A Review of Practices and Methods Prescribed by the New Seers
Practices
Magical Passes are bodily movements and breaths that were taught to Carlos Castaneda and Taisha Abelar by their respective teachers. Castaneda decided to teach the Magical Passes to whoever wanted to learn them and subsequently developed a generic form of the Magical Passes that he named Tensegrity®.
Recapitulation is a lifelong practice that requires a systematic and detailed recollection of every event in our entire lives. The recollection of each memory entails going further than simply recalling the event, and instead, reliving the event, as if actually going into the memory, while simultaneously performing a natural, rhythmic breathing technique referred to as the “sweeping” or “cleansing” breath, which is used to “fan” or “sweep” the event.
Dreaming is the use of ordinary dreams as an “entrance for human awareness into other realms of perceiving.” Dreaming creates a unique state of consciousness that; 1) largely isolates perception from sensorial data, 2) reduces left hemisphere activation, 3) allows predominance of right hemisphere cognition and 4) enables volitional activity. This unique perceptual condition characterizes the shamanic dreaming state that Castaneda described as “the result of merging my right and left awareness into one in which the order of predominance has been switched and the left has gained supremacy.”