The Mentation system originated in a mystery school high the mountains of Afghanistan and was brought to our modern world by Oscar Ichao who founded the Arika Work.  I learned it from my teacher, Claudio Naranjo, 30 years ago.  It is a system designed to bring light of consciousness into the body in order to integrate your entire physical being with Divinity.  I have adapted it and improvised on it all these years and am sharing it to be used for a speedy and ecstatic way of fully aligning body, mind and spirit.  Doing this practice melts down the body's rigidities and allows for surrendered movement.

In this system the body is thought of as twelve distinct parts, each with its own specific form and function. When the mind is focused into each area...'mentated' the physical becomes transparent to multi-dimensions.  Information is received and your energy is greatly accelerated.  When you add to that,  musical influx and full surrender to the inner essence flows through movement,  the body is danced by its own inner energies. This movement is beyond all habitual body memory and creates deep centering, ecstatic healing and delightful liberation.

How this works is that with mind immersed in an embracing focus with the physical body, light and consciousness penetrates our physical matter…An effervescence happens which allows your soul energy to merge in.  It also opens you to the light and lift of universal energies and the grace of spiritual blessings from the saints  and enlightened masters.  This mentating of your mind into your matter also creates a permeability to spirit which assures that your intentions find a magically receptive matrix within to manifest. 

One focuses on the body via 12 sectors.  Your hands and feet together are the first sector and the meaning associated with them is your “GOALS”.  Your lower arms and legs come next and are associated with the “MEANS” to your goals.  Elbows and Knees follow and are imbued with the idea of the “CHARISMA” you generate out into to the world.  Your upper legs and arms are your “CAPACITY”, or strength...etc. etc. When each sector is turned on, the effect is multiplied exponentially and the goals or intentions that you can set into vibration manifest out from you into the universe.

I first learned this practice in San Francisco in 1973.  I was working as an art therapist in an adolescent treatment center. A 17 year old boy who I had been working with became catatonic and would not speak or move.  His psychiatrist had scheduled him to be removed to a state institution.  Having just learned this system, I sensed I could use it to match his energy and thus be a safe haven for him to venture out into.  I did a full mentation on turning my body to “stillness” before venturing into the mental hospital to find him.  We sat it total stillness for about three hours during which time we rekindled a non verbal artistic way of communicating we had explored earlier.  I did one simple line…put the pencil down and waited in stillness for about 30 minutes until he picked up the pencil and did the next connected line.  Over the next few weeks of working with him, now that his freeze had melted, he did come out of it.

That is just one example of its usage.  I’ve adapted it as a way to ‘read’ another person or situation.  It can be also be used to see into the future in order to get the information necessary to create what you want to manifest. For example use it to know where to move or what job to take. Then use it to create in yourself the charisma to saturate the situation with your presence.   The Mentations can also be used to rekindle deep communion and intimacy or to create it anew with your beloved.   Mentating with a group generates intentionality and accelerates goals.  We will explore much of this in the workshops, both in Denver, July 17th and in Crestone, October 14th,15th & 16th 2005

The hands and feet together effect almost 2/3rds of the space in the sensory and motor areas of the brain.  That means when you mentate, (bring attention there and saturate the physical body presence with the essence presence)  your body, mind, hands and feet become one light filled wholeness which communes with universal space and energy. 

The first Mentation is Hands and Feet and it relates to understanding and stimulating One's Goals.   Each mentation expands the Area and the Ability it is related to.

For example, seeding your awareness of your hands and feet with a suggestion (a goal) such as "Sweet", will turn your essence sweet.  The next mentation, "MEANS" relates to lower arms and lower legs. These are the means to your goals.  These forces unleashed allow you to empower your goals.  "Sweet" takes on new dimensions of feeling when fully mentated in your Means.  That MEANS lots MORE sweetness. Thus can you imagine the power and beauty of mastering MENTATING with MOVEMENT using the full 12 arenas?  That's some of what we will be doing in the workshops.