Services
Some people find it very useful to receive ibogaine in a neutral setting without the habits and distractions of life. Some find it useful and an integral part of the pilgrimage towards oneself to actually journey to another country or at least to a cabin located in an area they have never been. Others who love their home and find nothing in their habitat impeding their internal swing can create a profoundly effective experience where they live. We can discuss all these options and determine what the most conducive environment will be for your session.
TREATMENT OPTIONS
You may have a very busy life. The minimum time period necessary to allow the full integration of this process is a full three days. I am open to and recommend extending the process by a couple or a few days, as you’re able to. During an ibogaine session there’s a deep relaxing of the interconnecting threads that falsely create a separate sense of self. As this knot relaxes both consciously as well as energetically, there is an exploration and a letting go. Afterwards there is a deep sense of quietude, presence, and often a sense of timeless and peaceful “not knowing”. We call this the “post-ibogaine honeymoon period”. This is a precious time when the personal sense of self takes a secondary significance, and presence and a deeper integration takes precedence. This is a new condition for some and it can be sustained by allowing the condition to abide. Acceptance of what is aids in the integration of a fresh and more relaxed sense of self. Living more deeply in the moment, feeling the sense of not being the doer, being ok with not knowing, exploring the balance between willfulness and surrender, and embracing this sense of timelessness can all be explored more deeply even in the midst of being with your work and families.
Treatment At Home
The comforts of your familiar space
If you live outside of the US, I can come to your quiet home to facilitate your session. This option is ideal if you have only a few days or if you can see the benefit in having me assist in your reintegration into work, family, and daily life. After the initial three to six days of processing, I can stick around for a couple or few days to assist you in carrying your newfound presence into your daily life.
Prices are offered on a wide sliding scale. My travel and accommodation, when necessary, are additional.
Retreat Away from Home
An Ideal Getaway
You may appreciate the idea of a retreat away from home in a neutral setting and have a lovely, quiet place in mind that’s outside of the US, I recommend three to six days to fully integrate the experience.
Prices are offered on a sliding scale. Personal travel and accommodation and my travel and accommodation is additional, when necessary.
THE SESSION
The following describes the typical process, though as I mentioned above, the experience varies dramatically from person to person. During the first stage of a few hours in length, the individual experiences a deconstruction of the separate sense of self. Extraneous “file cabinets” are witnessed, explored, and washed away in the form of archetypal vignettes and an ongoing array of pictorial gestalts. There may also be cartoon-like snippets, an unleashing of repressed memories, and often a life review. This is all a response to and exploration of specific intentions that the individual brings to the session.
As the first and most intense stage subsides, the second stage begins. This stage is a deep self-reflective sixteen to thirty hour process. People spend the entire first two stages under the covers with eyes closed, in a waking dream state. Ibogaine is not a hallucinogenic per se because if you open the eyes during the process the experience will cease, and all will appear quite normal, though a bit blurry and off-kilter. When you close your eyes again, the experience will wind back up.
The third stage is a reintegration into normal consciousness. Three nights offers a very comfortable amount of time to assimilate the experience and reintegrate, though a couple of more days to relax and reflect is often ideal.
Note that some choose not to experience the first, most intense stage of the ibogaine session. During this stage, some people feel as if they’re going two hundred miles off of a cliff and live to talk about it. The benefit of this phase is that there is a surrendering of control, a letting go. This is not for everyone nor is it essential for a transformative experience. There’s another way to go, which decreases the intensity of the first stage but still allows the deep and often very long self-reflective phase to be experienced.
USES of IBOGAINE
Addiction Interruption
Unlike with any other psychoactive, ibogaine has a metabolite called nor-ibogaine, which fills certain receptor sites such as alcohol, nicotine, and opiate sites located in our bio-chemistry.
This is one reason why ibogaine treatment for addiction interruption is the most profoundly effective and humane option. In addition to filling the receptor sites, ibogaine also overwhelms all the symptoms of withdrawal and helps eliminate the cravings for alcohol and stimulants.
Ibogaine places a person into a pre-addictive state as if the individual has not suffered with addiction for years. There is a miracle component to ibogaine and it is astounding to witness an addiction interruption treatment.
Psycho-Spiritual & Therapeutic
Psycho-spiritual and therapeutic sessions with ibogaine can be life transforming. Given that this is an organic plant medicine, unlike synthetics such as MDMA and LSD, there is an essence energy of the plant, which will not force a person to go any deeper and to explore any process other than what they can handle. Organics create a symbiotic relationship with the person, unlike synthetics, which plow through consciousness irrespective as to whether the person is ready to explore an issue or not. Therefore, a pure and honest intention on the part of the individual is essential to make a journey deep within oneself to create the break with the past and the transformative shift.
The Approach
Some people travel to Gabon, Africa, to experience iboga in a traditional Bwiti ceremony, where the Bwiti will adhere to several age old rituals. Most of the ibogaine alkaloid is located in the second layer of the root bark, so ground root bark shavings are continuously ingested to ensure that enough of the ibogaine is absorbed. The extremely bitter taste of the root bark makes it very difficult to keep down and purging is almost constant. As it is, the ibogaine experience is intense and the incessant purging exhausts the body further. And yet some wouldn’t have their experience any other way.
I calibrate a combination of the total plant representation: an organic extraction of total alkaloids in combination with the isolated ibogaine. The medicine is calibrated specifically according to the person’s bodyweight and the powder is placed into a few capsules. People need only to ingest these few capsules as they lie down in a quiet, darkened room for the duration of the experience. The entire process necessitates a one-on-one, but very passive, facilitation. If they need to go to the bathroom, quiet, gentle assistance is given. If there’s a request for water, I serve quietly. Assistance for these simple things are necessary only during the very first stage of the experience.
I often hear the degree to which there are visions experienced as a criteria for a successful session. I’ve never seen this as the case. I’ve found that the drama of the session itself has little or no bearing on the energetic effects and the long lasting results. I’ve seen a person’s life transformed after not having any insights or epiphanies during their session. I’ve been with a person who documented sixteen and a half hours of visions by writing 34 single-spaced pages describing her visions in detail. Months later the shift she had was subtle. After years of conducting sessions and initially being very attached to people receiving what they wanted to experience, I more and more clearly began to understand that invariably there was genius within the process, an uncanny brilliance that gave people exactly what they needed.
