When people talk about addiction, the conversation almost always turns to substances. Alcohol, heroin, cocaine, nicotine — the things that clearly hijack the body and brain and leave people feeling trapped in cycles that can seem almost impossible to escapeIt is...
I’m formally trained as an integrative counsellor and transpersonal coach. That training matters. It gives structure and language to complex psychological processes. But if I’m honest, my real education has come from clients and from a small number of elders in the ibogaine field who understand this work beyond marketing language. The ones who’ve seen enough to know that this medicine is not a spectacle, nor a miracle product, but something far more serious and far more subtle.
Addiction does not need to be erased to find healing—it needs to be listened to. Underneath the compulsion is a call. A call to wholeness. A call to initiation. A call to remember what was always known in the body, even when the mind forgot. Addiction is the soul's clumsy attempt at remembering itself. It is the sacred fire burning in the wrong temple.
Human beings have always gathered around fire. Long before words, the hearth was our centre — warmth against the cold, a circle of belonging, a thread tying us to ancestors and generations yet to come. Fire cooked our food, warded off predators, and cast...
Integration is not a moment but a movement—a sustained, relational unfolding of everything glimpsed in the depths of the iboga experience. It cannot be reduced to insight alone, nor maintained through discipline alone. Rather, it emerges through a reverent...
When your child or loved one completes ibogaine treatment, it’s natural to want them close. You’ve longed for this moment—when the chaos quiets, the pain recedes, and perhaps for the first time in a long time, there’s a glimpse of your child again. So why,...
Things are heating up on Planet Earth. But even within the worst crisis there is a recipe for transformation. Join Ibogaine coach Anders Beatty on a monomythic journey into yourself as he teaches you how to prepare for, navigate, and integrate your ibogaine treatment so that you don't just interrupt your addiction, you learn how to come home to yourself.
This paper explores a psychospiritual model for the recovery of returning special forces veterans experiencing complex PTSD (CPTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), utilizing the framework of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, Robert Moore’s four-fold masculine archetypes, Carl Rogers’ humanistic theory, and the transpersonal psychology of Grof, Wilber, and Washburn. Within this paradigm, plant medicine is not merely a pharmacological agent but a ritual gateway into a sacred process of ego death, archetypal rebalance, and reintegration. The healing journey is reframed as a rite of passage that dignifies suffering, restores sovereignty, and allows trauma to be alchemized into meaning.
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