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First Encounters Ayahuasca
In the 16th century, Christian missionaries from Spain first encountered indigenous western Amazonian basin South Americans (modern Peru/Ecuador) using ayahuasca; their earliest reports described it as "the work of the devil". Evidence of ayahuasca use dates back 1,000 years, as demonstrated by a bundle containing the residue of ayahuasca ingredients and various other preserved shamanic substances in a cave in southwestern Bolivia, discovered in 2010 -
Birth Of Irineu Serra
Irineu Serra, also known as Mestre Irineu is the founder of Santo Daime. He was raised as a Roman Catholic -
Irineu Serra Migrates to
migrated to the Western Amazon region in 1912 attracted by a boom in the rubber-tapping industry. He first drank ayahuasca in the border region between Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru. As a result of experiencing a series of visions whilst spending eight days in solitude in the forest, he began to conduct spiritual ceremonies using ayahuasca. Many people came to him sick, seeking healing they could not afford or failed to find in standard medical practice -
Founding of Santo Daime
Santo Daime is a syncretic religion founded in the 1930s in the Brazilian Amazonian state of Acre by Raimundo Irineu Serra, known as Mestre Irineu. -
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Growing Collection of 130 hymns, called "The Cruzeiro"
The earliest hymns were received by Mestre Irineu in the 1930s, eventually growing slowly to about 130 hymns, called "The Cruzeiro".The last hinos he received in the late 60s are considered especially important -
Death Of Irineu Serra
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Ayahuasca Becomes permanently legal in the U.S.
In March 2009, Panner found that the use of hallucinogenic tea by members of such churches was legal, issuing an injunction barring the government from penalizing them for its consumption.