Guide to Cannabis within the Santo Daime

Cannabis within the Santo Daime … Prohibition era (Mestre Irineu) Some people try to assert that Irineu did actually use cannabis in private, but these people are often condemned. Sebastiao, Mortimer, … Glauco … Alfredo … Ceu de Santa Maria in the Netherlands … Criticism of Cannabis usage within Santo Daime traditional centers do not […]

The Heresy of John Marco Allegro

He says Jesus WAS the mushroom, he is positioning it as if entheogenic cults are worshipping the plant spirits and the actual earthly events in the past are inconsequential and just mythology. That is an anti-Christian heresy and should be condemned. It may be possible that entheogenic sacraments have been used in past times, however, […]

Jagube (Banisteriopsis caapi)

Overview This article Plant taxonomy Taxonomic classification Banisteriopsis caapi, in the family of maphigiaceae. Common names Within the Santo Daime, this plant is almost universally called “jagube”. More commonly, this would be identified as the “ayahuasca” vine, or as “yage”. What is the difference in naming compared to the drink? Well within Santo Daime the […]

A Maranhão Vision

In the late 1980s, I attended, at PUC-SP, a roundtable on legislation and the use of ayahuasca, with the participation of several experts, including Professors Drs. Edward MacRae, Edgard de Assis Carvalho, Elisaldo A Carlini (from the Brazilian Center for Information on Psychoactive Drugs), the jurist Dalmo Dalari and others, who debated several interesting aspects […]