Complaint Review: Ayahuasca Ceremonies in Portugal - SANCTUARY 1860 Ayahuasca Retreat - Oliveira do Hospital
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Ayahuasca Ceremonies in Portugal - SANCTUARY 1860 Ayahuasca Retreat, Earth Connection Portugal, Johannes Maasland, Daniela Markert, Alexandra and Attila Akat Drug Bust in Family, Ethics Scandal, One Retreat Centre PERMANENTLY CLOSED, Amateur unskilled Ayahuasca shamans,PR scandal. People risk losing deposits. Oliveira do Hospital thesanctuary1860.com/
*Consumer Comment: Daniela Mar of ALUNA apologizes for making FALSE RAPE ALLEGATIONS (SCREENSHOT OF EMAIL and other updates)
*Consumer Comment: Daniela Mar of ALUNA apologizes for making FALSE RAPE ALLEGATIONS
*Consumer Comment: Rebuttal of Attila Akat's accusations
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Rebuttal against fake accusations and lies from Free Spirit
*Consumer Suggestion: Here is the Proof I as the poster of this report received death threats (from member of Santo Daime Church Portugal) / Police Report Filed / Cannabis at the core of the problem in the movement
*Consumer Comment: I warned them (Daniela and Johannes) as their Mentor to tone down their cannabis operations but they did not listen. Sanctuary 1860 B & B Ayahuasca Retreat Centre under police monitoring
*Consumer Comment: Questionable Shambala Circle Intentions by Daniela Markert and the Akats - The dangers of drinking with inexperienced shamans / My experience of sickness / disturbances drinking Ayahuasca in Portugal
*Consumer Comment: I received an apology from Adrian Freedman of the Santo Daime Church in this matter
*Consumer Comment: NO APOLOGIES RECEIVED from Earth Connection Portugal or Sanctuary 1860 Ayahuasca Retreat EUROPE / PORTUGAL but member of the Ayahuasca Church does offer apology and to learn lessons from the matter
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Filed under questionable activities and complained about are Sanctuary 1860 Ayahuasca Retreat Centre PORTUGAL, Earth Connection PORTUGAL, Johannes Maasland, and other associates Daniela Markert, Alexandra and Attila Akat.
This is reported in the public interest for those looking to consume Ayahuasca tea ( a shamanic psychedelic medicine) in Portugal. There is a major scandal on the ground in Portugal because some amateurs without any shamanic training certificates or any other accreditation, have set up two retreat centres, one called Earth Connection Portugal and one called Sanctuary 1860 Ayahuasca Retreat Portugal.
The matter is detailed here:-
ayahuascaceremoniesinportugal.wordpress.com/
If you do not find experienced shamans, it is dangerous to drink Ayahuasca, because amateurs cannot handle the energy navigate the medicine space or attend to deeper difficulties in a ceremony. When amateurs set up such retreats for profit and with the intention of being number one in Portugal for Ayahuasca, the intention is not pure and trouble happens.
one must only partake in Ayahuasca with accredited or properly trained shamans who have been initiated in the Amazon Rainforest.
The scandal involves several things that people should know about.
1. A police raid for cannabis in the family. See proof here.
hsanctuary1860ayahuascaretreatportugalscandal.wordpress.com/
and in the pictures showing the police tweets and showing that the retreat centre busted was in Travanca, matching the police tweets, there is also police arrest snapshots from the Portuguse police (GNR) website.
This happened at Earth Connection Portugal which has now PERMANENTLY CLOSED.
This is because of the police raid in which 14 kilos of cannabis and LSD was seized, with the suspect awaiting trial.
jn.pt/justica/interior/detido-com-14-quilos-de-cannabis-aguarda-julgamento-em-liberdade-5493210.html
2. Earth Connection Portugal basically passed on their Ayahuasa business (after the raid) to their family members Alexandra and Attila Akat who have NO shamanic training whatsover, yet offer shamanic Ayahuasca retreats.
3. The shaman of Earth Connection Portugal made death threats toward a Spiritual Master falsely accusing him of being a police informant and is now facing trial in Portugal alongside the cannabis - police report reference number (37.17.0 GLCSA)
4. Because of the scandal, retreats may be cancelled at short notice and deposits lost, as there are police investigations currently ongoing and Court cases scheduled later this year.
5. Sanctuary 1860 Ayahuasca Retreat Centre is expected to close, as the amateur shaman arrested for cannabis makes their Ayahuasca, and once there is no Ayahuasca, there are no retreats. Be careful.
6. The retreat centres mentioned have no ethical codes or guidelines on their website.
The whole matter is a major PR disaster. Google Ayahuasca Portugal Scandal.
See also screenshots of the police raids and the cannabis found, as well as other evidence including extracts of police reports asking for restraining orders and the like.
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#9 Consumer Comment
Daniela Mar of ALUNA apologizes for making FALSE RAPE ALLEGATIONS (SCREENSHOT OF EMAIL and other updates)
AUTHOR: SMFS - (United States)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, November 19, 2024
The last rebuttal left out the image evidence, and it is a public email. The same business email as on Aluna's Facebook Page.
In addition,
The woman named Daniela Mar, now of ALUNA HEALING CENTRE, California, was interfering in my legal business with very dubious motives and without ascertaining the relevant facts in 2016 to assist a company to try and criminalize me in bad fath (which comes under the term of legal persecution) to sue me for 1.6 million in damages and without telling her now ex-husband to get rid of the 14 kilos of cannabis sacks.
