Complaint Review: Ayahuasca Ceremonies in Portugal - SANCTUARY 1860 Ayahuasca Retreat

The legal facts of Dani Mar's husbands harassment is on April 17th 2017 he started a campaign of online harassment, cyberstalking and posting threats of violence toward ME backed up by Attila Akat.

Attila Akat and HIS family were the aggressors, after which they played false victim when called out on it.

Attila's rebutal is categorically FALSE, and was posted to incite harassment.From August 6th 2017 Adrian Freedman and the Ayahuasca Defence Fund sanctioned the behaviour and incited others to do it. Dani Mar and her husband at the time were arrested with 14 kilos of cannabis as well as LSD seals, that is legal truth and beyond dispute.

The ayahuasca community in Portugal including Attila Akat, were posting malicious allegations, defamation, harassment, posting it was not cannabis when it was, and Dani Mar's husband waged a campaign of cyberstalking and in the legal definition it was sustained 4A stalking using the emails of Breath and Sound and their mobile phones arranged by Dani Mar, her ex-husband, her family and a large number of others in Portugal. It was also waged from Sanctuary 1860 which was destroyed in a foretold fire.

The family of Dani Mar names Alexandra Akat and Attika Akat along with many other people were doing it as well on various complaints websites, my website, Retreat Guru and impersonating me, posting defamation and sharing links to death threats. When told to stop it they kept doing it and writing to my website with the Breath and Sound email saying we will never stop doing it. Breath and Sound went offline in April 2021

They (including the Akats) were also impersonating me, linking to death threats, from CA, threatening to ruin my reputation and posting I was a mentally ill pedophile, for which there is much evidence.

The evidence shows these people were all behind a nasty campaign of Santo Daime Church ayahuasca, LSD and weed fuelled harassment against me and my community, and they lost.

These people also attempted in various ways to interfere in an old lawsuit involving me (save for Dani Mar's ex-husband who actually had nothing to do with the plot at all, explaining in part why he is clear), in an attempt to get Euros 300,000 (for themselves), without any rightful claim, to fund ayahuasca retreats, their extended families and to fund a network of luxury ayahuasca retreats in Portugal.

Using the defence of honest opinion - that interference was because I refused to go and live at Earth Connection Portugal, serve them and fund their work.

Adrian Freedman, leader of Santo Daime Church supported (and funded) these peoples actions, tried to interfere in my Article 9 religious freedom rights and as a result his own organization Santo Daime Church was stripped of Article 9 religious freedom rights in all of Europe.

The facts around the numerous foretold fires at Earth Connection Portugal, Sanctuary 1860, Gravito and other places including Lagos and Monchique are that each time these people kept posting threats of violence and harassment before their work with ayahuasca from all of those places, I foresaw in visions fires in all of these places, and then as foretold, the fires came to all of these places and badly damaged or destroyed them.

Using the defence of honest opinion and as said elsewhere

In brief, the ayahuasca community (foolishly) kept threatening me with violence before ayahuasca in order to force themselves into my energy, to make me be non-consensually fused in the astral planes with Dani Mar using astral planes witchcraft - using the defence of honest opinion based on evidence - thats why the fires happened.

I foresaw on countless occasions various ayahuasca retreat centres destroyed in fires and the prophecies came true, the people in the complaint were warned many times threatening me with violence before ayahuasca was unwise, and they were forewarned about the fires.

Earth Connection Portugal, Sanctuary 1860, Gravito was involved in repeatedly threatening me with violence, assisting the aggressors and then lying about it. The facts are the fires at Earth Connection Portugal, Sanctuary 1860, Gravito (and many other places as well) were foretold before it happened and it coincided with Dani Mar doing ayahuasca with those threatening me with violence in order to try and force my energy into ayahuasca ceremony.

They were warned such an action was ill-advised and a week later, using the legal defence of honest opinion, in June 2017 a foretold fire bearing the hallmarks of divine retribution badly damaged Gravito and killed 64 people. In October 2017 the same thing happened again (people posting threats of violence before ayahuasca) and Earth Connection Portugal and Sanctuary 1860 were both destroyed by foretold fires.

