I have been carrying out an intensive aesthetic research pilot at the home of Maria Cristina Mendoza Vidal (an ayahuascera near Jaén, Peru) exploring how so-called ‘deity yoga’ practice (from Vajrayana buddhism) can be adapted for those in psychedelic altered states who have no prior deity yoga experience.

As part of this research, I have spent many hours engaged in eyes-open Tārā deity yoga practice in a jungle-hut-turned-multimedia-art-studio in Perú creating a Tārā mural whilst communing with the native plants ayahuasca and chakruna. The details of the aesthetic theory which has arisen during this process, and which has guided Tārā’s emergence, are outlined in a recent research article. This Tārā has dark eyes. More soon.