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Los Grados del Curandero by Pablo Amaringo
Los Grados del Curandero by Pablo Amaringo
The concentric wheels in the centre correspond to the levels of esoteric knowledge of a curandero: beginning from the outside they are onaya, banco puma, muraya, sumiruna and the innermost banco sumi. The wheels also represent the varied levels of higher consciousness that drinkers of ayahuasca strive for. Below the puca lupuna tree on the left is a chullachaqui riding a giant charapa or turtle. The chullachaqui is a mischievous gnome-like being who protects the animals of the rainforest.The picture is intended for meditation and contemplation of inner peace and harmony. When you look in the centre, you should not blink or glance away; this process purifies your mind and reveals your spiritual light.
This painting is featured in the book ‘The Ayahuasca Visions of Pablo Amaringo‘ published by Inner Traditions 2011. Authors Howard G Charing and Peter Cloudsley.
Click to visit the website of the book for articles and interviews with Pablo Amaringo, also photo galleries and see the paintings with summary narratives.
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ABOUT: THE AYAHUASCA VISIONS OF PABLO AMARINGO
Illustrating the evolution of his intricate and colorful art, this book contains 48 full-color reproductions of Amaringo’s latest works with detailed explorations of the rich Amazonian mythology underlying each painting. Through their longstanding relationship with Amaringo, coauthors Charing and Cloudsley are able to share the personal stories behind his visions and experiences with Amazonian people and folklore, capturing Amaringo’s powerful ecological and spiritual message through his art and words.
With contributions by Graham Hancock, Jeremy Narby, Robert Venosa, Dennis McKenna, Stephan Beyer, and Jan Kounen, this book brings the ayahuasca experience to life as we travel on Amaringo’s visionary brush and palette.
Variopinto de la Chacruna (The Many Colours of Chacruna) by Pablo Amaringo
Variopinto de la Chacruna by Pablo Amaringo
In the upper part of the painting is the crucible of alchemical transformation representing the genesis of the ayahuasca vision. Each side are magnificent sylphs, the guardians of the two plants – chacruna and ayahuasca that combine to form the sacred brew – ayahuasca. The chacruna induces colourful visions, while the ayahuasca liana promotes insight. If you drink pure ayahuasca, that is the liana without chacruna, perhaps some mapacho tobacco, your visions are only in black and white
This painting is featured in the book ‘The Ayahuasca Visions of Pablo Amaringo‘ published by Inner Traditions 2011. Authors Howard G Charing and Peter Cloudsley.
Click to visit the website of the book for articles and interviews with Pablo Amaringo, also photo galleries and see the paintings with summary narratives.
To purchase high quality fine art reproductions and Greeting Cards of the paintings click to visit our store
25% Promotional Discount until December 31st 2012. Promotion Code: JXXUEV
ABOUT: THE AYAHUASCA VISIONS OF PABLO AMARINGO
Illustrating the evolution of his intricate and colorful art, this book contains 48 full-color reproductions of Amaringo’s latest works with detailed explorations of the rich Amazonian mythology underlying each painting. Through their longstanding relationship with Amaringo, coauthors Charing and Cloudsley are able to share the personal stories behind his visions and experiences with Amazonian people and folklore, capturing Amaringo’s powerful ecological and spiritual message through his art and words.
With contributions by Graham Hancock, Jeremy Narby, Robert Venosa, Dennis McKenna, Stephan Beyer, and Jan Kounen, this book brings the ayahuasca experience to life as we travel on Amaringo’s visionary brush and palette.
Ayari Warmi: (The Elegant Garment of a Woman) by Pablo Amaringo
Ayari Warmi (The Elegant Garment of a Woman) by Pablo Amaringo
The picture reveals the eternal mystery of the feminine. When a woman works with the spirit of ayahuasca and other plants, her radiant spiritual purity appears in the vision embellished and garlanded with beautiful flowers. Just as lakes and rivers have luxuriant foliage and blossom adorning their banks, so a woman expresses the splendour of the entire natural world. Women embody heavenly beauty, tenderness and grace, while men should develop wisdom to be of service to beauty in their lives. When a woman learns to sing icaros, they resemble tuneful bird song, flowing water or the sound of wind blowing through the trees
Ayari Warmi is featured in the book ‘The Ayahuasca Visions of Pablo Amaringo’ published by Inner Traditions 2011.
Authors Howard G Charing and Peter Cloudsley.
High quality fine art reproductions and greeting cards of this beautiful painting on FineArt America.
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ABOUT: THE AYAHUASCA VISIONS OF PABLO AMARINGO
Illustrating the evolution of his intricate and colorful art, this book contains 48 full-color reproductions of Amaringo’s latest works with detailed explorations of the rich Amazonian mythology underlying each painting. Through their longstanding relationship with Amaringo, coauthors Charing and Cloudsley are able to share the personal stories behind his visions and experiences with Amazonian people and folklore, capturing Amaringo’s powerful ecological and spiritual message through his art and words.
With contributions by Graham Hancock, Jeremy Narby, Robert Venosa, Dennis McKenna, Stephan Beyer, and Jan Kounen, this book brings the ayahuasca experience to life as we travel on Amaringo’s visionary brush and palette.
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Babele: The Stone Mushrooms
Babele: The Stone Mushrooms, a set on Flickr by Howard G Charing
Via Flickr:
On a vast mountain plateau 2250 metres altitude in the Bucegi Mountains of the Southern Carpathians in Translyvania stand clusters of giant stone mushrooms and the enigmatic Romanian Sphinx. The stone mushrooms are called ‘Babele’ which means ‘The Old Women’ in Romanian.