I became immune to the witchcraft used and it was simply gatecrashing my energy in ayahuasca using intimidation to get energy and these people (falsely) believe they have the right to force my energy in ayahuasca ceremonies by way of posting or sending threats of violence just before the sessions.

These people were not successful in their endeavours and they had to own their own intentions, a lot of these planned "luxury ayahuasca retreats" in Portugal either burned down in foretold fires, were raided by police (for which they are responsible) or went out of business for various other reasons.

The woman is BARRED from our community and our retreat centre, we are not serving this womans work with ayahuasca and a fire was also foretold several times at Aluna Ayahuasca Retreat in the USA.

There is plenty of evidence to back up all the statements made.

The energy facts of this dispute are that since 2016 Dani Mar and the ayahuasca community were advised that I never wished to serve this woman, the ayahuasca community nor her family at Sanctuary 1860 citing the disallowed use of my energy in service of ayahuasca. Since then the woman and the entire ayahuasca community objected, making false arrogation claims on my energy in ayahuasca.

The end result is the Santo Daime Church criminalized, stripped of energy and stripped of legal status, which was their intentions. The woman interfered in my legal business with bad motives, failed and cursed Santo Daime with the ban (on honest opinion).

The woman and anors were warned repeatedly in 2017,2018,2019, 2020 and 2021 to stop posting intimidation before ayahuasca, to stop ayahuasca (because of foretold fires), to clean up their ethical (and legal act) after which en mass the ayahuasca community with the backup of Adrian Freedman began a series of malicious attacks designed to force me to serve ayahuasca which is not even legal.

This centre was reported to the Drug Enforcement Adminstration (DEA) for supply of Schedule 1 drugs after which people tried defaming me for rape, and FAILED, so its federal witness tampering with intent.

https://www.alunahealingcenter.com/

Potter Valley California

The womans family at Sanctuary 1860 also kept reposting Dani Mar's husbands threats, adding their own, inciting Dani Mar's husband to keep at it, and their friends were posting sick lies until the foretold fire destroyed Earth Connection Portugal and Sanctuary 1860, both places doing ayahuasca.

In response to Cease and Desists, legal communications and being CC'd in police reports, they escalated the behaviour, as a result people got arrested for ayahuasca in Portugal.

The nexus of Freedmans actions were, serve the ayahuasca work of Dani Mar, or we put you in a wheelchair and smear you as a mentally sick pedophile, and report you to the cops for pedophilia and rape, and we will pay people to do it, and we will keep stalking you and your wife, and we wont stop doing it until you serve ayahuasca, and the Ayahuasca Defense Fund will back me up (as they did, to their detriment, appearing as prohibition for ayahuasca).

Adrian Freedman and anors including Attila Akat was warned in May 2017 and July 2017 (and at many other times) of catastophic fires destroying ayahuasca retreat centres, after which he had me threatened, stalked and smeared as mentally ill, for which there is much evidence.

Such fires then happened as foretold and after Freedman's ayahuasca work in October 2017 a second (foretold) deadly fire gutted a bunch of additional ayahuasca retreats on top of the June 2017 fire that gutted Gravito.

The idiot kept showing up in Portugal inciting harassment before his ayahuasca works as well and his actions cost him the legal status of his Santo Daime (as foretold).

Not only was the Gravito fire foretold but the Earth Connection Portugal fire was foretold, the Sanctuary 1860 fire was foretold, the Caminho da Luz fire was foretold, the Lagos fire fire was foretold, the Monchique fire was foretold, and a fire was foretold in Temple of the Earth, Dharma Garden and Senses Camping.

I foresaw a fire at Aluna Ayahuasca also as well and the centre has been warned

The facts around the numerous foretold fires at Earth Connection Portugal, Sanctuary 1860, Gravito and other places including Lagos and Monchique are that each time these people kept posting threats of violence and harassment before their work with ayahuasca from all of those places, I foresaw in visions fires in all of these places, and then as foretold, the fires came to all of these places and badly damaged or destroyed them.

Using the defence of honest opinion and as said elsewhere

In brief, the ayahuasca community (foolishly) kept threatening me with violence before ayahuasca in order to force themselves into my energy, to make me be non-consensually fused in the astral planes with Dani Mar using astral planes witchcraft - using the defence of honest opinion based on evidence - thats why the fires happened.

