Posts Tagged ‘ibogaine’
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 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…
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