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 […]

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Mestre Irineu: A man of many dimensions. Worker. Black man. Northeasterner. Migrant. Caboclo. River-dweller. Rubber tapper. Man without land. Saint. Shaman. Leader. Medium. Spiritualist. Shaman. Healer. Poet. Composer. Teacher. Mestre Irineu was all of these things. A legendary man from the Northeast of Brazil to the Amazon, from popular festivals to the most sacred corner […]

Padrinho Sebastião teaches the “Exercise of the Eagle” to Marco Gracie

The following is a rough translation of the original story into English: The first exercise that Padrinho Sebastião taught to me was the “Exercise of the Eagle”. He told me to do these exercises to be able to work with him in the astral. I learned this on the second day after my [arrival at […]

Padrinho Sebastião asks Marco Gracie to practice chastity and use Santa Maria for assistance

Here is the original account in Portuguese by Marco Gracie: Padrinho Sebastião, me pediu castidade quando eu tinha 20 anos, eu disse a ele que não ia conseguir fazer, pois eu ainda pensava demais em sexo, eu gostava demais de sexo, e isto na verdade era um tormento para mim. Pois eu vivia namorando sem […]