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	Bwiti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bwiti is a West Central African religion practiced by the forest-dwelling Babongo and Mitsogo people of Gabon (where it is one of the three official religions) and the Fang people of Gabon and Cameroon.
		Bwiti use the hallucinogenic rootbark of the Tabernanthe iboga plant, specially cultivated for the religion, to induce a spiritual enlightenment, stabilize community and family structure, meet religious requirements and to solve problems of a spiritual and/or medical nature.
		Bwiti ceremonies are led by a (male or female) spiritual leader called N'ganga who is a very important member of the community and has extensive knowledge of traditional healing practices, hexes and spells.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bwiti (505 words)

	Lycaeum > Leda > The Bwiti Religion and the psychoactive plant Tabernanthe iboga
		Bwiti was and still is a thorn for the Catholic missions and actually Bwiti continues to gain new ground in the combat for religious territory.
		Today, the Bwiti religion is well accepted by a sector of the governing elite, since it is considered a popular religious movement which keeps and guarantees tribal values which are considered fundamental to the spirit of the new republic.
		Bwiti is a complex religion with a rich mythology, the fruit of an intelligent and secular mix of the afro-tribal values and the catholic biblical figures, and an articulate theology which coherently unites animistic concepts and the characteristics of a Christian god.
	leda.lycaeum.org /?ID=16800 (5836 words)

	Lycaeum > Leda > Adam, Eve and Iboga
		He believes that Bwiti represents one of the greatest contemporary religions based on its ritual use of hallucinogens, and discusses the importance of this African cult in relation to the general field of research in hallucinogens.
		Bwiti temples have arisen in Equatorial Guinea, in Cameroon, in People’s Republic of Congo and in Zaire.
		In all Bwiti sects, initiation is considered to be a direct contact between man and the Divine and this is triggered by the ingestion of iboga root in large quantities: 50-100 times the quantity used during the ordinary collective ngozé.
	leda.lycaeum.org /?ID=16779 (4187 words)

	The Ibogaine Dossier. Bwiti: an Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa
		In Bwiti the visions which accompany initiation and the eating of massive amounts of eboga are always elicited by leaders and interpreted for the adequacy of the experience, the acceptability of the initiate to the spirits and great gods, and the future role of the initiate in the religion.
		The umbilical cord is ever-present in Bwiti and is represented in the braided red and white yam.
		Bwiti seeks in a variety of ways to attain to this "original and final" place - a spiritual Archimedean point, as it were, from which birth and death in all their contrarieties and complexities can be uniquely contemplated.
	www.ibogaine.org /fernandez.html (11058 words)

	Ibogaine / Eboga - Bwiti & Initiation
		The Bwiti of the Fang is a later development in Gabon and is interlaced with many newer influences, such as their memories, their traditions and ideas and rites that came from Catholicism.
		Currently, the primitive Bwiti (as it is described by one author) is on the decline while the Bwiti of the Fangs is expanding, though perhaps, according to some, it is losing a little of its initial purity.
		The Religion of Eboga or The Bwiti of the Fangs by Barabe, P., Professor.
	www.myeboga.com /bwitiinit.html (682 words)

	Iboga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Iboga tree is the central pillar of the Bwiti religion practiced in West-Central Africa, mainly Gabon, Cameroon and the Republic of the Congo, which utilises the alkaloid-containing roots of the plant in a number of ceremonies.
		Léon M'ba, before becoming the first President of Gabon in 1960, defended the Bwiti religion and the use of iboga in French colonial courts.
		The Bwiti Religion and the psychoactive plant Tabernanthe iboga (Equatorial Africa), Giorgio Samorini.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iboga (556 words)

	Bwiti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bwiti is a religious ceremony performed specifically in Gabon and Cameroon.
		It is based on the use of the halucinigenic root of the plant iboga.
		Etincelle Au Gabon, le Bwiti vit à travers ses génies, ses Ngangas et sa musique sacrée.Initiation originelle au "Bois Sacré".
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Bwiti.html (131 words)