There are a multitude of legends and origins of these mysterious stone sculptures. Although the official story is that these stones were shaped by the wind, I’m not that sure if this is the case, as these stone mushrooms are granite which is one of the hardest rocks formations and generally resistant to a hammer and chisel.
There are also a host of legends, speculation, and intricate conspiracy theories surrounding these stone monuments, that the Pentagon and the Illuminati under the auspices of clandestine organisations such as the Vatican, the Bilderberg Group, the Romanian Government, and the CIA etc have discovered an extensive network of underground tunnels and vast chambers constructed by extraterrestrial visitors who have left certain alien technology artifacts that if revealed could have a profound impact (in true Stargate fashion) on the future of mankind.
It is also rumoured that the original Stone Tablets that Moses received on Mount Sinai (linguistic aficionados note that the town of Sinaia is very near) have been concealed in a secret and hidden chamber buried deep beneath the Sphinx, and that a meridian drawn in the exact centre of this subterranean chamber divides the world into two equal halves. I find the latter particularly amazing, as thinking about it for a moment; if I were to draw a meridian between my legs – the world would be divided into two equal halves too.
In the absence of any facts I would speculate that it is emblematic of an Indo-European Dacian Mushroom religion. There is a lot of material about the Dacian sacramental use of entheogens (Amanita Muscaria) from Mircea Eliade, Robert Graves to Terence McKenna.
Anyway speculation and secret mysteries aside, it is a fantastic experience, a totally awesome (slightly nerve-racking) cable car ride that travels over more than one deep abyss to get there. I definitely plan to return to spend more time there and do some more speculative musings.
The Magical World of Pablo Amaringo
The Magical World of Pablo Amaringo – A Talk by Peter Cloudsley at the Globetrotters Club in London June 2012.
Lord Love a Duck – Final 100 ruddy ducks in the UK facing extermination | Environment | guardian.co.uk
My favourite Duck
Final 100 ruddy ducks in the UK facing extermination | Environment | guardian.co.uk.
From the Urban Dictionary
1. an exclaimation uttered when nothing else will fit… often used when stunned or dismayed.
2. “Lord love a duck… that alien just gone and blew up our truck.”
3. “You slept with my BROTHER? Well Lord love a duck…”
The statement from Herr Himmler of the RSPB (The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds – believe it or not) is kind of chilling;
“The white headed duck is one of the most endangered in Europe and the threat to it from the ruddy duck remains. We need to get to a position where there is no longer a threat. Otherwise, in 20 years’ time we could risk being in the same situation because we failed to see it through to the best conclusion.”
So what exactly is this terrible threat..are the Ruddy Ducks eating the eggs or bullying the White headed ducks? Answer NO, what they are doing is inter-breeding with each other so you get a hybrid white-headed-mixed-race-ruddy-duck.
Now, I’m just curious that if this threat to the purity of the Duck race is so terrible – can’t they just clip the wings of the Ruddy Ducks to prevent them winging their way over to Spain and shagging the White Headed Spanish frigging Ducks instead of this type of ‘ethnic cleansing’ ie. massacre??
Luckily the USA stands ready to deal with this threat;
Some have argued that confronting the threat from the Ruddy Ducks could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Ruddy Ducks is crucial to winning the war on terror.
George W. Bush
And at last some common sense on the matter;
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
Douglas Adams
Some Other Duck Stories and Videos
British MP Claimed £1645 ($2500) for an Ornamental Duck House on Expenses
Daffy Duck fighting the Nazis wartime cartoon on YouTube
Donald Duck enslaved by the Nazis in the 1943 video ‘Der Fuehrer’s Face’
To read the official ‘Eradication’ bulletin from FERA (Food and Environment Research Agency) of this programme run under the auspices of the EEC ‘LIFE’ (no acronym here) agency, read on;
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The Dalai Lama in Britain July 1996
The Dalai Lama in Britain July 1996, a set on Flickr.
Dalai Lama - Peace in Action - UK 1996
Still finding some gems during my clean up. It was a great joy to see him, and I sponsored some prayer flags for this event, which they very kindly sent to me, also found those too. One of the interesting things is that the Tibetan Peace Garden is next door to the Imperial War Museum, outside the museum are these massive battleship cannons facing out over the Thames – reminder that once Britiannia Ruled the Waves, and now can just about handle the River Thames. Anyway before I ramble on (suddenly got Led Zep in my head), the Peace Gardens are perfectly placed being a neighbour of the Imperial War Museum.
These are photos of the HH Dalai Lama’s visit to the UK – ‘Peace in Action’ Tour. These photos were taken at the Ceremonial Opening of the Peace Gardens in Lambeth – just next door to the Imperial War Museum July 16th -20th 1996
Big Brother (Google) is Watching you
Big Brother (Google) is Watching you
Although this post is a bit off topic, but seeing as Google’s new privacy policy went into force today with implications that range from creepy to sinister, I wanted to make this post about an alternative Search Engine http://www.duckduckgo.com
Check out the http://donttrack.us/ link and see how your very personal and intimate details are utilised by the corporations. Of course you can argue that using Google isn’t mandatory, and use cash instead of plastic and so on and that’s fair enough. But Google has become an omnipresent force in our lives, and so far much to our benefit (I love Google Earth), but with this consolidation of data about what we search for on the internet, photos of where we live, what we purchase, what we read, syncing our contacts from cell phones, maybe it’s time to re-evaluate our use of Google. I’ve been trying out duckduckgo (still not sure if I like the name), and so far it looks good, and none of my search terms are being tracked. Check it out for yourself.
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