31 VOLUME 9 |ISSUE 2 |2018
Correspondents
,
Reports
condemned Daniel Alberto Alegre to
life imprisonment he was one of those
accused of the brutal assassination of
12-year-old Ramón Ignacio González,
called Ramoncito. The boy was raped,
had his throat slit, and was partially
mutilated in October 2006, in the
context of a Quimbanda ritual in the
Mercedes area.
An Argentinean nun, Sister Martha
Pelloni, raised her voice publicly in an
open letter last January against the
“dehumanizing and macabre reality”
of kidnappings and killings of children
in ritual ceremonies. She demanded
that to stop this “a police force and
justice system working for truth and
justice in defense of the victims” was
needed. Sister Pelloni leads the Stolen
Childhood Network (Red de Infancia
Robada), and she affirms that behind
many crimes against children there
are sects that count on the complicity
and participation of the business and
political worlds.2
New Age, Shamanism, and
Pseudotherapies
Both public universities in the Province
of Murcia, Spain cancelled conferences
organized on their campuses because
they were to be delivered by Emilio
Carrillo, a New Age guru. He is well
known for his presentations on
awakening conscience. He contends
that he had a near-death experience in
which he encountered “Beings of Light”
and a “Jesus Christ-like figure.”3
The local newspaper, Voces de Cuenca,
revealed last January that a so-called
“knights templar order,” led by the
Argentinean Gabriel Silva, was active in
the area. The order promotes pyramids
as therapeutic instruments and sells
them through a company created
ad hoc. The order gathers followers
in an initiation group using esoteric
doctrines and practicing “sexual magic.”
The College of Physicians of Cuenca
has warned about the dangers of this
pseudotherapeutic publicity.4
On January 19, 2018, two people
were arrested in Mar de Plata,
Argentina, as they were performing
a ceremony using hallucinogens.
They are part of an organization
called Ayahuasca International, or
Inner Mastery, led by an Argentinean
named Alberto José Varela, who is
living in Spain. The organization is a
veritable multinational of ayahuasca
consumption, a substance used
traditionally by Amazon shamans. n
Correspondents
,
Reports
condemned Daniel Alberto Alegre to
life imprisonment he was one of those
accused of the brutal assassination of
12-year-old Ramón Ignacio González,
called Ramoncito. The boy was raped,
had his throat slit, and was partially
mutilated in October 2006, in the
context of a Quimbanda ritual in the
Mercedes area.
An Argentinean nun, Sister Martha
Pelloni, raised her voice publicly in an
open letter last January against the
“dehumanizing and macabre reality”
of kidnappings and killings of children
in ritual ceremonies. She demanded
that to stop this “a police force and
justice system working for truth and
justice in defense of the victims” was
needed. Sister Pelloni leads the Stolen
Childhood Network (Red de Infancia
Robada), and she affirms that behind
many crimes against children there
are sects that count on the complicity
and participation of the business and
political worlds.2
New Age, Shamanism, and
Pseudotherapies
Both public universities in the Province
of Murcia, Spain cancelled conferences
organized on their campuses because
they were to be delivered by Emilio
Carrillo, a New Age guru. He is well
known for his presentations on
awakening conscience. He contends
that he had a near-death experience in
which he encountered “Beings of Light”
and a “Jesus Christ-like figure.”3
The local newspaper, Voces de Cuenca,
revealed last January that a so-called
“knights templar order,” led by the
Argentinean Gabriel Silva, was active in
the area. The order promotes pyramids
as therapeutic instruments and sells
them through a company created
ad hoc. The order gathers followers
in an initiation group using esoteric
doctrines and practicing “sexual magic.”
The College of Physicians of Cuenca
has warned about the dangers of this
pseudotherapeutic publicity.4
On January 19, 2018, two people
were arrested in Mar de Plata,
Argentina, as they were performing
a ceremony using hallucinogens.
They are part of an organization
called Ayahuasca International, or
Inner Mastery, led by an Argentinean
named Alberto José Varela, who is
living in Spain. The organization is a
veritable multinational of ayahuasca
consumption, a substance used
traditionally by Amazon shamans. n
