Daniel Mirante is a 30 year old artist, author and university trained researcher facinated with deep ecology, shamanic tradition, and the creative process. Daniel initiates a collaborative studio space in Brighton, UK, to support the unfolding of emerging visionary artists. www.lila.info Daniel's paintings have been exhibited worldwide and his writings on plants, art and mysticism published in a variety of on-line and printed publications, including ‘Feminine Mysticism in Art:Artists Envisioning the Divine’ edited by Victoria Christian and Susan Stedman and Laurence Caruana's Visionary Revue (www.visionaryrevue.com) Daniel's yage inspired paintings are at http://lila.info/about/daniel-mirante-bio. Daniel has worked with the medicine in both Mestizo, syncretic and solo/freeform contexts.
Articles by Daniel Mirante:
Don Pablo Amaringo makes his Passage.
Posted by Daniel Mirante • Category: NewsDon Pablo Amaringo, one of the most significant artists of our age, shaman of the highest order, and teacher to many, died November 16th.
The world of art has lost a truly original visionary – a seer in all senses of the word. I think we all join together in wishing him a safe passage to [...]
Guided by the Moon
Posted by Daniel Mirante • Category: Santo DaimeAlthough the Daime works keep within the traditional shamanic parameters, one should take into consideration the remarks made by Couto, that, here, one is dealing with what he calls “collective shamanism”. The command of the works is held by more experienced shamans, but the shamanic activity is not, exclusively in the hands of a few initiates and all participants are considered apprentice shamans and even potential shamans. Taking part in the rituals is a way of learning the art, and it is thought that any of the participants of the ritual may display shamanic powers which are considered to be latent in human nature.
On the Origins of Ayahuasca
Posted by Daniel Mirante • Category: Overviews, Primordial CultureDaniel Mirante
How could such a complex synergistic potion be discovered amongst over 80,000 catalogued plant species of the Amazon forest? Studying Ayahuasca, modern minds have puzzled the origins of the discovery of the Great Medicine, since it is commonly said that being a synergistic potion, there is no effect when only one of the plants are consumed.
Ayahuasca, Neurogenesis and Depression
Posted by Daniel Mirante • Category: Neurosciences, Spirit & HealingDaniel Mirante
A hypothesis suggesting Ayahuasca may be growing healthier brains…
Hyperdimensional Consciousness
Posted by Daniel Mirante • Category: ExperiencesA true light pierces the encrustations around the heart and this is the beginning of a turing, a deep reorientation, from someone who looks at the past and regrets, to a reborn one who faces the future and the light.
Spirit Vine
Posted by Daniel Mirante • Category: MythosBy Daniel Mirante
A personal overview of Ayahuasca covering some indigenous traditions and phenomenological aspects.
A New World
Posted by Daniel Mirante • Category: ExperiencesI came to one of the dominions of ‘lost angels’ – Los Angeles… my spirit particulated into several eminations and I descended into crack houses, to abide with the poor spirits there, in the sorrow and disorientation. I gave my love within this Hell, and gave thanks to the vine that lets me do this work.
Nectarian Art – Deep Ecological Visions
Posted by Daniel Mirante • Category: CreativityProposing a new art term to describe deep ecological and entheogenically inspired nature visions…
