Is Iboga Right for You?
Take this free, gentle Iboga readiness quiz. Reflect on medications, physical health, supplements and emotional readiness before you consider an Iboga retreat.
Read MoreWhy Medications Matter Before an Iboga Retreat
If you’re considering an iboga retreat, one of the first things you’ll be asked about is what you’re taking. That covers prescriptions, supplements, recreational substances, and alcohol. For some people, the answer means weeks of preparation before they can safely sit with the medicine. This can feel frustrating, especially if you’re ready for change now.…
Read MoreBefore and After Iboga
A few years ago, before I’d taken Iboga, an average day would have looked very different than today. At first light, as soon as I opened my eyes, my mind would have flooded with varying anxieties about what lay ahead. Would I finally have the courage to end the long-term relationship I knew was wrong?…
Read MoreIboga Today: Legality, Safety, and Honoring the Tradition
Iboga has lived many lives. For the Bwiti of Gabon it has always been a sacrament. For much of the twentieth-century West it was an unknown, then a banned curiosity. Now, in our own moment, it is being looked at again — by researchers, by veterans, by people who have run out of other options,…
Read MoreWhat an Iboga Ceremony Involves — and the Safety It Demands
There is a temptation, when speaking of sacred medicine, to dwell only on the beauty of it. But iboga asks for honesty. It is among the most demanding of the plant medicines — physically, emotionally, and spiritually — and an account that leaves out the difficulty, or the genuine risk, does the medicine and the…
Read MoreThe Iboga Plant and the Bwiti People Who Carry It
Long before iboga was spoken of in clinics or studied in laboratories, it was known as a teacher. It grew in the shaded understory of Central Africa’s equatorial forests, and the people who lived among those trees came to regard its root not as a drug but as a doorway. To understand iboga, you have…
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