Posts Tagged ‘Gabon’
Iboga 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 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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