Jurema Sagrada

The acacia can be found all over the world, but these particular species - Mimosa Tenuiflora or Mimosa Nigra – bloom in the region identified in maps as the states of Paraíba, Pernambuco, and Rio Grande do Norte. Everything that grows in the Brazil’s agreste and sertão regions must have profound roots in order to fetch water for survival. In these areas of the country, long roots have sustained 200-plus-year-old trees and kept a secret that has resisted through thousands of years of knowledge.

Combined with the roots, there are also: bark, honey, ginger, spearmint, clove, cinnamon, and mysteries from beyond. If specialists say the drink doesn’t cause for transformation, and if books can’t make sense of Jurema, then ritualistic experience can reveal the reasons why this plant has been a Sacred symbol for the millenarian Amerindian knowledge. It’s Catimbó. Indigenous technology, this is an ancient bridge built by the Tabajara, Potiguar, and Cariri peoples.

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JUREMA SAGRADA

a film by Vincent Moon & Priscilla Telmon

produced by Petites Planetes and Feever Films

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The tradition of the 'Sacred Jurema' is a spiritual culture from Pernambuco, a local entheogen used in mystic and powerful trance rituals. This film document the annual Kipupa Malunguinho gathering, an encounter of Juremeiros from the Northeast of Brazil and a place of resistance

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this film is volume 38 of
HÍBRIDOS, THE SPIRITS OF BRAZIL
a poetic and cinematic research on spirituality and its music in Brazil

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