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		The Fang cult is the Bwiti cult and its goal is to remain in contact with the Fang ancestors.
		In the Bwiti cult, contact with the spirits of the dead is possible with the use of the hallucinogenic Iboga.
		Bwiti chapel's left side is female and the Bwiti Eboka is a "left hand" plant thus "the cult directs itself to the female principle of the universe." Moreover, the plant was discovered by the wife and "emphasizes the crucial role of women in the cult" (Furst 1976).
	sulcus.berkeley.edu /mcb/165_001/papers/manuscripts/_617.html (3150 words)

	Iboga-tourism in Central Africa
		In the depths of this inner realm, he or she is expected to actually 'meet' the original Bwiti, the founders of the religion, in the form of primordial male and female figures.
		Camerounian Bwiti, however, claim that whilst they are newcomers to the religion, their relative poverty as a nation has drawn far more young people, and that Bwiti is therefore more vibrantly practiced in their land.
		It is a ritual of initiation and the 'banzi', (Bwiti word for the initiate), is expected to overcome severe trials on his or her route to adulthood.
	www.ibogaine.co.uk /iboga-tourism.htm (6569 words)

	writings
		Much of the understanding of the Bwiti technique involves a feeling for the nature of the ceremony and lifestyle of the people, a quality of interactions that cannot be understood from a reductionist perspective.
		The Bwiti, who understand this state perfectly, have developed a culture of healing around this plant, which is embodied in their initiatory ceremonies.
		The Bwiti practitioners' entire lives are suffused with a consideration and an awareness of the interconnectedness of all things.
	ibogaine.lycaeum.org /writings.htm (956 words)

	African Religion
		The Republic of Gabon is the center of the Bwiti religion and Mbiri medical societies, each use plants containing Ibogaine for healing and psychotherapy.
		Eboga is used as a sacrament in the religion of Bwiti.
		It was the Bwiti religion that became unifying force for the Gabonese independence movement.The French psychic investigator, noted, "Gabon is to Africa what Tibet is to Asia, the spiritual center of religious initiation ".
	www.psychicinvestigator.com /Relig/African.htm (880 words)

	I Begin Again, Ibogaine Treatment Center: Articles and Links
		When Bwiti shamans eat iboga, they believe they are granted the power to see the future, to heal the sick and to speak with the dead.
		James Fernandez, a Princeton anthropologist who studied the sect, concluded that the Bwiti religion worked by "indirection and suggestion and other kinds of puzzlements," leaving "many loose ends and inconsistencies." Throughout his long book on the Bwiti, Fernandez was frustrated by his failure to grasp the belief system behind it.
		My Bwiti father put a bundle of leaves in my right hand and a tight whisk of dry thistles in my left and instructed me to keep shaking both in time to the music.
	www.ibeginagain.org /articles/pinchbeck.shtml (4248 words)

	The Ibogaine Dossier
		Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa by James W. Fernandez is a magnificent scholarly study of the Bwiti religion of the Fang people of Gabon.
		The Fang sect of Bwiti represents a group within the Bwiti religion influenced by their European missionary experience whereas the Mitsogo Bwiti shows influence to a greater degree by the Bieri ancestor cult.
		The expertise of the Nganga ("doctor", person powerful in the knowledge of hidden things) in Bwiti chapels has similarities to the skills of the medical and psychiatric specialists using the purified chemical in hospitals in Europe and the Americas to treat substance-related disorders (see Science and Treatment sections).
	www.ibogaine.desk.nl /fernandez-intro.html (338 words)

	Mary, André. -- Le défi du syncrétisme : le travail symbolique de la religion d'Eboga (Gabon). Paris, Éditions de ...
		Bwiti is intrinsically a struggle of incompatibilities which energize its evolution and its schismatic tendencies.
		Bwiti, like the ngunzisme of Congo, emerged among the Fang of Gabon in the period between the wars, in the labor camps of the high colonial period, where bearers of diverse cultural traditions sought to make sense of their experiences of both Christianity and the "modern", which defined them as African and backward.
		From time to time Mary makes reference to other parts of Africa, but the closely considered details of Bwiti that he presents belong clearly to the culture of the western equatorial forest, from Cameroon to Angola, and could be of great value in a comparative study of religious movements in the area.
	etudesafricaines.revues.org /document59.html (558 words)

