Practitioners, researchers, and people with standing in the ibogaine world writing in their own voice. Independent. Grounded. Willing to say what the room won't.
This section publishes original and republished essays from people who work with ibogaine, study it, or have earned the right to have a view on it. The editorial standard is the same as the rest of this site: honest, evidence-grounded, and free of the advocacy-first framing that has done the field more harm than good.
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On expecting one thing and receiving another, in life and in psychedelics.
People come to ibogaine with high expectations these days. That it will fix them, that they will meet their ancestors, receive clarity about everything all at once. What Nienke Berkenbosch keeps watching, retreat after retreat, is what happens when something entirely different unfolds instead.
How Ibogaine Became a Movement Before It Became a Science
There is a difference between building awareness and building understanding, and the recent trajectory of ibogaine is the story of what happens when the first outruns the second. A clear-eyed argument for what the field got right, what it got wrong, and what the distance between known and believed is now costing.