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Caminho da luz is a retreat centre in portugal offering kambo retreats and who also promote the ayahuasca retreats run by sanctuary 1860 ayahuasca retreat centre.

Their retreat centre was badly damaged in a prophecized fire, and another fire is prophecized for 2018.

They direct people to the sanctuary 1860 for ayahuasca ceremonies, but those at the sanctuary 1860 are not trained in ayahuasca or santo daime facilitation, and are also involved in other questionable behaviour.

The brother in law and the sister of alexandra akat who runs the sanctuary 1860 were busted for cannabis in november 2016 by the police and in january 2017, the brother in law made death threats against a spiritual teacher who raised serious ethical concerns about how the ayahuasca retreats were being run (namely irresponsibly, without respect for the law and without proper accreditation).

Despite all the above, in april 2017, caminho da luz kambo retreat centre started promoting the sanctuary 1860 retreat centre, and the facilitator named daniela markert, despite the fact she is under police investigation for cannabis trafficking and despite the fact her partner got drunk on ayahausca dieta and threatened to kill or cripple someone.

Police reports were filed throughout the year also about the threats made by some associated with the sanctuary 1860.

It could be said that the caminho da luz kambo retreat centre in portugal did not know, so they were told about what was going on, and it was suggested that they no longer support retreat centres with involvement in drug busts in the family and condoning violence (when the sanctuary 1860 were told about the threats of violence made by their ayahuasca facilitator, they just moved the retreat to his house!?)

There is email record that olly and andi of the caminho da luz kambo retreat centre were told of the serious concerns in relation to who they were unwittingly supporting, and when told, they clearly chose not to act, and continue to support sanctuary 1860 and irresponsible behaviour in the ayahuasca / santo daime portugal community.

When you support those involved in condoning criminal behaviour, or partnering up with people in police trouble (and on police bail), things can, and do go wrong, and thus caminho da luz kambo retreat centre were not so discerning in choosing who to support and work with.

Andi and olly instead gave the silent blessing and support to those who threaten to kill witnesses in criminal trials, threaten to put them in wheelchairs, or mock and abuse them for pleasure.

In october, members of caminho da luz posted how beautiful the sanctuary 1860 was, just weeks before, all of the sanctuary 1860 gathered round to support death threats, claiming the mentor that foresaw the fires would be killed before the police can help.

Days later the fires came and destroyed or damaged four ayahuasca retreat centres in a single day.

Caminho da luz is now under police monitoring for any substance dealing and cultivation of cannabis that might go on there.

Attached are pictures of 14 kilos of cannabis found at the house of a friend of caminho da luz, who now faces 12 years in prison.

Some of the friends of caminho da luz threaten to send people to hospital, deal in lsd and cannabis, get busted by the police and then claim to have the power to kill people.

Despite that, the owners of caminho da luz just continued sending people to drink ayahuasca tea in unsuitable, toxic and metaphysically very dangerous settings indeed.

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Spiritual Master Free Spirit
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Aug 15, 2023 4:00 pm EDT
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The energy facts of this dispute are that since 2016 Dani Mar and the ayahuasca community were advised that I never wished to serve this woman, the ayahuasca community nor her family at Sanctuary 1860 citing the disallowed use of my energy in service of ayahuasca. Since then the woman and the entire ayahuasca community objected, making false arrogation claims on my energy in ayahuasca.

The end result is the Santo Daime Church criminalized, stripped of energy and stripped of legal status, which was their intentions. The woman interfered in my legal business with bad motives, failed and cursed Santo Daime with the ban (on honest opinion).

The woman and anors were warned repeatedly in 2017,2018,2019, 2020 and 2021 to stop posting intimidation before ayahuasca, to stop ayahuasca (because of foretold fires), to clean up their ethical (and legal act) after which en mass the ayahuasca community with the backup of Adrian Freedman began a series of malicious attacks designed to force me to serve ayahuasca.

The womans family at Sanctuary 1860 also kept reposting Dani Mar's husbands threats, adding their own, inciting Dani Mar's husband to keep at it, and their friends were posting sick lies until the foretold fire destroyed Earth Connection Portugal and Sanctuary 1860, both places doing ayahuasca.

In response to Cease and Desists, legal communications and being CC'd in police reports, they escalated the behaviour, as a result people got arrested for ayahuasca in Portugal.

The nexus of Freedmans actions were, serve the ayahuasca work of Dani Mar, or we put you in a wheelchair and smear you as a mentally sick pedophile, and report you to the cops for pedophilia and rape, and we will pay people to do it, and we will keep stalking you and your wife, and we wont stop doing it until you serve ayahuasca, and the Ayahuasca Defense Fund will back me up (as they did, to their detriment, appearing as prohibition for ayahuasca).

Adrian Freedman and anors was warned in May 2017 and July 2017 (and at many other times) of catastophic fires destroying ayahuasca retreat centres, after which he had me threatened, stalked and smeared as mentally ill, for which there is much evidence.

