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Llewellyn Encyclopedia: Ayahuasca — the Vine of Souls, the Medicine of Love |
 | | Once ingested, the mixture produces initial feelings of warmth which spread up from the stomach, creating a sense of well-being and a sensation of skin elasticity, almost as if the skin has become rubber-like and pliable and no longer separate from the air around it. |
 | | But it is welcomed by the people of the Amazon since it is this purge which removes the "poison" that can lead to illness, and clears the system both physically and spiritually. |
 | | If more people in the West were able to experience love, there would be no need for the madness of developed society, the search for more status and material gain, and the destruction this leads to. |
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