That business was DENIED and that business is now PERMANENTLY CLOSED.
These people also attempted in various ways to interfere in an old lawsuit involving me 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 (which then burnt down)
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.
When they (they meaning the leaders of Earth Connection Portugal to quote the Ayahuasca Defence Fund) were arrested with the 14 kilos of cannabis, they started attacking my reputation, persecuting me, and they lost an online smearing war that involved trying to discredit my reputation.
What then happened was the Santo Daime was struck with a bane (aka a curse) of what they complain to be legal persecution and its their karma for interferinng in my legal business and persecuting me en mass in the name of ayahuasca.
In 2017 they were warned, persecute me with malice and you will have the prohibition of ayahuasca in every country, and thats exactly what went down. They were also forewarned about these fires.
Santo Daime put up over 800 thousand (thats 5 times my original claim against them) to try and get court injunctions, gag orders, search orders and legal judgments, got absolutely nothing to show for it except a 26+ country continent wide prohibition on ayahuasca, a bunch of police raids, a lot of bad legal outcomes for ayahuasca and an extremely nasty controversy that they are the authors of.
At bottom the womans initial actions (with Freedman in support later) are the entire cause of the criminalisation of all of the European Santo Daime Churches including the cancellation of the Article 9 legal rights of the Mother Church of Santo Daime Amsterdam - of which the woman originally came from.
The ALUNA venture is built on a lot of bad karma and what happened is not my responsibility and in fair comment they have "extended family problems"
As a legal comment (update) this "Johannes Maasland" finally deleted and took off all his smears, lies and defamation posted about me including 48 comments in a very ill-conceived "Aluna ordered" December solstice attack on my reputation done on Facebook. No doubt Adrian Freedman (and Benjamin Meeus, legal advisor for the European Santo Daime Churches) in the end had to make this "Johannes" idiot behave, but far too late for the legal status of Santo Daime (destroyed internationally) and Aluna's reputation. They (Aluna) and Freedman ordered Johannes defamatory attacks, smears, threats and lies, and threatened to ruin my reputation, now these people will have to experience what they wanted for me.
Except in this case all the comments about them are "predominantly true" and/or matters of honest opinion, fair comment, privileged remarks, reply to attacks (on me), public interest comments, self defence comments and a long list of other legal defences apply (including written consent to the postings).
Johannes defamatory attacks are totally cleaned off my FB and his FB page, everything here that comes under "answer back" is legally privileged. Most importantly because Aluna, ICEERS, Freedman and Retreat Guru "authorized" Johannes attacks, any comments about them here are in fact legally privileged and they can do nothing about them legally (and they are not allowed to retaliate in the circumstances).
You can also legally attack back those who "authorized" or aided and abetted" the attack using the legal defence of reply to attack, and to the degree necessary to stop relentless, vicious and malicious attacks from criminals and a criminal organization condemned in every Court of Europe, who write "we won't ever stop it, we love what we are doing, and you cannot stop us defaming you".
Deliberate and pre-meditated malice, and complicity, on the part of Aluna, ICEERS Ayahuasca Defence Fund, Freedman and Retreat Guru (working collectively to "authorize" and "order" Johannes attacks) is proven and made out. The purpose of the attack by Johannes (extended family member of Aluna) for December 2023 has also been legally made out (see March 20th 2024) and they were legally obliged to retract and take off all of the defamatory statements made by Johannes (all 48 of them).
ATTILA AKAT posted up exactly the same set of links in his rebuttal as Johannes was posting in his smear campaign and the links had gmx email embedded URLS, so it is clear proof they ordered Johannes attacks.
ATTILA AKAT was not blackmailed for 100,000 euros either, it was a legal demand (Pre Action Protocol) after which the family escalated their attacks on me, and they are the one's with the messed up reputation.
Attila Akat and the family kept posting up pure lies after Johannes got arrested growing weed and then misrepresented the true facts about an old civil case not even relevant to the dispute in hand.
In summary the family tried to make me lose a 1,6 million dollar lawsuit in 2016, without telling Johannes to get rid of the bags of weed, and the intentions backfired on them as legal problems in the USA with Drug Enforcement Authority and a legal prohibition of ayahuasca in Europe.
Daniela was also submitting a fake take down order to Google Legal pretending to be me, forging a court order. I never had to take down any post about her family, and its all legally privileged reply to attack.
Santo Daime and her family LOST at Google, various Google blocking orders are in force (on them) and Aluna Healing Center isn't even legal. The story of legal whiteness and vindication is covered on my website.