Such fires then happened as foretold and after Freedman's ayahuasca work in October 2017 a second (foretold) deadly fire gutted a bunch of additional ayahuasca retreats on top of the June 2017 fire that gutted Gravito.

The idiot kept showing up in Portugal inciting harassment before his ayahuasca works as well and his actions cost him the legal status of his Santo Daime (as foretold).

Not only was the Gravito fire foretold but the Earth Connection Portugal fire was foretold, the Sanctuary 1860 fire was foretold, the Caminho da Luz fire was foretold, the Lagos fire fire was foretold, the Monchique fire was foretold, and a fire was foretold in Temple of the Earth, Dharma Garden and Senses Camping.

On evidence a police raid for ayahuasca (such as Senses Camping) stopped a foretold fire from happening and it can be substantiated why that is.

The woman is BARRED from our community and our retreat centre, we are not serving this womans work with ayahuasca and a fire was also foretold several times at Aluna Ayahuasca Retreat in the USA.

There is plenty of evidence to back up all the statements made.

If anyone needs some clarification about the facts around this controversy including the circumstances behind these foretold fires or the legal story - people can find me on the internet and contact me.

Adrian Freedman and Dani Mar were DENIED injunctions.

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Caminho da Luz is Permanently Closed
, US
Jun 19, 2023 3:03 am EDT

Caminho da Luz WAS a cowboy ayahuasca setup spawned off by Adrian Freedman

It was founded by Adrian Freedman and run by Andi Inti aka Andi Bock Andi Marie

Adrian Freedman and his Santo Daime Church kept harassing witnesses in court cases. it started when friends of Adrian Freedman at Earth Connection Portugal got caught with big sacks of weed.

Caminho da Luz were part of a malicious campaign of disgusting harassment that also involved Earth Connection Portugal and Sanctuary 1860, as well as Gravito. All 4 places in 2017 were heavily damaged in several foretold fires.

Earth Connection Portugal and Sanctuary 1860 are both PERMANENTLY CLOSED

A Google Privacy Order was obtained against Santo Daime Church in connection to a witness intimidation dispute (seeking witnesses and their families). It bars them from violating the privacy of a police family in the United Kingdom and publishing identifying content about members of that family, violating the GDPR and identifying those who testified in various police investigations and judicial inquiries. Its a gag order and they are obligated to keep their mouths shut.

Caminho da Luz is PERMANENTLY CLOSED

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Caminho da Luz is Permanently Closed
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Jun 19, 2023 3:08 am EDT

To be fair to OLLY PERRY who also ran Caminho da Luz with Andi Marie, once he became aware of the behaviour of his then girlfriend Andi Marie he ended the relationship with her and returned to England.

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Earth Connection Controversy Comments
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Jun 19, 2023 3:40 am EDT

Earth Connection Controversy

In November of 2016, the Portuguese GNR (police) raided the home of the leaders of Earth Connection, an ayahuasca retreat center in Portugal. A controversy ensued in which various parties took to the internet in campaigns to discredit others and undermine the sanctity of the ayahuasca movement in Portugal. Any information encountered about these controversies should be read with a critical eye.

Reference https://www.iceers.org/portugal/

The legal facts of this case is the leaders of the now CLOSED Earth Connection Portugal were arrested with 14 kilograms of cannabis in November 2016 as confirmed by the Ayahuasca Defence Fund.

After which, with backing from the Ayahuasca Defence Fund the leaders of Earth Connection Portugal, Sanctuary 1860 and their friends including Caminho da Luz and Gravito waged a campaign of harassment, posting threats of violence and posting malicious defamation. They blamed a spiritual teacher for the arrest of 14 kilograms of cannabis and it wasnt his cannabis, nor was he legally responsible.

The leaders of Earth Connection Portugal received a suspended prison sentence of 5 years for the supply of 14 kilograms of cannabis. As part of that somewhat lenient sentence, they agreed with the court of Oliveira do Hospital in 2020 to pay reparations and then defaulted on their obligations.

They were obligated to cease posting threats and harassment which they eventually did in February 2022. In Google proceedings injunctions and suppression orders were obtained against the leaders of Earth Connection Portugal as well as Adrian Freedman.

As a result the internet was totally cleared of malicious defamation and disgusting harassment posted by Earth Connection Portugal leaders and anors.

Adrian Freedman and a woman involved in Earth Connection Portugal (known as Dani Mar) persistently (and errenously) believed a spiritual teacher could be forcibly coerced with harassment, manipulation, stalking and malicious legal persecution to service ayahuasca against his will which falls under contravening somebodys Article 8 and 9 rights. The courts disgreed with the pair of them and struck out all of their manifestly ill founded petitions and claims.

