Positive effects of Iboga on personal evolution

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Positive effects of Iboga on personal
evolution
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Introduction

• How may Iboga, the sacred wood, improve ones
  personal evolution ? I will describe some
  phenomenons which occurred consecutively to my
  Iboga intake and I will present the African
  ceremony I attended in Gabon in 2006. I will also
  present one long lasting inconvenience of these
  intakes on my everyday life. We will link Iboga
  to different notions such as meditation, tummo or
  internal heat, kundalini or spinal awakening,
  insight, visualisation and the use of hypnagogic
  states. To make it short, may Iboga be the swiss
  knife of self improvement ? This will be my
  contribution to the Iboga user's manual.

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Who am I ?
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A few steps in my life

• First I will briefly present myself. I changed my
  job every five years and was successively student
  and journalist, explorer and diver dedicating
  myself to caves exploration, lecturer, teacher,
  sales person, software developer, boss of my own
  company, journalist again, writer (22 books
  published, mainly thick technical unreadable
  computer books), project manager and so on One
  difficulty I met when realizing most of my dreams
  was that it came each time to a dead end. None of
  these activities was able to fill my life for
  more than a few years.

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From adolescence to manhood

• In September 2005, at age 56, I decided, after
  reading on the internet some description of the
  Ibogas effects, to attend an Iboga seminar. I
  took this decision with my friend Sylvain who is
  a tycoon, plus a healer and a shaman and who came
  with me a few months later to Gabon, to attend
  the great african ceremony in the bush.

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Iboga is an initiation plant

• Since Iboga is intended to trigger the passage of
  adolescence to manhood, our purpose was, in both
  cases, to check if some kind of awakening would
  possibly occur. So we did not take Iboga for
  getting rid of drug abuse but for increasing our
  potential on meditation and maybe, who knows,
  wisdom.

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The quick part of our mind

• When under the influence of Iboga, you may see
  series of faces appearing and disappearing very
  quickly before your eyes. It is so quick that it
  may let you think that part of your brain is
  always working at this surprising speed. It may
  also explain what happens in an accident when you
  slow down like in a film, and seem to be
  conscious every tiny part of each second.

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• May we harness this ability to be in this quick
  mode ? May we put this ability to work for us ?
  It is likely that many geniuses found a way to
  think speedily, this not only in an unconscious
  way but maybe as a natural process of everyday
  life. By now, what we see in this state is not
  cartesian. Many people I spoke to had this same
  vision of so many faces appearing and
  disappearing so fast. If it were possible to
  teach this quick part of our mind to become
  educated, the benefits would be limitless.

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Overeating no more

• I used to overeat. I could do three meals at a
  time. My body accepted it and I grew not heavier.
  Why did I overeat ? Why did I feel happy
  overeating ? Was I depressive ? Were there any
  holes in my life which I filled with food ? I am
  not aware of anything like that.

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• When I was in my younger years, between seventeen
  and twenty five, I suffered from cold on several
  occasions and I suffered from shortage of food
  during climbing or cave explorations. This
  occurred while mountaineering, for I stayed fifty
  two hours on the mountain Dru, on the Chamonix
  Massif in France. We slept on the vertical wall
  (600m high) on the Charpoua side. We had planned
  only ten to twelve hours return, so we had both a
  hard physical work and not enough to eat. The
  strange and interesting side is that I only
  suffered from cold and hunger a very few times in
  my life. However my body immediately acted
  accordingly, as if I or maybe you, were
  pre-programmed to switch in survival mode. So I
  became a grand mothers dream for I could finish
  any dish presented to me, no matter the quantity.

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• After my first three days Iboga ceremony, end of
  January 2006, I went on eating three times less
  and with no efforts. Do you believe I lost weight
  ? No way, this is the funny part. We went
  trekking to Himalayas and my friend Sylvain lost
  seven kilos. I lost two hundred grams ! However,
  I presume eating less was good for cholesterol.

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Putting more distance

• Of course, putting more distance between the
  world and you is part of maturity and it comes
  naturally with age. However Iboga intakes
  stimulate this distance bringing more patience
  and allowing oneself to see further into ones
  life and attain more elaborate goals. Future
  does not seem out of reach.

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• Another plant which probably helped me is Saint
  John Wort (Millepertuis in French) which will
  give you the same state of mind as if you had
  been ten years with a Zen master.

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• So I recommend St John Wort to everyone. The
  negative side of things will not touch you any
  more with the same intensity. So, to make it
  brief, Iboga helps to take decisions and St John
  Wort to be in an harmonious state of mind. The
  mixing of both may contribute to the harmony of
  your life.

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Breaking the barriers

• Inhibition is part of the survival kit. However
  inhibition is like a break always pushed on and
  it may prevent you from improving. After Iboga
  intakes, you get more free to take decisions for
  the long run. You dont feel fear the same way.

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• For example after I came to Africa for the Iboga
  ceremony, my previous girlfriend, who is the
  mother of my daughter asked me to leave the house
  because she loved me no more.
• Maybe without iboga and St John Wort I should
  have felt depressed ?

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• What I try to emphasize is that maybe through
  Iboga, and certainly with the help of St John
  Wort, I found a way to settle the situation for
  everybody in such a way that everybody was nearly
  satisfied.
• Note that both plants may act in such different
  ways that you should not take them together.

