Today we’d like to introduce you to Diego Lupercio.
Diego, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
How did I start? In my case, I guess it started with death and awakening. In this case, it was the death of my old self. Running away from the comforts of my old self and my life in Florida and moving up here to Atlanta was definitely the initial step of the fools journey I started. That was back in 2011. I was 21 and obviously overly confident in my ambitions – But I had the stamina to push through.
I moved here with no place to live and knew not one soul. Just me and my dog Frida, and my Ford Mustang, and my dreams to continue living a creative life, being that I was in both Choir and Band and went to college for Art. So now in this new and exciting city, the first community to welcome me with open arms was the electronic music scene. I already had the ambitions to become an artist, however, my soul was just too lost and troubled to have a voice to express any form of creativity.
The electronic music scene introduced me to the beautiful yet challenging and therapeutic world of psychedelics. LSD, Magic Mushrooms (psilocybin), DMT, and MDMA were pivotal in shaping me as an artist. What started out as wanting to see pretty colors turned into an inner journey of self-discovery and healing I could never have imagined possible. These psychedelic experiences started to become deeper and crossed the thin line into full-on mystical experiences.
Outside taking psychedelics, I started to experience synchronicities, or meaningful coincidences, far more often the deeper I explored the psyche. I had become a psychonaut with synchronicities being my driving force. I was always super analytical and at the time an atheist so I found these experiences far too intriguing to stop experiencing because I felt I was on to something. Then enters Ayahuasca, a South American Shamanic brew that induces mystical visions.
With Ayahuasca, I was confronted with death again and then the concept of initiation and rebirth. Ayahuasca shattered every sense of my self and what I knew as reality. She made me confront the darkest parts of myself – those parts of me I tried to ignore. Then I experienced the sense of losing my identity and became one with an intelligence far greater than my human mind was capable of putting into words. It was a pretty rapturous experience.
As the spirit of Ayahuasca began to return to the other side of the veil, That’s when I realized the role of the artist, especially the artist in today’s age, is to speak to the soul of humanity. And what can’t be described by words can be described by symbols and allegories, the language of the soul. This is not a cultural revelation but it was an important personal revelation to my start as an artist. So after experimenting with Ayahuasca, I was initiated into a new path, spiritually meaning, my life kind of fell apart, my “friends” walked away from me, and I was on my own – a blank slate.
I started drawing images of my psychedelic experiences and shared them on Instagram. Giving them appropriate hashtags, people started to get drawn to my images and eventually wanted to buy them in some fashion, being that symbols truly are the language of the soul and the themes I use in my art are truly culturally universal. My following started to grow and thus came the birth of synchronartcity.com – The mothership of all of what SynchronARTcity does. It is Art based on and creating Synchronicity.
I realized being given this blank slate was a gift to show that you can create the life you want doing whatever you want, no matter how bizarre, if your mentality is right, and if you have let go of any past demons, and keep the FAITH. You may not be able to control the tiny details of your life, but you can paint the big picture and become the magicians of your life. This is the intention of Synchronartcity- to illuminate this auspicious path to your authentic self.
Has it been a smooth road?
Honestly, it’s been a pretty tough journey to get to the where I am at now in life. I never realized how shitty of a person I could be or understood how psychedelics and the spiritual path were going to lead me to this time of harsh truth. It’s been tough facing my shadow and realizing we always reap what we sow, and what caused me to reap what I was sowing. but to understand the light you have to understand the role of darkness – as they are both two sides of the same coin. The path showed me what was preventing me from manifesting my dreams.
Now in hindsight, I can say I am glad this path hasn’t been easy. It’s not meant to be. I wouldn’t be doing this interview if it weren’t for the hard times. I wouldn’t have a growing community based on my Art with people who are going, or who have gone through this same process of transmutation if I didn’t grow and change myself. I had to change a lot about me and my convictions, and change can be tough, no matter how self-sabotaging the habit we have to change is.
