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Earth Connection Portugal Ayahuasca Retreat

Earth Connection Portugal Ayahuasca Retreat review: retreat leader threatens to kill a spiritual master or to cripple him and put him in a wheelchair 7

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Spiritual seekers looking to do alternative healing/holistic retreats at Earth Connection Portugal, who can be found on the internet.

Are advised to NOT use this retreat centre for ANY retreats featuring Johannes Maasland (pictured) as it is the honest opinion of the Spiritual Master who created this blog that he is unfit and unsuited for leading any kind of retreat, be it breathwork, shamanic or Ayahausca based.

This is for the reason that he is mentally unstable and prone to aggression. On the evening of Monday 23rd January 2017 he waited outside the doorstep of a Spiritual Master and his wife waiting for them to come home.

He was under the influence of alcohol and had clearly driven a vehicle to the location and thus endangers others.

He then proceeded to make violent threats, insulting his as 'evil' and then threatening to put the Spiritual Master 'in a wheelchair' or 'in hospital' and then went on to say several times that he would kill him if he found out that he told the police about his cannabis (which he did not).

It is the opinion of the Spiritual Master in question that if people decide to do things that may be illegal and get them into trouble, that is their business, and is not his place to interfere or judge.

In November 2016, the Portuguese police (the GNR) raided the home of Daniela and Johannes (family members of the Akats) which is where they did their Ayahuasca retreats under the name Earth Connection Portugal.

They found 14 kilos of cannabis, LSD tabs and equipment for making cannabis oil. After this arrest, for which Johannes was brought before a Court in Oliveira do Hospital

Those that take such risks, are clearly solely responsible for any misfortunes that may arise later if they are caught and anyone making threats to kill invariably invokes police trouble of their own making. The police are currently investigating the matter.

Threatening to kill someone not responsible is not so wise, especially when done in front of witnesses and when drunk. Making violent threats to kill a Spiritual Master is a serious offence against the Higher Power, with severe karmic consequences, one of them is to disqualify himself permanently as being suited for any kind of retreat leadership role.

Anyone making threats against life would be separated enough from the Higher Power to not be an effective gateway to inner awareness, as claimed on his website.

In the opinion of the Spiritual Master, he is not ethically or energetically suited for hosting any retreat, and anyone attending any of his retreats may be at risk of serious harm or may pick up lower astral entities (presumably the prime cause of such aggressive and violently minded behaviour).

He or Earth Connection Portugal made no effort to apologize or make any amends for the behaviour and thus is considered an ongoing serious safety risk to others in any retreat.

There is also a lesson in the form of a salutary reminder in that wanting to be the number one in Portugal for Ayahuasca is not the be all and end all, especially if it comes at the expense of self-healing and personal integrity. Ayahuasca tends to want to be respected as it has power, and utilizing it for more personal ego-based aims is apt to end in disaster.

For the safety of potential participants in any retreat at Earth Connection Portugal, this warning is posted and people are advised to be cautious about doing retreats with this individual and to find alternative places to do retreats to avoid the potential for metaphysical trouble or disturbances.

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Spiritual Master Free Spirit
Spiritual Master Free Spirit
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Sep 29, 2023 9:32 pm EDT
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Using the legal evidence from the Aluna Experience Podcasts the womans family admitted she was lured over by Dani Mar to Portugal "aka sucked in". She invited the entire family over to Portugal, admitted it was a mistake, complained none of them had money, admitted her relationship with "Johannes" was on the rocks, and both of them attempted to sell me a place at Earth Connection Portugal in 2016.

At bottom (to use legal terminology)- she wanted me to go there, fund her family shortfall and serve them, and when I did not want that, then interfered in my legal business to try and manipulate the consent. She told the Plaintiffs where I was and it was not "Johannes" and Johannes admitted it was her as such in June 2017 in his harassment campaign (which started in January 2017 and 2 months after the police took the Santo Maria aka cannabis) which involved over 700 counts of harassment that she and her family were ordering on purpose and often before these 8ths (covered elsewhere).

These people kept posting defamation and harassment to attempt to ruin my reputation and failed, and the intention to try and criminalize me for money failed, criminalized her and Johannes with the cannabis sacks, and her entire Santo Daime Church with the prohibition (criminalization of ayahuasca).

