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A TRADITIONAL AFRICAN SHAMAN EXPLAINS WHY PILLS CAN NEVER CURE DEPRESSION OR PTSD

There is no way of knowing the full impact that depression, anxiety and PTSD have on our society and culture, but we do know that the prescribed solution of pharmaceuticals is not working to alleviate this problem.

The first antidepressant drug, an MOAI inhibitor, was developed in the 1950’s and originally used in the treatment of tuberculosis. In the 19080’s, the first SSRI inhibitor was developed, and today there are now 5 classes of antidepressants, which includes at least 32 different brand name drugs

More Americans than ever take antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications, and according to a recent study, some 86% of people today will have met the criteria for at least two psychiatric diagnoses by the time they reach 45.

More drugs, more diagnoses, and more people dependent on doctors, pharmacies and pills. Something is not working.

Contrast this paradigm with traditional shamanism, in which shamans, working as healers, use plant medicines to diagnose the spiritual health of a person, and heal them permanently with ancient methods that still baffle modern science.

Of the shamanic plant medicines, iboga is particularly powerful at helping people to overcome PTSD, depression and anxiety. Its efficacy cannot be explained in scientific terms, which reduces chronic emotional and mental health issues down to brain chemistry, looking at the human being as a machine, then intervenes with chemicals.

This is categorically different than the work of shamanism, which generally views such mental health conditions as spiritual matters, and seeks to repair a person’s spirit from within.

Traditional African shaman Moughenda Mikala points out in a recent interview, pills simply cannot address the root causes of such problems.

“When we are talking about trauma, depression, and PTSD, they are not physical. Now days people need to think further… to understand that anything that is not physical is difficult… someone has to know where to look.” ~Moughenda Mikala, Bwiti Life

As a 10th generation Bwiti shaman working with an ancient plant medicine, Mikala uses traditional shamanic methods to assess and heal people on a spiritual level, which addresses the roots of mental health problems rather than attempting only to manage the symptoms of such disorders.

“The way I handle these issues, or with my guests coming to me, I don’t focus on the physical level, because trauma… mainly affects the mind, and that’s what we’re talking about, the mind being a spiritual issue. So, the way I address that, I will launch someone on a psycho-spiritual journey… and before the spycho-spiritual journey, I will launch them on a psycho-detox.”

Mikala is referring to ceremonies, in which participants ingest the alkaloid rich root bark of the iboga shrub, which triggers a body trance and sets off an inward psychological journey. The psycho-detox is very common with first-time Western participants, and typically causes the participant to enter a foggy, trance-like state for hours where they begin to see from within the workings of their mind, including thought patterns and belief systems.

The psycho-spiritual journey Mikala mentions is a second experience with iboga, in which after detoxifying the mind in a first ceremony, the participant typically is launched into a surreal journey into the subconscious mind and is able to clearly review one’s life and make a direct, impressionable connection to their own soul.

It is this experience which Mikala says heals the wounds that cause depression, anxiety and PTSD.

He notes:

“The psycho-detox is kind of addressing the mind, and to detox the mind that means we reach a level to empty all of this trauma… it could be stress or any other forced beliefs… the garbage. And then, we have to take that person back to the very first day when that trauma started. It’s what I call a life-review… you don’t just do that from the mind, you have to actually go there live to the first day where everything started. It could be a rape… and a lot of women are still suffering from it. And the problem is they’ve been running from the pain, the fear, the everything.” ~ Moughenda Mikala

Because the trauma that leads to PTSD and depression lives within the mind, potentially for one’s entire life, the images and memories of traumatic experiences, like combat, are revisited over and again by the mind.

Pharmaceutical pills only cover up these images, causing people to lose everything, including joy and possibly life itself.

“So healing someone from trauma, PTSD or depression, there’s only one way. That is the traditional way. We have the best way to heal the mind. No pills. Pills won’t heal any mind, I don’t care how many years you’re going to be taking those pills, they won’t heal you, because not a single pill will be able to take you to a spiritual trip where you meet your soul face-to-face and have a long conversation with it.” ~Moughenda Mikala

Mikala further explains that this experience helps people to recognize what it is that caused their trauma and allows them to look at it up close and accept it as part of their lives, and then move on.

Having personally experienced this, and personally knowing Moughenda, I can say that the experience of iboga, when conducted ceremonially with properly trained healers and facilitators, is exceptionally extraordinary and leaves a lasting impression which, over time, continues to positively influence mental and spiritual health.

About the Author

Dylan Charles is the editor of Waking Times and host of Battered Souls: A Podcast About Transformation, both dedicated to ideas of personal transformation, societal awakening, and planetary renewal. His personal journey is deeply inspired by shamanic plant medicines and the arts of Kung Fu, Qi Gong and Yoga. After seven years of living in Costa Rica, he now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where he practices Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and enjoys spending time with family. He has written hundreds of articles, reaching and inspiring millions of people around the world.

