Welcome to Psychedelics Today, your host, Kyle and Joe. It's August 22nd, and we're here with Dimitri Muganis.

Thanks for coming to the show.

Thank you. Thanks for having.

We're excited to have you on.

Glad to be here.

Awesome. So maybe let's just like kind of dive right in and I hear a little bit back about your background and how

you got kind of got into the Ibegain work sure um you know what led me to um working with uh with

ibegain in the sacred plant of the boga was two other sacred healing plants coca and uh opium

poppy.

So I was a heroin and cocaine addict and IV injector for over 20 years.

I was sort of coming to the end of a long run,

which I thought would result, would be ended my death.

And I was on methadone, cocaine, and heroin.

When I made the decision with my family and friends to try and get off of, um, get off of the drugs, uh, with the help of,

uh, Iboga.

Uh, Iboga is a, uh, plant medicine, a sacred plant from Gabon, Central Africa, uh, used as the

essential sacrament in a spirituality called Buiti.

Central sacrament, much like peyote or ayahuasca, is central to, you know, spiritual traditions and technologies.

In the Americas, this is the plant medicine of the people, originally, the original people,

the so-called pygmies, the forest people, and then the Bantu people, the synthesis together

made this thing called Buiti.

Now it's used in initiatory ceremonies in the Bui T, but it's also used as a medicinal plant.

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