Shipibo Conibo influences on my painting

My painting has been influenced by Jung (see The Red Book!), Huichol, Balinese, and Shipibo Conibo art. The pattern above is from the Shipibo Conibo, a tribe in the Peruvian Amazon that has practiced tribal shamanistic rituals, probably for thousands of years. The Shipibo Conibo have woven signifiers for  psychedelic experience  into their culture. As in magick, certain  colors, patterns, directions, musical notes and themes are given meanings. When  the entire tribe imbibes, the shaman steers the experience with the use  of these colors, directions, musical notes, and other signifiers.

Although the word "hallucination" is applied to psychedelic visions, with a strong connotation of seeing things that aren't there, I -- and from what I've read, shamanic users of psychedelics -- see the patterns revealed under entheogenic intoxication to be a refraction of how our visual and cognitive systems interface with the radiated and reflected light in our environment. I see flow, pulsation, vibration, as if the illusion of solid matter was temporarily suspended, enabling me to see the perpetual flowing that underlies the world of phenomona that are normally locked into a view with strict boundaries between objects, organisms, and mental phenomena. 

To me, the gradients and patterns that emerge from some of my painting are not so much depictions as invocations.