The Ibogaine Inquiries

In this five-part limited series presented by TTT Media, hosts Ky Dickens and Katherine Ellis trace ibogaine’s journey from the forests of Central Africa to underground treatment centers, scientific research labs, and the highest levels of American government. Along the way, we investigate its remarkable effects, the mysteries surrounding consciousness and healing, the risks of a powerful and medically serious substance, and the growing debate over who should benefit from its rise. Through conversations with researchers, veterans, clinicians, Bwiti practitioners, Indigenous advocates, and people whose lives have been transformed by the medicine, The Ibogaine Inquiries asks a larger question: Can the world explore ibogaine’s potential without repeating the same patterns of extraction, erasure, and exploitation that have shaped its history?

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  Episode #3

  Ibogaine Inquiries Part III: The Sacred Roots of Iboga

  Aug 1, 202633 minS0

  <p>Long before ibogaine entered Western clinics and laboratories, the plant it comes from held a sacred place in Gabonese life. In Part III of Ibogaine Inquiries, we travel to Gabon to explore Bwiti, the spiritual tradition in which iboga is understood as a teacher, guide, and living presence.</p><p>Gabonese practitioners and Bwiti initiates describe the preparation, community, music, mentorship, and lifelong practice that surround the medicine. They explain why Iboga cannot be separated from the larger body of knowledge developed around it. As Western interest continues to grow, this episode asks what may be lost when a...

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  Ibogaine Inquiries Part I: Remember the Name

  Aug 1, 202635 minS0

  <p>Why is everyone suddenly talking about ibogaine?</p><p>After President Trump signed an executive order fast-tracking psychedelic research, a little-known plant medicine from Central Africa found itself at the center of a national conversation. Advocates call it a breakthrough for addiction, PTSD, and traumatic brain injury. Critics urge caution. But how did we get here?</p><p>In the first episode of The Ibogaine Inquiries, Ky Dickens and Katherine Ellis trace ibogaine's unlikely path from sacred ceremonies in Gabon to veterans seeking healing in Mexico, and ultimately to the halls of American politics. Along the way, former Texas...

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  Ibogaine Inquiries Part IV: Who Owns a Sacred Medicine?

  Aug 1, 202626 minS0

  <p>For centuries, the people of Gabon protected iboga as a sacred medicine. Then a gift intended to help others changed everything.</p><p>In this episode, we trace Iboga's remarkable journey from colonial France to New York City, where a young man named Howard Lotsof discovered its potential to interrupt addiction and dedicated his life to bringing ibogaine into modern medicine. But as scientific interest grew, so did difficult questions about patents, ownership, and who should benefit from knowledge that had been safeguarded by Indigenous communities for generations.</p><p>Featuring conservationist Yann Guignon, filmmaker Lucy Walker, and Indigenous...

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  Episode #5

  Ibogaine Inquiries Part V: Before the Forest Is Gone

  Aug 1, 202625 minS0

  <p>As global interest in ibogaine accelerates, the consequences are already being felt in Gabon.</p><p>Wild Iboga is disappearing, prices are rising, and traditional practitioners are losing access to a plant that has shaped spiritual and communal life for generations. And beyond the forest, inexperienced providers are beginning to offer powerful ceremonies without the training, accountability, or relationships that Bwiti leaders believe the work requires.</p><p>In the final episode of The Ibogaine Inquiries, we examine what can happen when a sacred medicine spreads faster than the wisdom surrounding it. Conservationist Yann Guignon, Bwiti master Simon Pierre...

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  Ibogaine Inquiries Part II: The Intelligence of the Medicine

  Aug 1, 202636 minS0

  <p>People around the world describe remarkably similar experiences with ibogaine: encounters with ancestors, shared dreams, telepathic abilities, and moments that seem to transcend ordinary consciousness.</p><p>Are these a coincidence, a hallucination, or something science has yet to explain?</p><p>In this episode, psychologists, neuroscientists, chemists, physicians, and former patients explore why ibogaine appears unlike any other psychedelic they've studied. From blindfolded perception and shared visions to groundbreaking brain research and the search for safer treatments, we examine the growing evidence and the enduring mystery surrounding one of the world's most extraordinary medicines.</p><p>A note...

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