A Presentation in Bucharest April 2012 on Visionary Art by Howard G Charing , co-author of 'Plant Spirit Shamanism' and 'The Ayahuasca Visions of Pablo Amaringo'.

1. VISIONARY ART
Howard G. Charing
April 2012

2. WHAT IS VISIONARY ART?
• ART – HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME!
• &

3. VISIONARY?
• A VISION CAN CHANGE A PERSON’S LIFE
• A VISION CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
• VISIONARIES THROUGHOUT THE AGES
• THE VISIONARY EXPERIENCE CAN CHANGE
HOW AN INDIVIDUAL OR A COLLECTIVE
PERCEIVES THE WORLD

4. ONE VISION THAT HAS CHANGED THE WORLD

5. VISIONARY ART
• PRIME ESSENCE IS SPIRITUAL
• OPENS OUR MINDS TO NEW PERSPECTIVES
• TRANSPERSONAL STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
• FREES THE SPIRIT
• TO KNOW THE DIVINE

6. LIFE
• WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT; ISN’T IT
STRANGE TO BE ALIVE?
• IF NOT – REFLECT ON IT!

7. VISIONARY ARTISTS
• EMISSARIES BETWEEN THE INEFFABLE AND
THE MATERIAL WORLD
• THEIR ART SPEAKS TO BOTH THE DEEPEST
AND HIGHEST DIMENSIONS OF OUR BEING
• INSPIRE US TO LOOK BEYOND THE VEIL OF
CULTURAL AND LINGUSITIC LIMITS
• MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE GROWING THE
SEED OF EVOLVING CONSCIOUSNESS WITHIN

8. VISIONARY ARTISTS
• THEY ADDRESS THE PERENNIAL QUESTION
• DOES MATTER COME FROM CONSCIOUSNESS
OR DOES CONSCIOUSNESS COME FROM
MATTER?

9. VISIONARY ART
• WE ARE HERE IN AN EXCITING AND UNIQUE
TIME OF HUMAN GROWTH AND POTENTIAL
• THERE ARE SOME BRILLIANT VISIONARY
ARTISTS ILLUMINATING THE WAY FOR US AT
THIS IMPORTANT AND CRITICAL JUNCTURE IN
HUMAN AFFAIRS

10. ALEX GREY – THE NET OF BEING

11. ALEX GREY - TRANSFIGURATIONS

12. ALEX GREY
• “ART HAS A FUNCTION AND A MISSION TO
INTERPRET THE WORLD, TO REVEAL THE
CONDITION OF THE SOUL, TO ENCOURAGE
OUR HIGHEST NATURE AND AWAKEN THE
SPIRITUAL FACULTIES WITHIN EVERY
INDIVIDUAL”
ALEX GREY (THE MISSION OF ART)

13. VISIONARY PLANTS
• ARE KEYS TO OPEN THE DOOR TO THE
MYSTICAL DIMENSIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
• THEY NEED TO BE RECOGNISED AND
HONOURED AS AN INFINITE SOURCE OF
INSPIRATION AND ILLUMINATION FOR
HUMANITY
• THE SO-CALLED ‘WAR ON DRUGS’ IS ACTUALLY
A WAR ON OUR CONSCIOUSNESS!

14. AYAHUASCA VISIONS
‘LA AYAHUASCA Y LA CHACRUNA’
BY MITA LOZANO

15. AYAHUASCA VISIONS
“TIME AND SPACE APPEARS UNITED TO US, AND
WE ARE A PART OF THEM, BUT AN ALTERNATE
TIME AND SPACE ALSO EXISTS BEYOND OUR
EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE WHICH WE CAN
PERCEIVE THROUGH THE EYE OF AYAHUASCA”
PABLO AMARINGO

16. DAVID ‘SLOCUM’ HEWSON - MADRE AYAHUASCA

17. MADRE AYAHUASCA
• “ ...Once, during an ayahuasca ceremony, a
native came to me in a vision and told me to
use my abilities as an artist to show 'my
people' (Americans) the beauty of the
Amazon, and also make them aware of its
ongoing destruction.”
DAVID ‘SLOCUM’ HEWSON

18. DAVID ‘SLOCUM’ HEWSON
PACHAMAMA
HEALING THE EARTH

19. THE VISIONARY ART OF THE SHIPIBO

20. THE VISIONARY ART OF THE SHIPIBO

21. THE AYAHUASCA VISIONS OF
PABLO AMARINGO

22. PABLO AMARINGO – ONDAS DE LA AYAHUASCA

23. ONDAS DE LA AYAHUASCA
Ayahuasca is one of the most remarkable gifts
from the plant realm as it contains chemicals
identical to the neurotransmitters found in the
human brain.

24. PABLO AMARINGO – LLULLO MACHACO

25. LLULLO MACHACO
The concept expressed in this painting is that
however our life unfolds and whatever our
destiny might be, we are all born in absolute
perfection. We are innocent when we come
into the world and have no guile or deceits.
A BIT DIFFERENT THAN ‘ORIGINAL SIN’

26. VISIONARY ART

27. VISIONARY ART

28. MISTERIO PROFUNDO