as you sow so shall you reap’. I think that applies here. Lujan will provide the seeds and if we sow those seeds, we will reap the fruits of personal power.

I was in Bali with friends and someone very close to me showed me this pamphlet called “Dragon's Tears”.
As soon as I saw it I felt it draw me inward and I felt something very powerful about it.

My friend whom I have a lot of trust in his intuition told me it was a portal hole. He was leaving Bali and couldn’t attend it though insured me it would be a massive opening for me if I did it.

So I knew nothing about it and went along to the course. It was something I connected with so strongly and I felt like it brought back memories…I instantly felt the energy and warmth in my hands and the movement seemed so natural to me. It was like a very slow dance of swirling energy.

I rarely every attend courses whilst traveling for financial reasons and this I felt I couldn’t pass on. I am so grateful I attended the course, I found it very empowering on all levels and using the sequence of movements tapped into my energy that I reconnected with. I ‘ve been using the the Dragon's Tears now for 2 and half months and recently came back to Bali and helped Lujan facilitate his Dragon's Tears course.

It was an amazing experience for me, and I could feel my progression and movement in energy. I felt very lucky to be working so close with Lujan.
I have also been doing some private training with Lujan and learning “Tapping”.

This for me has been extremely powerful and I can honestly say that Lujan is a fantastic teacher! He knows how to push you forward and where the work needs to be made.

Learning the applications of tapping has brought me more into my body and awareness, I have feeling of burning warmth through my meridians and can feel these energy lines opening up .

After the first day I could not walk and with Lujans help of pushing through that pain and emotion the pain became lesser and lesser.

The tapping is a yang practice producing extreme amount of energy that streams throughout the body externally and internally via pounding pressure that enemates from the hearts center.

It brings any emotions and past aversions straight to the surface to be released. It strengthens the legs and makes you extremely strong.

I also wanted to mention the Thunder Dance which i really enjoyed. It is a rhythmical movement of the feet and opening the hearts center. It also rids the body and environment of any negative energy fields.

Doing this with Lujan was very powerful, I saw his feet turn into hooves and I experienced some ancient force tapping inside of me.

One morning I came early to begin tapping session and Lujan and we began talking. He brought up something that happened to me in India with the sadhus many years ago where I was given cobra poison.

It was some intense magic and still obviously was lingering in my consciousness. Everything Lujan was seeing I began seeing, I was zoned into his eyes and emotions were flying all over the place within me.

There didn’t need to be words as by looking into his eyes I could see…it was like I was locked into his space I could not get out of it, as to not to escape my own shit.

He took me through in a type of dream like state and taught me to deconstruct, mind you, this was done whilst we were awake! At times i felt instant clarity as I was deconstructing.

What I saw and felt that day will make me never loose trust in him. Its not easy for me to put this all into words as its more a feeling than words can express.

What I want to say is that Lujan is a great teacher and has so much knowledge and energy to share and I have lived in India and all over Asia and traveled through the amazon for the past 10 years and have met many shamans and taken many medicine journeys and met many teachers and what I feel with Lujan is so pure.

He comes from the heart and truth and I have a lot of trust in him. I also like the fact that you can go on a medicine journey with him straight from the heart without taking any plant medicine.

I can write on and on about my experiences though they are my experiences and we all have different experiences that are sacred to us. I just want to recommend Lujans course and training and for those whom hold any bit of interest, DO IT!!! I promise you wont regret anything!

Youll leave only gaining so much more and opening your magic!(energy)
Many Thanks and Respect Lujan!!!

Natalie Zukerman
Natural Therapist
Mullumbimby, Australia

After just a week of practicing Dragon’s Tears and five days of learning its martial applications with Lujan I have noticed changes in my perception and overall energy levels. I have become more centered and have already noticed that the rhythms of my life are becoming smoother.

When I arrived in Bali to learn the Dragon’s Tears I had many fears – that my body wasn’t up to it, that I was messing around in a world I had no place in, a fear of being seen for what I really was …etc.etc. and so on and so on. However within minutes of meeting Lujan my fears vanished. I was immediately empowered by him and after thirty minutes of speaking with him was entirely confident in my decision to come and was keenly anticipating learning the dragon’s tears. After this first encounter I was left feeling self assured and at ease.

