614. The Heart of Iboga: Ancient Healing, Modern Maladies—PTSD, TBI, & Addiction w/ Tricia Eastman
The Life Stylist
Luke Storey
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 204 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with the extraordinary Tricia Eastman, a traditional Mestiza medicine practitioner, Bwiti initiate, and author of Seeding Consciousness. With over a decade of experience working with plant medicines like ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT, Tricia brings rare insight into the intersection of ancestral wisdom and modern psychedelic healing.
We dive deep into the significance of indigenous-led biocultural preservation, how plant medicine can reconnect us with our spiritual roots, and what it really means to walk a path of initiation. Tricia shares her powerful story of healing from an eating disorder, and how her own encounters with sacred medicines led her to a life of global service—from facilitating retreats with special operations veterans to founding the nonprofit Ancestral Heart.
Whether you're curious about iboga, exploring sacred sexuality, or seeking deeper purpose, Tricia brings the kind of grounded wisdom and integrity this space desperately needs.
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MORE ABOUT THIS EPISODE:
(00:00:00) Light in the Lion’s Den: Davos, Power, and Somatic Healing
(00:23:16) Iboga: The Plant Teacher of Courage, Clarity, & Ancestral Healing
(01:10:02) The Sacred Rituals & Mystical Power of Iboga Initiation
(01:36:41) Masculine & Feminine Energy, Psychedelics, and the Genius of Balance
(02:09:31) Iboga’s Breakthrough Role in Addiction Recovery
(02:38:34) Inside the Mystical Wisdom of the Kogi Elders
(02:51:10) A Future Healing Sanctuary Born from Sacred Vision
Resources:
• Website: psychedelicjourneys.com
• Website: ancestralheart.com
• Instagram: instagram.com/psychedelicjourneys
• Facebook: facebook.com/triciaeastmanofficial
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| 0:00.0 | All right, tell me what it's like to enter the lion's den of Davos in the World Economic Forum. |
| 0:11.2 | There's many ways I could answer this question. |
| 0:14.1 | I mean, I think on one side, if you get really caught up in all of the politics of what's happening there, it's really heavy. |
| 0:24.6 | You know, there's a lot of different groups like young global leaders and different groups |
| 0:30.7 | that are very oriented in, you know, having power. But at the same time, I feel like there are like so many young people |
| 0:40.2 | there, so many youth that are hopeful, that are not disillusioned by the possibility of making |
| 0:47.1 | change. And so it was such a gift to be with youth there, to be with people. I feel like I |
| 0:53.3 | attracted like so many cool people there. |
| 0:56.2 | And it was a really interesting time because it was the first time, |
| 1:00.1 | at the same time we were there, there was this little psychedelic gathering. |
| 1:04.6 | So I got to hang out with Amanda Fielding, |
| 1:06.8 | and that's where I first met Alex and Alison Gray, |
| 1:09.7 | and we became really good friends. |
| 1:11.7 | And Alex sure knows how to tear it up on the dance floor. |
| 1:15.1 | I feel like we created this vortex and that we were all meant to be there. |
| 1:20.0 | And we were there to, like, bring a certain, like, consciousness. |
| 1:24.4 | And I feel like when you're in these conversations, like we were at many different |
| 1:29.1 | events, you know, where we spoke, Joseph and my husband, Joseph. And it felt like, you know, |
| 1:37.2 | the synchronicity and the blessing of being there was so real. Like I never want to walk into a room that I'm not invited, but it felt |
| 1:47.0 | like there was definitely a divine assignment that at that time we were meant to be there. |
| 1:54.1 | And one thing a lot of people don't know about World Economic Forum is there's a lot of groups |
| 2:00.2 | of people that understand the dynamics |
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