I foresaw on countless occasions various ayahuasca retreat centres destroyed in fires and the prophecies came true, the people in the complaint were warned many times threatening me with violence before ayahuasca was unwise, and they were forewarned about the fires.

Earth Connection Portugal, Sanctuary 1860, Gravito, Attila Akat and others were involved in repeatedly threatening me with violence, assisting the aggressors and then lying about it. The facts are the fires at Earth Connection Portugal, Sanctuary 1860, Gravito (and many other places as well) were foretold before it happened and it coincided with Dani Mar doing ayahuasca with those threatening me with violence in order to try and force my energy into ayahuasca ceremony.

If anyone needs some clarification about the facts around this controversy including the circumstances behind these foretold fires or the legal story - people can find me on the internet and contact me.

Again, Attila's version of the story is FALSE

Over the past two years this individual has repeatedly harassed me on the Internet by spreading blatant lies and smearing my reputation.  Up until now, I have not spoken up against his false accusations because I have hoped that his unexplainable rage would subside after he realized that he was not receiving his desired reaction. However, it has now come to a point where I can no longer remain silent and I need to set the record straight.

The only connection I have with this individual is that he propositioned my sister-in-law and she did not respond to his advances.  Ever since my sister-in-law rejected him, he has been on a personal crusade to not only damage her reputation but also my wife and my reputations, by spreading false accusations and by consistently subjecting us to his attacks. 

The facts are that:

1. I have only met him one time
2. I never made any threats against him
3. I have not been listed in any kind of police report
4. I have not been involved in any criminal trial
5. I have not been named in any lawsuit
6. He attempted to blackmail my family by asking for 100,000 euro in return for removing his online defamations against us.
7. He has knowingly falsified posts on this board by impersonating the sender

In addition to his cyber bullying of my family and me, this individual has a history of attacking others online.  Below are links to over 10 different cases of cyber bullying (with similar false claims) that he has initiated against others.

Attila Akat

> http://paulmarshakafreespirit.blogspot.pt
> http://www.adrforum.com/domaindecisions/1612808.htm
> http://m.ripoffreport.com/reports/power-places-tours/boulder-colorado-80301/power-places-tours-power-places-tours-ethics-scandal-with-gregg-braden-deposit-payments-1214312
> http://www.dailymotion.com/truthdisclosures
> https://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/power-places-tours-power-places-tours-and-gregg-braden-tours-2012-2017-unethical-behaviour-slapp-suits-cheating-abuse-of-sacred-sites-and-causing-people-losses-c826067.html
> http://m.ripoffreport.com/reports/httpwwwkeystoimmortalitycom/-/free-spirit-from-wwwkeystoimmortalitycom-free-spirit-blackmail-for-hotel-stay-refund-1208642
> http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/power-places-tours/boulder-colorado-80301/power-places-tours-power-places-tours-ethics-scandal-with-gregg-braden-deposit-payments-1214312
> http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/balance-hotel-am-blauenwald-in-badenweiler-germany-black-forest/internet/balance-hotel-am-blauenwald-in-badenweiler-germany-black-forest-marc-grninger-maria-1215906
> https://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/earth-connection-portugal-breathwork-and-ayahuasca-retreats-threatening-to-put-a-spiritual-master-in-a-wheelchair-or-in-hospital-death-threats-cannabis-seized-by-police-c855220.html

Here is the Proof I received death threats. I was the poster of this report but do not have the log in.

In the screenshot of a threat made on another complaints site, it says

he will be killed and the police can only help when it's to late so, the police never can help?!?

See the screenshot to prove the statement true.

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A police report was sent on 18.8.2017 to the GNR Police in Portugal.

The police station said 'prisao preventiva' was inevitable for Johannes.

Many of the problems in the Portugal Santo Daime Church (including arrests and busts for cannabis cultivation) can be attributed to the Santo Daime Church in Portugal having a lax attitude toward mixing cannabis and Santo Daime, even though that went against the teachings and wishes of the founding father of the Daime Church.

elaborated upon here:-

https://santodaimescandal.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/santo-daime-church-in-portugal-use-cannabis-against-wishes-of-founding-father-mestre-irineu/

and

https://santodaimescandal.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/my-opinion-of-the-santo-daime-church/

It also explains why those Centres in Portugal who do not allow people to use cannabis in ceremony, are suffering no detriment, so cannabis in the Portugal works has degraded the Daime family there.

