Iboganautics
28 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago -Unveiling the iboga experience for first-timers and shamans alike, Iboganautics is the podcast committed to discovering everything there is to know about "Tabernanthe iboga," or simply called iboga, a naturally occurring psychedelic plant from Gabon in western Central Africa. While other podcasters and content producers mainly focus on the addiction interruption properties of ibogaine, the main acting alkaloid in iboga, there is so much more to discuss, so much more one could and should know for a richer appreciation of the experience. For this reason, I invite members of the iboga community and other experts on the podcast to speak not just about addiction but about alternative topics pertaining to iboga-the-plant as well as the subjective experiences elicited by iboga. After several transformative personal experiences in addition to my own academic research, I speak with people that have something educational and interesting to say about this substance/experience, directly or indirectly related; for example, from scholars in neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and botany to experienced staff at retreat centers, artists, lay experts, and so on. While there’s much good information about iboga across multiple media, I believe there’s more to discover by conversing with said experts. For more information, visit https://amhouot.com/iboganautics/
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3.6_Psychedelic Phenomenology or What Is It Like to Be a Psychedelic Plant?_Michael Marder
February 28, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBDr. Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country where, for example, he teaches courses in “Ecology and Phenomenology,” and “Philosophical Anthropology.” His research interests include ethical and political philosophy, environmental philosophy, and phenomenology, and he has authored a number of books on these topics. I invite Michael on the podcast to discuss plant phenomenology, or what he calls “phytophenomenology,” in other words, a...
3.5_Alternative Botanical Sources of Ibogan Alkaloids_Felix Krengel
February 27, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 56 MBDr. Felix Krengel recently completed his PhD in biological sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City. His research interests include phytochemistry, metabolomics, and plant tissue culture, focusing particularly on the biosynthesis of monoterpenoid indole alkaloids by Mexican species of the Apocynaceae plant family. I invite Felix on the podcast to discuss his and his colleagues’ research into novel alkaloidal extraction and purification methods, resulting in thre...
3.4_TA Extract and HCl Methods and History_Chris Jenks
February 26, 2021 08:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MBDr. Chris Jenks has applied his background in organic chemistry to ibogaine extraction studies since the 1990s. Over the years, he developed simpler and less expensive procedures and manufacturing methods to extract ibogaine from various plant materials, resulting in multiple manuals and papers detailing the process. The driving force behind his efforts is to provide abundant ibogaine from alternative cultivated sources to people in need, especially those seeking addiction treatment. I invit...
3.3_Non-ibogaine Iboga Alkaloids_Surajit Sinha
February 25, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBDr. Surajit Sinha is professor at the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), in Kolkata, West Bengal. His research interests broadly include organic synthesis, chemical biology, drug discovery and delivery, and more specifically, iboga alkaloids. I invite Surajit on the podcast to discuss non-ibogaine iboga alkaloids, the ones most people tend to overlook, considering ibogaine, and its metabolite noribogaine, get all the attention. Th...
3.2_Ketamine-Iboga Connection – NMDA_Lowan H. Stewart
February 24, 2021 11:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBDr. Lowan H. Stewart is an emergency physician and was an associate clinical professor who currently resides in Oslo as a result of working with a team to bring the specialty of Emergency Medicine to Norway. Additionally, he has over 20 years of experience with clinical use of ketamine, is a member of the American Society of Ketamine Physicians, founded and served as medical director of the Santa Fe Ketamine Clinic, the first such treatment center in New Mexico, and founded Axon Klinikken, a...
3.1_Salvia-Iboga Connection – Kappa Opioid_Peter H. Addy
February 23, 2021 09:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBDr. Peter H. Addy has a PhD in clinical psychology, conducted postdoctoral research and eventually promoted to faculty member at Yale School of Medicine, and co-founded the Yale Psychedelic Science Group in 2016. In 2018, he started a private practice in psychotherapy, and soon thereafter began offering professional trainings, including one on Salvia neuropharmacology. I invite Peter on the podcast to discuss his academic research of Salvia divinorum, a Mexican psychedelic mint. But you migh...
3.0_Neuro & Plant Science
February 22, 2021 15:00 - 10 minutes - 7.25 MBWelcome to . . . Iboganautics: Unveiling the iboga experience for first-timers and shamans alike. I’m your host, AM. Season 3, Neuro & Plant Science, is about how iboga-type alkaloids affect the human brain; neurophysiological and phenomenological overlaps between iboga and other hallucinogens; iboga botany; and ibogaine extraction methods. The main questions guiding this season are: How does iboga affect the brain, Which plant species produce iboga-type alkaloids, and How do scientists extr...
2.8_First Responders as Last Resorts_Art Hsieh
January 11, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 45.2 MBArt Hsieh is Paramedic Program Director for the Public Safety Training Center at Santa Rosa Junior College where he also teaches. His career in emergency medical services spans nearly 40 years, including serving as president of the National Association of EMS Educators, presenting at conferences at home and abroad, and is the author of two books: The Paramedic Companion: A Case-Based Worktext, and EMT Exam for Dummies. I invite Art on the podcast for us to better understand the first respond...