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I'm here today, in this beautiful setting in my favorite place ever and it's in front of the fire. Wanted to talk to you about before and after my personal Iboga experience.

Prior to my experience, I was diagnosed with PTSD, major depression. I lived on about $1,500 worth of pharmaceutical drugs per month. I used a lot of street drugs. And that actually came to a halt at the end. Nothing was helping... at all. It was a poor existence. Basically, I was just living. And it gets to the point where either I was gonna live or I was gonna die and I was making the choice up quickly.

I didn't want to live anymore. The only reason that stopped me from taking action was my children and I couldn't do it, but on the other hand, I couldn't continue living the way I was living - that wasn't good for them either. I had to make a decision. So I had met a man at a barbecue and his name was Moughenda. He told me he could fix me up in a week. And like most people you'd probably say, "yeah right, sure buddy". And you know, 2 years later, after suffering even harder and not being able to do anything, I just couldn't be intimate, couldn't live. And then finally I finished my produce season because I worked in production for about 30 years. I finished up and made a decision, that it was time.

I called Moughenda and told him I needed to come. I went down he basically told me "what took you so long? You wasted 2 years of your life to come down to me." He goes, you wasted 2 years, and that's what stuck in my head and I did my experience. When I came out of it, I realized that I really wasted 2 years that I'll never get back prior to the eight years ahead of that.

So I had my experience. One of the things you've noticed right away is how clean you are because all of those pills leave you full of toxins. When you clear out all those toxins, your, your skin feels a whole lot better. Your eyes feel amazing. You couldn't go to the bathroom a lot easier because you don't have anything plugging you off. And uh, once I left there and came home, I had a lot clearer mind, a little leery of people when it first came back. And that's okay because I felt so pure, like a reborn and I needed some time for me. I needed time to regroup and find myself. And uh, I did, I took them, I took six months for me, quit my job, I spend as much time as I could with my children. Um, and it was, it was really good.

I thought it was going to be a lot better, but it took some adjustments. It took a lot of adjustment. But I had the tools to do the work. I knew that my choices were my choices and I had the right to say no because prior to that, you know, you don't have the confidence to say no because you always know something's wrong so you don't want to disappoint others. And the biggest thing was I was disappointing myself, so disappointed my soul. So not I was connected with my soul. I realized that it's time for me. One of the things I did was I bought a cushion for my crew, like push the seats down and I would go out and wilderness and I was just open up the hatch and lie in the back and just enjoy, um, fall asleep even. I could never do that prior because I had allergies. And that's one of the other things that I bolded cleared was my allergies, so I could actually sit out in nature and enjoy myself and you know, not get my eyes off poppy and full of pus and sneeze and can't breathe and all that. I was finally enjoying nature and enjoying life again.

I like it. I like, you know, others to come around and have a ceremony because that's one of the things I want to do for people. People can say a lot of things, but the main thing is I never want anyone to suffer the way I suffered a long time. Um, you know, from my home invasion, I'm still the day I called the hospital, come get me because I was completely suicidal, ending up in a mental health facility on a ton of medication that's no road for anybody. My children actually had to watch their father fall apart and I know I don't wish that I don't have any other parents, any other child because my kids have had to deal with that and they had to watch it. And I don't ever want that to happen to anyone else. So I encourage you to come, come to Iboga healing experience and, uh, try and dig deep and you're going to find some serious results. You're gonna find things that you had no idea existed. And, uh, you know, just come on by, sit around the fire with me.

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Bwiti Shaman Moughenda Mikala talks about the difference between perceiving and understanding, and how the eyes and ears contribute to our picture of reality.

“The six senses… Who is using all of their six senses? You are human, why are you not using all of your six senses? That’s why you’re in trouble. They only work for us in the present. That’s it. Not the past, not the future, just the present. Your eyes. What do your eyes represent? They represent perception… whatever you see around you. All of our senses are really big and each of them has a role to play. You ears. What do your ears represent? It represents your understanding. Because there is a difference between listening and understanding. Listening and understanding are totally different. The human has eyes and a brain. We have a third eye, all of us we are born with it. People spend years trying to learn how to open up their third eye. There’s no eyes in the brain, so how do we get messed up in the mind, then? There’s two big eyes that mess you up everyday. Two. With your eyes and your ears, your eyes will always represent your perceptions, and your ears your understanding. But whatever it is that the eyes will see does not bring you back to the previous guy here (points at head/brain). Whatever your ears will let in, your understanding will bring it here (points to head/brain), which makes your reality. And that’s what makes the fear go knock on the door. Now, it can change your life overnight by just starting to change your perception, the way you perceive things, the way you perceive even the world today.” ~Moughenda Mikala