The Faith of Ayahuasca: The Teachings of the Church of Santo Daime

• An intimate account of the genesis of the Santo Daime custom

• Edited and launched by Stephen Larsen, creator of
The Shaman’s Doorway

Searching for one thing to revive his religious connection to life after his launch from captivity as a political prisoner in Brazil, Alex Polari de Alverga had a transformative encounter with Padrinho Sebastiao Mota de Mela, one of many two revered founders of Santo Daime. A potent synthesis of Christianity and indigenous Amazonian practices of entheogen use, mediumship, and therapeutic, the Santo Daime church offered Alverga with an alternative choice to his disillusionment with trendy society. His quest for religious initiation ultimately led him deep into the guts of the rain forest to Mapiá, one of many religious facilities of Santo Daime, the place he grew to become a instructor and chief of the Daime neighborhood.

The Faith of Ayahuasca is a narrative of a traditional religious encounter corresponding to the Tibetan Saint Milarepa’s seek for his instructor Marpa. It is usually an intimate account of the genesis of an essential non secular custom from its modest beginnings in Brazil to its development all through the world, providing an inside have a look at the spiritually centered village of Mapiá–a mannequin for communities within the twenty first century–and on the non secular chief who helped create it. Offering perception into the religious path the Daime affords, Alverga’s story reveals the brand new depths of Being made accessible by means of the sacred use of ayahuasca.