Recumbent - Creative Nonfiction [ENG -ESP]


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It has been a long time since I mentioned this concept, in fact, I had erased it from my memory for not being a fervent believer of the unknown, but I was always a collaborative ally for science; especially if it was used to understand the behavior and culture of human society, based on mystical and supernatural facts that reign in our usual imaginary.

Perhaps you have never heard what "Recumbent" means, it is a term little used within spirituality, because it is an alternative projection to which we resort when we talk about the behavior of a person.

Recumbents are not governed by cosmic rules like the zodiacal signs, but by what they meant in life and the goals they wanted to achieve when they were beings of flesh and blood.

I first heard this word when I attended my first magnet therapy session. When I was younger, I was a great believer in such things, and I convinced my mother to pay for a session with a specialist who worked in the center of the city where I lived.

My first impression of her was that she was a very kind woman. I thought she was a raving lunatic who babbled inaudible and not very credible to the understanding of a nineteen year old boy, but it was quite the opposite, as she explained to me in simple details what the treatment she applied meant.

On the day of my consultation, she asked me to lie on a stretcher on my back and place my mind in a blank, as I did so, she was struck by the fact that I placed my hands on my chest in the shape of an X.

"Do you always place your arms like that when you lie on your back?" She asked me.

"I think so" I replied innocently. "Why?"

She frowned and readied the magnets for therapy. "Because that means you have a recumbent."

I watched her with a scrunched up face. I didn't understand what she was referring to.

"I'll explain," she continued, "recumbents are spirits that live with people at some point after they have died. They seek out a frail host and live through them what they could not do in life."

I was more confused after that explanation.

"Chances are, a person close to you has died, perhaps a family member, and their spirit became entwined with your soul when you were a vulnerable being. But have no fear, the recumbents are harmless. You will go on with your life as fate has prepared it for you, except that there will be certain twists and turns brought about by your recumbent."

That woman's explanation left me with my head even more scrambled.

"How do I know then that I am living my life or that of my recumbent?" I asked her before she started rubbing the magnets all over my body.

"You will never know, unless you find out who it is and know about their life, maybe your mother, father or any other relative of yours will tell you who it could be, and from there make a guess with everything you have lived through."

At that point I was in deep thought, I had absolutely no idea who it could be. After the session, I immediately called my mother and told her my experience.



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"Do you feel any different?" She asked.

"No, but there's something I can't get out of my head. She said I have a recumbent with me."

"A what?" My mother exhaled with a quizzical tone. As I explained what it meant, I heard her sigh heavily through the phone, and after a few seconds of silence, she began to mumble words.

"Oh, son, a memory came to mind! I don't know if it's what's accompanying you but..., I perceive it very suspicious."

I sought out a stone bench in a park and stood expectantly for what my mother was going to tell me.

"Do you remember your Aunt Dulce?" She asked me. I made a gesture of affirmation. "She died when you were five, maybe you don't remember, but the day of your aunt's wake, you and your cousins were playing hide and seek and you happened to hide under her coffin. I was the only one who noticed it and I went to get you out of there, and when I opened the curtain I noticed you... strange..."

At that instant, she paused briefly keeping the suspense latent in me.

"You had a blank stare and were trembling as if someone had frightened you. I said your name several times waving your arm until finally you fixed your eyes on mine and behaved normally. I asked you what had happened to you and you simply ignored me, then ran to your cousins to continue playing with them.

"You continued to behave as usual without any significant change in your personality. I thought I had dreamed that moment so I let it go, but now that you mention what that woman with the magnets said to you, that whole episode quickly replayed in my mind like a movie."

My mother told that anecdote very seriously. I completely dismissed that she had made it up so I had to assume that it all really happened.

She told me about the tragic life of my Aunt Dulce, at sixteen she became pregnant and at seventeen she had to get married.

She dedicated herself only to her home and her children, leaving the things she most wanted to do in life aside. My mother reiterated that my aunt was very fixated on writing, and that perhaps that is where my passion was born. Although she was never able to write a sweet sonnet, I am sure she would have been an excellent writer; passionate, creative and romantic.

Many years later, I told this same experience to a friend who was doing field work in Cultural Anthropology on uncommon beliefs in the mythical imaginary of the people. I remembered this word again and remembered my aunt, even though I am not very sure about these beliefs, I now refer to her with more affection than before. affectionately than before.

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YACENTE


Hace mucho tiempo que no mencionaba ese concepto, de hecho, lo había borrado de mi memoria por no ser un ferviente creyente de lo desconocido, pero siempre fui un colaborativo aliado para la ciencia; sobre todo si se usaba para comprender el comportamiento y cultura de la sociedad humana, basándose en hechos místicos y sobrenaturales que reinan en nuestro imaginario habitual.

Quizás jamás hayas escuchado lo que significa “Yacente”, es un término poco utilizado dentro de la espiritualidad, pues es una proyección alternativa a la que se recurre cuando hablamos del comportamiento de una persona.

Los yacentes no se rigen por normas cósmicas como los signos zodiacales, sino por lo que significaron en vida y las metas que querían realizar cuando eran seres de carne y hueso.

La primera vez que escuché esta palabra fue cuando asistí a mi primera sesión de terapia con imanes. Cuando era más joven, creía mucho en esas cosas, y convencí a mi madre que me pagara una sesión con una especialista que trabajaba en el centro de la ciudad donde vivía.

Mi primera impresión sobre ella es que era una mujer muy amable, pensaba que era una loca de atar que balbuceaba cosas inauditas y poco creíbles para el entendimiento de un chico de diecinueve años, pero fue todo lo contrario, pues me explicó con simples detalles lo que significaba el tratamiento que ella aplicaba.

