Meeting the Nagual Lujan Matus in Costa Rica

February 19, 2012

I came to meet Lujan Matus trying to let go of my expectations for what was going to happen, but after reading his books, and looking on the forum I had unintentionally built up a very intellectual idea of what this man was going to be like. Everything I had expected was completely blown away, and as I quickly learned, this will always be the case, in every single moment, for as long as I know Lujan.

When we first met in person, the meaning of being empty became immediately clear as we met eyes. I realized for the first time that almost everyone you meet has a sense of identity and a personality that they are projecting. When you look at them, they are subconsciously sending you a message of who they are. Looking into Lujan's eyes is more like looking into a mirror than looking at a man. His being is frictionless, and if your energy tries to define him, its like trying to grab onto running water. This is because of the fact that Lujan himself has no idea who he is, and is completely comfortable with discovering his own truth moment by moment, intend of desperately trying to cling to some social imposed sense of self.

He is a different person in every moment that is constantly escaping him, and he allows his truth to surface from within the depths of heart, straight into the now, without taking the slow and diluted route through the mind that most of us have been taught to do. When we are children, we speak with an unhampered purity, then we're told that we have to censor ourselves and steer our lives with analysis and reflection. Then the rest of society pats itself on the back that another human has been rightly brought to order. But we've lost our Truth.

The heart knows everything that it needs to know in every moment that we encounter, if we can get the mind to shut up and take the back seat. Lujan operates on a level that transcends thought, where realization and understanding bubble up with totally uncontrolled spontaneity from the limitless void of potential that exists within all of us. The affect that he has on anyone who enters his energy field is that their own void is summoned to open up, this is why people break down into tears and have their lives seemingly uprooted from only a few minutes of encountering a nagual. Their emptiness hears itself being called forth, and all of the other baggage being carried simply cannot withstand the pressure.

I came in the room trying to figure out and analyze what was going on, trying to not be involved. There was another man who was already going through a huge personal upheaval, and I was a little frightened to be honest. When Lujan asked me how I was feeling, I instinctively tried to figure out what would be the best thing to say to keep myself safe (although I didn't consciously think about what I was doing until later). He immediately recognized things about me, and what I was presenting energetically that I never would have said about myself, in utmost honesty. He said that I was full of violence.

This confused me because I've never hurt anyone physically, or felt like I wanted to. Even manipulating people is something that I've always considered to be deeply wrong. What I came to realize about myself, and the deep violence that I was holding on to was that it was a violence towards my circumstances. I have always strategized and plotted and taken aggressive actions towards accomplishing my goals, and goals that had the best intentions for all mankind, and with methods that would never compromise other people or any living things. However, energetically my approach was extremely violent.

After two weeks with Lujan, my being has been completely transformed, and not by him. He simply created the space for my own true resources to come forth and gave me tools that allowed me to transform myself. He shows a way to live that is very foreign to most of us, and it wakes you up to remembering very deep levels of what we are as human beings. You can fight it, but once your body knows what real truth feels like, it will try to come to the surface. Letting go and accepting this process can be done quickly with grace, or take a lifetime of struggle. The choice belongs to each of us individually, but once we witness that level of integrity, there is no going back. Every aspect of our lives are destined to be transformed.

This is the level of subtlety and power by which Lujan lives, and by which we all need to live. We are dynamic energy that is constantly in flux with our environment, and everything that we manifest internally has an affect on the environment around us.

Quantum physics tells us that the act of observation changes the outcome of the movement of atoms, and this palpably true within our daily experience. When we walk into a room and observe, we fundamentally change the structure of what we are observing, even if we stand perfectly still and do nothing. The interactions between our bio-electric or photonic energy field and our surroundings are an ever evolving dialogue of light signatures. This simple fact has vast ramifications in terms of responsibility.

We have no choice but to be active participants in the universe, and we can choose to either live that truth with a fluidity and innocence of a heart unencumbered by self importance and preoccupations, patiently allowing the presence of eternity to present its mysteries without trying to dominate our circumstances, or we can choose to stay asleep, and continue wondering why all of our strongest efforts and best ideas on how to grapple with a world of preconceived outcomes do not bear the fruit of true happiness.

Michael Armstrong
Filmmaker
mkarmstr@usc.edu

Photo courtesy of H.Koppdelaney

Coiling Dragon

The Jaguar and the Small Mountain forms utilize the coiling dragon to gather power of absorption and reflection, especially in the shadowless elbow, as demonstrated in the video below.

Dragon's Tears/Shadow Fist Video

This is a video that my friend Michael Armstrong produced. He is here at the moment doing and interview for a documentary.

