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Jonathan Dickinson is the CEO and cofounder of Ambio Life Sciences, the world leader in integrative ibogaine treatments, and is also the founder of Terragnosis. He has more than 15 years of experience in clinical care, traditional practice, and psychedelic research. He was initiated into a Dissoumba/Fang branch of Bwiti in 2014 and the Missoko tradition in 2022. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

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A comprehensive guide to ibogaine’s healing power, cultural roots, and clinical potential

“A compelling call for further research into the potential of ibogaine therapy.”—Kirkus Reviews

• Explores how ibogaine works, including how it boosts cellular function,
increases neuroplasticity, and interrupts habitual behavior patterns and trauma

• Discusses the ritual roots of iboga in the Bwiti spiritual tradition of Gabon

• Shares case studies showing ibogaine’s healing effects for addiction recovery, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and Parkinson’s

Ibogaine is an alkaloid derived from the iboga plant, native to Central Africa. Its healing effects are revered within the Bwiti spiritual tradition of Gabon. International ibogaine expert Jonathan Dickinson explores how this psychedelic substance is now emerging as one of the most promising tools in neuro-regenerative medicine, addiction recovery, and treating trauma.

Grounded in fieldwork and more than 15 years of clinical observation, Dickinson shows how ibogaine interacts with the body and mind, inducing a “bicameral state” of consciousness. This is a liminal mode of being in which ancient voices, archetypes, and internal guidance systems emerge, often catalyzing a profound reorganization of memory, identity, and behavior.

He details how ibogaine boosts cellular function and shares impressive case studies to demonstrate how ibogaine has successfully treated PTSD, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson’s, neuropathic pain, and multiple sclerosis.

As a clinician scientist, Dickinson has helped a multitude of veterans with their post-traumatic mental health struggles. As a Bwiti initiate, he is able to present in this book a unique understanding and new framework for engaging with this transformational psychedelic medicine.

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**Foreword by Rick Perry

Acknowledgments**

**PART ONE
Ibogaine’s Roots
Bwiti and the Medical Subculture
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1 The Spark That Lit the Thunder
A Long Road to Gabon • Learning to Listen Deeply •
Seeing with New Eyes • Visiting the Village of Issika •
All the Secrets of Being a Man • Ngady Na Duma

2 Time and Space Binding: A Brief History of Iboga
The Light at the Center of the Garden •
Time and Space Binding • The Chosen People of Iboga

**3 One Hundred Years of Controversy
**The Staten Island Project • Ibogaine’s Contentious Rise •
A Vast, Uncontrolled Experiment

**4 At the Crossroads of the Jungle and the Laboratory
**Welcome to Rat Park • The Clinical Guidelines •
Entangled Roots

**PART TWO
The Ibogaine Experience
Mirrors, Voices, and Visions

**5 The Psychedelic Mirror: Reflections on Lacan
**Descriptions of Ibogaine’s Effects • A Hard Look in the Mirror • Jouissance • A Force Beyond the Ego

6 The Bicameral State
Jordan • Shawna • Myobi • The Other in Our Reflection •
The Voice That Speaks Back to Us • The Bicameral Brain •
Proto-Consciousness Rising • Beyond REM

**7 How Ibogaine Works in the Body
** How Ibogaine Differs from Other Psychedelics •
Ibogaine Pharmacology • Ibogaine Metabolism •
Inside the Cell • Cellular Energy Metabolism •
New Frontiers of Understanding

**8 Conversations with the Bicameral Other
**Setting the Stage • Exploring the Oneirogenic Experience •
A Moment of Pause

9 The Liminal Voices of Reason:
Our Guides and Antagonists
The Guardian of the Threshold • The Daemonic Realm •
True Hallucinations • The Bicameral Perspective

10 The University of the Forest:
Lessons on Order and Mortality
Back to the Epicenter • The Bitter Brown Tea •
Syntax of the Subconscious • The Onset •
Thousands of Tiny Little Mouths to Feed • Body of Dreams •
The Practical Science of Direct Experience

PART THREE
Implementing Ibogaine
The Future of Neuroregenerative Medicine

11 The Myth of Psychiatry’s Magic Bullet
Animals in the Age of Reason • Psychiatry’s Antibiotic •
Will Psychedelics Become Psychiatry’s Long-Awaited Antibiotic? •
A Questionable Diagnosis • Reimagining the Interior Landscape •
The Opportunity of Psychedelic Therapy

12 Recovering Personal Agency:
Treating Addiction with Ibogaine
Does Ibogaine Treatment Work for Addiction? •
The Worst Success Rates in All of Medicine •
Psychedelics in Recovery •
It Was the Best Experience of My Life • Recovery Is Nonlinear

**13 Reconstructing Flow:
Treating Navy SEALs, PTSD, and
Traumatic Brain Injury
**The New Rites of Retirement • Investing the TBI Hypothesis •
A Special Kind of Hell • Flow and Optimization for Combat •
How Ibogaine Cultivate Flow •
The Perfect Teacher • The Change Vector

**14 Neuroregeneration: Treating Parkinson’s,
Neuropathic Pain, and Multiple Sclerosis
**Parkinson’s Disease • Non-Parkinsonian Tremors •
Neuropathic Pain • An Overwhelming Sea of Voices •
Multiple Sclerosis • From Clinic Bedside to Laboratory Bench •
The Value of Real-World Experience

15 Unconventional Pathways:
Forging Ibogaine’s Future in Medical Practice
Oxa-Iboga Alkaloids • Tabernanthalog •
The Incentive Structure • The Moonshot •
Barriers to FDA Approval of Ibogaine • Multidimensional Chess •
The Whole Complex Picture

**Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index**