El día de mi consulta, me pidió que me recostara sobre una camilla boca arriba y que colocara mi mente en blanco, al hacerlo, a ella le llamó la atención que yo colocara mis manos sobre mi pecho en forma de equis.

“¿Siempre que te acuestas boca arriba colocas los brazos así?” Ella me preguntó.

“Creo que sí” respondí de manera inocente. “¿Por qué?”

Ella frunció el ceño y preparó los imanes para la terapia. “Porque eso significa que tienes un yacente.”

La observé con el rostro arrugado. No entendí a lo que se refería.

“Te explico” ella prosiguió, “los yacentes son espíritus que viven con las personas en algún momento después de haber muerto. Buscan a un huésped frágil y viven a través de él lo que no pudieron hacer en vida.”

Quedé más confundido después de esa explicación.

“Es probable que, una persona cercana a ti haya muerto, quizás un familiar, y su espíritu se haya enlazado a tu alma cuando eras un ser vulnerable. Pero no tengas miedo, los yacentes son inofensivos. Tú seguirás tu vida como el destino la ha preparado para ti, con la diferencia de que habrán ciertos giros provocados por tu yacente.”

La explicación de esa mujer me dejó con la cabeza aún más revuelta.

“¿Cómo sé entonces que estoy viviendo mi vida o la de mi yacente?” Le pregunté antes de que empezara a frotarme los imanes en todo mi cuerpo.

“No lo sabrás nunca, a menos que descubras de quién se trata y sepas sobre su vida, quizás tu madre, tu padre o cualquier otro familiar tuyo te diga quién podría ser, y a partir de allí hagas una suposición con todo lo que has vivido.”

En ese momento quedé pensativo, no tenía ni la más mínima idea de quién podría tratarse. Después de la sesión, llamé inmediatamente a mí madre y le conté mi experiencia.

“¿Te sientes diferente?” Ella me preguntó.

“No, pero hay algo que no puedo sacarme de la cabeza. Ella dijo que me acompaña un yacente.”

“¿Un qué?” Exhaló mi madre con un tono de extrañeza. Al explicarle lo que significaba, escuché como suspiró fuertemente a través del teléfono, y luego de unos segundos de silencio, comenzó a magullar palabras.

“¡Oh, hijo, un recuerdo vino a mí mente! No sé si sea lo que te acompaña pero…, lo percibo muy sospechoso.”

Busqué una banca de piedra en un parque y me quedé expectativo para lo que iba a decirme mi madre.

“¿Recuerdas a tu tía Dulce?” Me preguntó. Yo hice un gesto de afirmación. “Ella murió cuando tú tenías cinco años, a lo mejor no te acuerdas, pero el día del velorio de tu tía, tú y tus primos jugaban a las escondidas y a tí se te ocurrió esconderte debajo de su ataúd. Yo fui la única que lo notó y fui a sacarte de allí, y cuando abrí la cortina te noté… extraño…”

En ese instante, ella hizo una breve pausa manteniendo el suspenso latente en mí.

“Tenías la mirada perdida y temblabas como si alguien te hubiese asustado. Dije varias veces tu nombre agitando tu brazo hasta que finalmente fijaste tus ojos en los míos y te comportaste normal. Te pregunté que te había ocurrido y simplemente me ignoraste, luego corriste hacia tus primos para seguir jugando con ellos.

“Seguiste comportándote como siempre sin ningún cambio significativo en tu personalidad. Pensé que ese momento lo había soñado así que lo dejé pasar, pero ahora que mencionas lo que te dijo aquella mujer de los imanes, todo ese episodio se reprodujo rápidamente en mi mente como una película.”

Mi madre contó aquella anécdota con mucha seriedad. Descarté por completo de que se lo había inventado así que tuve que asumir que todo pasó en realidad.

Ella me habló de la trágica vida de mi tía Dulce, a los dieciséis años quedó embarazada y a los diecisiete tuvo que casarse.

Se dedicó solamente a su hogar y a sus hijos dejando las cosas que más anhelaba hacer en la vida a un lado. Mi madre reiteraba que mi tía tenía mucha fijación por la escritura, y que quizás de allí haya nacido mi pasión. Aunque ella nunca fue capaz de plasmar un dulce soneto, estoy seguro que ella hubiera sido una excelente escritora; apasionada, creativa y romántica.

Muchos años después, le conté esta misma experiencia a un amigo que hacía trabajo de campo de Antropología Cultural sobre creencias poco comunes en el imaginario mítico de los pueblos. Recordé esta palabra nuevamente y recordé a mi tía, a pesar de no estar muy seguro de estas creencias, ahora me refiero a ella con más cariño que el de antes.

FIN

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Things like this are real, down here in Nigeria, we see a lot of crazy things. Although sometimes I force myself to believe that some things are just framed up, heheh. But a lot aren't.

Hiding under a coffin is scary, but you were only a child I wouldn't blame you for that. But do you really believe that you are hosting the spirit of your aunt in you?

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The truth is that I don't believe in that, but my mother does, when she told me that anecdote she said it as if she really believed it and for a moment I believed it too. To this day, it is a story that makes us laugh.

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The experience you told us about is impressive. First time I hear that term "Yacente".
Beliefs about spirits remain in many cultures.
It seems to me that you took it very calmly. It is good. I would have been scared.
Greetings @universoperdido and thank you for you post.

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The truth was very surprising, in fact I laughed at first, but then intrigue got the better of me and curiosity did the rest. Thanks for stopping by and reading. Greetings!

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