Each place involved in posting disgusting harassment and threats of violence against a spiritual teacher burnt down in mysterious fires attributable to very nasty intentions. All of the attempts to coerce service to ayahuasca failed and the Santo Daime Church to whom they belong were stripped internationally of their Article 9 religious freedom rights resulting in criminalisation of ayahuasca.

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Eternal Heart Centre
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Nov 01, 2018 7:51 am EDT

The Eternal Heart Centre wishes to issue these public apologies to the complainant.

The Eternal Heart Centre unreservedly apologizes and condemns the disturbing nature of the complaints including abuse, mockery and threats to kill. On no level do we condone or support such behaviour and we can confirm the behaviours are not ones we sanction.

Dear [protected],

On behalf of the Santo Daime Church, I unreservedly and sincerely apologize for the distress caused to you and your partner because of the death threats made by someone in our movement connected with an ongoing police investigation, who was arrested with a large amount of cannabis and other illegal substances.

We must now accept some moral responsibility for the matter, because Johannes Maasland and Daniela Markert were members of our Church, who participated in our retreats often, and through us, was introduced to the Path of the Santo Daime.

Their behaviours are not ones we bless, condone or support.

He has shown himself to be reckless, morally irresponsible and respect-less for the law of the land and he is clearly unsuited to the work.

We have examined the death threats made which implies you could be killed before the police can do anything about it.

Because these threats were made by one within our wider community we are deeply hurt and shocked by what has happened.

We confirm our movement condemns such despicable behaviour, and we encourage people in our wider communities to respect the laws of the land and to respect life.

Johannes behaviour brings shame and dishonour to us all, and reflects badly on us as a whole and we do not condone the illegal cultivation of cannabis.

This matter has shown is the importance of ethical awareness and moral integrity in what we do, as you have pointed out, and we acknowledge over the years that there has been weaknesses in those areas, and now, strive to learn from this experience.

We also acknowledge there are other lessons that this matter has presented to us, and we now know that we must take them seriously in all the work that we do, so that this never happens again.

We have decided to make a priority, the development of ethical and moral awareness, in all who attend our gatherings, so that we can promote good and respectable behaviour, respect for law and respect for other people.

We accept that these ethical, moral and spiritual lessons have been presented to us, at great cost, danger and risk to yourself and your partner – and that your role in our movement, has clearly been to reflect back big lessons at the risk of serious injury, or even death, a matter that is deeply troubling for us.

I also unreservedly and sincerely apologize for the distress caused to you and your partner because of the other abuses posted online by him and ‘friends’ of The Sanctuary 1860. Some of those postings labelled you mentally ill as well as suggesting you should feel fear in your trousers, or be killed before the police can help.

His postings were insulting, degrading, disgusting and not representative of how we expect any of our followers to behave in their daily lives. We must now accept some moral responsibility for the matter, because Johannes Maasland was a member of our Church, who participated in our retreats often, and through us, was introduced to the Path of the Santo Daime, and who indirectly, with the help of Daniela Markert (Dani Mar), founded The Sanctuary 1860.

The Sanctuary 1860 was founded by members of our Santo Daime Church, who have clearly lost their moral way in their quest to be number one in Portugal for Ayahuasca.

This whole sorry tale has been a wake-up call for us in the importance of ethical practice as you say, and in the light of this we will endeavour to do all we can to bring more clarity and grounding to every aspect of our practice, both in and out of the workshops.

We condemn all the abuses that you have witnessed at the hands of Johannes Maasland and The Sanctuary 1860, as well as at the hands of their friends and families and we encourage all those in our movement to take responsibility for their mistakes.

We do not condone the illegal cultivation of cannabis in our movement.

We are appalled by some of the behaviours that have occurred, and are deeply ashamed about what has happened and it reflects badly on all of us.

We expect all who attend our gatherings to respect the laws of the land and to behave themselves responsibly in their lives and will remind our followers, in future events, to do so.

In addition to the other apologies presented, I also want to wholeheartedly and unreservedly apologize for the insults you received from someone in the Cascais Santo Daime Church group.

The individual who did not name themselves, but implied they were from the Cascais Church - labelled you a [censored] (which implies that you like gay sex with underage boys) and this insult was clearly done to offend

Obviously, for someone in our movement to make such an offensive insult, without any justification other than from a place of pure hatred, is totally appalling, and I, as a Senior of the Santo Daime Church, am totally ashamed of this.

In addition to the other apologies presented, I also want to wholeheartedly and unreservedly apologize for not taking the matters presented seriously before. When brothers and sisters of my Church mocked and insulted you, claiming you were a (censor), would be killed, was an arsonist, mentally deranged and a [censored], I did not want to take ethical responsibility and condemn my associates and friends responsible.

This was because I chose loyalty to those who lost their ethical way, rather than to the ethical authority of the (censor), expert in matters of metaphysics and astral matters.

I did not respect you or your wisdom and now we are all suffering for that mistake, because of our ethical shortcomings and our collective failings in being able to take responsibility for our mistakes, our hubris, our hatred and our unresolved issues.

