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We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

Tenemos que ser muy conscientes de que debajo de cada enfermedad hay una prohibición. Una prohibición que viene de una superstición.

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