Cosmic Tortoise

Richie Ogulnick has worked with Ibogaine for decades and is a pioneer of the Ibogaine Movement. We discuss: Richie’s story of ibogaine and how he brought it from Africa to the US; the allure of heroin and other drugs; the importance of surrender; ibogaine itself: experience, risks + post-session effects; common threads of addiction and relapse + why most therapy and drug rehab doesn’t work; iboga vs ibogaine; anecdotes of low dose ibogaine for conditions such as parkinson’s disease; Richie’s formulation of a vietnamese herbal opiate remedy and his subsequent encounter with the FDA; morality and the sense of good and evil; monism and dualism; divine will, psychosis and the different responses to each from east/west + much more.   Connect with Richie: Iboga with Richie Email Resources: Breaking Open the Head by Daniel Pinchbeck (describes the Iboga experience with members of the Bwiti faith) Buddha at the Gas Pump   Stats - Ibogaine risk vs Opiates The primary reason ibogaine is illegal in many places