Image of part of the effects intervened during the Civil Guard operation to dismantle a spiritual retreat house in Yecla (Murcia) where rites with ayahuasca or marijuana were practiced. CIVIL GUARD (CIVIL GUARD)
Ayahuasca, snuff, sananga, San Pedro cactus, hallucinogenic mushrooms, marijuana and kambó.
It is only part of the cache of hallucinogenic substances that the Civil Guard has found in a rural house in Yecla (Region of Murcia, 35,000 inhabitants) in which they have arrested a couple of British origin who used the house to practice supposed healing rituals exercising as shamans, a business for which each of their clients paid at least 45 euros a day for a minimum stay of three days.
The alleged shamans, a 47-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman, who have been made available to Yecla Investigating Court Number 1, advertised their rural house online as a spiritual retreat center and, as reported by the Guard Civil, explicitly offered “healing” and “self-development” sessions,
shamanic and addiction recovery and detoxification retreats, among others.
All this without having any type of license, neither health nor administrative.
Their rates were also published on their website: 45 euros per day per person for a minimum stay of three days, or 500 euros for groups of up to 16 people.
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When the agents entered the house, the two detainees were practicing one of these services: seven people of different nationalities participated in a rite with ayahuasca, a drink with psychoactive components that generates hallucinogenic effects and is used by healers in South America.
The authorities found 14 liters of that drink in the house.
The civil guards also found a bottle of sananga, an Amazonian eye drop to treat eye ailments, and three kilos of snuff, a preparation made from ground and flavored tobacco leaves.
In the house there were also three kilos of marijuana and about thirty pipettes with an extract of that drug, 304 San Pedro cacti and fifty lollipops and sweets made from the extract of that plant, also habitually used by quackery in the Andes, and 200 grams of hallucinogenic mushrooms.
A whole arsenal of drugs that the two detainees, according to sources of the investigation, provided their clients without any type of sanitary control, beyond several tensiometers with which, apparently, they controlled the constants of the participants in the rites.
And this despite the fact that the consumption of this type of substance generates numerous physical effects immediately, from sweating, dizziness and nausea to muscle contractions, which can last from 8 to 12 hours.
In certain cases, they can also cause severe complications of a cardiac nature.
In the advertisements for this "spiritual house", as its occupants defined it, the detainees also offered, for an additional 100 euros, to practice kambó ceremonies with the attendees, a substance obtained from the secretion produced by a frog native to the Amazon and It is high in opiates.
This substance is 40 times more powerful than morphine and poses a serious health risk, researchers have warned.
The two detainees are accused of alleged crimes of professional intrusion and against public health.
They are also accused of a possible crime against the flora, fauna and domestic animals, because in the records, along with the substances, several goldfinch wings were found, which is a protected bird, arranged on wooden planks to be dissected, and that they would have an ornamental use of the tools used in the rituals.
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