This new Tetris-looking design is found all along the Ucayali River in Peru. From Pucalpa in the mid-east of Peru (the Shipibo peoples' main hive), to the epic jungle city of Iquitos, and even spilling into the mighty Amazon River down into Leticia in the south of Colombia. These trans-dimensional images are envisioned by Shipibo Shamans during traditional plant-medicine ceremony. These 'maps', as they refer to them, may consist of geographic, biographic or even future information...
During my last ceremony with the master Shipibo shaman, Ricardo Amaringo, I began to see these gently, swerving figures rising and rippling through space and time. With two of the shamans' Icaros lulling these musical, swerving serpents into my field of mind, these figures began to take the form of peculiar, hieroglyphic musical notes.
When I asked the shaman what these figures were all about, he responded that they were types of maps. These maps can represent something as simple as geographic information, or something as complicated as the life of an individual. For example, one of the shamans told me he was able to see his own death embedded in one of these "breath-taking" Shipibo Ayahuasca maps.
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