Visiting the Most Mature Iboga Farm in the World
Ambio’s co-founder Jonathan Dickinson recently returned to the community of Abyeng, home of the A2E Association in Gabon. This village has the most mature iboga farm in the world, and recently completed the first legal export of iboga from the country since all export...
Ibogaine and the Transpersonal “Other”
Ambio’s cofounder, Jonathan Dickinson, recently published a series of case studies in the journal Anthropology of Consciousness that aims to better describe the ibogaine experience. The report highlights a sense of 'intersubjectivity' that many people describe. This...
Claudio Naranjo: The Early Days’ Ibogaine Experiments
In early 2014, I had the honor and pleasure of interviewing Claudio Naranjo, the late Chilean psychiatrist, about his early work with lower doses of ibogaine (which he mixed with harmaline) in the context of psychotherapy. Claudio Naranjo’s book The Healing...
Could Ibogaine Be A Promising New Treatment For Parkinson’s Disease?
A research team at Columbia University soon hopes to show whether or not ibogaine, an extract of iboga — a psychoactive West-African plant medicine — may have unique benefits in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The majority of existing research on ibogaine has...
Iboga: At the Crossroads of the Jungle and the Laboratory
Originally published on Reality Sandwich. Ibogaine, the primary alkaloid of iboga, a psychoactive African root bark, has been administered to thousands of people in the last three decades as an experimental medication with promising efficacy in the treatment of...