#8 Consumer Comment
Daniela Mar of ALUNA apologizes for making FALSE RAPE ALLEGATIONS
AUTHOR: Spiritual Master Free Spirit - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Daniela of the ALUNA team fully vindicated me in this matter, that being, apologizing and saying sorry for making defamatory allegations of rape.
This is the woman referred to and the woman used the ALUNA email to apologize, in her own words, I am sorry, I love you, please forgive me.
Legal Comments (Answer back to Johannes)
https://santo-daime-church-controversy.blogspot.com/2024/01/earth-connection-portugal-controversy.html
Attila Akats story is fictitious, distorts the facts, and in summary the woman developed a romantic and sexual obsession on me first, used a type of black magic to induce limerance, as explained here,
https://santo-daime-church-controversy.blogspot.com/2023/12/reflections-on-astral-planes-witchcraft.html
and it explains Aluna's 8th harassment and vicious attacks, including smears on my reputation (purified by Google) designed to force me to serve the woman's energy, and her family, or be defamed for rape. Aluna, this business (a non legal ayahuasca Church in the USA), kept impersonating Johannes and posting threats of violence.
https://www.alunahealingcenter.com/our-team
Johannes who uses the screen name Han Maasland, as well as people involved with Sanctuary 1860 (Attila and Alexandra Akat now of the Ayahuasca Aluna Healing Center USA ), kept posting harassment, lies and threats to kill, with the intention to coerce sexual consent.
These people need to comprehend and understand I or my community want nothing to do with Aluna, Ayahuasca or Daniela. These people have problems taking no for an answer and Daniela legally estranged herself from me, my energy and my community by her own actions. I suggest she deals with it, takes responsibility for the breakdown of her marriage and in her words to me "start growing up". All this failed 8th magic is, is trying to manipulate my energy to try and coerce us to serve her using harassment and stalking whilst trying to get me in legal trouble when it's her, and her family, and her Church, breaking the law.
The legal meaning of Aluna's actions were if you wont be back on the rope (see above Astral Planes Witchcraft blogspot) we will have Johannes order some harassment. It is always 24 hours after Daniela is told I do not want to serve her energy with ayahuasca (and be back on the rope).
The legal facts are "the rope" in itself was illegitimate (in Earth and Divine Law) and whatever the woman's subsequent intentions are, or were, are therefore legally "moot", and the Santo Daime "hive mind" lost all its energy, legal status and stones, to cancel rope magic (binding magic to the soul of the herd or hivemind using witchcraft induced sentiment) see also, "the freedom of one man is worth more than the free will of the many (hundreds of thousands of people) in the Santo Daime hive mind" (Ascent).
The predominant motive (as defined in law) of the woman was make an "illegitimate rope with black magic" and attempt to force servitude to the Santo Daime "hive-mind" with black magic, and to "coerce free will" contrary to Earth and Divine Law, the countermagic dissolved the same "rope" made into the Santo Daime "hive-mind" and emptied the race of stones.
In case law Article 10 (of me) prevails, and Freedman, Aluna, nor anyone else, ever filed a legal claim in the statue of limitations (which is 1 year), and it was because on legal meaning the allegations these people tried to coerce sexual consent to say it was rape are in fact true. They were doing it and the Ayahuasca Defence Fund admitted backing them up and Daniela Mar herself ordered the harassment emails admitting I was being defamed for rape, and that is why everyone failed to get injunctions (as they were the ones harassing, stalking and threatening me, posting "we are loving it all the way" and it was defined as "using threats of violence, harassment and stalking to coerce me into a sexual relationship that I never wanted" on top of failed 8th magic.
The whole story can be summed up as Daniela's hidden agendas and intentions toward me gone bad. The woman is responsible for her own actions, intentions and consequences of them. The woman decided in 2016 I was going to serve her family, and in honest opinion, decided I was going to give her a sexual relationship, change woman, and she wanted to get rid of Johannes.
The woman had a set of intentions that nobody else was even in agreement with (or even knew what they were until they got sucked into the story and had to examine what the womans intentions really were), and it comes under manipulating someone's free will with ayahuasca black magic (using illicit "soul-binding magic" and "8th magic" which is a type of "love magic" to compel someone be in love with your energy, to try and make someone agree to a sexual relationship when you otherwise would never agree) and that's Danielas intentions all along.
Johannes kept posting I had subconscious intentions and they were Daniela's intentions imprinted on my energy with black magic in ayahuasca ceremony (done remotely, I was not even there for the dates September 11th/12th 2016. Daniela wanted to change Johannes for me, and "tried to change man" using magic and interfering in my legal business.
The woman subconsciously intended for me to give her a sexual relationship and that is part of the dynamic going on, and I became immune to this woman's magic, and the legal story mentioned means interfering in someone's legal business (without telling Johannes to get rid of the weed) to try and make someone serve your family when they would never agree, and then everyone else got involved to try and coerce me to agree to serve the Aluna Sanctuary (and its a repeat of 2016, deja vu) and it is the woman's groundhog intentions that did it, and thats what "marmot" was, a groundhog cycle seeded by Daniela's intentions on my energy.
Daniela's complicated intentions (complicated as they are masked and not clear for ordinary people to see without an extraordinary level of insight power) "changed the legal stones", cursed the Church with criminalization of ayahuasca, and the intentions to smear my reputation backfired on them.