2.7_Tracers, Trails, and Stroboscopic Effects_Andrés Gómez Emilsson
January 04, 2021 10:00 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBAndrés Gómez Emilsson is Director of Research at, and co-founder of, the Qualia Research Institute where he works with algorithm design, psychedelic theory, neurotechnology, and mapping the computational properties of consciousness, to name several. He has a master’s degree in Computational Psychology; worked professionally with graph theory, statistics, and affective science; and blogs at QualiaComputing.com. Many psychedelics produce visual tracers. To find out more about these phenomena a...
2.6_The Root of Vomiting_Kenneth L. Koch
August 28, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBDr. Kenneth L. Koch is a practicing physician, professor of gastroenterology at Wake Forest University, and professor at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. He’s been on numerous institutional, divisional, and national committees and boards, and has authored hundreds of papers and book chapters during his career. His latest book is called, Nausea and Vomiting: Diagnosis and Treatment, which he co-edited and co-authored. Considering iboga is commonly thought of and experience...
2.5_Between Sleep Deprived and Wakeful Dreaming_Joaquín González
August 27, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 53.1 MBJoaquín González is a PhD candidate in neuroscience at the University of the Republic (UdelaR) in Montevideo, Uruguay. In addition to teaching master’s students the neurobiological and neurochemical basis of sleep, he conducts research with his colleagues at the Laboratory of Sleep Neurobiology regarding ibogaine’s effects on sleep and wakefulness states. Considering iboga is an anti-fatigue agent, we must consider sleep or lack thereof if we are to understand what iboga does to the body. Th...
2.4_Persistent Seeing Is Believing - HPPD_Andrew G. Lee
August 26, 2020 09:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBDr. Andrew G. Lee is a professor in the Departments of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, is currently the Chair of the Blanton Eye Institute at Houston Methodist Hospital, has been on the editorial board of fourteen scientific journals, and my favorite part of Andrew’s CV is his YouTube channel called “Neuro-Ophthalmology with Dr. Andrew G. Lee” because it’s tremendously interesting and educational. I invite Andrew on the podcast to enlighten us abo...
2.3_Toxicity and The Heart_Tibor M. Brunt
August 25, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBDr. Tibor M. Brunt has conducted multiple researches related to addiction science at the Free University of Amsterdam and the Trimbos Institute in Utrecht, and he’s currently a postdoctoral fellow at Radboud University in Nijmegen, and a scientific supervisor at the Amsterdam University Medical Center. I invite Tibor on the podcast to discuss his and his colleague’s, Ruud P. W. Litjens, summary paper of hundreds of sources on the toxicity of iboga called, “How toxic is ibogaine?” (2016). Alt...
2.2_Build Up for Breakdown_Matt Cooper
August 24, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBMatt Cooper is a nutrition consultant, integrative health coach, and strength & conditioning coach from Los Angeles, California. You can tell by looking at his website’s bio at RewirePerformance.com that he’s an avid learner who applies and combines his knowledge from different fields to craft tailormade training programs for his clients ranging from professional athletes and celebrities to everyday gym members and local kids from the Compton area. Matt openly speaks about psychedelics as pe...
2.1_Supervising and Caretaking of Experiencers_Tricia Eastman
August 23, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 62 MBTricia Eastman conducts healing ceremonies around the world after years of iboga training in Mboumba, Eyano, Mimbare, and Missoko Bwiti traditions from Gabon, in addition to working with 5-MeO-DMT in shamanic and ceremonial contexts. She’s an inspiring voice on the psychedelic lecture circuit, presenting at conferences such as the Aware Project, the Sleeping Octopus Assembly on Psychedelics (SOAP), and Awakened Futures Summit, to name several. When not doing all of the above, she’s working o...
2.0_The Body on Iboga
August 22, 2020 15:00 - 10 minutes - 6.95 MBWelcome to . . . Iboganautics: Unveiling the iboga experience for first-timers and shamans alike. I’m your host, A.M. Season 2, The Body on Iboga, is about the physical aspects of the iboga experience people should consider. The main questions that guide each episode are: “What is happening to my body while on iboga,” and, “How am I experiencing my body while on iboga”? In this season, Tricia Eastman (ep2.1), a Bwiti-trained shaman, speaks about sober supervision and caretaking of iboga part...
1.10_Phenomenology of the Ibogaine Treatment Experience_Steve Katsikas
April 17, 2020 07:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MBDr. Steve Katsikas is a professor of clinical psychology and Chair of the School of Professional Psychology at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses. His research interests include but are not limited to: assessment and treatment of children with behavioral difficulties, cross-cultural differences in childrearing practices, the effects of psychostimulants on weight change in Hispanic children. I should also mention that Steve recentl...
1.9_Microdosing Iboga with Cannabis Method_Greg Lawrence
April 10, 2020 21:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBGreg Lawrence is a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Coach, and Energy Worker, and is affiliated with various psychedelic integration centers such as The Transpersonal Counseling Center, Psychedelia, and Innerspace Integration. People seek out Greg’s knowledge and guidance regarding self-exploration and integration before and after psychedelic experiences because it allows them to get the most out of their experiences. In this episode we speak about microdosing iboga, particularly...
