A pair arrested for working towards shamanic therapeutic rituals in a home in Murcia


The 47-year-old man and the 52-year-old girl recruited shoppers by web advertisements They provided ayahuasca, snuff, sananga, San Pedro extract or hallucinogenic mushrooms with out sanitary management They provided to remain in a rural home to take part in self-development, restoration or detox for 45 euros per day

The Civil Guard, the framework of the Kambo operation, has arrested two individuals who had been engaged in attracting shoppers to observe supposed shamanic therapeutic rituals. The rural home they used as a religious retreat within the Murcian city of Yecla (Murcia) has been dismantled. There, a large number of drugs dangerous to well being have been intervened with out sanitary management that they provided to shoppers each nationwide and from different European nations comparable to ayahuasca, snuff, sananga, extract of San Pedro or hallucinogenic mushrooms.

The shamanic rituals had been provided by a few British residents by the Internet with commercials the place they marketed themselves as a therapeutic home oriented to self-development teams, shamanic retreats and dependancy restoration and detoxing, amongst others. The Civil Guard started an investigation to make clear the legality of those actions carried out in an institution that didn’t have any kind of license or administrative authorization. Despite this, they had been explicitly provided at a every day price per particular person of 45 euros per day for a minimal keep of three nights, and even group presents of 500 euros per day for 16 visitors.

Located seven individuals in a guided observe

The brokers searched the nation home situated within the municipality of Yecla with judicial authorization and located an ayahuasca retreat being held. One of the rooms of the home was furnished with seven bunks and two armchairs from the place the shamans had been directing the ritual and the ingestion of hallucinogenic substances by seven individuals of varied nationalities.

In the identical room, blood stress screens had been discovered able to cope with any eventuality which may come up through the aforementioned religious practices. In the property registry, 14 liters of ayahuasca had been seized, an indigenous drink utilized in conventional South American medication by native peoples that, resulting from its psychoactive parts, generates hallucinogenic results.

Also a pot of sananga, an Amazonian eye drops to deal with eye illnesses, additionally utilized in sure ceremonies to extend religious notion. Three kilos of marijuana, three kilos of snuff, 29 pots of pipettes with marijuana extract, 44 lollipops and sweets with San Pedro extract, 304 San Pedro cactus and 200 grams of hallucinogenic mushrooms had been additionally seized.

Several goldfinch wings (a protected species) had been additionally discovered on the farm, positioned to be dissected on some picket planks, supposedly used for the ornamentation of a number of the instruments and provides. Therefore, against the law towards flora, fauna and home animals is attributed to them. The detainees, a British couple of a 47-year-old man and a 52-year-old girl, along with the seized substances, had been made obtainable to Yecla Investigating Court #1.