A good dose of skepticism is also good in the spiritual-philosophical aspect. Andean shamans, although they are masters of astral travel and are capable of many "supernatural" things, are also known for their very strong rationalism and skepticism.
Their way of thinking is certainly not close to the vast majority of esoterically-minded people. Orthodox shamanism (orthodox because there are also many self-proclaimed shamans) is not exactly a popular philosophy in esoteric circles.
And orthodox shamanism would not appeal at all to the most famous Czech esotericist, Igor Chaun, a morbidly spiritualized man who fanatically devours everything spiritual, including unfortunate dogmatic religions, fraudulent healers, and dubious visionaries.
It is also necessary to know how to distinguish between wheat and chaff. 99% of esotericism is nonsense.
As for those DMT-ayahuasca religious Christian sects, to which the Virgin Mary and Jesus often appear, their spiritual visions and sightings, as South American shamans say, come from a certain dimension of the astral, where there is a lot of room for human imagination. People have created their own fantasy religious worlds through their faith . These dimensions include all religious ideas, people can find themselves in these dimensions even after death and can live in worlds, hells, paradises that are in accordance with their religious ideas. These fantasy worlds do not move people forward spiritually but backward .
DMT sects are bad for the very reason that they are a religion, and a dogmatic one at that. And South American shamans are very sharply critical of religions, considering them not human works, but works of demonic beings, supai, as a tool for enslaving people and a tool for stopping spiritual growth.
Criticizing religion more sharply is very unpopular nowadays, and few people like it . Public opinion strongly supports religion, and even esoteric people do not like the criticism of religion.
Shamanism is not about sweet esoteric talk, but often about the unpopular truth.