ANALOGIES BETWEEN SHAMANISM AND ALCHEMY: AN EXPERIENCE SINCE THE TAKING OF YAGÉ

Abstract

This article presents an interpretive work, to address analogies referring to the shamanic environment and its deep connections with hermeticism and alchemy. These three occult 

sciences keep symbolisms and mysterious secrets, referring to a part of the path of the initiate. I managed to capture these mysterious symbolisms and secrets in my visions with the sacred plant ayahuasca. It is necessary to highlight the attraction towards these topics for their important contribution towards the transmutation of my spirit.

It was necessary to compile some songs of medicine music, which I recorded in sacred ceremonies of Taita Hipólito Muchavisoy, an elder who belongs to the Inga de Yunguillo reservation, Putumayo, to establish these similarities. In this way, and starting from the comparison and reflection with references of texts and documentaries that deal with hermeticism and alchemy, it was possible to create links and bridges to cement some ideas and musings that swarmed in my worldview after ingesting the shamanic potion.

It is necessary to mention that the songs chosen were due to their strong impact on visions, since they changed the way I see my inner and outer world. Besides being helpful and appropriate to imagine the visible and invisible relationships between the different manifestations of esoteric art.

Beliefs and the worldview of the world in all the breadth, dissolves and dilutes in the altered planes of consciousness, where metaphysics and the foray into unknown spiritual dimensions seem to have a healing effect on people. The taitas comment that these visions provide us with the ability to be prophets and to predict our destiny.