My introduction to iboga came in a strange way. I had just spent the last 15 years of my life helping teenage kids in distress (out of school and on the streets). The last 5 years were spent running a wilderness therapy high school in the swiss alps. Finally closing the school due to burn out - I thought I would finally get to "retire" from healing (and burn out). On the very first night that i was free, I stayed alone in a hotel in transit on my way to visit my mom in the States. Finally, relaxation. And then - the tap on the shoulder . . . and the voice. Nu? You're retiring? What about the deal we made in Eagle Man's sweat lodge in Death Valley 25 years ago? If you want to renage - go ahead - Let's see what happens? "Okay, okay - give me a few months break and I recommit to my life as a healer"
Then, lying in the hotel bed reviewing the last 15 years of work with troubled kids = I realized while we had about 80% success - the ones we least succedeed with where those whose drug use had reached levels of clinical addiction. Then it dawned on me that while the medical folks say there is no cure for addiction - my spiritual learnings had taught me that before any disease is created, the cure is created first. Thus there must be a cure for addiction disease. Boom - the light bulb flashed and in one second I realized that the cure to addiction disease lies with one of the psychotropic plants I had worked with while in my shamanistic days. One of them must be powerful enough to shock the person out of the addiction.
It did not take long to then "discover" iboga, research it, flood with it, repeat dose with it until learning its ways and paths (taming the wild bronco), and start healing with it.
My work these past 15 years gained me entry to many drug rehabilitation facilities as a guest, as an observer, as a speaker, etc etc.
What i would do with 20 grams of free root bark?
I would recontact some of the Directors and mental health professional at these centers and see who was willing to try iboga - to help open their eyes and expand their horizons. If they truly see themselves as people devoted to helping those in need, then they should be willing to experience something with such a track record as iboga. And my contribution would be to donate my time as an experiences sitter so that they would have no expense at all.
No one will need to buy the ticket - just take the ride.
