Consciousness & Medicine
Roll Describes Iboga as Torture During 72-Hour Relentless Hallucinogenic Ordeal
Rich Roll Podcast
Inside My 72-Hour Psychedelic Iboga Therapy With Julie Piatt
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"There were moments where I really felt like I was flirting with madness, that I was locked in a padded room and that my entire life was a projection in the mind of an insane person. It was extremely disorienting. The hallucinations, once they begin, were just coming at me like a million miles an hour. At times throughout that Friday evening like I was in a cell in Guantanamo Bay being like tortured."
Roll revealed the extreme psychological difficulty of his iboga experience, comparing the 72-hour journey to torture with relentless auditory and visual hallucinations accompanied by aggressive Bwiti ceremonial music. He experienced complete derangement, loss of motor skills, and questioned whether his entire life was a mental fabrication. The experience was so intense that Roll admitted he would not have done it had he known what to expect.
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- Rich Roll Podcast
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- Inside My 72-Hour Psychedelic Iboga Therapy With Julie Piatt
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- 5:59
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