About iboga
Iboga, also known as ‘sacred wood’ is a tree that grows in the rain forest of the Congo basin.
The root of the tree is used as a plant medicine for initiating people and healing in the Bwiti tradition.
The sacred wood has many properties for healing on the physical, energetic and spiritual levels. It has 12 alkaloids (one of which is ibogaine).
The sacred wood helps you open your perception to 'see' yourself, relationships, challenges and solutions, life and existence with a clarity and understanding. It's one of the many tools to raise your frequency to support lasting transformation. Visions with iboga are not always 'visual'.
Iboga is one of multiple tools used within Bwiti initiation to enable people to experience deep things in the spiritual world and come back to ordinary reality, changed.
— Paule-Prisca Ognigui Ebe* on “Gabon, the Bwiti, Iboga… and America” at Horizons 2026 in New York
“Eboghe [the original and traditional word for ‘iboga’.] is connection.
Knowledge entrusted to us from all the beyonds.
It’s a door.
It’s a key.
It’s memory card.
It’s a compass.
It can heal all pathologies, bar none.
Making it possible to cross certain boundaries of perception and access other dimensions.
Indigineous science operates at the level of the soul…
It has been tested. Ritualised. Protected. Encoded.
It’s not just the plant… It’s an entire system of knowledge. It’s the rites, the languages, songs, symbols, territories, taboos, practices, stories, and generations of men and women.
[It’s not just about the plant,] it’s about the mother rite that has carried it on: Bwete.”
The goal of a Bwiti initiation is about meeting the transformation and answers you seek — not to eat iboga.
While sacred wood is part of the journey, the most important key for real transformation is to put what you've learned into practice.
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*Please note that while we respect and follow the work of Paule-Prisca Ognigui Ebe, she is not affiliated with Bwiti Calling.