Lila

Visionary Art, Shamanism and the Transpersonal Vision


Visionary Plants

Presents the “human-plant interconnection” revealed by visionary plants and explores the relevance of plant-induced visions and shamanic teachings to humanity’s environmental crisis

Wise Mind - A Case for the Integration of Subjective Experience with Objective Reality in the Age of Fragmentation

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By Flore Singer Aaslid
Fragmentation ultimately leads to pathology both individually and collectively, whereas integration promotes health. Fortunately, there is integrative potential in many fields of experience; art, myth, dreams and ritual all have this effect, as do many Eastern introspective techniques.



San Pedro and the shamanic tradition of Northern Peru, the Mesa Norteña

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An interview with Juan Navarro by Howard Charing
Juan is a descendant of a long lineage of healers and shamans working with the magical powers and plants of his bio-region.



Ideas and Reflections Associated with Ayahuasca Visions

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Benny Shanon, Ph.D.
AYAHUASCA IS FAMOUS for the visions it generates. Commonalities appear in the visions of individuals from different personal and cultural backgrounds. This essay explores these commonalities from a phenomenological viewpoint.



Ayahuasca, Religion and Nature

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By Morgan Brent
Plant-inspired religions can be understood as acts of guidance by an elder community of species to a younger one, the human. They are concerned with successful co-creative relations within the community of nature and the organismic and spiritual growth that these bring about.