Peter Cesar Amaringo practiced for many years as a healer in the
Peruvian Amazon. Today he paints the visions he remembers from his
shamanic practice and teachers young people to paint as director of
the USKO-AYAR Amazonian School of Painting in Pucallpa, an art
school he cofounded with Luis Eduardo Luna in 1988, where local
youth are educated in the care and preservation of the Amazon
ecosystem.
Luis Eduardo Luna was born and raised in the Colombian Amazon
region. He earned his Ph.D. from the Institute of Comparative
Religion of Stockholm University. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and
Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London. The author of
Vegetalismo- Shamanism among the Mestizo Population of the Peruvian
Amazon, he has been a Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the Swedish
School of Economics in Helsinki since 1979 and since 1986 an
Associate of the Botanical Museum of Harvard University.
“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.’”—Professor Richard Schultes, Director,
Botanical Museum of Harvard University
“Pablo Amaringo and Luis Eduardo Luna are to be congratulated for
their collaboration. It has yielded a book that is both beautiful
and sure to be an enduring contribution to the ethnography and art
history of shamanism. The visions and vanishing lifestyles of the
ayahuasqueros of Amazonas are presented with wonderful integrity
and sensitivity.”—Terence McKenna, author of The Invisible
Landscape (with Dennis McKenna) and True Hallucinations
“In these times of vast ecological destruction in the Amazon, the
most topical achievement of this book [is] the painful reminder
that plants in their botanical, pharmaceutical, and spiritual
existence may have an immensely more important message for mankind
than we ever imagined.”—Angelika Gebhart-Sayer, Professor of
Ethnology, University of Marburg
“This is a fascinating and authoritative work about a South
American native shaman and his conceptual world.”—Åke Hultkrantz,
Professor Emeritus of Comparative Religion, Stockholm University
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