THE
MAGICAL
WORLD
OF
PABLO
AMARINGO
A
TALK
AT
THE
GLOBETROTTERS
CLUB
BY
PETER
CLOUDSLEY
JUNE
2012
www.ayahuascavisions.com
Globetrotters
Club
lecture
given
at
Dragon
Hall,
9
th
June
2012
We
know
how
powerful
are
the
emotions
that
inspire
us
to
go
travelling.
Something
has
changed
that
so
many
people
go
to
Peru
to
take
part
in
ceremonies
with
sha
‐
mans.
Why
is
it
happening?
If
you
go
to
Iquitos,
a
city
of
400,000
in
the
Amazon,
only
accessible
by
plane
or
boat,
you
find
a
very
strong
Amazonian
culture.
While
on
the
outskirts
are
an
ever
growing
number
of
centres
where
foreigners
can
drink
ayahuasca
with
a
shaman.
Previously,
travellers
to
Peru
were
attracted
to
sacred
sites
and
ruins
where
there
might
have
been
dancing
and
fiestas,
but
outsiders
were
more
observers
than
par
‐
ticipants.
In
today's
talk,
I
would
like
to
use
Pablo
Amaringo’s
paintings
as
a
means
to
explore
the
new
phenomenon
of
participation
in
ayahuasca
ceremonies.
Pablo
was
a
shaman
until
1978
when
he
stopped
being
a
shaman
or
drinking
aya
‐
huasca
and
dedicated
his
life
to
painting
his
visions.
He
was
a
great
and
wise
man
yet
with
no
formal
education
‐
he
was
completely
self
‐
taught
in
everything,
includ
‐
ing
painting.
It
is
amazing,
seeing
that
he
was
of
such
a
humble
background,
and
born
in
a
remote
river
port
on
the
Amazon
where
his
family
raised
domestic
ani
‐
mals
and
brought
them
on
the
steamer
to
sell
in
the
city
of
Iquitos
‐
yet
now
his
work
is
known
in
many
countries
of
Europe,
the
United
States
and
Japan.
The
world,
particularly
Western
civilization,
has
recently
turned
upside
down.
One
can
generalize
about
civilizations
and
say
that
they
seem
to
do
very
well
as
long
as
they
are
growing
but
then
they
get
to
a
point
from
which
they
cannot
grow
any
more.
The
Maya
exhausted
their
soils,
the
people
of
Easter
Island
destroyed
their
forests
to
build
their
gigantic
statues
and
the
Mochica
irrigated
their
lands
too
much
so
that
they
became
saline
and
so
on.
All
these
once
great
civilizations
came
up
against
environmental
buffers
to
check
the
increase
of
ever
growing
populations.
This
may
be
one
thing
when
it
happens
in
specific
parts
of
the
world
but
today
it
is
global
and
happening
almost
everywhere.
Whereas
Europe
may
be
going
into
decline,
Peru
is
one
of
the
fastest
growing
economies
in
Latin
America.
For
example,
there
are
projects
for
six
gigantic
new
dams
in
the
Peruvian
Amazon
which
will
flood
huge
areas
of
forest
and
conse
‐
quently
generate
vast
amounts
of
methane
from
under
the
water.
We
all
know
it
can’t
go
on.
A
‘good’
religion,
as
were
the
early
religions
and
traditional
forms
of
shamanism,
would
keep
a
balance
between
the
population
and
what
they
took
from
nature.
But
in
general,
as
civilizations
become
bigger,
the
elite
become
more
powerful
and
re
‐
ligion
becomes
subservient
and
corrupted
into
a
means
of
so
‐
cial
control.
Very
subtly
relig
‐
ions
turn
around,
and
justify
inequality
and
the
rape
of
na
‐
ture.
This
tallies
interestingly
with
what
many
myths
have
to
say,
for
example
in
Peru
you
have
the
Pachacuti
,
which
sees
time
as
cyclic.
At
the
end
of
the
cycle
comes
an
inversion
of
social
or
‐
der,
the
humble
and
poor
find
justice
again
and
have
their
comeuppance.
Remember
that
Atahualpa
played
chess
with
Pizzaro
while
the
famous
ransom
room
in
Ca
‐
jamarca
was
filled
to
the
brim
with
gold
objects
brought
from
far
and
wide.
After
that
he
should
have
been
freed,
but
out
of
fear
of
retaliation,
the
Spanish
realized
they
had
to
kill
him
anyway.
So
they
chopped
his
body
into
many
parts
and
buried
them
in
diverse
places
so
that
there
would
be
no
chance
of
his
body
being
venerated
and
so
fo
‐
menting
revolution.
In
the
Inca
Rey
myth,
or
inkarri,
the
legs,
arms,
head
and
body
would
one
day
rein
‐
tegrate
underground
and
restore
justice
after
500
years.
Pablo’s
images
of
the
Inca
Rey
are
a
powerful
reminder
of
something
deeply
rooted
in
the
subconscious.
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‐
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Amaringo
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