1.8_Socio-psychedelic Imaginaries and the Power of Analogies_Claudia Schwarz-Plaschg
April 03, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 64.8 MBDr. Claudia Schwarz-Plaschg is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna’s Department of Science and Technology Studies. She was a visiting researcher at Harvard University, a scholar at the Munich Center for Technology in Society, Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society, and the list goes on. In general, her research focuses on the sociopolitical dynamics and governance structures of emerging technoscientific fields, with an emphasis on the role...
1.7_Philosophy of Psychedelic Technology Conclusion_AM
March 27, 2020 11:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBConclusion chapter of my master's thesis. See episode 1.3 description for more information. CONNECT Twitter (https://twitter.com/AMhouot) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amhouot/) Academia (https://independent.academia.edu/AMHouot) ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Am_Houot) DISCLAIMER Iboganautics is a podcast intended for entertainment purposes only and all content shared on Iboganautics is for entertainment purposes only. This podcast is not intended to be a ...
1.6_Philosophy of Psychedelic Technology Chapter 3_AM
March 25, 2020 06:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBChapter 3 of my master's thesis. See episode 1.3 description for more information. CONNECT Twitter (https://twitter.com/AMhouot) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amhouot/) Academia (https://independent.academia.edu/AMHouot) ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Am_Houot) DISCLAIMER Iboganautics is a podcast intended for entertainment purposes only and all content shared on Iboganautics is for entertainment purposes only. This podcast is not intended to be a substitut...
1.5_Philosophy of Psychedelic Technology Chapter 2_AM
March 20, 2020 20:00 - 1 hour - 46.7 MBChapter 2 of my master's thesis. See episode 1.3 description for more information. CONNECT Twitter (https://twitter.com/AMhouot) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amhouot/) Academia (https://independent.academia.edu/AMHouot) ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Am_Houot) DISCLAIMER Iboganautics is a podcast intended for entertainment purposes only and all content shared on Iboganautics is for entertainment purposes only. This podcast is not intended to be a substitut...
1.4_Philosophy of Psychedelic Technology Chapter 1_AM
March 18, 2020 19:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBChapter 1 of my master's thesis. See episode 1.3 description for more information. CONNECT Twitter (https://twitter.com/AMhouot) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amhouot/) Academia (https://independent.academia.edu/AMHouot) ResearchGate (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Am_Houot) DISCLAIMER Iboganautics is a podcast intended for entertainment purposes only and all content shared on Iboganautics is for entertainment purposes only. This podcast is not intended to be a substitut...
1.3_Philosophy of Psychedelic Technology Introduction_AM
March 14, 2020 21:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBIn this episode including the following four episodes, taking 2 hours and 52 minutes in total, I read my master's thesis to the non-readers among us, and secondarily to podcast listeners. I have two people in mind when I’m reading my thesis: my parents. My dad told me he wouldn’t read my thesis, a piece that took me over a year to research and write and that I’m proud of. My dad is literate; he just doesn’t read unless it’s related to his profession, the culinary arts. There’s no excuse now ...
1.2_Calisthenics, Control, Psychedelics_Rico Mesa
March 06, 2020 08:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBThe Colombian-born Dutchman, Rico Mesa, is a calisthenics athlete who competes internationally in events such as the WSWCF World Cup, Calisthenics Cup in The Netherlands, CCB Royal Barz, Call Out competition, Battle of the Barz, and many more. We speak about Rico’s methods to control the body, and what we can take away and possibly apply toward controlling the psychedelically altered mind. Discussion topics include: what drew Rico to calisthenics; training methods that enable him to do what ...
1.1_Action Needed Toward Iboga Sustainability_Yann Guignon
February 28, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBActivist Yann Guignon, founder and co-director of Blessings of the Forest iboga conservation charity, promotes sustainability efforts about iboga and the traditional pygmy peoples of Gabon who use this cultural and spiritual plant resource. In this episode, we discuss international law surrounding iboga such as the Nagoya Protocol; the ethics and responsibility involved with iboga consumption; what role the iboga tree’s fruits play or could play; the historical and cultural relations between...
1.0_Welcome to Iboganautics_AM
February 22, 2020 14:00 - 5 minutes - 4.07 MBWelcome to… Iboganautics: Unveiling the iboga experience for first-timers and shamans alike. I’m your host, AM. Thanks for checking out my podcast on all things iboga. I recorded this episode before recording the other episodes in Season 1. I thought about re-recording it for what I'm about to tell you, but this short description should suffice. Originally, I was going to produce a weekly podcast, but soon realized that that would be too frenetic, too schizophrenic for me. I needed more orde...
1.0_Welcome to Iboganautics
February 22, 2020 14:00 - 6 minutes - 4.18 MBWelcome to . . . Iboganautics: Unveiling the iboga experience for first-timers and shamans alike. I’m your host, A.M. Thanks for checking out my podcast on all things iboga. Considering I started out with the intention of doing a weekly podcast, Season 1's grouped topics and guests might seem a bit disorderly. If I had to tease out a theme from what I put together, however, I would say that Season 1 is kind of an extension of my master's thesis, wherein I asked how we might control psychedel...