Prison officials in Brazil have allowed an ancient concoction to be used to rehabilitate violent criminals while still in custody, to make them able to be integrated back into society.
For those who have committed serious crimes such as rape, murder and robbery which have left their victims dead, the criminals are said to be able to communicate to the dead and ask for forgiveness whenever they drink this mysterious concoction.
The concoction is known as ‘Ayahuasca’ and is made from the ‘Banisteriopsis caapi’ vine in combination with various other plants, then it is mixed with the leaves of ‘Chacruna’ or other dimethyltryptamine-containing (DMT-containing) plant species.
In the Brazilian city of Ji-Paraná, convicted criminals are now being given this concoction which is said to be a shamanic ceremony designed to rehabilitate and give them a profound new life, to be able to change their spiritual experiences. Ayahuasca was said to have been first noted academically in the early 1950’s by Harvard ethnobotanist, Richard Evans Schultes, who found it and employed it for divinatory and healing purposes by the native peoples of Peru.
But the Ayahuasca brew is said to be a long-standing South American spiritual tradition. It has been used in shamanic ceremonies for thousands of years in the ancient days. Some believe DMT is created in your brain’s pineal gland when you dream and when you die, and believe the molecule is an actual portal that transfers your spirit from the body into a state of hallucinogenic consciousness.
People who consume Ayahuasca describe communicating with beings in the world beyond the physical. The theory of DMT being created in the pineal gland has since been (partially) proven, medically. Furthermore, research has shown that DMT has been found in the pineal glands of rats.
Volunteer therapists with an organization called Acuda are administering the Ayahuasca treatments, which have proved to be quite effective so far for the prisoners at Ji-Paraná prison.
A 36-year-old, Celmiro de Almeida, a man serving a sentence for murder who was given the opportunity to use the Ayahuasca concoction testified to its effectiveness and the new path it has created in his life.
“I’m finally realizing I was on the wrong path in this life. Each experience helps me communicate with my victim to beg for forgiveness,” he said.
About 15 people a month are said to be allowed to visit the Acuda building where they meditate and take the Ayahuasca.
“This is how it should be. It’s gratifying to know that we can sit here in the forest, drink our Daime, sing our hymns, and exist in peace,” said Siqueira Virgílio, a guard at the prison complex.
“We are considered the trash of Brazil, but this place accepts us. I know what I did was very cruel. The tea helped me reflect on this fact, on the possibility that one day I can find redemption,” said Darci Altair Santos da Silva, a construction worker convicted of sexual abuse of a child under 14.
The inmate population in Brazil currently stands at about 550,000. Organizations such as Acuda are advocating that Ayahuasca be administered to all inmates nationwide.
But families of victims killed by inmates are opposed to this concoction given to the criminals. They want the criminals to be punished for the crime(s) they have committed.
“Where are the massages and the therapy for us? My daughter’s dreams were extinguished by that man, but he will be allowed to go into the jungle and drink his tea. This is utterly revolting,” said 48-year-old, Paulo Freitas, a man whose 18-year-old daughter was kidnapped, raped and murdered 2 years ago by a man now being treated with Ayahuasca.
Multiple recent scientific studies have pointed to hallucinogenics as a valid treatment for mental illnesses and trauma therapy, such as PTSD. Though long term results are not yet known from these Ayahuasca treatments, the science behind the medical value of hallucinogens can no longer be denied.
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I am aware of this as a way to reach out into the universe and bring back with you, the wisdoms of the ancients in answer to your questions and needs. I am NOT certain, however that because inmates partake the brew that they are rehabbed for the long haul and that what ever forgiveness they feel they have found is true or only imagined by they who ask for it. The families of the fallen have no pipeline to bring their lost ones back. 🙁
The families are not relevant in this; prison or therapy is not meant to be a revenge for them..it is merely there to separate dangers to society, and therapy is not there to bring joy to murderers, but to rehabilitate them, or make them human.