11 Facts About Santo Daime

The drinking of Santo Daime can induce a strong emetic effect which is embraced as both emotional and physical purging.

Santo Daime churches promote a wholesome lifestyle in conformity with 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.

Santo Daime first drank ayahuasca in the border region between Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru.

Originally, Santo Daime teachings had no basis in written text, as early practitioners were illiterate, learning being experiential, through singing of inspired hymns exploring the perennial values of love, harmony, and strength through poetic and metaphorical imagery.

The Santo Daime is thought to reveal both positive and various negative or unresolved aspects of the individual, resulting in difficult "passages" involving the integration of this dissociated psychological content.

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Teachings of Santo Daime are transmitted through its hymns which, when sung, are intended to facilitate first-hand experience of the divine.

The Santo Daime Church uses only the Jagube vine and the Viridis leaf, not adding any other plants to the mixture.

Hymns are sung, and Santo Daime is drunk while the men hammer the vine into powder and the women clean and sort the leaves.

The conclusion of the study was that the Santo Daime was a very positive influence in the community, encouraging social harmony and personal integration.

In September 2008, the three Oregon Santo Daime churches filed suit in federal court to gain legal status.

In France, Santo Daime won a court case allowing them to use the decoction in early 2005; however, they were not allowed an exception for religious purposes, but rather for the simple reason that they did not perform chemical extractions to end up with pure DMT and harmala and the plants used were not scheduled.