When someone in our group threatened to kill you before the police could help, I did not intervene then and condemn the behaviour outright that would have saved so much trouble for me and my aides.

You warned me of fires and to stop the works, but I did not and the fires came.

We take back claims from members of our Santo Daime Church that you are full of (censor), that you are mentally sick, evil, a (censor), a peodophile, a (censor), a (censor) and and were involved in acts of arson.

Some of them mocked you, and they paid for the mistake with life-changing losses, as you foresaw.

I assure you that we will learn from these matters and as a leader, I take full responsibility for all the abuse and mockery, it reflects bad on me and on the Daime family, I now know that I must foster better morals and standards in our groups.

I am totally ashamed of myself and everything that has happened in this matter.

Thank you for being such a beacon of uncompromising integrity, hopefully others may learn from your example.

However, sadly, and with all the best intentions in the world we cannot control the thoughts, words and actions of others. In the meantime, i take this experience as a lesson and a teaching and will do my best to take advantage of the opportunity to be a better person and a better group leader.

I feel so sorry for the distress and disturbance you have suffered as a result of stupid and irresponsible behaviour, and the way it reflects badly on all of us. By the way, I look back on our long association and i appreciate your luminous presence in all the spiritual works we shared.

Wishing peace, good health and love for you.

Adrian Freedman
Santo Daime Church

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anonymous8172
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Jun 19, 2023 4:21 am EDT

What we believe about this comments of which there are 2 dates June 30th 2018 and November 1st 2018 is that they are copypastes of a proposed apology letter sent to Adrian Freedman in attempted dispute resolution dating back to 2018. Its not a bona fide apology.

Adrian Freedman did apologize on July 26th 2017 using different words although the sincerity of it was dubious. He also denied he had anything to do with Earth Connection Portugal which was false.

Adrian Freedman founded Earth Connection Portugal, and lied about it.

For reasons unclear around 5th or 6th August 2017 Adrian Freedman then changed position and incitied a campaign of malicious harassment against a spiritual teacher which involved posting he would be defamed as a peadophile, have his reputation ruined and be subjected to vicious harassment.

Adrian Freedman received over 1,000 emails and a stack of legal cease and desist letters related to behaviour from his organization, his response was to incite harassment, spread lies and incite the publication of malicious falsehood as well as violate the GDPR, incite others to do it and then serve ayahuasca whilst ordering threats of violence and disgusting harassment.

It was done with backing from the Ayahuasca Defence Fund

As a result of his behaviour, Adrian Freedmans organization is now PERMANENTLY CLOSED and his Santo Daime Church was cursed with the criminal ban on ayahuasca.

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/06258193

Adrian Freedman voluntarily dissolved his company after a GDPR dispute in May 2018, he was obligated to turn over data that incriminated his organization in criminal behaviour.

reference https://www.iceers.org/england-and-wales/

It is worth noting that members of an English Santo Daime church (leader Adrian Freedman) were arrested in the UK in 2010, with their ayahuasca seized, but the case was dropped in 2012 with the prosecuting body stating that there was insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction. The whole process was extremely costly for the group, both financially and emotionally. It is important to recognize that the abandonment of the prosecution does not mean that their status is currently legal.

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if a religious group, however well established, adopts as part of its rituals a deliberately unlawful act, the fact that this is part of a religious ceremony does not provide it with legal authorization

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The Eternal Heart Centre Ltd
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Aug 15, 2023 1:58 pm EDT
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Adrian Freedmans organization of the same name was DISSOLVED as a direct result of this legal dispute which he LOST. The title of the centre was then legally transferred to me, He no longer owns the centre, I do, under the same name but a different company number, and Adrian Freedman has absolutely no authority over its running. What this apology is, its not from me, but as someone wrote, its a proposed apology that someone has then plastered on this website. Freedman has NOT complied with his legal obligations and he is in default on the GDPR as well. Should there be any confusion about the background story to this dispute or if people want more information, people can contact me and the legal story can be fully clarified. Ayahuasca is NOT used in my centre, we do not work with people who use the substance

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Eternal Heart Centre
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Jun 30, 2018 5:54 am EDT

The Eternal Heart Centre wishes to issue these public apologies to the complainant.

The Eternal Heart Centre unreservedly apologizes and condemns the disturbing nature of the complaints including abuse, mockery and threats to kill. On no level do we condone or support such behaviour and we can confirm the behaviours are not ones we sanction.

Dear [protected],

On behalf of the Santo Daime Church, I unreservedly and sincerely apologize for the distress caused to you and your partner because of the death threats made by someone in our movement connected with an ongoing police investigation, who was arrested with a large amount of cannabis and other illegal substances.

We must now accept some moral responsibility for the matter, because Johannes Maasland was a member of our Church, who participated in our retreats often, and through us, was introduced to the Path of the Santo Daime.

His behaviours are not ones we bless, condone or support.

