Recapitulation Therapy
In the shamanic world of Carlos Castaneda's lineage, Recapitulation was introduced as a practice that enabled the practitioner to obtain full awareness of all experiences lived. The process of reliving one's life is accomplished by utilizing a Magical Pass, in this case a breathing exercise, which involves a back and forth head movement, enabling one to enter this state of heightened awareness. It is a necessary and required practice for all who enter the shamanic line. A successful recapitulation enables one to become whole, recapturing all energy previously attached to unresolved or unknown experiences from the past. It is in heightened awareness that deep truths about the nature of reality are experienced and revealed. For instance, the knowledge that everything is energy; that one can energetically leave the human form; and that other worlds can be accessed are just some of the truths the shamans encounter. In the heightened awareness of trauma these truths are also experienced, but remain shielded from ordinary awareness.
It is through the dynamic of the recapitulation journey, actually re-experiencing every event in your life, that you gain access to those safely kept secrets, allowing them to once again become known. Until then, having experienced trauma, you reside in a state of fragmentation. Re-encountering the fragmented self, piecing the parts back together again, but now with full knowledge and awareness of doing so, are necessary components of gaining wholeness. For shamans it is required for advanced training, but we have become aware that it is equally valuable for those who have suffered trauma, in order to reintegrate all the parts of the self and live a life fully aware and whole.
The shamans utilize the recapitulation process in preparation for future encounters with the unknown, maintaining the ability to remain whole rather than continue fragmenting as in the past. This is helpful for all of us to learn, especially when presented with challenges in this life; when encountering our past lives; when confronted with outside energetic forces; and when maintaining awareness at the moment of death, when the soul's journey is totally recapitulated. This is the ultimate point of holding on to heightened awareness and the ability to maintain wholeness, in order to evolve.
In a state of heightened awareness one becomes fluid in learning to change levels of awareness, as important experiences in life occur, although the memory of them may remain inaccessible in ordinary consciousness. These experiences include Out-of-Body Experiences (OBE), known in the clinical world as Dissociative States. Dissociative states are known to occur during severe trauma, when experiences become fragmented, partially known, distorted, or completely forgotten for the sake of adaptation and survival. Many people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) report leaving their bodies, either viewing the experiences of the body from afar, or even leaving, in their energy body, to another environment completely.
In the shamanic world this dissociation is a necessary and induced state required to gain heightened awareness and access to other worlds, or perhaps better put, greater access to true reality. After Jeanne Marie Ketchel left this world, successfully remaining in her evolved state without need of reincarnation for completion, she began to communicate, through Jan Ketchel, the importance of the recapitulation process. She teased it away from the ancient practice of the shamanic world and introduced it as a practice accessible to all in the flow of everyday life experience. All events are synchronistic and meaningful, whether resonant or triggers of deep discomfort. They offer us the opportunity to awaken and, through thoughtful exploration, to uncover the deepest truths of the self, allowing us to achieve wholeness and completion in this lifetime.
Before Jeanne left this world in 2001, Jeanne and Chuck had already practiced EMDR Therapy for several years. Their attention was drawn to this technique when they were deeply immersed in the shaman's world, as it incorporated dealing with traumatic memory using bilateral movements similar to the Magical Pass used during recapitulation breathing. EMDR proved to be especially helpful in accessing and processing experiences from previously inaccessible states of heightened awareness. Both Jeanne and Chuck, from different energy states, Jeanne in her energy body in infinity and Chuck in his human form had the opportunity to guide Jan through a three-year recapitulation process led by her body's total reliving of 16 years worth of traumatic experience stored in heightened awareness. This led Jan to a unified energetic self with a capacity to channel infinity as she lifted so many barriers to the truths of her own journey.
These combined experiences and discoveries have led us to formulate and introduce Recapitulation Therapy to our practice, with the following conclusions:
- Trauma is the gateway to heightened awareness, i.e. OBE, an inborn, yet rarely awakened human potential.
- Trauma results in a fragmented self, with a syndrome identified in the clinical world as PTSD.
- A thorough recapitulation process, aided by EMDR, hypnosis, and bodywork results in unification of a fragmented self, an elimination of PTSD symptoms, and free access to exceptional knowledge and abilities.
In our practice we have helped many clients achieve results of integrated wholeness and awareness through the modality of Recapitulation Therapy. We work individually and as a team to enable individuals to take the recapitulation healing journey. In fact, all are invited to take this journey every day by the events that trigger their deepest feelings and truths. Sometimes a seasoned guide is helpful. If we can be of assistance please don't hesitate to Contact Us.