Uploaded July 2009 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
From a long night of playing at Michael's treatment for Opiates. He released the plant spirit of the Poppy and replaced it with Iboga. This is a traditional Bwiti instrument, Ngombi.
In the 1960's Howard Lotsof, a multi-drug user, accidentally discovered the anti-addictive qualities of ibogaine. Read more about it: ibogaine.co.uk/patrick.htm . In the 1980's and 90's Eric Taub formulated a routine-ready protocol and started training ibogaine facilitators, starting a movement to broadly apply the healing aspects of the plant medicine. To date, about Six or Seven thousand people have undergone ibogaine procedures.
Of course the history of the healing molecule goes back much further; unknown thousands of years, in fact. First used by the Forest People (pygmies) of Central West Africa, iboga is regarded as a sacred plant spirit. Pygmies used low doses of the root bark as a mild stimulant and hunting aid, and in much higher doses as a visionary and initiatory tool. Some hundreds of years ago the pygmies shared their knowledge of the plant and its sacred usage with the Bantu of Gabon. This knowledge is called the Bwiti, and the animist beliefs of the region were integrated with the plant spirit into what is now known as the religion Bwiti. Bwiti today, practiced by less than a million people in Gabon and Cameroon, is complex, varied and increasingly popular.
From a long night of playing at Michael's treatment for Opiates. He released the plant spirit of the Poppy and replaced it with Iboga. This is a traditional Bwiti instrument, Ngombi.
In the 1960's Howard Lotsof, a multi-drug user, accidentally discovered the anti-addictive qualities of ibogaine. Read more about it: ibogaine.co.uk/patrick.htm . In the 1980's and 90's Eric Taub formulated a routine-ready protocol and started training ibogaine facilitators, starting a movement to broadly apply the healing aspects of the plant medicine. To date, about Six or Seven thousand people have undergone ibogaine procedures.
Of course the history of the healing molecule goes back much further; unknown thousands of years, in fact. First used by the Forest People (pygmies) of Central West Africa, iboga is regarded as a sacred plant spirit. Pygmies used low doses of the root bark as a mild stimulant and hunting aid, and in much higher doses as a visionary and initiatory tool. Some hundreds of years ago the pygmies shared their knowledge of the plant and its sacred usage with the Bantu of Gabon. This knowledge is called the Bwiti, and the animist beliefs of the region were integrated with the plant spirit into what is now known as the religion Bwiti. Bwiti today, practiced by less than a million people in Gabon and Cameroon, is complex, varied and increasingly popular.
