Victims of Ayahuasca sect destroyed. “There were mental blocks in the rituals and the ropes to reduce them”

“The notion of reality has been lost within the commune. I worked all day And I also had to clean up. I won maximum 700 euros. “I lived in a room that had spider webs and no hot water, for which I paid 300 euros.” This is the testimony of a former expert inner mastery, biggest sect around Ayahuasca Of our country. So far. This Wednesday the National Police entered its so-called “Center of Internal Development” From Madrid, Lloret de Mar (Gerona), Málaga, Granada and Ibiza, and 18 members of the organization arrested,

They are accused of crimes including crimes against public health, criminal organization, human trafficking and workers’ rights. According to the investigation, he supplied dangerous substances like Bufo toad, kambah frog and peyote, as well as ayahuascaA substance that they brought from the Colombian jungle and that causes hallucinations to their followers who participate in their neoshamanic rituals, which they announced through social networks and their website and for which the participants participated. He paid 200 euros every night,

Almost all the people present were people who were going through a moment of insecurity and who promised “Improve your physical and emotional health” Thanks to their consumption of “medicines”.

“Disguised as a magician”

According to investigations by the General Information Commissioner and the Tax Agency, the detainees were held accountable to the leader of the Inner Mastery. Alberto VarelaWho had been under investigation for months for crimes against sexual freedom and on charges including favoring secret immigration passed away last OctoberExactly three months ago the police had destroyed the group.

Varela and several victims of his group had alerted the police months earlier to what was happening inside “for more than ten years”. Association for Communal Prevention Redune And he recounted his experience: “When I saw Alberto Varela for the first time there were about thirty of us gathered in a circle. Varela appeared ‘In the guise of a shaman’ In a dramatic and cumbersome staging. He declared himself to be a humble and ordinary man who was ‘Above Ego’ And he had learned the medicinal uses of the plant. His presentation mesmerized me, although I also immediately felt like a man clever and cunning” explained a 31-year-old psychologist from Madrid who, after a difficult childhood and adolescence, suffered from alcohol problems and dietary restrictions and began seeking help at Inner Mastery.

She later decided to try ayahuasca an emotional breakup, a friend and lawyer assured him that it had changed his life. Then Google did the rest: “I saw that Inner Mastery Retreat was at the top of the search and had a lot of recommendations. That gave me confidence.”

First, they found a sense of care, comfort, and belonging in the group. But gradually, she began to question what was happening during those supposed healing ceremonies: “From Monday to Sunday the group members get drunkfatigue sets in and lack of sleep (The ceremony ends between 4 and 6 a.m.) And at 9 a.m. you had breakfast and at 10 a.m. the integration began for several hours full of emotional intensity. everything was one ‘Delve into’ emotions And perceived wounds that need healing.

In this context, according to the testimony of this former follower, the sect leader and his assistants “manipulated” his followers, who in addition to paying withdrawals had to “work” for the group: “as an apprentice , I had to do things in bits and pieces, prepare for ceremonies, empty buckets of vomit And cleaning the room, obeying the orders of the operator of the ceremony and sleeping very few hours.” In addition, he assures, they have to “fill the retreat”, attract more followers through social networks and convince them Had to manage. For all this the benefit of her Guru, woman “He charged 700 euros”to whom i was indebted Discount on training cost That the leader taught him.

During the Inner Mastery Ceremony, which the woman said was conducted without medical supervision, several “dangerous” incidents occurred that set off alarm bells: “During the ayahuasca-induced ‘journey,’ past traumas resurfaced. Once upon a time, A woman who was raped as a child was hanging on my arm And she held my arm and kept crying continuously for 5 hours. Self I was mentally disturbed one night during a celebration Ayahuasquera School And I spent ten hours rolling on the ground, kill people, scare peopleBecause I felt I was stuck on the journey and couldn’t get off.”

After that episode, “the group congratulated me on the trip and concluded that a psychological break prompted me to take this trip. a deep healing, because I had surrendered and freed myself from my mind. After my second outburst, Varela told me: ‘You’re ready.’ She had completely integrated Varela’s speech, she had already become completely impersonal.” The woman also says “There were psychological barriers to most retreats”, For this reason, “during our celebrations ropes to lower people That they had aggressive reactions.

In his story, which he made public through the Redune page to “prevent and warn others from falling” into the group’s network, he condemned that the leaders of Inner Mastery “He sold drugs to all the members of Inner Mastery”These also included people with drug addiction problems, who were derogatorily addressed as “junkies” or “addict kids”.

He remembers that “a boy came home from Uruguay, he entered Inner Mastery marijuana addiction, A crime was committed against him. He replaced one medicine with another and they destroyed his soul. in group a Dependence and gratitude-debt relationship,

“epileptic attack”

“The case of a 70-year-old man shocked me. He was an alcoholic and came to the retreat with withdrawal symptoms. He took all the substances that were given to him. We must remember that There is never a doctor present at the retreat, only through WhatsApp, That day the integration was done by Varela, that guy had something that could have been a Had an epileptic fit, couldn’t breathe, foam was coming out of the mouth and his eyes were turned away, If this is given, Varela went out of the room And he was never seen again during the entire retreat.” Finally, they decided to “just put him in an ambulance,” recalls this former specialist.

Varela too defended “free love” and implemented new “group dynamics” which included separate some men from their companions and transfer them to another commune so that “Meet” with other women. and of the group “He learned to be a real man”, In this way, “Varela played with people, creating emotional attachments, making people void of everything in an instant,” condemns the impressed person, who does not forget the passion that the guru had for sex. : “There was a girl that she was very insecure about her body and her sexuality, she said that she did not find herself sexy. We have to remove the taboos of sex (…),” Varela said. He forced her to parade like a model Telling her: ‘Go around like a whore and fuck everyone.’