He has shown himself to be reckless, morally irresponsible and respect-less for the law of the land and he is clearly unsuited to the work.

We have examined the death threats made which implies you could be killed before the police can do anything about it.

Because these threats were made by one within our wider community we are deeply hurt and shocked by what has happened.

We confirm our movement condemns such despicable behaviour, and we encourage people in our wider communities to respect the laws of the land and to respect life.

Johannes behaviour brings shame and dishonour to us all, and reflects badly on us as a whole and we do not condone the illegal cultivation of cannabis.

This matter has shown is the importance of ethical awareness and moral integrity in what we do, as you have pointed out, and we acknowledge over the years that there has been weaknesses in those areas, and now, strive to learn from this experience.

We also acknowledge there are other lessons that this matter has presented to us, and we now know that we must take them seriously in all the work that we do, so that this never happens again.

We have decided to make a priority, the development of ethical and moral awareness, in all who attend our gatherings, so that we can promote good and respectable behaviour, respect for law and respect for other people.

We accept that these ethical, moral and spiritual lessons have been presented to us, at great cost, danger and risk to yourself and your partner – and that your role in our movement, has clearly been to reflect back big lessons at the risk of serious injury, or even death, a matter that is deeply troubling for us.

I also unreservedly and sincerely apologize for the distress caused to you and your partner because of the other abuses posted online by him and ‘friends’ of The Sanctuary 1860. Some of those postings labelled you mentally ill as well as suggesting you should feel fear in your trousers, or be killed before the police can help.

His postings were insulting, degrading, disgusting and not representative of how we expect any of our followers to behave in their daily lives. We must now accept some moral responsibility for the matter, because Johannes Maasland was a member of our Church, who participated in our retreats often, and through us, was introduced to the Path of the Santo Daime, and who indirectly, with the help of Daniela Markert (aka Daniela Mar), founded The Sanctuary 1860.

The Sanctuary 1860 was founded by members of our Santo Daime Church, who have clearly lost their moral way in their quest to be number one in Portugal for Ayahuasca.

This whole sorry tale has been a wake-up call for us in the importance of ethical practice as you say, and in the light of this we will endeavour to do all we can to bring more clarity and grounding to every aspect of our practice, both in and out of the workshops.

We condemn all the abuses that you have witnessed at the hands of Johannes Maasland and The Sanctuary 1860 and encourage all those in our movement to take responsibility for their mistakes.

We do not condone the illegal cultivation of cannabis in our movement.

We are appalled by some of the behaviours that have occurred, and are deeply ashamed about what has happened and it reflects badly on all of us.

We expect all who attend our gatherings to respect the laws of the land and to behave themselves responsibly in their lives and will remind our followers, in future events, to do so.

In addition to the other apologies presented, I also want to wholeheartedly and unreservedly apologize for the insults you received from someone in the Cascais Santo Daime Church group.

The individual who did not name themselves, but implied they were from the Cascais Church - labelled you a [censored] (which implies that you like gay sex with underage boys) and this insult was clearly done to offend

Obviously, for someone in our movement to make such an offensive insult, without any justification other than from a place of pure hatred, is totally appalling, and I, as a Senior of the Santo Daime Church, am totally ashamed of this.

In addition to the other apologies presented, I also want to wholeheartedly and unreservedly apologize for not taking the matters presented seriously before. Because of this we must accept we are responsible for our own detriment. When brothers and sisters of my Church mocked and insulted you, claiming you were a (censor), would be killed, was an arsonist, mentally deranged and [censored], I did not want to take ethical responsibility and condemn my associates and friends responsible.

This was because I chose loyalty to those who lost their ethical way, rather than to the ethical authority of the (censor), expert in matters of metaphysics and astral matters.

I now know I must take responsibility, to rescue my own integrity, brought into very serious question indeed. I jet-setted around the world instead of taking responsibility as a leader for my mistakes. I did not respect you or your wisdom and now we are all suffering for that mistake, because of our ethical shortcomings and our collective failings in being able to take responsibility for our mistakes, our hubris, our hatred and our unresolved issues.

I did not want to be sorry before because of my ego, this was a mistake I must now correct.

I now know there is more to being a Daime leader than being the ‘king of the castle’ from a space of ego-inflated self-importance, this was my downfall and I must learn from this. I provided large amounts of Santo Daime to those ill-suited to host works and then tried to evade responsibility and stood by whilst others in the group mocked and insulted you for fun.

When someone in our group threatened to kill you before the police could help, I did not intervene then and condemn the behaviour outright that would have saved so much trouble for me and my aides.

You warned me of fires and to stop the works, but I did not and the fires came.

I was challenged because I was in my ego and thought I knew better, but I was wrong, and have been humbled by the lessons. We did not understand energy or how high level astral energies offended by those who made death threats can invoke serious trouble.

We will no longer do workshops here, because of the seriousness of your prophecies that tend to come true, causing fire and death in the lives of our brothers and sisters, and in the local communities as well.