It seems the cannabis culture in Portugal is part of the problem, and because it erodes ethics and morality, it also explains why I have been abused and threatened with death, for presenting the lesson, for those involved smoked, and grew, much cannabis, encouraged by the Church because cannabis was given out and openly smoked at the works, and people were told it was ok if they brought enough to share.

Enough to share at a ceremony of 50-100 people (at a modest half a joint each, that would be 25-50 joints), that would certainly require people to break the law, because also they would not want to share all that they had, and there are many works in a single cannabis growing season.

https://santodaimescandal.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/santo-daime-church-members-face-prison-after-being-caught-with-big-sacks-of-cannabis/

In September 2016 I warned them (Daniela Market and Johannes Maasland who are or at least were partners with the Sanctuary 1860) as their Mentor to tone down their cannabis operations but they did not listen. They agreed to legal disclaimers with regard to illegal activities and personal responsibility.

They brought my Voyager book which talks about how to use medicines responsibly (and legally) in the context of spiritual practice as well as messages about love and healing from other spiritual planes, and teachings about Ascension.

There is a time and place for the use of shamanic medicines, and even cannabis (where legal) and thus some of my book taught them how to integrate medicine wisdom into their lives.

But they did not take my teachings seriously and they believed they would ascend (go to heaven alive, like Jesus) in December 2016, despite having major personal problems and a lack of respect for their mentor and they also admitted they had toxic relationship and self-love issues.

The very first page of the book (that they paid a lot of money for because of its rarity and size) carried a legal disclaimer which says:-

Important Legal Disclaimers

Free Spirit does not advocate illegal activities. If something mentioned within is illegal in your country or
entails risk of any kind  by doing the same, the reader assumes full responsibility for their actions.

Readers agree that they are fully responsible for their lives, actions and decisions whether inspired by
this book or otherwise. 

I foresaw big trouble in their lives as their mentor, because I felt their egos were getting high on the attention of being the number one in Portugal. They were growing much cannabis. At first, they only grew a small amount, and as their mentor, it is not for me to judge or get involved.

But he said always to me he is afraid to get caught, and his land has no fences and many people can see in, and visit as well for the retreats.

Then he grow many cannabis plants, like 100 in a big plot, and then I know this is crazy and trouble is coming.

I said to them many times in 2016, to tone it down and just keep it personal (growing the cannabis for personal use). But they clearly wanted to be the number one in Portugal for cannabis, so I withdrew from their lives, as a raid was inevitable.

Daniela behaved in such a way that I was invoked to give more lessons, so I gave them prophetic warnings of trouble and told them the steps to take and made recommendations, including toning down the cannabis, but she insulted her Mentor and thought she knew better. So I let them find their own way.

I also reminded them of the legal disclaimers about abuse or threats to me (the terms they agreed to are screenshotted) because abuse to the Mentor makes karma.

There seems to be an issue where they or the Santo Daime Church (who provides the Ayahuasca tea) think they are not responsible, but the disclaimers are clear, and in any case, when you break the law, the problem is with yourself.

I never taught them to break the law as their Mentor, and the record should show, I warned them to choose a different path and instead they turned on me, and Johannes labelled me mentally ill, evil and made threats (police report GCLSA 37 /17.0)

I was summoned to see the police again because I had to make a complaint about Johannes, because he kept trolling me online and saying I was mentally ill and should feel the fear, and that comes under harassment of trial witnesses.

As a result, the police said to me instead of having to report to the police three times a week, instead, he may be subjected to house arrest or pre-trial detention pending trial.

They also said they were monitoring the Sanctuary 1860 Ayahuasca Retreat Centre on an ongoing basis because they now know that Ayahuasca retreat centres in Portugal are places where cannabis may be grown or perhaps sold/distributed on the premises.

So anyone attending their retreats may be subjected to in person or vehicle searches.