Daniela was behind the harassment of me the whole time, and it is all revenge because I wouldn't go and live with them and serve the Sanctuary and its a rehash of her relationship abuse karma that actually has nothing to do with me at all, and Freedman has a background of an abusive father who in his own words abused him and made him bitter, angry and makes him take things out on teachers. The whole story needs "healing" and people will agree, and the healing is called taking responsibility, something these people don't do, and karma teaches them lessons (heavy lessons) as Johannes keeps posting.
Once Aluna lost their Instagram and their customer base with it, they left me alone, but the damage has been done. These people tried to make an ayahuasca business on nasty transgressions toward me done maliciously (we love what we are doing and we won't stop it) and there are very stiff and unpleasant karmic consequences on black stones returns (arrests, police raids, legal problems, fires, family curses, etc).
It should be added, anyone that gets involved with the intentions of Daniela Mar, what then appears is a curse of losing energy, legal problems and a stack of other problems, and its proof you got involved. Its the same everywhere in all places. The problem people have is they believed in her lies, and also Freedman's lies, and never ascertained what her intentions was, and they all told themselves a story they wanted to believe even though it was false (and can be proven to be false).
Freedman was also peddling malicious falsehood. If you get involved in something and you never discerned what was really going on, you got sucked in to a story (as Freedman wrote). Then its your fault and not mine. More so if I advised you not to get involved.
If people need more clarity on what the truth is, I can fill people in on the facts, the actual facts of what really happened.
Daniela Mar of Aluna forged a take down order at Google Legal, as an unintended side effect, Google removed the content of various defamatory blogspots Attila and anors kept reposting, the woman got involved in trying to make me lose a 1,6 million dollar lawsuit, and FAILED.
When I said I was done with ayahuasca ans these people in August 2016 - the woman reported me to the USA in a civil matter in September 2016 and as said by another in the paragraph above it was done to create a "danger situation" in a "hidden hand" attempt to interfere with my marriage, leave my wife and make it look like someone else did it - with the failed intention to influence my free will and change my mind (and go to Earth Connection Portugal, and pay).
By "danger situation" meaning create a menacing looking situation to make it look like I better be afraid and hide from a lawsuit, that she instigated by proxy., and failed to tell "Johannes" to dispose of the cannabis sacks, Daniela and her now ex-husband was caught by police with this cannabis.
At bottom (to use legal terminology)- she wanted me to go there, fund her family shortfall and serve them, and when I did not want that, then interfered in my legal business to try and manipulate the consent. She told the Plaintiffs where I was and it was not "Johannes" and Johannes admitted it was her as such in June 2017 in his harassment campaign (which started in January 2017 and 2 months after the police took the Santo Maria aka cannabis) which involved over 700 counts of harassment that she and her family were ordering on purpose and often before these 8ths (covered elsewhere).
These Plaintiffs back in the day basically got nothing in a 1.6 million dollar lawsuit, these people kept posting links and harassment to attempt to coerce perjury and coerce settlement (which also failed), the attempt to criminalize me (and ruin my reputation) failed, and the intention to try and criminalize me for money, criminalized her and Johannes with the cannabis sacks, and her entire Santo Daime Church with the prohibition (criminalization of ayahuasca).
A lot can be said about the story but in short it is bad faith interference in my Article 9, that has destroyed the religious freedoms of hundreds of thousands of people and cursed the church with the ban.
The European Court of Human Rights has found that a person cannot be forced to demonstrate views or behaviour associated with a particular religion.
which explains why the Santo Daime is in the European Court of Human Rights on Article 9 as a direct karma consequence for interfering in mine,
It would be fair to say that the combination of interference in my legal affairs and my free will together is the combined root cause of the cancellation of the Santo Daime’s Article 9 in Earth Law.
At bottom the womans initial actions (with Freedman in support later) are the entire cause of the criminalisation of all of the European Santo Daime Churches including the cancellation of the Article 9 legal rights of the Mother Church of Santo Daime Amsterdam - of which the woman originally came from.
Google ruled against these people and the woman was passing off as me to Google Legal.
The key point is the woman Daniela Mar of ALUNA admitted making defamatory allegations of rape and apologized from the ALUNA email, people can see for themselves.
Daniela wrote a sorry email and it is in relation to me, and it came from Aluna's email so it is a sorry and a vindication of me, from them. People can see it for themselves and the words. There are also other various admissions of wrongdoing from various people, in summary, I am totally innocent and blameless in this dispute, and Daniela vindicated me and my story.
I published it as so many people maliciously discredited me, and public vindication is right and proper.
Daniela and her family are responsible also for payment of damages, forgiveness and confession is one thing, making good is about restorative restitution, moral responsibility, taking responsibility, that is maturity and wisdom and in Alexandra Akat's words, life changes when people take responsibility.
It is the same ALUNA email as on their Facebook so people can see its genuine.
https://www.facebook.com/alunahealingcenter/
Attila Akat's rebuttals are CATEGORICALLY FALSE and Daniela basically betrayed the family, blew a hole in their lies and vindicated me.

