Santo Daime and the Céu do Mapiá community

Record summary

Santo Daime emerged around Raimundo Irineu Serra in Acre and developed ritual use of ayahuasca, called Daime, within Christian, Indigenous, Afro-Brazilian, and esoteric frameworks. Accounts of visions, healing, spiritual travel, possession, and moral transformation make the movement relevant to comparative consciousness research. Céu do Mapiá became a prominent later center, while Alto Santo represents another important lineage. Researchers must distinguish doctrine, participant reports, legal history, ethnography, and outsider interpretations; the movement’s experiences are not automatically evidence of paranormal perception.