It was great to be asked to join a panel discussion on being a Black Psychedelic advocate. I got to be on a panel with people I really admire such as
Darren Le Baron
and the artist Chor Boogie
His partner's book about their journey to Iboga was really influential in my research. Chor was a heroine addict when he went to take the medicine and he came out clean a few days later. their story definitely helped me to make up my mind to take Iboga and I have never looked back. Iboga was the medicine made reference to in the film Black Panther when the prince was given a brew that enabled him to see his dead father.Now it's some years on since I first had Iboga and I'm an even bigger believer in the use of psychedelics for anyone who realizes that they have a problem, because of the benefits I can see in my family. Psychedelics helped cure a rift in my family without us ever having to sit down and talk about the issues. The potential for Psychedelics is being pushed at depression and PTSD and that's good, and I also believe that it offers the opportunity for familial and community love and cohesion that cant even be imagined.
As
Darren Le Baron
has always said,we don't have addicts in the forests of Gabon where Iboga is used, so what is it really for in its natural habit. How and why do the people of Gabon and Cameroon use this plant ? (I'll go in depth to answer this question in my next blog post)
The best thing about psychedelics is that they afford you a new place to stand to look at your problems and they give you insight, sometimes you get so much insight that you find that you dont even have a problem ! its hard to stress how life changing and how fast this can happen. You cant guess going in what delights and wisdom you are going to get, but you know you are going to come back with something. Psychedelics have been used throughout Africa for a millennia. The Zulus of Southern Africa famously have many for all sorts of occasions.
Psychedelics are still a mini taboo in the black community, tainted as we are by the criminalization of any drugs deemed to be part of our community. My dear friend
Xamille Arton
speaks so eloquently about the injustice of the differing sentences given for the possession of Cocaine compared to for the same amount of Crack, all because of who might be carrying what. We know about institutional racism and there is no institution that wont take the opportunity to behave that way. I think we as a people need to free our minds and hearts and then our bodies will follow. Take the teachings of Garvey, Nelly Fuller Jn and Dr Cress Welsing to the mushroom, Iboga or Ayahuasca and I will bet you any amount of money that you will find doors where once there was a white solid impenetrable glass celling.
(Full blog post coming soon)
I say all this to say
give psychedelics a chance !
They really wont do you any harm
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