the work of Lujan Matus

topic posted Thu, December 25, 2008 - 6:17 AM by  rob_giri
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Hey. I have posted some links to a website and a forum. It is based on a book by this guy Lujan Matus. He lives up the east coast of Australia, a friend of a friend. I have not met him personally as of yet. He wrote a book called 'The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception' some years ago and is working on another book with a friend, apparently. I have a copy of his first book. It is sort of a neo-Castaneda style, Nagual stuff, put into the context of Australian suburbia, but very, very mysterious. The book is an articulated narrative of Lujan's dreaming experiences, interractions he has with guiding entities, and the study of Mayan glyphs that were givin to him in what he calls the Dream-makers Realm. It is quite bizarre as the language he uses is at times overly articulate and can appear coldly intellectual but the subject matter is very mythic, very mystic, very intense - as if we are ones perception is being stretched to the far polarities of attention. He writes not in a style of honest speculation but in very direct way of presenting his own understanding of the archetecture of the Dreaming and covers seemingly all aspects of energy dynamics, transferrance, the mythic psychology of human interractions, sexual attention and many other topics. When i say their is a lack of honest speculation I intend to mean that it appears to me that sometimes he seems to never give up his own weaknesses and seems intent on projecting the illusive genius of his character and the absolute Truth of everything he is saying. Perhaps I am making a judgement of his character, perhaps not.

I have not done an in depth study of the book as of yet, apart from a history of deep transferrences with people who have, but would very much like to hear opinions and comments from anybody who wishes to take a peek into Lujan's sphere.

i hope you enjoy ;)
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rob_giri
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    Re: the work of Lujan Matus

    Thu, December 25, 2008 - 2:04 PM
    i wish to know what you find of value in this person's teachings. a cursory read of his attractive website and contents suggested a strong underlying commercial current. I think you are familiar with my ideas on "first and second attentions" and "dreaming rituals". do you see any correlations here with Matus and/or relevant distinctions ? for reference to others who join this tribe, these two links explain the terms i am using:

    "first and second attentions"
    www.paratheatrical.com/attention.html

    "dreaming rituals"
    www.paratheatrical.com/dreamingriteshtml





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      Re: the work of Lujan Matus

      Thu, December 25, 2008 - 2:05 PM
      sorry for the broken link on dreaming rituals:

      www.paratheatrical.com/dreami...es.html
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        Thu, December 25, 2008 - 5:59 PM
        I find complete correlation between everything i have read in his book and his website with your writings, although i find your writings vastly more accessable, responsible, mature, stylistically authentic and with a greater tone of 'reality'

        I guess yeah i did want to show you this and see what you thought about it. Is it because i had a long term girlfriend who was deeply involved with this guy's world and with whom i had transferrence problems some years ago that deeply effected me? perhaps.. haha. Still it intrigues me

        But yeah I mean its like the difference between your writing and someone like this is that this guy seems vastly lost in his own trip, as i say in this post, assuming the absolute Truth of everything he is saying and declaring like its the word of Objective truth without ever seeming to be humbled by the fact that it is all his own, as you say, emotional bias and style, and not really seeming to have space in his writing for allowing the reader to be aware of that and access his/her own autonomy. Also where he and many others part from your work is that the information transmitted is not on a level that is grounded and humerous enough to feel like it is resonant with the rest of the world and our culture at large. And lets face it, when someone is more concerned with faining a sense of mystery and mysticism over a sense of humour, then.. what gives ? haha. But perhaps there is something in me about how he manages to Evoke a greater sense of dreaming within his language - perhaps it is his place in the Australian landscape that connects me, this makes a lot sense. And then again, does one really need to be evoked of someone elses dreaming landscape? Perhaps this is another egoism? Why not a writer simply show someone the way to evoke their own?

        Yeah so perhaps you get where i'm coming from. Of course in following with that i am interested to know your history and dealings with Casteneda and followers and such - if not just to know how you respond and have responded to his league of minions circulating the world with their token confusions.
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          Re: the work of Lujan Matus

          Thu, December 25, 2008 - 6:32 PM
          Thanks for your response and helping clarify these parallels and dissimilarities.

          If this guy seems as vastly lost in his own trip as you say, I question the value and benefit of his work regardless of whatever knowledge or power he claims. Knowledge and power is not everything. As someone who lives on Australian land, you know more than any foreigner about the potency of the dreaming power there and the thousands of years of ancient Koori ancestry and dreamtime culture.

          If Lujan Matus' ego has merged and identified with the dreaming power there, he may be quite drunk and bloated with it. If so, I have seen this type of "archetypal identification" manifest many times and in many different ways. But it has always come with a serious loss of receptivity, or humility, in the personality.

          The language he created -- his dream logos -- may work very well in bridging him into and out of the dreamtime. However, If he imposes this language onto others' experience as "the way" or "the truth", this same language can double as a powerful code of hypnosis which can ensnare and enslave other egos to Lujan Matus himself. To assure the integrity and autonomy of the individual, in this bridging process between worlds, the languaging of perception really needs to develop from the individual's struggle to articulate (and integrate) their experience.

          I may be over-specultaing with all this but I thought I'd put it out there anyways for your assessment and for anyone else's take on it.

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