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For centuries, Amazonian Indians have been drinking ayahuasca, also known as yaje - a combination of the ayahuasca vine, tree bark and other plants - to achieve a trancelike state that they believe cleanses body and mind and enables communication with spirits.
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For centuries, Amazonian Indians have been drinking ayahuasca, also known as yaje - a combination of the ayahuasca vine, tree bark and other plants - to achieve a trancelike state that they believe cleanses body and mind and enables communication with spirits.
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I have always aspired to bake, but you guys yaje the cake!
They Bake Up to 800 Cupcakes a Week by Themselves! Cupcake Queen 2005
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Known also as yaje, the vine of the soul, and dead man's root, among many other names, its origins and usage are perhaps thousands of years old and inextricably linked with the development of the ancient religious philosophies and rituals of the Amazon basin.
Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003
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The substance yaje - or ayahuasca in Quechua, the ancient Inca language - is derived from a hallucinogenic jungle vine used for centuries in religious and healing ceremonies.
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Exotic plants and wildlife typical of the Amazon Basin waterways include the hallucinogenic yaje vine, the wild boar, fruit-eating bats, the 30-ft. -long anaconda serpent,
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