The workshop itself consisted of three days – two hours in the morning and two in the afternoon and a two hour break in between. The atmosphere of the workshop was relaxed but very focused and we covered many things in a short period of time. If anybody was unsure about a movement, Lujan would patiently go through it with them and we only moved on if the whole group was happy. The movements themselves are relatively easy to learn, by the end of the second day the group had picked up all of them. I felt confident about practicing them on my own after the three days.

After the workshop for the next five days I trained privately with Lujan on the martial applications of the Dragon’s Tears. I had absolutely no background in the martial arts and was quite apprehensive, though Lujan assured me that it was a good thing as there was nothing to undo. I trained for a few hours on each of these five days and the things that Lujan was able to show me in this short time shocked me. I found myself performing movements at the end of a two hour session that seemed impossible at the beginning.

Lujan’s teaching style is totally aimed at the individual. If I was struggling with a movement he would stop me immediately and show me another movement so my body could catch its essence with the least possible effort. He knows how to show you things, all you have to do is relax and allow yourself to be shown.

The martial applications are very direct and bring a sense of power when performed. They are quite addictive. I practiced one particular movement for an hour by myself after learning it and was completely unaware of the passage of time.

Within a week I have had two dreaming experiences, on both occasions I have been confronted by menacing figures who I made disappear once I became aware I was dreaming by performing a movement from the Dragon’s Tears. I have only dreamt a handful of times before and it had been a month or so since my last experience.

I have also noticed that my perception has opened up while I have been here. I have become aware of fleeting images around me while walking at night and had the definite impression of a man’s face appear in front of me as I walked up the steps to my hotel room. This I talked to Lujan about and he thinks that I saw a spirit which is totally unfamiliar to me and he attributed this to the Dragon’s Tears opening my perception.

Through my brief time with Lujan I have been left with a real sense of empowerment and the conviction that anything he can do anyone can learn. He has definitely mastered what he teaches. He has no possessiveness towards his knowledge and I felt comfortable asking him about anything, the movements or otherwise.

I would wholeheartedly recommend to anyone considering learning from him to not waste any time, you will not believe how quickly you can change if you open yourself to what he has to share, all you have to do is let go of your fear.

In early 2007 I participated in Lujan's Dragon's Tears workshop. I had been doing Tensegrity for about 5 years on my own. I felt good about these exercises but not really energised by them. The Dragon's Tears however make me hot and I can feel the energy, especially in my hands. It's the first time I can really feel 'energy'. It feels hot, I can feel a ball of energy in my hands when I'm doing the Tears and when I put my hot hands on my stomach I feel the energy transfer. A week or so after the learning the movements in the workshop I started to feel as If I had been 'ironed inside.' Something hot was making me smooth.

There were a million things I wanted to ask Lujan after that first workshop so I asked if I could come back to Bali and see him. A few weeks later I did so.
I wanted to learn more. Were there more techniques or exercises that make you powerful?
I mean you get power by doing stuff like exercises and not doings and shamanic business? don't you?
When I first arrived Lujan showed me more steps to the Thunder Dance, the first part of which we learned in the first Dragon's Tears workshop. I was delighted.

Later on, one afternoon after a day where I was feeling like ...like you know how you feel when you think that you really don't know what you are doing and your life is really a mess?... Lujan showed up unexpectedly at my room.

It was pouring with tropical rain. As he said later he 'jumped me'. He said 'let's cut the crap and get to what's really going on here.' (Or words to that effect.)
It was hopeless trying to hide anything from him it was like he could 'see' through me, I tried desperately to parry his questions and precise and accurate observations about me and my behaviour. I was even copying his body language in an attempt to curry favour in a difficult spot. He told me to cut that out straight away. He said I was waisting my time trying to play control games with him and indeed with anyone. He told me I was waisting all the power I had upholding my behaviours and the task is to let all that stuff go. Other personal stuff I had to admit to him is just too embarrasing to talk about, or certainly write about here. He had it out of me in about 2 minutes flat.
He showed me that the task is a very personal journey with the heart. Forget about power techniques, change the way you behave. Forget about yourself and think of other people. He told me watch my body language because my intent, my energy was directed through that body language. At that moment I realized something I had wondered about for years ...what the hell is intent!? I made the connection, my body language was my secret intent whilst I pretended to myself that I had another 'noble' intent or worse that I didn't know what intent was. Now when I think about my body language I fell like I know one small but important thing about my intent and how I am directing it. If you are looking for techniques just this awareness alone is real work. To be aware all the time, in the moment what you are intending, what are you doing with your body. I am embarrased to think how transparent I must have looked to Lujan.
At one stage I said to him I was too lazy to change and he said well that's just a lie look how industrious you are, look at all the work you do and the work you do to be who you are now.