I had to release a lot of fear and anger that were overcoming my actions (and sometimes still do) and that was tough, but I am grateful because I truly feel free thanks to these releases. I have a sense of peace and faith on my journey now and realize that sometimes it takes a storm to get you where your heart wants to be. it’s allowed me to let go of fear and to go with the flow. it’s working so I’m rolling with the tides. The storm is worth it when it rains itself out.
So let’s switch gears a bit and go into the Synchronartcity story. Tell us more about the business.
What is Synchronartcity? What do I do? On the surface, and as of now, it has evolved into a clothing brand exploiting Occult and spiritual themes and symbols, or better yet, Archetypes. Be it through symbols from Alchemy, Buddhism, Shamanism, Gnosticism, Christianity/Catholicism, Wicca, Freemasonry, etc. to show the universality of each belief system.
But if you dig a little deeper into Synchronartcity, not just the website, you will see that, just as our soul, it is an ever-evolving vehicle to spread the phenomenon of Synchronicity and share means to increase these experiences in one’s life. Such means such as the respected use of Psychedelics, Meditation, Ritual Magick and so on. It’s there to encourage those that these images speak to, to let go of fear and follow the rabbit hole into the great mysteries of life.
It’s to encourage one to be an individual and not a corporate robot where outside influences determine one’s happiness and self-worth. I want you to go places the average person fears – Take a peek behind the veil. It’s to show that synchronicity leads the way to be the magician in one’s life to manifest your dreams, no matter how farfetched it may be for some. The Irony though is that is has taken the use of technology to spread this intention and to show the oneness of these cross-cultural themes. In a way, the internet is symbolic of the interconnectedness we share as humans- The Collective Consciousness.
The reason I incorporate technology so much, I mean even my sketches are scanned into vector images and tweaked via technology to get the final expression, is because it can be used for good and for bad. Even technology is victim to the pendulum of choice, of course through our hands. As is occult knowledge. Technology is just as mysterious as the places Occult teachings can take you. Even when I was wheat-pasting my designs all around Atlanta walls, I would put a QR Codes with all paintings and link it to the knowledge of said images which lead to all types of synchronicities.
And even now, after making some experimental videos, I am learning the technology of creating Virtual Reality experiences that mimic mystical experiences and incorporate sound technology like brain entrainment (such as isochronic tones) to enhance these experiences. Social media has been pivotal to the success of Synchronartcity so in that sense so has the technology, but this is no coincidence since it was the Electronic music scene that introduced me to the spiritual path, believe it or not.
So in a way, this is a way of giving back to that community. So there’s not an easy answer for what I do, as it’s ever-evolving the deeper I grow on a personal level. There are many dimensions than just a clothing line, but sometimes a seed needs to be planted. I have had people say what I do is an enigma – so we’ll just go with that.
What am I most proud of?
The community and outlet my social media and website has given people to communicate their experiences, fears and questions on the occult lifestyle. Whether people newly being initiated into the art or those long down this path, it creates synchronicities for between others, which was one of my original intentions.
Seeing people say “this is the message I needed today” is a pretty awesome feeling that makes the harder days worth it. Also, a percentage of my proceeds go to Maps, a non-profit dedicated to researching the therapeutic use of psychedelics, I am grateful people have enjoyed what I do enough to get to a point where proceeds can go to such an amazing non-profit with an amazing mission to heal lost and damaged souls on our planet.
How do you think the industry will change over the next decade?
I don’t really define with an industry, because labels will limit me. But I can promise continual evolution that rolls with the changing era we are in. More recently, I am releasing winter clothing this fall due to a high request rate. I can’t really say where Synchronartcity is leading because the spark of inspiration is based on my experiences that have yet to experience. That’s how I like it. That’s how Synchronartcity got to where it’s at now.
Contact Info:
- Address: 812 Ayrshire Circle NW
- Website: www.synchronartcity.com
- Phone: 404-902-7611
- Email: diego@synchronartcity.com
- Instagram: www.instagram.com/dlupercio90
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/synchronartcity/
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