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I am sure iboga and St John Wort helped me to
stay positive

• From may 205 to march 2006, I had a maximum
  stress for in twelve months the following events
  occured
• I lost my job
• My mother died
• My girlfriend left
• I had health problems and could not run any more
• My brother talked to me no more
• I nearly died from two phlebitis, the blood clot
  went through heart and lungs

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Seeing further, understanding, generalizing

• After Iboga intakes, the way you perceive time
  and integrate it in your everyday life is
  different. The difference between short term and
  long term gets blurred. You see better the way
  they are linked. You will give less privilege to
  the short term and see how a bad decision in the
  now will bring drawbacks in the future. You
  will see more easily how choosing a more
  difficult attitude in the now will bring
  advantages in the future.

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Deciding

• For example you may wonder, should I go back to
  the university for a five years or seven years
  cursus ? I am fifty, for example, and in five
  years I will be fifty five Then no way ! Then a
  voice in your head will speak If you dont go to
  the university, in five years time, you will be
  fifty five anyway. So what difference will it
  make on your age that you go or dont go that you
  do or dont do ? .

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• My daughter in law is in high school, so I help
  her to do her mathematics preps. What I could
  notice after Iboga intakes is that I am no more
  inhibited toward basic mathematics. I may see
  clearly that many things are just statements,
  observations, and I do use theorems just as if
  they where inside my piggy-bag. Suddenly I feel
  things are clear and simple. I wont no more write
  extra lines to convince a teacher who is already
  convinced. I use the economy principle, just
  according to Ockhams razor.

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Link to Kundalini, Tummo and hypnagogic states

• I have been checking that the link from Iboga
  toward Kundalini and hypnagogic states occurred
  not only in me but inside other people too. So
  even if I speak of my personal case, it may be
  generalized. I awakened a mild Kundalini in
  February 1999, through breathing and letting go.
  What I mean by mild Kundalini is that nothing
  dramatic nor psychotic occurred in my life.
  Kundalini itself, which begins with a big burst
  of energy in the spine, is violent and
  frightening. However my body opposed no
  resistance, and the electric current of the
  kundalini went through from sacrum to brain at
  least two times, in a very energetic way.

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• What Iboga has been bringing about until today,
  starting 2006, is a bigger frequency and a higher
  intensity in the tingling of kundalini in the
  head, neck, shoulder and spine. Though the
  intensity is tamed, it remains actual. So Iboga
  may be part of the awakening process of the
  Kundalini. During the sessions I attended, at
  least two persons had the very symptoms of
  Kundalini awakening, mentioning the vision of a
  snake appearing at the level of the lower part
  of their spine, except that they did not know the
  word Kundalini and so didnt use it. My friend
  Sylvain and I were amazed, since it seemed to
  prove that Iboga is triggering very old universal
  powerful symbols.

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• Hypnagogic states occur just before sleep. It
  corresponds to theta waves, that is from 4 to 7
  vibrations per second. This means that the main
  brain frequency is then set between 4 and 7
  hertz. After Iboga intakes, these hypnagogic
  states became longer and more intense. Since
  these states are related to creativity and
  problem solving, it is important to systematize
  their use and I work on this every day. Even poor
  results are interesting.
• I guess it contributes to being on the way.

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On the way, even slowly
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Disappearance of some visual habits

• Sometimes when you see things, there is an
  ambiguity. For example a wooden fence may look
  like a pile of wood, according to the angle you
  are looking at it. But as in a familiar
  environment you do know what is there, you dont
  feel this ambiguity. Your mind knows how to
  determine immediately what is there. The habit
  kills the ambiguity, and suddenly there are not
  so many habits left. I interviewed some friends
  who took Iboga and they feel the same. Old habits
  were erased, both in everyday life and in the
  visual field.

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• My girlfriend has a daughter. Sometimes, I may
  for one second make a confusion. However Ornela
  is sixteen and Virginie is 36. So what happens ?
  It seems I now get in my conscious mind, one by
  one, the different steps of the process. And the
  curious thing is that at first what I see is
  neither man nor woman, just like a basic model I
  should see for the first time
• It slows down my conclusions but it gives me more
  control on what is going on, provided I am not in
  a hurry. Ornela and Virginie have the same facial
  structure. They have not the same size not the
  same weight.
• I do perceive the similarities between them
  before I perceive the difference. This, in my
  opinion, is an important point.

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• So I have the feeling I may see a face that might
  be the very model of a man or a woman,
  undifferentiated.
• Only after I will make the difference.
• The question is, may this new ability to see
  beyond be of any use ?

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Drawback

• So what is the drawback ? It is linked to any
  situation when you have to take a quick decision.
  For example it will make things difficult when
  you drive, because recognizing without ambiguity
  what is in front of you is part of a survival
  kit. Another example is that I may be better at
  chess except for quick games.
• So maybe I am more conscious but part of my mind
  is occupied when and where it was not before. I
  become both slower and more informed. Since I am
  writing a book by now, I think it will be a
  better book.

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Conclusions

• Iboga intakes was a boon in my life for now at
  age fifty nine, I do feel my life is just
  beginning. My opinion is that Iboga will increase
  what you are, good or bad and amplify your self.
• It will be de-structuring some habits in your
  mind and it is up to you to re-construct them.
• You will feel more free but you will be
  responsible for your re-adjustment in everyday
  life. Dont forget that the breaking of visual
  habits maybe puzzling or even dangerous.
• However, I now see details that I could never see
  before. I am more prone to perceive structures
  and see things from far away.
• Jacques De Schryver
• jdsetls_at_aim.com

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