Not the type of demon you see on horror movies, I’ve come to realize that the demons were a part of myself, a dark side of myself, speaking to me at the time of my hallucination. The observation that the primary visual cortex is more active during imagery with eyes closed than during viewing of actual images is in keeping with numerous reports of the vividness of ayahuasca visions. It is a very powerful ícaro that connects us to Mother Earth, the Pachamama : the principle that brings new life to the world. Eventually, I just had to let go, even if it literally felt like death, otherwise, I would have been stuck in the mental loop for a longer period of nonexistence. Publication of these outstanding paintings of ayahuasca visions experienced by a native medicine man, Pablo Amaringo, and interpreted by the distinguished anthropologist Luis Eduardo Luna permits us to understand the unworldly psychic effects of the 'vine of the soul.

His role in the ceremony was to bring me back whenever I got lost; he guided me when things went astray.Once I did let go of the fabricated version of the Self, I felt like a spiritual Being being transcended into a philosophical turbine of introspection and realizations on life. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This is a profound experience and each person takes a different lesson back with them, though what is common is the transformation which results in deeper and more meaningful connection with nature and people.

Colors of green, red and yellow were all I could see regardless of whether or not my eyes were closed. The feeling of being recollected with my conscious being was short and sudden, then later on transcended into a mental loop. Just as a woman spins and weaves textiles to produce clothes, so this divine force spins and weaves cosmic particles into the fabric of life.We never had the same upbringing, but as humans, our nature is to feel the same, to feel One with everyone. The artworks integrate plant teachers and shamanic powers, like the Three Types of Sorcerers, along with the spirit world, including forest spirits, chthonic spirits, and ouranian spirits. Alex Grey may have captured the visual side of the psychedelic experience with greater realism, but the pictures and stories of Pablo Amaringo give a much better idea of what it's really like to be there. It could be simply that the “concepts of time and space” were not relevant in relation to this experience. In this sense I wondered: does every social group in-itself operate under the de-centered circular production of myths and rituals for “actualizing the eternal-immortal” within the domain “finitude” and “mortality”?

And that the tactile experiences can be far more harrowing, and ultimately more transformative, than the “visual” ones. I felt like I kept opening new chapters of my self but not able to make any thoughtful progress in reflection. CHARING is a director of the Eagle’s Wing Centre for Contemporary Shamanism in London and the coauthor of Plant Spirit Shamanism.By stripping away our ego, desires and pleasures, we become selfless as Aya taught me how we should be as living creatures, to ascend to higher consciousness. I was capable of maneuvering and transitioning in scale from the incomprehensibly large to the realms of galaxies and solar systems and eventually around the sphere of our Earth. The experience was like going inside a room, only to find out that once I enter the doorway, I was led back into the thought of just about to turn the knob. In the end, it is our self that makes us human, we can act to change their way of thinking, but it is up to themselves to live by what we preach. In the waterfall are yacumama llipian, which means brilliant or shining yacumama; they can fly between realms.