Painting by Pablo Amaringo

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Dr. John Alexander

Dr. John Alexander has been an active Society for Scientific Exploration (SSE) member for over two decades.

Victoria Alexander

Victoria Alexander has been researching the mysticism of Catholic Saints for over 20 years.

Pablo Amaringo

A severe heart illness--and the magical treatment of this via ayahuasca--led Pablo toward the life of a shaman, and he eventually became a powerful curandero.

Ananda

Ananda is an international lecturer, teacher and researcher, who is growing in the reputation of being a Visionary Scientist.

Lennon Boardman

Lennon Boardman is a healing facilitator who lives on the Central Coast of California.

Michael Caden

I have come to realise that everything is part of a shamanistic continuum, more available in special areas like Peru, but still recognisable in...

Howard Charing

Howard G. Charing is an international workshop leader on shamanism. He has organised specialist retreats to the Amazon Rainforest since the late 90’s. 

Frank Echenhofer

Frank Echenhofer received his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Temple University in 1985.

Peter Gorman

Mr. Gorman is a former recipient of a Blue Mountain Fellowship in investigative journalism and a grant from Conservation International to do a study of indigenous peoples on the Napo River.

Michael Caden

I have come to realise that everything is part of a shamanistic continuum, more available in special areas like Peru, but still recognisable in...

Dr. Richard Grossman

Since the age of 16, Dr. Grossman has been deeply involved in healing, growth and spiritual growth.

David Hewson

The artwork of David Hewson combines the classical painting techniques of the Old Masters with traditional methods of water gilding in gold and other precious metals.

Martina Hoffman

German-born artist, Martina Hoffmann, spent her childhood in Germany as well as Cameroon, West Africa.

Jan Kounen

Jan was a student at the Arts Décoratifs in Nice, France, (E.P.I.A.R.). He learned cinema, animation and pixillation and passed his diploma in 1988... 

Leslie Kubin

Leslie currently has a practice with quantum biofeedback therapy, massage therapy and myofascial release in Central California. 

Dr. Dennis Mckenna

Dennis McKenna has for the last twenty-five years pursued the interdisciplinary study of ethnopharmacology and psychointegrator plants.

Tom McKinnon

Tom McKinnon is an established visual artist who has exhibited multi-media performance works at major venues nationally and internationally.

Dr. Jorge Gonzales Ramirez

Nació en la ciudad de Cajamarca, (1944). Su Jardín de Infancia es recuerdo gigante por el amor que tuvo en su Profesora.

Ronald Rivera

Ronald is dedicated to the essential shamanism, and he is active broadcaster and promoter of Sessions and Shops with the Master Plant of Ayahuasca.

Alan Shoemaker

Alan Shoemaker left the United States fifteen years ago in order to learn Shamanic healing techniques.

Robert Venosa

New York City born, Venosa was transported into the world of fine art in the late 60's after having experimented with psychedelics and having seen the work of the Fantastic Realists.

Jimmy Weiskopf

Jimmy Weiskopf is a New York-born writer and translator who has lived in Colombia full-time since 1977 and is a leading investigator of its indigenous use of yajé (ayahuasca).

Dennis Wier

Dennis R. Wier is the Executive Director of the Trance Research Foundation.

Pablo Amaringo

Pablo Amaringo was born in 1943 in Puerto Libertad, in the Peruvian Amazon region. He was ten years old when he first took ayahuasca--a visionary brew used in shamanism, made from the plants Banisteriopsis caapi (yagé) and Psychotria viridis (chacruna). A severe heart illness-- and the magical treatment of this via ayahuasca--led Pablo toward the life of a shaman, and he eventually became a powerful curandero-- learning the icaros, or healing songs that the ayahuasca brew taught him.

In 1977, Pablo abandoned his vocation as a shaman, and he is now a painter and art instructor at his Usko-Ayar school, where there is no charge for the students to learn painting from Pablo. The school is dependant on donations, which can be made directly to Pablo via the address below. Paints, brushes, and other art supplies, as well as money, can be sent via mail. Please clearly mark such donations as "gifts" so that no tax will have to be paid.

Pablo has painted and described numerous ayahuasca visions, some of which have appeared in his book Ayahuasca Visions: The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman. He is currently working on paintings of angels for a forthcoming book, as well as paintings that document the flora and fauna of Peru.

Click here to see 12 of Pablo's ayahuasca vision paintings. Some of the original art depicted at this site may be available for purchase. Those interested should contact Pablo directly by e-mail:
pabloamaringo@yahoo.com.mx

by phone:
(011) 5161-573088

or write to:
Pablo Amaringo J.R.
Sanchez Cerro 465-467 Puculpa PERU