THE VISIONS PART III
ILLNESS AND CURING
VISION 28
SPIRITUAL HEART OPERATIONThis happened when I arrived in Tamanco in 1959. My father took me to a settlement called Brazil. In a house on one end of town lived a woman called Maria Pacaya. My father had to cure several patients, and there he took ayahuasca. He also gave me the brew after blowing on it with the purpose of helping me, as I was suffering from a heart disease.
The brew was so strong that I was at the edge of screaming. The visions were so vivid that I thought what I saw was not just imagination, but a contact with something physical and real. I saw sphinxes; I was in Africa, Europe, and the Americas; suddenly I saw a doctor dressed in a grey-violet suit. He was an American. His wife was wearing an emerald-green dress. Their daughter had a dress of the same color. They seemed to be nurses, and had with them scalpels, scissors, pincers, hooks, cotton, needles and thread, and medicine of various kinds.
The doctor asked me to take off my shirt. He took a large, broad knife and opened me from the clavicle to the last rib of the left side. With a hammer he broke the ribs and opened my chest. He put my heart on a dish, where he operated on its arteries and joined them with some sort of soft plastic tubes. The doctor showed me the location of the damage in my arteries.
In the meantime the daughter of the doctor had already prepared the needle and threaded needle to sew the wound. They put my heart back in its place, closed my chest, and cleansed and sewed up the wound. They told me that I had to fast for a week. I did so, and since then I have felt perfect.[149]
149In the course of interviews with vegetalistas and their patients I have encountered several narrations in which healing takes place through imagery, either in the visions or in dreams... Clodomir Monteiro da Silva reports that Sebastiao Costa, a disciple of Irineu Serra, the founder of the Santo Daime (ayahuasca) church in Brazil, was 'operated on' under the effects of the brew. He saw his body lying in front of him, and two men arrived with instruments, removed his bones and put them back into his body, opened his body, and took a square piece out from which three small animals came that were the cause of the illness (Monteiro 1985:104-5).This seems to suggest that in the visions the patients or the shaman metaphorically enacts the healing process, and it is this visualization which carries out the healing (cf. Achterberg 1985).
VISION 29
TYPES OF SORCERY
In front of the city we see a flying object that approaches the house
where ayahuasca is taken. It comes from the planet Mars, and in it come goblins, experts in surgical operations. They come from the area of the inpenetrable craters.
Further down we see another extraterrestrial ship, which comes from the galaxy Antares with beings of elastic body who do not walk upon the ground, as they have strong levitation powers which can suspend even the heaviest body.
VISION 31
In the background, we see a big spaceship from the Kima constellation, with powerful knowledge about meditation and levitation.
CUNGATUYA
VISION 32
The spaceship behind her is seeing to it that the boa is not stronger than vegetalista and thus cannot harm him. It comes from a galaxy where there is a city called Aponia, where the people live in peace without knowing money, only love; where people don't fight against each other, but work in harmony.
PREGNANT BY AN ANACONDA
VISION 33
CAMPANA AYAHUASCAWe see a flying object coming from the North with blue beings from Venus. Half the body of these beings is like that of humans, the other half is made only of energy. They come to teach the vegetalistas medicine...
In the center is a spaceship that travels at great speeds...
VISION 36
The helpers of the vegetalistas are genies of ancient cultures... There are three temples. Those initiates who are going to be ordained ascend colored steps to the first temple. Those descending have already been admitted, which is why a lilac-colored horse with wings is coming from there. The initiated go to the second temple to graduate as masters with deeper esoteric knowledge. That's why we see a spaceship leaving. It symbolizes the fact that they are now better protected. To the third temple with its light-blue stairs go those ordained as sublime masters, and they come down having been approved as worthy and respected masters of the esoteric sciences. That is why we see one spaceship leaving in an upward direction and another downward.
INCORPORATION IN A PATIENT
VISION 38
Lower down is the great Sakia Kuan Jo, with his flying hat like lightening that strikes the enemy. This prince holds a goblet containing the miraculous balsam that cures any ailment.
FRIGHTENED BY THE CHULLACHAKIBelow, glowing with green, red, and yellow lights, is a spaceship of the elves who live on terraces of the planet Mars, and who from time to time visit the Earth.
VISION 39
RECOVERING A YOUNG MAN KIDNAPPED BY A YAKURUNA
On the left we see a powerful cosmic ship that moves through the different galaxies bringing auras of great wisdom.
VISION 41
In the upper right corner we see a spaceship coming from a distant place, near the edge of the universe, where darkness becomes solid and inpenetrable. It has come here by travelling through trillions of galaxies of the unfathomable universe one can visit by means of the sacred plant ayahuasca. The people of the world from which this spaceship comes live in perfect harmony, love, and wisdom, without egoism and wars.
PULSATIONS
VISION 42
To the right is a great palace of the sublime fakirs of Brahma. In front is the mystical rose of wisdom, made of precious diamonds and lights of psychic illumination. There is also an extraterrestrial spaceship with standards pointing towards the four cardinal points. In this ship come being from the constellation Kima. They resemble humans and speak very slowly.
LUCERO AYAHUASCAIn the lower part of the painting there are several giants that come from the center of the galaxy Antares. They have great power and teach icaros that many vegetalistas use to cure snake bites or the bites of other poisonous animals.
VISION 45
VEGETALISTAS TRANSFORMING THEMSELVES INTO WOLVES TO HIDE FROM A SORCERER.In this painting we see a sumi, or great sorcerer, trying to cause harm to a group of people peacefully taking ayahuasca. He is wearing a sword the color of fire. As he moves, lightning and thunder are produced. The ghosts of horrible men, women, and animals surround him. They all pass like locusts. But the sorcerer is deceived by the vegetalistas, who transform themselves into wolves, drinking ayahuasca from a gourd.
VISION 46
SEPULTURA TONDURI
But this muraya is stronger than the three vegetalistas. We see to the far right how he summons his powers, the nina-rumis volcanoes {nina=fire, rumis=stone}, which are mighty with their lava flows and earthquakes and their large spaceships, which come to attack making circles with laser nets, ready to catch in their traps everything the sorcerer uses.
VISION 47
The icaros of the curandero pull the black boa towards a hole in the ground, where it will be closed with circling discs, charged with radioactivity, which were brought by the great acrobats called yura-pachacama, white souls who take care of the universe.
ELECTROMAGNETISM OF THE YANA-YAKUMAMA
VISION 49
GRADATION OF POWERS
A splendid vision in which the sublime powers of the invisible world are
seen as luminous rays, with qualities or grades that go beyond all human
knowledge... Then there is a turquoise-blue ray representing the sapphire.
There we see angels or messengers who roam the vast universe, dwelling in
different galaxies for some time. The have extrasensory wisdom and move with
the speed of thought. They are the guardians appointed to the immense universe.