Posted by The key feature of recapitulation is to heal ourselves from damages occurring in the past.
The damage is done to the energy body, which is far more important than the physical body as it governs our mental and physical health. Sickness originates in the energy body which surrounds the physical body.
How is damage done to the energy body? Damage is incurred as a consequence of negative energetic interaction at some point in our past.
Victor Sanchez’ explanation of what recapitulation involves is provided in his 2001 book The Toltec Path of Recapitulation:
Recapitulation consists of bodily remembering and reliving the meaningful events of our lives in order to perform a healing process to recover the state of energetic completeness and balance that we had when we were born.
Not every event in our lives needs remembering and reliving of course. Just the meaningful, significant, incidents. But a really effective recap process should bring our purity and energy clearance back to childhood levels, as the above definition indicates. The closer we can get to that level of clearance, the better will be the process of death.
The kind of experiences that we need to recapitulate the most are moments when our field of energy was damaged because of negative interaction with another field of energy. Such an interaction will cause misalignment of our energy body. The most obvious energy-wasting interactions are emotional interactions with other people.
Through these negative interactions, we feel we are (and actually are) losing a part of ourselves. The mind then programs us to forget that incident as a way of continuing our life as usual, rather than the better method, which is to re-cap/re-live the incident and restore the energy lost.
This is the real benefit of recapitulation: restoring or recovering the energy we have lost along the way of living.
TS Eliot put it perfectly in his poem The Rock:
Where is the Life that we have lost in living?
We should be ‘living’, but we cannot ‘live’ if we are weighed down by the past.
There is another aspect of recapitulation which is equally important as the restoring of energy lost.
It is detaching somebody else’s energy that is attached to our energetic body.
If we are carrying someone else’s energy, a foreign energy, this is forcing us to be something that we are not, and is an obstacle to seeing clearly, releasing emotional weight and breaking free.
The process involves unhooking ourselves from situations, events, places and people of our past that should have been left behind.
It is also about the ‘letting go’ of sorrow, of pain we are holding. The opportunity to ‘say goodbye’ to a departed relative, friend or lover where we held onto emotions that should be released.
Think of how we were when we were born: We were pure, clear, uncontaminated by others.
Returning to that purity is the route out of this maze. We were born without name, without past, without story, without fears and desires.
Go back and find that spirit that got lost in living.
23 June 2025
Piers Morris Blogspot 