Spiritual Master Free Spirit
Spiritual Master Free Spirit
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Sep 28, 2023 8:23 am EDT
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The legal facts have been stated on a very similar post, so a brief summary here will suffice.

The day before the date of the original complaint Apr 18, 2017 poster Understanding Energy (who posted below the comment date May 2nd 2017) and who also who changed the country profile to US from PT (in August 2017) posted a complaint with the screen name Understanding Energy about me, naming me, full of defamatory allegations, harassment, mockery and threats.

That now deleted complaint is saved as legal evidence, in October 2020 it was fully deleted along with 25 comment postings by Understanding Energy, of which 2 comments remain.

Understanding Energy was the now-ex husband of Dani Mar and in November 2016 was arrested with 14 kilos of weed, LSD and other substances. It was November 2016 and the Ayahuasca Defence Fund admitted the truth of the raid after the family of Dani Mar kept posting defamation and lies about me on this site.

The story started in Septmber 2016 when I refused to be of service to Dani Mar and her family at Earth Connection Portugal, after which the woman interfered in my legal business, and the intentions backfired which showed up as a police raid that found 14 kilos of cannabis in their house.

On January 23rd 2017 Dani Mar's husband (who was on police bail after being arrested with 14 kilos of cannabis in November 2016) threatened me and my wife whilst drunk, threatened to put me in a wheelchair and then claimed he had the power to arrange a crippling and a murder.

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.

This story can be summed up as these people interfering in my legal business, my reputation, and trying to criminalize me in bad faith without first disposing of the 14 kilos of cannabis sacks.

Freedman and his Church 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, and legally was defined as wilful malice.

The Ayahuasca Defence Fund admitted it was the leaders of Earth Connection Portugal that were arrested with 14 kilos of cannabis, in November 2016, debunking false statements made by others on this site and now removed.

When they (they meaning the leaders of Earth Connection Portugal to quote the Ayahuasca Defence Fund) were arrested with the 14 kilos of cannabis, they started attacking my reputation, persecuting me, and they lost an online smearing war that involved trying to discredit my reputation.

In 2017 they were warned, persecute me with malice and you will have the prohibition of ayahuasca in every country, and thats exactly what went down.

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

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Understanding Energy
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May 02, 2017 8:08 am EDT
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Keep on laughing

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anon8194
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Oct 14, 2023 2:00 pm EDT
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you can see that since 2016 he never wanted rope and rope immunity to take priority over anything else. the star beings don't care about the article 9 rights of a deviant race of ayahuasca drinkers. the immunity defense is that he never wanted the rope and then the woman interfered in his legal affairs, so the same star beings interfere in the ayahuasca affairs.

Spiritual Master Free Spirit
Spiritual Master Free Spirit
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Nov 13, 2023 10:33 am EST
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The European Court of Human Rights dismissed the Santo Daime complaint, and to answer this comment,

In 2017 they were warned, persecute me with malice and you will have the prohibition of ayahuasca in every country, and thats exactly what went down.

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the woman interfered in his legal affairs and Article 9.

The woman known as Dani Mar did interfere in my legal affairs (without getting rid of 14 kilos of cannabis, 35 LSD tabs, that the police then seized, nor was the womans ayahuasca work legal either.

The woman, backed up by Freedman and the energy of half a million+ ayahuasca drinkers, falsely believed they had the right to use my energy and then become powerful as an empire on it, which comes under previous rope magic comments (violating Article 9) and on cancellation of this Article 9 energy violation (aka rope magic, binding magic, on which the woman was drawing from the entire race to do), the organization known as Santo Daime Amsterdam (aka Céu da Santa Maria (Amsterdam) who the woman admitted being from, lost all their energy, and then lost on Article 9 in the European Court of Human Rights.

The legal facts of this case is this woman and a lot of other people believed I could be coerced to serve ayahuasca and put up with death threats, harassment, defamation and numerous GDPR violations. Freedman himself admitted he had 1,000+ emails warning him to address the problems, and with his own email, had people keep going, and keep going, and the disgusting harassment was coming from this woman, her family and her Church. Freedman and the Ayahuasca Defence Fund backed up their ill-conceived aggression and as foretold, got hit with a curse of Europe-wide criminalization of ayahuasca.

This empire of ayahuasca in honest opinion lost all of their energy to counteract this "rope magic" (aka Santo Daime black magic), resulting in "race waste" (aka "carcass race in sorcery".

