Santo Daime

lazlo

I've heard that the Santo Daime spiritualistic movement is practising in Dublin and I was wondering if there was any weight to this? I know that it takes place in the States and that it is protected under religious statutes. I'm also aware that our government is creating new legislation regarding this practice however I have no idea what proposals they have in place. Does anyone here know anything more on this issue?

javaboy

Moved from After Hours.

Armada

I have never heard of the group but here is some of what wikipedia has to say:

"Santo Daime is a syncretic spiritual practice, which was founded in the Brazilian Amazonian state of Acre in the 1930s and became a worldwide movement in the 1990s. Santo Daime rituals involve collective singing of hymns, sometimes while engaged in a formalised dance step, other times simply seated in chairs, combined with the consumption of Daime, the name founder Raimundo Irineu Serra, or Mestre Irineu gave to the drink known generically as Ayahuasca. Dai-me means "give me" in Portuguese, as in "daime força, daime amor" (give me strength, give me love), phrases found in several of the doctrine's hymns. Santo Daime is syncretic in that it incorporates elements of several religious or spiritual traditions including Folk Catholicism, Kardecist Spiritism, and African animism and South American Shamanism. The religion, called simply the Doctrine of Mestre Irineu by its most senior practitioners, has little basis in written texts. Instead, its teachings are learned experientially, through singing of inspired hymns, which explore perennial values of love, harmony and strength through poetic and metaphorical imagery.
Ceremonies, which are called trabalhos meaning "works", are typically several hours long and consist of drinking Daime and either sitting or dancing while singing hymns and playing maracas, or sitting in silent "concentration".
The drinking of Daime induces a strong emetic effect which is embraced as a purging of both emotional and physical impurities. Overall the Santo Daime promotes a wholesome lifestyle in conformity with Mestre Irineu's motto of "harmony, love, truth and justice", as well as other key doctrinal values such as strength, humility, fraternity and purity of heart.
Ayahuasca, which contains the psychoactive compound dimethyltryptamine (DMT), has been the subject of increasing legal scrutiny in the last few decades as Santo Daime has expanded. The decoction has been explicitly legal for religious use in Brazil since 1986, while recent legal battles in Europe have legalized its use in Holland and Spain. In the United States, the Supreme Court in 2006 upheld a preliminary injunction permitting another Brazilian church, the União do Vegetal (UDV), to use ayahuasca ritually. This decision, as the result of specific litigation involving the UDV, applies only to that group, so the legal status of ayahuasca generally remains in a gray area in that country."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo_Daime



any thoughts?

generalmiaow

The Santo Daime organisation does exist and practise in Ireland. I am 100% sure about that.

They have a website for their Irish branch, however it is currently inactive. There is a persistent rumour that they fought and won their right to use ayahuasca in court in Ireland but for some reason it was never mentioned in any news source other than their own blog about the subject (which is now inaccessible).

Kama

Santo Daime does exist in Ireland. The legal situation is currently somewhat murky; there is *not* currently a legal exemption for its use that I'm aware of, although there's a High Court case upcoming up on the right to practice it here. A practitioner has been arrested previously, and the case kicked up to there.

shantie

Hi... Has anyone any update on santo daoime cermonies in dublin or any aya waska cermonies in ireland? Im just back from australia and got a few cermonies there and would like any info on anything going on here...

Thanks..

New Monastic

try www.dialogueireland.ie for more information