Heart and Soul: Ayahuasca and the new spiritual tourism

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  The noble samurai, guided by their unyielding code of honor.

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  It's about nine in the evening

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  and I'm on a thin mattress in a kind of large round hut

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  in the jungle on the edge of the Peruvian Amazon.

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  There's about eight other mattresses with people on them,

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  each with a little bucket by their beds for when they feel nauseous.

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  It's pitch black apart from a single candle that's burning

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  at the end of the hut where Maestra Angela Sanchez Rios,

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  a shaman from the Shipibo Conibo tribe, is holding an ayahuasca ceremony.

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  She starts by breathing a local tobacco known as mapacho,

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  and the thick smell of tobacco slowly fills the heart.

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