Namaste,

We’ve been talking about entheogens, and their potential medical and spiritual benefits. The entheogen I want to talk about today is Iboga, also called Ibogaine. If you want some basic info. about Iboga, try the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iboga . A very good book on entheogens in general, and Iboga in particular, is Daniel Pinchbeck’s “Breaking Open the Head.” Anyone interested in the subject of entheogens, mystical experience, spirituality, and cultural studies, should definitely read it. I will be writing more on Pinchbeck in later posts, but suffice it to say that I consider him a fellow traveler.

I also have friends who have taken Iboga, and found it to be one of the most remarkable experiences of their lives, both from a healing perspective, but also for what it revealed to them about the Cosmos. So without further ado, I want to share with you a couple of videos that were passed on along to me by Martin Polanco, M.D. ( Dr. Polanco also worked with Dr. Roland Griffiths on some of the psilocybin studies at Johns Hopkins.)

When you see these videos, you will no doubt ask yourself: Why is Ibogaine still illegal in this country? Who are the real Powers That Be that are keeping us from these radically life-transforming substances? And if you do ask these questions, I would ask you: What are you going to do about it?

Thank you, Dr. Polanco…

CBS channel 5 SF on Ibogaine:



Rite of Passage documentary about Ibogaine

Daniel Pinchbeck talking about his Iboga experience: