11/05/2025
"The gift of Gold"
12"X24"
Acrylic on gesso board with custom cedar frame
Original available for purchase on website www.levimoodieart.com
I had heard stories of alien surgeries on ayahuasca ceremonies but had never experienced them before. Some are more obvious than others. Some involve surgery on the brain, the teeth, the heart or other body parts that the participant has problems with. For me they started out small, maybe preparing me for the more intricate ones later on. I remember a few of my earlier ceremonies were I would feel things I’m my jaw, kind of a tingling sensation. The taitas in the columbian culture say that surgery on the jaw and the teeth are the spirits working on past traumas that we have had while growing up. The idea is that as we are growing up and our teeth are forming, or growing, the trauma we experience gets trapped in our teeth or jaw and we carry those traumas into adulthood. These surgeries help release those traumas and can be followed by massive purges.
I can remember in one of my ceremonies, I was feeling extremely nauseous and was curled up in the fetal position. All I wanted was to have this feeling go away. All of the sudden I felt a presence around me. It was them, Finally the praying mantis’s that I had heard so much about! There was 3 of them and one of them placed his arm on my shoulder as the other stroked my head. Turn over on your back I felt them say. I used all the strength I could muster and rolled over to lay flat on my back. All of the sudden uncontrollably me mouth opened as wide as it could. The praying mantis’s one by one took turns picking and and prodding my teeth and jaws. It felt as though electricity was coursing through my mouth, and I could hear the sound of clicking. Just like the predator movie villain sounded like. This lasted for what seemed to be a half an hour. As this was happening the nausea slowly faded away.
As the work on my mouth was coming to an end my heart began racing and I started to get very anxious and let out a HUGE sigh followed by a gasp of air almost like I forgot to breath for the last few minutes and my body suddenly remembered. The one of them that I assumed was in charge let me know subconsciously that they were about to open up my chest, and that what was about to happen wouldn’t be pleasant, but as long as I relaxed, was calm, and remembered to breath I wouldn’t feel any pain.
My chest began to open up as the clicking sound intensified one by one each of them started to pull black smelly slugged from my chest were my heart was located. I can’t even describe the feelings and thoughts going through my body and mind at this point, not to mention the sounds going on around me in the maloka. The intense music, the chants of the shamans, and the purging of the people around me. As they kept pulling the tar like substance from my chest I asked them what is this they are pulling from my body? They didn’t respond in words, but let me know that this was all the damage that has been done to my heart in the past, from my parents divorce, to my exes emotional abuse that had greatly damaged the way I view and relate to current relationships. By the time they were done pulling out the goopy smelly sludge I looked down and my chest cavity was empty. One of the creatures reached behind him and pulled out a solid gold anatomical heart. He explained that this new heart was to replace my old heart and I was to use it to love my partner and my children with pure untainted love. As he was about to place it into my chest I stopped him and asked, “how do I know that this heart was mine, that it was meant for me”? He slowly turned it around and I saw a beautifully engraved skull in the side of it, and instantly knew that it was made especially for me! He placed it in my chest and closed me up. With a loud mouth click and an oooshtow I felt a big gust of warm tropical wind and felt the most intense feeling of love from the top of my head to the tip of my toes wash over me. Visions of my daughter, and partners face flooded my mind for the rest of the night and I was in pure bliss! I will never look at another praying mantis the same way, or without a smile come to my face and a warm feeling in my chest.