	About Bwiti
		Bwiti is a Belgian based company that is helping organisations like yours become more innovative and more creative.
		Bwiti is based in Erps-Kwerps, a small farming town midway between Brussels and Leuven.
		Bwiti is a part of the Jeffrey and Panida Baumgartner (JPB) group of companies with locations in Belgium and Thailand.
	www.jpb.com /about/bwiti.php (146 words)

	THC - Cannabis - Ministry :: Community :: View topic - west african ceramony
		In contrast to the Peyotl Religion, conceived by the Indians as exclusively their own (it being a redemption movement of their own people), Bwiti is considered by its members as a monotheistic universal religion, accessible to anyone who approaches it with respect and humility, fl or white.
		Bwiti religion is widespread in Gabon, both in the interior of the jungle where it originated and in the capital, Libreville.
		Bwitist mythology consists primarily of a complex theogony and mythology dealing with the origin of Iboga and the Bwiti know it as "The History al Muma." Despite the evidence of its primary structure, the mythology is subject to many variations, as evidenced by the differences among the sects and the diverse ethnic groups.
	www.thc-ministry.net /forum/viewtopic.php?t=318 (6285 words)

	Bwiti - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bwiti is a West- and Central-African animistic religion practiced by the wood-dwelling Babongo and Mitsogo people of Gabon (where it is one of the three official religions) and the Fang people of Gabon and Cameroon.
		Bwiti uses the hallucinogenic rootbark of the Tabernanthe iboga plant, specially cultivated for the religion, to induce a spiritual enlightenment and to solve problems of a spiritual nature (sometimes making the user sick enough to vomit).
		The unextracted root bark has been used for hundreds or thousands of years as part of a Bwiti coming of age ceremony, producing complex visions and insights.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Bwiti (386 words)

	Chapter 2
		To become fully initiated, all Bwiti must eat enough iboga rootbark to induce intense visions and enable them to "meet their ancestors" -- including a kind of universal African ancestor (the Bwiti).
		Bwiti is the only native religion that has success fully resisted the inroads of Islam and Christianity.
		In the '50's, the United States was still in the thrall of segregation, of the racist police state of J. Edgar Hoover, nemesis of Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X. The highest-level person briefed on MK Ultra results was Presidential assistant for Cold War Planning --Nelson Rockefeller or his suceessor--who equated African decolonialization with international communism.
	www.chaozation.com /Ibogaine/TheIbogaineStory-Chapter2.htm (3857 words)

	Lycaeum > Leda > The Religion of Iboga or the Bwiti of the Fangs
		The Religion of Iboga or the Bwiti of the Fangs
		This indole alkaloid with a distinctive (and synthetically difficult) seven-membered ring is under investigation as a cure for addiction.
		West african shrub, used as a stimulant and entheogen by the Bwiti cult.
	leda.lycaeum.org /?ID=8567 (75 words)

	Ibogaine - Testimony 5
		The Bwiti chanted and sang as I put on the initiate’s outfit--jewelry made of tanned animal skins and shells that looped across my chest and upper arms, and a skimpy garment of red fabric.
		My Bwiti father put a bundle of leaves in one of my hands and a tight whisk of dry thistles in the other and instructed me to keep shaking them in time to the music.
		I was placed at the center of the room, facing a mirror that had been set up with fern leaves and carved African figurines surrounding it, with Moutamba and the tribal elders sitting to one side and the rest of the tribe along benches on the other side.
	www.ibogaine.co.uk /exp5.htm (3759 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism by Daniel ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		From the iboga of the Bwiti in Gabon, to the Mazatecs of Mexico, these plants are sacred because they awaken the mind to other levels of awareness--to a holographic vision of the universe.
		The Bwiti's botanical sacrament, Tabernanthe iboga, is a bush that grows small, edible orange fruit that are tasteless and sticky.
		The Bwiti seem to tolerate foreign interest in their sacred medicine, but they do not encourage it in any way.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook9186.htm (1049 words)