The Naguals blow is a shocking thing. In all of ten? minutes
I had been clinically and ruthlessly exposed. He left saying there is nothing to do, just let all that stuff go.
After he left I wanted to run away to get the hell out in case he came back and had another go at me.
Then I immediately recalled just how many times I had done that in my life. Lujan said to me that young men can be filled with emotional turmoil but someone older like me couldn't use that excuse anymore.....I had to face it. He was right I came to see him because this was my last chance to change.
I had to face the real me.
Before too long Lujan was back (figuratively) patting me and saying don't worry.......have something to eat.....The last thing I felt like at that stage was eating........
I had planned to go and see Lujan many times to learn stuff and now I know I have so much to do that it would be pointless until I have done a lot of work on myself ...and this I have just begun.
It's funny because Lujan is a lovely kind person. I thought naguals would have to be a wild, dangerous, ruthless individuals, you know like the Don Juan of the books. Lujan is so kind and loving that initially it doesn't seem possible that he is the Jagur Nagual. Believe me I've seen those claws, he is.
I have one final thing to say and that is if you think you need analysing or need to see a psychiatrist and can't afford the 5-10 years or the thousands and thousands of dollars they cost just get in touch with Lujan. He will have you sorted in about 10 minutes.

Without any restraint whatsoever, I tell you that involvement on Parallel Perception and with Lujan Matus will create opportunity for potent change in your life!

The ability of Lujan Matus to traverse perception is outlined in his book, The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception, which becomes the backdrop for the subject matter discussed on the forum. Once I discovered Parallel Perception it became imperative for me to act on the forum. I began to post, to query, to pose beliefs and feelings, and to discover Lujan Matus’ bottom line. That bottom line is mediated by how well you know your heart. As a perceiving being do you know who you are, what you’re capable of, where you’re going, and how to get there? All of the interrogative adjectives that will assist in discovering who you are play a vital role in how you perceive. I’ve come to find that Lujan knows himself well, well enough to turn that perceptive eye onto others in order to assist in discovering who they are within the parameters of the heart.

Perception has been a favorite topic of mine for a long time. To be able to change our perception within a common understanding of human awareness is an act practiced every day by every single person who carries breath within them. In fact, the act of perceiving is our heritage as human beings. But to change our perception beyond what we know and to move into the unknown is an act of volition as tightly wrapped in mystery as the gamete that multiplies within the womb to form human life. For those of us who choose to purposely use our abilities as perceivers we need to determine the change required for that perceptive ability to evolve beyond the norm. We need to enter the mystery of perception.

How can we choose to be what we already are in order to evolve into what we might be?

Once we determine the answer to that question the change will result in transformation. Change will then become synonymous with perception for to perceive is to be aware of an object even if that object be yourself within the parameters of your heart. To altar who you are in the act of placing awareness on that object requires that by force, you and the object must change. There is no other way; change requires action, action is bound by friction, and friction (or force) results in movement beyond the immediacy of the moment at hand.

I will not kid you. This is not easy work—to move outside of the bounds of the familiar. Lujan will challenge and confront if the perceptive ability observed is fixed or limited. By nature change is only accomplished with an act of force yet that force, however applied, is the only gateway to exploring perception. The term “force” is used here not as a term of coercion but as a term of active power. The only way to increase our perceptual abilities is to track the limiting perceptions that hold us like ballast to a balloon and set them free. Unless we let go of what binds us we will remain as we are. Unless we move beyond who we are know ourselves to be perception will remain stagnant and powerless.