I had some experiences of drinking the Ayahuasca with Daniela Markert and Alexandra and Attila Akat, before they started the Sanctuary 1860 and I was always experiencing heavy disturbances. The first time I drank with Daniela and Johannes, was at a rented house before they started Earth Connection Portugal.

In that experience, the medicine tasted acrid and bitter and within 20 minutes felt very ill and vomited many times, and then overheated, and had to rest outside, and then I could not drink again.

In another ceremony, I found that the hosts (Daniela and Johannes, with the Akats present also) were trying to get me to live with them so that they could have a free mentor in their house.

The Ayahuasca work was very hard and I vomited maybe 12 times, and straight after everyone is asking me questions, and it feels so unpleasant and something felt very wrong.

For months afterwards I got very sick, had nightmares and had numerous near death experiences, and it was because they did not know what they were doing, and an expert mentions what can happen if people are not trained in running Ayahuasca Ceremonies.

https://ruvedic.org/the-dangers-associated-with-the-misuse-of-ayahuasca-by-dr-pio-vucetich/

I reflected back to them their intentions in a letter to tidy up the matter and to show them where they went wrong (with some information redacted) so they can learn from the matter and take responsibility.

Dear Daniela,

It may also be useful for me to reflect back to you the questionable intentions of that 'fateful' Shambala Circle where I was invited to drink the Ayahuasca tea, with your family (which included Johannes, the Akats as well as Andi and Olly).

It would appear, on reflection, that something about that work was very bad indeed, and reflects on your questionable
ethical integrity as hosts and what happened violate the founding ethical and moral principles with regard to practice in
your work as amateur hosts.

At first when I reflected on it I was very curious why I vomited at least 12 times in that work and why it was so extreme,
and why I have spent the last 16 months of my life figuring out what went on in that work.

It seems to me the root cause was your questionable intentions, and the intentions of the others. You both made a big
deal about you wanting me to live there (and thus experience separation as you wanted me to leave my partner behind).
On many occasions, including in the work, both of you tried to suggest that again, and for reasons that are somewhat
dubious and an attempt to abuse, control or manipulate the energy field of a Spiritual Teacher for egoistical purposes,
namely wanting to be the number one in Portugal.

As you had spent a lot of money on refurbishment, building yurts and similar, you wanted to recoup the money, and thus
trying to get a Spiritual Teacher was clearly alluring.

The presence of a guru in your home would certainly have inflated your own egos and self-importance, albeit with severe detriment to my wellbeing.

The 12 times of vomiting in the works was clearly my energy field repelling the collective intentions, as your family and
friends were clearly in on the plan, as they all would have had a free mentor.

Not only would I have had to have paid Euro 30-50,000 (to quote Johannes) to live with you, I would also have had to
have given free mentoring to anyone that wanted it, so that people would feel good and like you in return (thus inflating
your egos).

Also, as you did not believe I should have any money (despite your family bragging about luxury cars and the like), you
would have wanted me to become totally and utterly dependent upon you, and thus basically, you wanted me under your
control, so that you could please and uplift your family and yourselves, and because you were not healed and happy in
yourselves, so needed a 'lift' so to speak.

When you invited me to the work, I was not supposed to talk about the collapse (and your sister did not want to be
frightened by any prophecies), but perhaps if I had talked about the collapse, you and your people might have developed
some wisdom, and avoided the collapse self-evident in all of your own lives now.

Instead, some of your people only wanted to hear good things (things that inflated their egos) because on some level,
they were all part of the plan to try and pull me into living at Earth Connection Portugal.

Had I have moved there, I would also be facing jail, as Johannes was hell bent on growing more and more cannabis, so
much that he was throwing big amounts away!

The trouble with your plan was that it did not respect my awareness, energy, integrity or anything else about me and my
work, and clearly backfired.

As that plan failed, when I decided to leave your lives, foreseeing inevitable trouble, instead, you put a cord in me, to try
and effect the same intentions, but metaphysically instead of in the physical, which explains why all your lives are ruined,
for that cord you have made will unravel all of your lives until there is nothing left standing and until I am free from all of
your karma.

Your intentions to be the number one in Portugal blinded you to the path of ethical integrity and the importance of
respecting awareness, and you thought that my focussing hard enough you could put a cord in a Spiritual Teacher (without his consent) in order for you to 'uplift your family'.