In legal evidence this same "rope magic" backed up with Santo Daime intimidation had a large part to do with all these fires burning down their retreat centres.

Johannes also from this Dutch Church (poster Understanding Energy "stopped laughing" and stopped posting harassment. This Church interfered in my Article 9 rights and legal affairs in bad faith and as foretold, they cursed themselves with the ban on the sacrament "aka stripped of Article 9 religious freedom rights".

In brief - The Santo Daime (Ayahuasca) Amsterdam Church were DENIED relief and any remedy from restrictions on their Article 9 in The European Court of Human Rights and came down in favour of the Dutch authorities and the Supreme Court ban on Ayahuasca of October 1st 2019, meaning the criminalization of the sacrament stands, and the Church lost.

The European Court of Human Rights declared the Santo Daime's complaint inadmissable without further reasoning and to quote Benjamin Meeus, discredited for his role in the dispute, his Church was ruled out of existence by judicial fiat and everyone in the story were denied "gagging orders".

The Eternal Heart Centre Ltd
The Eternal Heart Centre Ltd
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Nov 13, 2023 11:46 am EST
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In addition as a result of the dispute the EHC headed by Freedman was dissolved in 2018. His organization, headed by 3 directors, Nancy Swinnen, Clare Mulligan and Adrian Freedman (all from Totnes), were, using the defence of truth, making false representations to Companies House, fudging the books and "cheating Uncle Sam".

All 3 directors were committing criminal offences by way of lying to Companies House, and the organization admitted operating illegally, and were caught red-handed inciting threats of violence, harassment, lying, posting offensive comments and sending offensive emails, and violating my privacy whilst playing false poor-me when police started smashing doors in and arresting people for drug trafficking offences (which Freedman also has a record for).

Freedman's organization is now PERMANENTLY CLOSED

They were dealing, supplying and trafficking in Class A drugs, after which the 3 named directors, also backed up this campaign of threatening me with violence which in law comes under defaming witnesses to the supply of Class A and B drugs with malice, and they too (quoting ICEERS, were never legal).

Their ignorance cost them the EHC organization, and they too were stripped of energy, legal rights, legitimacy, and they had to close. On transfer of merit to me (aka de-merit to them), that organization became dissolved, and their merit-energy was used to open my own centre, that they have absolutely no legal authority, claim or power over, as it is a distinct and separate legal entity.

In fact any ayahuasca business, centre, church, empire, group or organization involved in this dispute of malice toward me (including posting I would be "finished off", were cursed, closed, "finished off", stripped of energy or burnt down in these many foretold fires, and comes under continental level "de-merit" or "race waste", compounded by a 26 country ban on the sacrament.

Spiritual Master Free Spirit
Spiritual Master Free Spirit
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Nov 15, 2023 6:16 am EST
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To comment briefly here, on the Earth Connection Portugal fire that burned the place down (as well as Sanctuary 1860) in October 2017, these people were all involved in ayahuasca "black magic", irresponsible work with ayahuasca, using alcohol before ayahuasca, unethical behaviour and harassing participants (which ICEERS wrote was something never to do).

Nobody should do ayahuasca with people who drink alcohol before facilitating ceremony.

Onanya Joni condemned their drunken behaviour on their website.

In legal evidence from 2017, when warned of this foretold fire Johannes, as well as people involved with Sanctuary 1860 (Attila and Alexandra Akat now of the Ayahuasca Aluna Healing Center USA ), kept posting harassment, lies and threats to kill.

It was when Johannes was on police bail for a cannabis trafficking charge of 14 kilograms (as well as supply LSD) and the Ayahuasca Defence Fund admitted they were arrested (they meaning the leaders of Earth Connection Portugal).

Each time they did it I kept foretelling a fire both at Earth Connection Portugal and the Sanctuary 1860, most notably in January, April, July and October 2017, and then that is exactly what happened, the foretold fire destroyed both places and burned the ayahuasca retreats to the ground.

In fair comment a supernatural force (aka divine intervention) was responsible for these foretold fires, and the leader of Onanya Joni concurred that the Powers that Be "take care of bad tea works".

The evidence showed the 3 directors Freedman, Mulligan and Swinnen were warned to stop their work with ayahuasca or the fire would come again, and that is exactly what then happened.

Earth Connection Portugal and the Sanctuary 1860 are both PERMANENTLY CLOSED