#7 Consumer Comment
Rebuttal of Attila Akat's accusations
AUTHOR: FS - (United States)
SUBMITTED: Monday, July 24, 2023
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

#6 REBUTTAL Owner of company
Rebuttal against fake accusations and lies from Free Spirit
AUTHOR: Attila - (United States)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, May 24, 2018
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:
- I have only met him one time
- I never made any threats against him
- I have not been listed in any kind of police report
- I have not been involved in any criminal trial
- I have not been named in any lawsuit
- He attempted to blackmail my family by asking for 100,000 euro in return for removing his online defamations against us.
- 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

#5 Consumer Suggestion
Here is the Proof I as the poster of this report received death threats (from member of Santo Daime Church Portugal) / Police Report Filed / Cannabis at the core of the problem in the movement
AUTHOR: SMFS - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Friday, August 18, 2017
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:-
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.

#4 Consumer Comment
I warned them (Daniela and Johannes) as their Mentor to tone down their cannabis operations but they did not listen. Sanctuary 1860 B & B Ayahuasca Retreat Centre under police monitoring
AUTHOR: Anonymous - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, August 12, 2017
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.

#3 Consumer Comment
Questionable Shambala Circle Intentions by Daniela Markert and the Akats - The dangers of drinking with inexperienced shamans / My experience of sickness / disturbances drinking Ayahuasca in Portugal
AUTHOR: Anonymous - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, August 09, 2017
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.
...................................
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.

#2 Consumer Comment
I received an apology from Adrian Freedman of the Santo Daime Church in this matter
AUTHOR: SMFS - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, August 05, 2017
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.

#1 Consumer Comment
NO APOLOGIES RECEIVED from Earth Connection Portugal or Sanctuary 1860 Ayahuasca Retreat EUROPE / PORTUGAL but member of the Ayahuasca Church does offer apology and to learn lessons from the matter
AUTHOR: SMFS - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, July 25, 2017
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
I was the author of this report but I do not have the email address to login.


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