Santo Daime
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Santo Daime is a universalistic/syncretic religion founded in the 1930s in the Brazilian Amazonian state of Acre based on the teachings of Raimundo Irineu Serra, known as Mestre Irineu. Santo Daime in
Six-pointed star with eagle and crescent, a common Santo Daime symbol worn by members of the religion
Ayahuasca (called "Santo Daime" within the religion) waiting for the beginning of the ceremonial work. Participants' faces have been obscured for privacy.
Kardecist spiritism
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Kardecist spiritism, also known as Kardecism or Spiritism, is a reincarnationist and spiritualist doctrine established in France in the mid-19th century by writer and educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard
Santo Daime
…Raimundo Irineu Serra, known as Mestre Irineu. Santo Daime incorporates elements of several religious or spiritual traditions, mainly folk Catholicism, Kardecist Spiritism, African animism and indigenous South American shamanism, including vegetalismo. Ceremonies — trabalhos (Portuguese for "works") — are typically several…
Allan Kardec studied with Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi at Yverdon Castle. Portrait from L'Illustration, 10 March 1869
Parisian salon with people practicing three variations of table-turning using a ring, a table, and a hat. (L'Illustration, Histoire de la semaine, May 14, 1853).
"To be born, to die, to be reborn yet again, and to constantly progress, such is the law", in French on Kardec's tomb.
Publication of The Spirits' Book from 1860 in Paris