Amantani Island, Lake Titicaca, Peru
This article is written with a two fold purpose.
Firstly, it will be my attempt to portray, what was for me, an incredible expansion on my understanding of what I had previously thought of, to be communication, and thus an opening of receptiveness that allowed me to perceive a whole new dimension to reality.
This expansion, and subsequent lessons, were gained through the aid of plant medicines, ritually administered, in a safe environment with a Shaman.
Secondly, I hope to present, for the photo and nature enthusiasts, a sample of my photo collection from this particular leg of my Peruvian adventure.
Hopefully, many of you will also be able to combine both levels of this post, for an overall experience of The Pixels of God.
All words with hyper-text in this article are simply linking to the corresponding definition in Wikipedia, for the benefit of the reader.
Take a couple of minutes to have a look around you at your immediate environment.
Find and identify 10 separate and individual items ie: table, chair, window etc.
Now, visually, imagine how far you’d have to pull back, so that each of those “individual” items becomes simply a pixel, within a bigger picture.
Dimensional Gate, Puno Peru
When you think of communication, what box do you open to extract understanding from?
How full is that box? How many of your senses are engaged in this process?
I remember discovering Allan Pease's Body Language back in the early 90s, although at the time I had no idea of just how much that would later further my understanding of communication.
Communication is one of those words, like god or goddess, that stamps its meaning into our consciousness at a very early age, that never really gets updated as our understanding grows. As such, whenever you hear, or read one of these words, we have an auto association of what it means that then limits our understanding of what it could mean by negating any requirement to understand it further.
Have you ever found your self in a situation, trying to explain a detailed matter to someone, when only a few words in, you’re met with the auto response, "Yeh, yeh, I know."?
Knowing about something, and knowing something (gnosis) are two very different things.
Cusco, Peru
The next significant expansion in my understanding of communication occurred during a sun gazing session, with the aid of psilocybin, at a favorite park of mine. Just before dusk, standing on the bank of the lake.
After the sun gazing session, as the sun continued to disappear into the distance, for about the next hour, my vision was dominated, one colour at a time, through the light spectrum. Initially reds, then oranges, through yellows to greens.
Those familiar with the Chakras within the Shushumna would have probably recognised the ascending order of the spectrum.
So, here I am, strolling around through the park, a setting of manicured lawns, trees, flowering plants, ducks (and the symmetrical rippling art, left in their wake), countless species of birds, enjoying their last minutes of the diminishing light before disappearing into what ever dimension birds disappear into during the night hours.
Amantani Island, Lake Titicaca, Peru
Incrementally, an awareness started growing within my consciousness, of the melding of different, individual things. It’s all to easy to take for granted just how much colour effects our interpretation of what we’re “seeing”. Case in point, I’m sure many of you have probably seen the meme, or some image of, two polar bears mating in a snow storm.
This is especially prevalent in reds through to greens in the colour spectrum, which is also why you don’t want a colour blind electrician wiring your house :)
A Storm Looms Over My Backyard
So, transpiring before me, individual items such as a close leaf, against a distant lawn setting, the boundaries separating these two different things, became more and more obscure, and simultaneously, more malleable to my Imagination.
In essence, everything outside of me became a living canvas, displaying a visual representation of my internal thoughts. So, I began a process of self inquiry. I started asking questions and then looking to my external environment for answers.
The communication that occurred, as a result of this, is unfortunately, beyond the skills of this author to describe, and quite possibly could not be understood by the reader anyway, unless they too have a reference of understanding of either; psilocybin, DMT or mescalin.
What I can coherently (hopefully) share with you though, is an understanding that also grew, through this experience of the changing dominant colour within the spectrum, and that is, that my emotional state (how I felt), and thus the thoughts generated from that state, changed significantly with the colours.
My emotions, thoughts, personality, how I felt, what I wanted to do, were directly effected by the predominant colour in the spectrum. These altering states of feeling related, directly with the attributes of the Chakras. Each individual colour of the spectrum was communicating with me, with its own unique flavour of consciousness, as the shift in the colour spectrum occurred, through until the green dominated the spectrum at which point I was Bliss.
Green equates with the Anahata or heart Chakra.
Dimensional Gateway, Puno, Peru
A simple enough question, but what does it actually mean?
What is it to feel?
If you asked a thousand people that question, you could probably count the differing responses on one hand; Good, OK, Alright, Fine, Not To Bad.
Feeling how you feel, and how that effects anyone/anything that your interacting with, and vice versa, is communication.
Meditating on, and incorporating this into your life, opens up multiple facets of reality in which you can communicate with absolutely anything. Gazing up into the clouds and seeing faces, cats, and other things, when taken to the level of self enquiry, becomes an exchange and a sharing of consciousness that allows thoughts to “pop into your head”.
Well, that’s it for Part one, I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
In Part Two, I will describe my experiences in Pisac, in The Sacred Valley, Peru, where again, in ceremony, Huachuma, gave me my next and most profound lesson, in connecting the dots of The Pixels of God.
Part two will also have some nice photos accompanying it, to illustrate the sheer beauty, within which I was encompassed, in both Pisac and in the Amazon.
So if you enjoyed part one, don't forget to follow me, so you'll know when part two comes out, which will be sometime within the next three days.
