Before 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 lied ahead. Would I finally have the courage to end the long-term relationship I knew was wrong?…

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The Iboga Plant and the Bwiti People Who Carry It

Aerial view of dense tropical rainforest threaded by a winding river, evoking the Central African forests where iboga grows

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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