	Bwiti Iboga Ritual in Gabon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The experience was pure peace and love, and I was blown away by the tenderness and care with which these people use the plant, and the reverence with which they treat it.
		It was quite the most beautiful and loving embrace by these beings that you could imagine and I think that the Bwiti have evolved an intricate and specific ritual that perfectly compliments the universe you access through Iboga.
		It is perfectly structured, smoothly and proficiently conducted with an ease and simplicity that belies a profound experience, far more profound than the humour they conduct it with indicates.
	www.csp.org /nicholas/A42.html (325 words)

	The Lycaeum -- Ibogaine
		The Bwiti initiation, among the Mitsogho, concerns essentially the passage from adolescence to manhood, hence the necessity of eliminating the epigenetic elements of childhood and adolescence in order to reprogram in the young man a new ego corresponding to the cultural norms of the tribe.
		In the Bwiti of the Fang, the ceremony may be accelerated by substituting for the scrapings of iboga a galenic preparation flavored with milk, sugar or palm wine, known under the names of "express" or "automatic".
		In the Fang Bwiti, where we have a syncretism between the religion of the ancestors and Christianity, it is difficult, because of many divergent forms, to describe a coherent whole corresponding to the normative visions of the Mitsoghos.
	www.lycaeum.org /drugs.old/plants/ibogaine/iboga-theraputic.html (12100 words)

	Salon Letters \| Letters to the Editor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His failure to approach hip-hop with the same level of critical thinking he undoubtedly employed in his directed studies classes only confirms the popular belief that the study of popular culture is more often than not the work of fanatics, not scholars.
		Unlike what the article asserts, Bwiti isn't a group of people, or a tribe, or the name of followers of a religion.
		Bwiti's not a big mystery in Gabon, either: It's a belief system, a ceremony and a spirit normally described as a universal ancestor.
	www.salon.com /letters/1999/11/10/fat/index1.html (1303 words)

	The Bwiti Religion and the psychoactive plant Tabernanthe iboga
		For a long time the Bwiti was considered an ancestral cult and even today, the word Bwiti is translated as
		Subsequently, the persecution carried out by the missionaries with the approval of the French colonial government was felt by the Bwitist communities particularly during the years 1 920 to 1940.
		The iboga used by the Bwitists during the initiation rites and in their night communal "masses" substitutes the host of the Catholic mass, in practice and in concept, and this substitution is the fuel for the harsh contact between Catholics and Bwitists.
	www.ibogaine.desk.nl /samorini.html (5797 words)

	General request for assistance
		Slide Show and lecture on the Bwiti rituals in Africa, Tabernanthe iboga, and the Ibogaine enigma.
		Defining the beauty, respect and sacredness with which the Bwiti treat this plant is critical in allowing westerners a perspective on combining healing and spirituality.
		Becoming aware of the subtlties in the planet around us and the gentleness and sacredness of the realms of higher awareness, is setting the foundations for a change for the better.
	ibogaine.lycaeum.org /lecture.htm (717 words)

	Bwiti Revisited
		I still have my Bwiti antelope horn that I used to play at Bwiti ceremonies as well as my Bwiti bag in which I used to keep all my “stuff.” They serve as reminders of the most direct and intense spiritual experience of my life.
		I rationalized that Bwiti was a way for these men to recapture their lost role in society, which colonization had taken away from them.
		«Alors, tu as vu Bwiti?» I nodded in the affirmative.
	www.ewatravel.com /Gabon/bwiti_revisited.htm (3704 words)

	Bwiti: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bwiti is a religious initiation ceremony performed by the Mitsogo people of Gabon Gabon quick summary:
		Bwiti uses the hallucinogenic rootbark of the Tabernanthe iboga iboga quick summary:
		Iboga (tabernanthe iboga) is the species of plant from which ibogaine is derived....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bw/bwiti.htm (336 words)

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