It gets even better though. Lujan offers Private Tutoring if you find that you want additional and personalized feedback. I took him up on the offer and began to converse with him on Skype. Conversation with Lujan brings to life all that is outlined in the book and on the forum. To face yourself via conversation with Lujan will empower you to explore who you are in areas you may have kept from your awareness. Creative and powerful in exchange, Lujan travels through the human voice to the core—to the heart of the matter. He will befriend but he will also examine ruthlessly. He maintains that I knew the matter he challenged me with. I maintain that he was the needed catalyst for me to know. Our mutual exchange allowed me to enrich my capacity to respond from my heart in ways that continue to unfold.

How we use our perception is really all that we have in this mysterious universe. The manner in which we use this inheritance is the only thing that will propel us beyond our death and into the mystery and wonder of that which awaits us. Avail yourself of all that Parallel Perception and Lujan Matus have to offer in order to claim the wonder of who you are as a perceiving being. The catapult for change toward parallel perception is here, right here.

Jessica Rzeszewski,
LMFT (Licensed Marriage Family Therapist)
Hawaii

When I came to Pararallel Perception more than one year ago, I just followed a link at Google where the name Lujan Matus was displayed, while I was looking for a decent forum that explains more about Tensegrity and the Inner Teachings of Juan Matus/Carlos Castaneda.

I've instinctly known that someone who is calling himself Lujan Matus got to have some Power, Knowledge and Integrity and of course this name raised various pictures, illusions, imaginations and fixed ideas in my mind : I expected to find a kind of reincarnated warrior soul which is directly related to the lineage Castaneda describes.

Well Lujan is, but in a complete different manner my illusions were juggling. It is no secret that I was aggressive, arrogant, demanding, being on a kind of 'mission'to free myself even if it would take some damage. I always used to provoke and to start power struggling against authorities (my private 'Campaign for Justice'), but while acting that way, I never faced the fundament of my attitude that was an imprint that relates directly to the imprints laid within my
family origin and the conflicts I had with my father- the place where a Foreign Installment intrudes my awareness.

I meant to know all about psychologic concepts and spiritual aspects due to my skills I earned during my own therapeutic process, my spiritual experiences and adapting Castanedas concepts, but deep inside I felt that there was a missing link and Lujan eventually could show me what it is that I miss.

From the first moment on Lujan scotched each of my attempts to undermine his integrity and the benefits given, but in the same breath he always left the door open to recognize what it is that directed my purposes and what caused so much pain in my life:

The non-acceptance of my deepest fear I was hiding behind a mask of aggressiveness, of scholarship, and pleasantness at last cloaking the true power of my heart : the pain of being identified with guilt, fear and worthlessness.

Lujan talked to my Inner Child which is my heart, the centerpoint of his efforts. Instead of another concept another theory or dogma inside of another one, he simply revealed my judgements , limitations and justifications which are the walls I learned to built up to defend a position that actually doesn't exist at all : an image that I have imposed on my true self.

He expected nothing but sincerity and impartiality for to respect myself as the one I am, without compulsion, without judging.

It takes courage to face that self-imposed image and to embrace all that which lies behind & beyond, for to realize that there isn't something that can be confronted, but set free. So I understood and laid my weapons and shields down for to unlearn what I'd learned before.

What hits me most, is the moment I was talking to Lujan directly via phone : a warm and light , buoyant voice came to my ears, humorous and exceedingly kind. For a moment I was really confused to perceive the personality behind this powerfull presence we all can see through his writings: A Gentleman!

We intuitively recognized each other as friends that evening.

Andre Georgiu
Berlin, Germany

I have been training, trying to do six days a week, but have usually been managing 5. The practice really does smack you around if you are being dishonest with yourself doesn't it?? I have found that I am constantly making phony plans and goals, making up shit to fret about all the time. It's quite funny really, but I really suffer if I buy into it.

It is definitely funny though. I am realising that you cannot practice AND lie to yourself- it hurts way too much, it is either one or the other.

The Tapping practice you have taught me \ It is so good.
I am also finding that i have been overly heavy and morose and serious about my training, it makes things so much easier to be lighthearted about it- this is a big revelation for me, I have always thought being serious and morose were good things.
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