The Santo Daime religious movement began in the interior of the Amazon rainforest in the early decades of the 20th century with the grandson of slaves, Raimundo Irineu Serra. It was he who received the revelation of a Christian doctrine based on the drink Ayahuasca (wine of the souls), which we call Santo Daime.
The drink, widely used by the indigenous peoples of the region, is obtained by coconuting two plants, the Jagube vine (banesteriopsis caapi) and the Queen leaf (psicotrya viridis), both native to the rainforest. It has entheogenic properties, that is, it produces an expansion of consciousness responsible for the experience of contact with the inner divinity present in man himself.
According to Mestre Irineu himself, he received this Doctrine through an apparition of Our Lady of the Conception, on one of the first occasions he drank the drink, in the region of Basiléia, Acre. Mestre’s hymns, which he began to receive from the beginning of the 1930s, emphasised Christian teachings and a new reading of the Gospels in the light of Santo Daime, in order to affirm the same principles of Love, Charity and Human Fraternity today.
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GOOD MEDICAL CONDITION AND ABSENCE OF KNOWN ALLERGIES IS RECOMMENDED.