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Psychedelic Times
2015-10-19
Dancing With the Ancestors: Traditional Iboga Use in Bwiti Culture
The people of the Bwiti religion in west Africa’s Gabon have used the entheogenic iboga plant for over a century for rituals, healing, and rites of passage.
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