Some of them mocked you, and they paid for the mistake with life-changing losses, as you foresaw. They stated they were Santo Daime people, so I must now condemn this abuse.

I believed I could keep the donations you made in good faith, even though you were forced to move for your safety, threatened with murder by those who I gave the Daime to, even though they were ill-suited. I did not want to admit my mistake, but now I must to spare me and my family untold karmic troubles because of the karma of disrespecting (redacted) and their wellbeing.

I was wrong to believe a (redacted) should make losses for our collective mistakes and for this I am so sorry and want to repent for this mistake. I assure you that we will learn from these matters and as a leader, I take full responsibility for all the abuse and mockery, it reflects bad on me and on the Daime family, I now know that I must foster better morals and standards in our groups.

I also want to wholeheartedly and unreservedly apologize for the matter of a member of our associated group in Cascais.

As well as mocking you as a peodophile, they also claimed to be tracking your emails and bank account. The fact that someone in our movement would pretend to be a private investigator and claim to be tracking your emails in such a blatently unprofessional and unregulated manner is troubling.

It shows us that some in our movement are disrespectful, violate Data Protection laws and also claim to be able to track private bank accounts. This reflects badly on me because you wanted a refund for the events and I stood back and allowed my friends in the Daime to mock you like this and I did nothing because I wanted to keep your donations for myself.

I did not act or intervene because I put my interests first, which was a mistake. I saw already the same organizer mocked you months before, but I used them anyway to host a music event, so I was stupid to do that and brought about my own troubles and a potential investigation by the Information Commissioners Office.

I will comply fully with the Subject Access Request submitted and turn over all the relevant data that we hold about you as an organization.

I confirm our movement does not condone illegal or unauthorized private investigations, or the abuse of personal data, or any other kind of mockery.

I am totally ashamed of myself and everything that has happened in this matter.

I ask your Source to forgive us and we will now make the damages payment for your trouble.

Adrian Freedman
The Eternal Heart Centre

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Aug 15, 2023 2:11 pm EDT
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What this apology is, its not from me and my centre, but as someone wrote, its a proposed apology that was sent to Freedman in 2018 and someone has then plastered it on this website as a phoney apology.

For clarity Freedman was NOT subjected to any hostile takeover as he would make people believe, he voluntarily dissolved his (non legal) organization in 2018 after he and his members kept defaming, harassing, slandering and threatening me and members of my community in revenge for an arrest by the GNR that seized 14 kilos of cannabis that was NOT my cannabis, nor my legal responsibility.

It was cannabis for Freedmans now DISSOLVED centre and his satellite centres Earth Connection portugal and Sanctuary 1860 whioch both burned down in the foretold fires.

He was also involved in violating the GDPR which was then Principle 6. In 2020 I then took up the centre name as part compensation for non payment of legal damages by Freedmans now dissolved organization and our centre does NOT supply ayahuasca, nor are people who use ayahuasca or cannabis, or any other substance, allowed on our premises.

Freedman does NOT run our centre, he behaves as if he does, but he is in error. He had to stop violating our privacy and inciting harassment of us and as a result of the legal dispute Caminho da Luz and a long list of other centres are PERMANENTLY CLOSED.

Again - should there be any confusion about the background story to this dispute or if people want more information, people can contact me on the internet and the legal story can be fully clarified.

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Updates_1
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Jun 14, 2018 7:34 pm EDT

As an update, Caminho da Luz was partly destroyed by a fire in October 2017 that was prophecized, it was because they were involved in supporting those who make threats of violence toward a Spiritual Guru who warned people to respect the Ayahuasca.

The matter of the fires is expanded upon here



The Guru explained to everyone to STOP doing the Ayahuasca because of the fires. All the places that burned down had several common factors:-

1. They were all run by Santo Daime brothers and sisters

2. All the fires were prophecized, everyone was warned to stop Ayahuasca works.

3. All the places involved were involved in mockery of a Spiritual Guru and drinking Ayahuasca with facilitators who make threats to kill Spiritual Gurus.

The prophecies were put in writing and they were told to stop the Ayahuasca and Santo Daime ceremonies.

The response of the Daime Community was to make mockery, said I would be killed before the police could help, was a loser, was a rapist and pedophile, was imagining visions of fires.

In October 2017 other centres involved in mockery and death threats to me were impacted by a freak wildfire, in one day four centres were damaged or destroyed, as prophecized, killing 41 more people. It is because people abuse Ayahuasca and think I am making it up, and that Ayahuasca abuse cannot cause fires, but they were wrong.

Because all the centres had common demoninators, they were all involved heavily in a movement that mocked a Spiritual Mentor for fun and lent support to those involved in making death threats, including supplying Daime, or providing moral support to them, despite some facing prison and police investigations.

