Iboga The Root Of All Healing

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If there is one book to read on iboga, this is the one. As I have delved into the world of iboga on my psychedelics journey, I found a lack of well-researched books that are also engaging. So, this one stands out. The author spent 7 years researching, spend significant time in Gabon, attending 20+ ceremonies, met with researchers, and managed to write a very readable, interesting, and engaging book. It covers the origins, ceremony, modern uses, sustainability issues, and future possibilities for the plant. Unlike other books it goes well beyond iboga as a heroin cure, and delves into its uses curing other maladies, including emotional and spiritual ones. The end notes are filled with hundreds of citations, which is its own wonderland of future research.

Daniel Brett’s remarkable and comprehensive book on iboga is extremely well written, unusually insightful, impeccably researched, intensely intriguing, and packed with resources. Brett did an extraordinary job covering all aspects of this plant’s potential benefits, possible dangers, and limitations— from it’s history, pharmacology, physical and psychological effects, as well as its philosophical implications, to practical advice on finding a reputable provider, what to expect, and how to sustain one’s path to recovery— making it essential reading for anyone interested in using this revered African plant for the treatment of drug addiction, psychedelic psychotherapy, inner exploration, or psycho-spiritual healing. Brett’s beautiful writing style makes this book easily readable and accessible, despite the advanced material it covers. Quoting from many psychedelic drug experts, researchers and luminaries, and shining light from his profound personal knowledge and own hard-earned experience, Brett weaves together a radical and masterful adventure guide that seems on the verge of revealing the hidden secrets of the universe. Exploring such mind-boggling experiences common to the iboga journey as ancestor contact, time travel, near-death experiences, entity communications, its relationship to dreams and archetypes, the surfacing of long-forgotten memories, visions of cosmic and biological evolution, and its guiding psychotherapeutic inner intelligence and wisdom— with great clarity and insight— makes reading this book a transformative experience unto itself, going far beyond the reach of most other books on psychedelics. The best book on the subject; most highly recommended!

I am so very glad this book found its way to me. Within the first chapter I knew I was going to seek out a place that I could experience this master healer for myself.Daniel Brett has a beautifully engaging writing style and this book is a pleasure to read. His research covers a vast array of facts, as well as doing a suitably poetic job of discribing the indescribable experience of what it's like to take Iboga.There was a heavy focus on its' application for healing addiction, which wasn't my need, but still it's interesting to understand the full scope of this wonderful plant. It also highlights the social, cultural and environmental impacts of popularization of Iboga use.After experiencing Iboga myself, I feel a strong desire to support the sustainability of the plant's wider use, I'm humbled by its power and so very grateful that it is bringing the healing of Mother Africa to the western world that has so clearly lost its way. Now, more than ever, there is such a profound need to witness and heal the trauma of living in modern society. I'm so grateful that I read this book and that iboga will be a part of my healing and the healing of the world into the future.

To attempt to quantify and articulate the total transcendental experience, mystery, biology, culture, and even social stigma behind this powerful plant may be one of the hardest tasks to be tackled in literature today. Iboga the Root of All Healing follows its own framework through the lens of a cult classic, rabble-rousing psychonaut searching for something more, all the way to a clear and concise blueprint for healing, the likes of which belongs in the library of alternative medicine academia everywhere. The book lends a helping hand of hope to those who may truly have no where else to turn, while entertaining and thought provoking its way through to those less familiar with the plant medicine realm. I would recommend this read for anyone interested in beginning their own personal journey toward healing, those interested in helping others, and even those just looking to shift perspective on everything you thought you knew of reality. Keep it on your shelf and in your cue. You’ll want to read it again.

Daniel gives the reader both an objective and subjective look at this profound root. On one hand, he informs the reader with well-researched facts, history, chemistry, and contemporary uses. On the other, he posits relationships and insights from his personal experience–drawing a fascinating connection between the Adam & Eve creation myth to the Iboga root itself as the original "forbidden fruit of knowledge". I recommend this book highly for anyone interested in the plant, whether or not you plan to ever take it. Reading it will give you an in-depth look at it from a myriad of perspectives and leave you with a sense of wonder and awe at the universe we live in.