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Hypnotic Entrainment and Induced Trance States

... the ayahuascero may be blessed with an icaro, or a sacred song which is delivered spontaneously into his brain by the spirits. When the shaman sings this sacred song the ritual participants are quickly ushered into the sacred space along w...

Communion with the Infinite: The visual music of the Shipibo people of the Amazon

... will re-establish the balance by chanting the icaros, which are the geometric patterns of harmony made manifest in sound, into the body of the person. The shaman in effect transforms the visual code into an acoustic code. A key element in this ma...

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