What I would like you to focus on is at 41-42 seconds into the video, a burst of chi explodes from my body and influences the surrounding light that is reflected on the tiles.

Watch very carefully. It's just a quarter of a second flash.

The video is a mixture of Dragon's Tears and Shadow Fist. Hope you enjoy it.

1st portion of Mayan Winged Serpent Series

Movements performed by Naomi Jean after only 4 hours of instruction.

This is the first Segment of the Queztalcoatl (Mayan Winged Serpent) Series as taught by Lujan Matus at his private teaching center in Costa Rica.

These movements are performed before the Quetzalcoatl Moon Gazing sequence is applied. This technique is described in 'Awakening the Third Eye' by Lujan Matus.

Great Experience with the Nagual Lujan Matus

I sat on the sofa and in front of me was a wooden table, about 3.5 meters of distance and the Nagual Lujan was showing to me magnificent movements.

His movements were very harmonious, transmitting peace and fluidity to the environment. He was really playing with the energy and then after sometime I could see from him something else appearing between his body and his arms, his silhouette started to flow from him with the same shape as him as it was filled with a translucent, soft and faint gold color; the shape of the same size of Lujan was coming out from him and comes toward me, as it was proportionally descending in shape and floating getting close to me until reach the wooden table in front and then it was fading.

Continues watching the harmonious movements from Lujan, still I could see the fluid shape between his arms and his body and given me the sensation of the fluidity of the energy that he was transmitting.

Before he finishes these powerful movements, my eyes were intercepted and quickly I saw the Nagual Lujan twice together doing the same movements, it could be my eyes was crossed or something else, I don’t know, I was rapt in his movements.

I could see he attempted to finish the movements, by again he resume them for a little more time.

So when he finished I felt the sensation of the environment was full of peaceful energy, and I also felt that something else was there given a comfortable sensation.

When we stop the wrong things we are doing and we are still, the nature of our being is open.

Sincerely,
Julio Cesar

Photo courtesy of H.Koppdelaney

Shadows in the Twilight: Conversations with the nagual Lujan Matus

This book is an atomic bomb of information that will change the way you see everything.

When Bill asks Lujan Matus for feedback on enigmatic events that have marked his awareness, he discovers exactly how his expectations and conditioning have prevented him from truly seeing the marvels that dance before him. Like countless others, Bill’s personal journey was influenced by seminal works published in the 1960s that introduced subjects like ‘the energy double’, ‘dreaming awareness’, and ‘first and second attention’, into popular culture. Exploring these fascinating propositions in waking and dreaming life, Bill was confronted with discoveries and challenges utterly unaccounted for by conventional interpretations of reality. Naturally he wanted to know what was really going on and, fortunately for us, fate delivered him to Lujan Matus.

An easy flow of dialogue belies the gravity of the material, as the nagual deftly elucidates the very fabric of existence with unequivocal yet humble authority. These are no second hand sorcery tales but astounding revelations from a seer bound by his own inevitability to communicate what he knows to those who wish to wake up. Suffice to say that Lujan depicts the workings of the holographic matrix of reality with a precision that could not be invented, decoding riddles of human perception that up until now have been surrounded by confusion. The sometimes alarming nature of what he reveals is tempered by his consistent and multi-faceted affirmation that the key to finding freedom lies in the integrity of our hearts. Don’t expect easy answers or ego-gratifying platitudes however - Lujan’s voice is devastating to preconception and leaves no room for convenient interpretations and personal agendas.

Lujan identifies, in concise and uncompromising terms, the pitfalls that may encumber one’s quest for awakening and how to overcome them. Highlighting kindness, truthfulness and humility as our greatest allies in the struggle to evolve within the complex arrangement that is both our gravest entrapment and our most magical opportunity, Lujan’s words are a luminous bridge to the next level of awareness.

Nagual Naomi Jean

Coming soon …

Shamanic Tuition in Costa Rica: Windlock System

I am sitting here in Costa Rica a week after my Windlock tuition with Lujan. The changes that have taken place and which continue to morph inside myself are plenty. There are so many directions and levels that this practice has pierced within my construct. At one point I left the day's practice with a feeling I have if someone I'm close to has died - without the grief. I walked away, everything looked the same, the grass, trees, buildings - but it was a different world and I was new to it.

In just two weeks of practice I have become stronger muscularly all over my body. I also feel it mirroring a strength brewing within myself. All of the movements have martial art or close quarter combat applications which Lujan demonstrated. This for me was about learning how to protect my space - knowing when to start and stop.

