Ibogaine and the Bicameral Mind

Foreword by Rick Perry

Acknowledgments

PART ONE
Ibogaine’s Roots
Bwiti and the Medical Subculture

1 The Spark That Lit the Thunder
A Long Road to Gabon • Learning to Listen Deeply •
Seeing with New Eyes • Visiting the Village of Issika •
All the Secrets of Being a Man • Ngady Na Duma

2 Time and Space Binding: A Brief History of Iboga
The Light at the Center of the Garden •
Time and Space Binding • The Chosen People of Iboga

3 One Hundred Years of Controversy
The Staten Island Project • Ibogaine’s Contentious Rise •
A Vast, Uncontrolled Experiment

4 At the Crossroads of the Jungle and the Laboratory
Welcome to Rat Park • The Clinical Guidelines •
Entangled Roots

PART TWO
The Ibogaine Experience
Mirrors, Voices, and Visions

5 The Psychedelic Mirror: Reflections on Lacan
Descriptions of Ibogaine’s Effects • A Hard Look in the Mirror • Jouissance • A Force Beyond the Ego

6 The Bicameral State
Jordan • Shawna • Myobi • The Other in Our Reflection •
The Voice That Speaks Back to Us • The Bicameral Brain •
Proto-Consciousness Rising • Beyond REM

7 How Ibogaine Works in the Body
How Ibogaine Differs from Other Psychedelics •
Ibogaine Pharmacology • Ibogaine Metabolism •
Inside the Cell • Cellular Energy Metabolism •
New Frontiers of Understanding

8 Conversations with the Bicameral Other
Setting the Stage • Exploring the Oneirogenic Experience •
A Moment of Pause

9 The Liminal Voices of Reason:
Our Guides and Antagonists
The Guardian of the Threshold • The Daemonic Realm •
True Hallucinations • The Bicameral Perspective

10 The University of the Forest:
Lessons on Order and Mortality
Back to the Epicenter • The Bitter Brown Tea •
Syntax of the Subconscious • The Onset •
Thousands of Tiny Little Mouths to Feed • Body of Dreams •
The Practical Science of Direct Experience

PART THREE
Implementing Ibogaine
The Future of Neuroregenerative Medicine

11 The Myth of Psychiatry’s Magic Bullet
Animals in the Age of Reason • Psychiatry’s Antibiotic •
Will Psychedelics Become Psychiatry’s Long-Awaited Antibiotic? •
A Questionable Diagnosis • Reimagining the Interior Landscape •
The Opportunity of Psychedelic Therapy

12 Recovering Personal Agency:
Treating Addiction with Ibogaine
Does Ibogaine Treatment Work for Addiction? •
The Worst Success Rates in All of Medicine •
Psychedelics in Recovery •
It Was the Best Experience of My Life • Recovery Is Nonlinear

13 Reconstructing Flow:
Treating Navy SEALs, PTSD, and
Traumatic Brain Injury
The New Rites of Retirement • Investing the TBI Hypothesis •
A Special Kind of Hell • Flow and Optimization for Combat •
How Ibogaine Cultivate Flow •
The Perfect Teacher • The Change Vector


14 Neuroregeneration: Treating Parkinson’s,
Neuropathic Pain, and Multiple Sclerosis
Parkinson’s Disease • Non-Parkinsonian Tremors •
Neuropathic Pain • An Overwhelming Sea of Voices •
Multiple Sclerosis • From Clinic Bedside to Laboratory Bench •
The Value of Real-World Experience

15 Unconventional Pathways:
Forging Ibogaine’s Future in Medical Practice
Oxa-Iboga Alkaloids • Tabernanthalog •
The Incentive Structure • The Moonshot •
Barriers to FDA Approval of Ibogaine • Multidimensional Chess •
The Whole Complex Picture

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index