04-12-2007, 09:08 PM
It has recently occurred to me, more than ever, how incredibly useful and important the recapitulation is. Actually, I partially have firefox to thank for this (because of some private conversations we've had). That, and the fact that I've once again realized the futility of trying to force myself to eliminate a feature of my inventory. Perhaps everyone is different, but for me it's next to impossible for me to use "willpower" to stop myself from doing anything. Denial only causes me to focus upon my "self" more than ever. And basically, I'm just running around in circles repeating the same useless mistakes over and over.
Therefore, I'm beginning to feel that the recapitulation has taken the lead, as basically the most important of all the techniques. The recapitulation is what opens up all of the other techniques.
It reduces and removes self-importance, personal history, inner dialogue... and all of these seem to improve dreaming. (I've been having more vivid and strange dreams lately, but I attribute this more to the fact that I've been recapitualting every day than anything else.)
And of course, as Florinda (the first) mentioned in The Eagles Gift:
"Controlled folly is the basis for stalking , as dreams are the basis for dreaming ."
"In the absence of self-importance, a warrior's only way of dealing with the social milieu is in terms of controlled folly."
"These [the recapitulation techniques] are the mandatory preliminaries of stalking. Unless stalkers have gone through the preliminaries in order to retrieve the filaments they have left in the world, and particularly in order to reject those that others have left in them, there is no possibility of handling controlled folly, because those foreign filaments are the basis of one's limitless capacity for self-importance."
And one more note... At one of the Tensegrity workshops I went to, an instructor mentioned the fact that doing the magical passes without doing the recapitulation will only give us more energy to act like our normal selves.
Therefore, I'm beginning to feel that the recapitulation has taken the lead, as basically the most important of all the techniques. The recapitulation is what opens up all of the other techniques.
It reduces and removes self-importance, personal history, inner dialogue... and all of these seem to improve dreaming. (I've been having more vivid and strange dreams lately, but I attribute this more to the fact that I've been recapitualting every day than anything else.)
And of course, as Florinda (the first) mentioned in The Eagles Gift:
"Controlled folly is the basis for stalking , as dreams are the basis for dreaming ."
"In the absence of self-importance, a warrior's only way of dealing with the social milieu is in terms of controlled folly."
"These [the recapitulation techniques] are the mandatory preliminaries of stalking. Unless stalkers have gone through the preliminaries in order to retrieve the filaments they have left in the world, and particularly in order to reject those that others have left in them, there is no possibility of handling controlled folly, because those foreign filaments are the basis of one's limitless capacity for self-importance."
And one more note... At one of the Tensegrity workshops I went to, an instructor mentioned the fact that doing the magical passes without doing the recapitulation will only give us more energy to act like our normal selves.
