On November 6th, I attended the first North American show opening of “AYAHUASCA VISIONS” – Sacred Art from the Amazon” by Pablo Amaringo, the father of Neo-Amazonica art, and works by Mita and Moises, at the 99 High Art Collective in Venice, CA.

These paintings are a portal into the spirit world. They remind us of our abilities to heal through art and through the higher consciousness of plant wisdom. ”The 99 High Art Collective seeks to expand minds, hearts and souls with their exclusive Neo-Amazonica exhibit, which runs through December 31st, 2009.

Considered one of the world’s greatest visionary artists, Pablo Amaringo is renowned for his highly complex, colorful and intricate paintings of his visions from drinking the ayahuasca brew.  As noted by visionary artist, Robert Venosa, “The high mission of art, through its illusions, is to foreshadow higher states of realities, and no one does this better in the depiction of the Ayahuascan worlds than Pablo.”

Once a practicing shaman, curandero (spiritual healer) and vegetalista, Pablo has gracefully and graciously manifested the spiritual teachings from his ayahuasca experiences, giving birth to his visionary art.  Pablo relates, “Plants—in the great living book of nature—have shown me how to study life as an artist and shaman. They can help all of us to know the art of healing and to discover our own creativity…

Pablo Amaringo is curator in chief of a Museum of the Marvelous, a gallery situated in a parallel dimension where the demons and spirits, plant-teachers and sprites of the shamanic world accessed through ayahuasca are all too real…  Pablo’s eidetic memory, his recall of his extensive journeys in alternate realities, combine with his artistic skills to create a visual record of an invisible landscape that few others will ever explore.  His reputation as the master artist of shamanic worlds is honestly come by, and well-deserved.

- Dennis McKenna, Ph.D.
Enthopharmacologist, Author, Researcher, Visionary and Co-Author
with brother Terence McKenna of “The Invisible Landscape”

“Ayahuasca Visions – Sacred Art from the Amazon”

Each painting in the exhibit took me into another world and other dimensions of reality and the entire exhibit is transcendent. If you are interested in what lies beyond the ordinary waking state, you will enjoy this exhibit.

99 High Art Collective
1108 Abbot Kinney Blvd
Venice Beach, CA. 90291
310-450-8699

For more on the 99 High Art Collective visit:  www.99collective.com

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