Worse, I saw more fires for 2018 and 2019, I saw in total 11 centres burning, including CAMINHO DA LUZ KAMBO in Portugal and Monte Mariposa, before, I foresaw 4 centres burn down, and they burned down.

The Santo Daime Church Directors would not cease supplying the ceremonies with Santo Daime, then the prophecized fires came on the day Adrian Freedman came to Portugal.

The Qualified Privilege is a defence for a legal claim which allows statements to be made to warn others of a harm or danger, in this case, the danger of fire. No-one in Portugal should go to any retreat centre for Ayahuasca or Santo Daime, because there is a fire curse burning down centres, all attempts to avert the foreseen fires have been unsuccessful. ]

A fire can also make a second visit to any centre, the ONLY way to avoid fire and loss of life is to STOP all Ayahuasca Ceremonies, Gravito have been told to stop immediately. Because a metaphysical catastrophe has been invoked for reasons that people do not understand, this I know, because I saw the fires come before they came, always the karmic factor is Santo Daime involvement and involvement in mockery toward me.

Forgiveness does not cancel the curse, I tried. I tried 20 methods or more to stop more fires coming, every few days, I see fire coming again and again, destroying more centres, coming again to centres already burned, something went wrong with Ayahuasca, Higher Powers were offended, now the ceremonies have to stop.

The cause is a karmic catastrophe invoked by threatening to murder a Spiritual Guru grounded in the Upper Astral with strong astral grounding, the energy of bad toward me goes back, there is no way to stop the karmic reactions.

Anyone planning to attend Ayahuasca or Santo Daime ceremony at these places during fire season should cancel, Monte Mariposa Tavira, Gravito Retreat Centre, Caminho da Luz Kambo Retreat Centre in the Estrela, prophecies have been made of fire, I hoped I was wrong, but the prophecies came true, I went to some of the places to heal the Earth, I could not remove the fire curse.

The cure is to leave the land fallow in terms of Ayahuasca Ceremonies.

From the Santo Daime Catastrophe E-Book

I spent many days and nights of my life gob-smacked and pondering in total and utter astonishment at how inexperienced souls, blinded by their egos and hooked into the Ayahuasca craze could have been so blind - not to see that this was a karmic bomb primed to blow up.

Because just three days before in the Ayahuasca dieta (no alcohol) the death threats had occurred, the intentions and karmic blueprints of them were also taken into the tea works. Not only that, when I saw the family in response to being told, moved the retreat to his house and made a big deal online about how they were going to host it at his house (the only time they ever had) then I knew it would be bad.

They believed death threats could just be ignored, that it did not matter that an Ayahuasca facilitator was in serious trouble and had committed one of the most serious karmic transgressions possible – and then taken that into the works, to share that karmic energy with others.

To add to the catastrophe, many of the attendees were family, so there were strong cords to each other, that made the karma of death generated – shared around. They did not have the awareness or experience to know what they were doing, otherwise the works would never have gone ahead.

They did what can only be described as a 'tea works of death', because this karma of threatening to kill a Spiritual Guru was concentrated and consecrated in a tea work, many karmic black stones were made and then metaphysically shared around with the family members and friends who attended.

Some of whom believed they were Ayahuasca experts and knew what they were doing.

In my awareness, once this tea work was happening, in another part of the country, suddenly I perceived in the astral thousands and thousands of black stones being made and then one almighty big lower astral bang / disturbance.

Then in the ethers of the land, a black liquid substance is spilling through the ley-lines, polluting everything, many smaller lower astral curses – I see burning temples, houses, Ayahuasca spaces, people running from the flames, I see demonic visions, skulls, skeletons, lower astral bardo realms, all of it - and one almighty disturbance.

Something is invoked in the Upper Astral Worlds, some beings are extremely agitated, I see a thunderbolt striking the Lower Astral from the Upper – planting an amulet-looking device into the leys. It seems strangely metallic in the ethers of the land, some kind of a blocking device, sealing off the upper tendrils of the leys from the deeper core of the Earth, in essence severing the ‘Earth Connection’ that the facilitators had.

Then straight away I know the land is cursed, the karma of threatening to kill the Spiritual Guru, has caused Higher Beings to intervene, to sow the seeds to stop the ceremonies and ultimately to make fires. Only later did I see this ‘device’ stuck in the leys as some irremovable ‘Fire Curse’ that would cause many retreat centres to be burned down and to force all the families involved off the land.

But whatever they did that night, was bad, very bad.

It took many months for the karma to play out, but that night, the die was cast, the energy of death was affirmed and concentrated into a work, seeing the energy of the tea work in the astral manifested as a group of people gathering round the altar and being splattered by very dark lower astral ‘dark mud’ riddled with astral entities, energies of sickness and death, riddled with curses.

On June 13th 2018 the Spiritual Guru had a big vision of a lightening bolt striking a temple where a tea work was happening, it burst into flames and there were fatalities amongst facilitators and attendees.

