Since I can post here, I'll post a thread I wanted to make earlier but couldn't. For anyone who hasn't heard of Pablo Amaringo, he is an Amazonian ayahuasca shaman with photographic memory, and fairly good drawing skills. He paints his ayahuasca visions. Some of them are mundane, some of them are mind blowing, but the ones that really fascinate me are the ones that feature elements that clearly do not come from Amazonian culture, they look more like things from Jewish religion or Hindu beliefs. I don't know if Amaringo visited the world before he had these particular visions, it'd be interesting to find that out because if he didn't have access to other cultures, then its as if he picked up information about the spiritual practices of other world cultures with his visions. I've observed plenty of unexplainable things both on and off substances, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if this is some kind of divination that enabled him to envision these things. So here are some of his paintings (I'll try post the not so Amazonian ones first):
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^^ This is the one that really fascinates me. Looks pretty Judeochristian to me. More Jewish. The checkered floors, the hexagrams, the angels... I'd love to know if Amaringo was exposed to European spiritual beliefs before he had that vision. If not, thats some trippy stuff.
Most of his visions are fascinating though, heres some more:
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^^ Those checkered floors, its like old Jewish architecture.
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I had his book but I lost it, there are way more interesting visions than the ones I posted there. Some of them involving people boarding what look like spacecrafts, Buddhist monks meditating and of course the usual mind blowingly, intricate, out of this world things DMT tends to reveal. If you have money to invest thats a book I'd recommend getting. The main book I recommend to people though is DNA: The Cosmic Serpent, it was probably after reading that that I find Amaringos paintings so fascinating.