It is obvious now that only a proper sorry to me can undo the damage done. It might be that instead of me giving you
Euro 30,000, you might have to pay me that (or much more) in damages for defamation's and death threats, unless you
and your family take the olive branch proposal offered.

As you can see, my prophecy of catastrophe was right and is clearly a lesson for all of your egos in respect for
awareness, the medicine and the energy fields of other people in tea works.

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I also prophesized a police raid in October 2016 and then in November 2016 Earth Connection Portugal were busted.

They had no fences and had many strangers visiting, and they had a big cannabis plantation, and the locals were unhappy over the business of building their yurt, and their egos were so inflated, I saw big trouble, and told them to step back and rethink matters, and made other recommendations to avoid the disaster.

They did not believe their mentor and just wanted to be number one in Portugal for Ayahuasca Ceremonies, even though they did not know what they were doing, and admitted having toxic relationship issues. Daniela Markert complained that Johannes had a darkness eating away inside of him and went into dark spaces when left alone.

I told Johannes to stop hosting tea works but he did not listen. He said also growing all the cannabis took much energy, so I said why not just grow for yourself instead of for so many other people. But he did not listen and then grew 14 kilos.

I chose not to live with them and I thank my Higher Power I did not otherwise I would be in trouble for cannabis.

A Shambala Circle is another word for an informal Ayahuasca Ceremony, using the Ayahuasca tea.

I received an apology from Adrian Freedman of the Santo Daime Church in this matter (I dont have the login to post as the report author, but I am the author) who expressed sincere sorries for the disturbances caused, his apology is  here in full.

The main parts are:-

This whole sorry tale has been a wake-up call for us in the importance of ethical practice as you say, and in the light of this we will endeavour to do all we can to bring more clarity and grounding to every aspect of our practice, both in and out of the workshops. Thank you for being such a beacon of uncompromising integrity, hopefully others may learn from your example.

Apologies from Earth Connection Portugal (Daniela Markert and Johannes Maasland) as well as from Sanctuary 1860 (Alexandra and Attila Akat) have NOT been received for the behaviour complained of, including being threatened in relation to being accussed of being a police informant on the cannabis. Those apologies are outstanding.

Earth Connection Portugal is now PERMANENTLY CLOSED as  aresult of this matter.

Sanctuary 1860 have cancelled some high profile retreats including a visit from an international shaman, after concerns were raised. They too, are expected to close because of the scandal of a cannabis bust in the family, and for partnering up in business, with those in trouble with the police, a bad business decision.

However, I was apologized to by a long standing retreat leader involved in the Ayahuasca scene, he had this to say:-

This whole sorry tale has been a wake-up call for us in the importance of ethical practice as you say, and in the light of
this we will endeavour to do all we can to bring more clarity and grounding to every aspect of our practice, both in and out
of the workshops. Thank you for being such a beacon of uncompromising integrity, hopefully others may learn from your
example.

However, sadly, and with all the best intentions in the world we cannot control the thoughts, words and actions of others.

IN over 20 years of being involved in this movement we have never asked anyone to set up any kind of group on our
behalf and have never assumed responsibility for what another person might do. In the case of JM, he seems like an
extremely unstable and maverick character, totally unsuited to this kind of work. As I mentioned before, we never asked
him to do anything on behalf of us, or to be representative of us, and its most unfortunate that he should claim such a
thing. If I ever met him again I would confront him over why he is making these false claims.

In the meantime, i take this experience as a lesson and a teaching and will do my best to take advantage of the
opportunity to be a better person and a better group leader. I feel so sorry for the distress and disturbance you have
suffered as a result of one person's stupid, irresponsible behaviour, and the way it reflects badly on all of us.

By the way, I look back on our long association and i appreciate your luminous presence in all the spiritual works we
shared.

Wishing peace, good health and love for you.

A

(I withheld his name as he is already embarassed enough over the scandal) but it shows that some in the Ayahuasca movement have integrity and are willing to admit their shortcomings.

Unfortunately Earth Connection Portugal and Sanctuary 1860 have still refused to apologize.

SMFS

tinyurl.com/y6wxerks

I was the author of this report but I do not have the email address to login.