Many of his other prophecies came true in 2017, he foresaw the destruction of several centres and many dead, months later, several Daime related centres were damaged or destroyed and 100 people lost their lives in fires with complex metaphysical causes related to Ayahuasca misuse.

Caminho da Luz have been told to STOP their Ayahuasca works and to take a different path.

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Spiritual Master Free Spirit
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On June 13th 2018 the Spiritual Guru had a big vision of a lightening bolt striking a temple where a tea work was happening, it burst into flames and there were fatalities amongst facilitators and attendees.

I am not a Spiritual "Guru" but it was me that had the vision, the evidence review shows from May 23rd 2018 to June 13th 2018 Alexandra and Attila Akat of the Aluna Sanctuary kept hyreatening me with violence and attacking my reputation whilst pretending to be Johannes Maasland.

On honest opinion the vision was a prophecy of the destruction of the Aluna Sanctuary by fire.

The Aluna Sanctuary aka Aluna Healing Ayahuasca

Potter Valley, Mendocino County, Northern California

These people kept threatening me with violence before these many other fires in Portugal, and Freedman backed them up to do it because I refused to serve their work, and on honest opinion threatening me with violence before the ayahuasca sessions invokes an astral "fire curse" that I am not responsible for.

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KTY42
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Feb 10, 2018 5:25 am EST

Caminho da luz is a retreat centre in portugal offering kambo retreats and who also promote the ayahuasca retreats run by sanctuary 1860 ayahuasca retreat centre.

Their retreat centre was badly damaged in a prophecized fire, and another fire is prophecized for 2018.

There is a metaphysical catastrophe in portugal in the santo daime / ayahuasca circles as three ayahuasca retreat centres are destroyed by fire during 2017, just months after a spiritual mentor was threatened with death, or being crippled, or put in a wheelchair.

He warned people to respect the medicine, but instead, some threatened to kill him, others labelled him sick and twisted, those organizing the retreats ignored the warnings, and some of adrian freedman's friends labelled him [censored].

The mentor kept foreseeing fires burning down ayahuasca and medicine centres in portugal, weeks or months later, they did.

They responded to the warnings of fire with abuse and then four centres burned down in 2017, all involved with ayahuasca, and some involved in cultivation of cannabis (illegally) got busted by the police.

Caminho da luz direct people to the sanctuary 1860 for ayahuasca ceremonies, but those at the sanctuary 1860 are not trained in ayahuasca or santo daime facilitation, and are also involved in other questionable behaviour.

The brother in law and the sister of alexandra akat who runs the sanctuary 1860 were busted for cannabis in november 2016 by the police and in january 2017, the brother in law made death threats against a spiritual teacher who raised serious ethical concerns about how the ayahuasca retreats were being run (namely irresponsibly, without respect for the law and without proper accreditation).

Despite all the above, in april 2017, caminho da luz kambo retreat centre started promoting the sanctuary 1860 retreat centre, and the facilitator named daniela markert, despite the fact she is under police investigation for cannabis trafficking and despite the fact her partner got drunk on ayahausca dieta and threatened to kill or cripple someone.

Police reports were filed throughout the year also about the threats made by some associated with the sanctuary 1860.

It could be said that the caminho da luz kambo retreat centre in portugal did not know, so they were told about what was going on, and it was suggested that they no longer support retreat centres with involvement in drug busts in the family and condoning violence (when the sanctuary 1860 were told about the threats of violence made by their ayahuasca facilitator, they just moved the retreat to his house!?)

There is email record that olly and andi of the caminho da luz kambo retreat centre were told of the serious concerns in relation to who they were unwittingly supporting, and when told, they clearly chose not to act, and continue to support sanctuary 1860 and irresponsible behaviour in the ayahuasca / santo daime portugal community.

When you support those involved in condoning criminal behaviour, or partnering up with people in police trouble (and on police bail), things can, and do go wrong, and thus caminho da luz kambo retreat centre were not so discerning in choosing who to support and work with.

Andi and olly instead gave the silent blessing and support to those who threaten to kill witnesses in criminal trials, threaten to put them in wheelchairs, or mock and abuse them for pleasure.

In october, members of caminho da luz posted how beautiful the sanctuary 1860 was, just weeks before, all of the sanctuary 1860 gathered round to support death threats, claiming the mentor that foresaw the fires would be killed before the police can help.

Days later the fires came and destroyed or damaged four ayahuasca retreat centres in a single day.

Caminho da luz is now under police monitoring for any substance dealing and cultivation of cannabis that might go on there.

Attached are pictures of 14 kilos of cannabis found at the house of a friend of caminho da luz, who now faces 12 years in prison.

Some of the friends of caminho da luz threaten to send people to hospital, deal in lsd and cannabis, get busted by the police and then claim to have the power to kill people.

Despite that, the owners of caminho da luz just continued sending people to drink ayahuasca tea in unsuitable, toxic and metaphysically very dangerous settings indeed.