My energy has increased - even after a 3 hour practice daily, I'm not tired. I look forward to it every morning. After my practice, my energy is centred and silent and this follows me through the day.

At one point I felt a heat in my feet and legs and sometimes there are little electric pricks of energy, mostly in my legs.

The greatest gift was the realization that I don't need anything at all. I feel so complete physically and energetically. It's a space that I could explore for quite some time and works very well with the 8 Gates of Dreaming Awake. I look to what the next few months will reveal through my practice.

Katherine de Boda
Canada
k_deboda @ yahoo.ca

Photo courtesy of Shchukin

Testimonial for the Windlock Kung Fu System

I recently attended a week of tuition with Lujan Matus learning the Windlock System. What’s most noticeable to me after practicing for a short time, is that each movement or each section of movements works on a specific area of the body, not just the upper body, arms, or core muscles, but it seems like also the inner organs.

Because of this, the series is very rejuvenating. When finished, I’m left with a very pleasant mix of feeling that I’ve worked hard but simultaneously being recuperated or physically restored.

After only a few days, I saw weight shift from my midsection to my upper body and arms, which is actually a bit surprising because I had already considered myself in very good shape and didn’t envision such a noticeable change in very short period of time. And the increase in strength is pretty amazing too.

Another direct result is that I’ve been able to experience more prolonged and sustainable periods of silence, both directly after and throughout the day.

The martial applications of the practices are also very apparent. When teaching, Lujan had pointed some of these out. He had mentioned that the Windlock movements are the basics for the more advanced Kung Fu techniques he may teach, and that the basics by themselves are very effective if they needed to be used in a combat situation.

Throughout the course of the week, Lujan had demonstrated some of the applications on the wooden dummy and taught the first section of this sequence. What he demonstrated has the elegance and flow of some of the other movements such as the Jaguar Series. It does not seem to resemble as much what I had seen from my prior limited exposure to another system, which in comparison the movements from this other system now seem somewhat incomplete.

On the last day, we reviewed the Three Treasures. Previously the practice had been very warm in the sense that I could feel my hands passing through warm pockets of energy outside my body. With the adjustments Lujan made, what felt warm is now close to hot. Lujan was able to guide me through two particular sets of movements that it took me a long time to pick up—thinking of my plans for returning the next day had brought up a gap in consciousness resulting from a number of situations I had been reluctantly participating in.

However, I’ve seen that after consistently practicing Windlock, it’s been difficult to keep up this behavior pattern. And along the same lines of very tangible electromagnetic energy, the day after Lujan instructed me on the beginning of Whispering Palms, I had practiced early in the morning. I felt afterwards that I was surrounded by a warm ball of energy. It was so apparent that I had stopped to go over to the electric switch thinking I had forgotten to turn on the fan, but I hadn’t and it had been running on high the whole time.

Eric VanHouten

mikitzli@gmail.com

Photo courtesy of Beverly and Pack

Hieroglyphs from "The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception"

Hieroglyphs from "The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception" by Lujan Matus.

Eight Gates of Dreaming Awake Testimonial

I've written this testimonial about the Eight Gates of Dreaming Awake in the hope that others will feel connected and willing to give it a go. For me it is such a special practice and has been so instrumental in helping me grow. I know everyone has different particular experiences when practising this technique, as all our needs and strengths are different, yet I share mine in the hope that we can connect by a need we all have: to awaken to who we truly are.

The first time I practiced the Eight Gates of Dreaming awake my body went into the most blissful state of relaxation. Years of stress and strain dissolved and I felt like a child. I laid for hours just feeling, and this made me realise how much my body was suffering from the onslaught of my unruly mind. The stress created by the disconnection to the intuitive parts of me was taking an incredible toll and I was not prepared to let this continue.

And so the Eight Gates opened a door to a real awareness of my needs, the needs of the part of me that had been entrapped in the socialised nightmare we call reality. Through practice I am learning to disentangle myself from this craziness, because it is, that was making me behave in a way that diminished the better parts of me as I felt in a continuous state of war with people and the world around me. As my awareness grows through this practice I am able to appreciate the true circumstances of our predicament because it propels me to work through the predicament myself. And so my heart opens to others, as it is a war now tempered with understanding rather than judgement and a love for the possibilities inherit in everyone of us. That is the magic of this practice: you get to know the you that is full of possibilities as the awareness and ability to act past our limitations gain power.

The Eight Gates of Dreaming Awake are gates, gates to a freedom and awareness that is ours to reclaim.

Nagual, this is my thank you for this beautiful gift.

Love,

Luma Chichiwa

Photo courtesy of Zenonline