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Bwiti is a spiritual discipline of the forest-dwelling Punu people and Mitsogo peoples of Gabon (where it is recognized as one of three official religions) and by the Fang people of Gabon. Modern Bwiti incorporates animism, ancestor worship, and in some cases, Christianity, into a syncretistic belief system.
Bwiti practitioners use the psychedelic, dissociative root bark of the Tabernanthe iboga plant, specially cultivated for the religion, to promote radical spiritual growth, to stabilize community and family structure, to meet religious requirements, and to resolve pathological problems. The root bark has been consumed for hundreds of years in a Bwiti rite of passage ceremony, as well as in initiation rites and acts of healing. The experience yields complex visions and insights anticipated to be valuable to the initiate and the chapel.
Bwiti is a spiritual discipline of the forest-dwelling Punu people and Mitsogo peoples of Gabon (where it is recognized as one of three official religions)...
Africa. They are the originators of the Bwiti religion. Other peoples in Gabon have combined traditional Bwiti practices with animism and Christian concepts...
and rites. One of the syncretic traditions among Fang people is called Bwiti, a monotheistic religion that celebrates Christian Easter but over four...
Africa, who passed the knowledge to the Bwiti tribe of Gabon. French explorers in turn learned of it from the Bwiti tribe and brought ibogaine back to Europe...
Odinala religion and Christianity, the Bori religion and Islam, or the Bwiti religion and Christianity. In Benin, in addition to the followers of syncretism...
medicinal and ritual purposes within African spiritual traditions of the Bwiti. LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), a semi-synthetic psychedelic drug famous...
spiritual center of religious initiations", due to the sacred music of the Bwiti, the dominant religious doctrine of the country, variously ascribed to the...
States (as has happened with alcohol and cannabis). Aztec use of entheogens Bwiti Cognitive liberty Concord Prison Experiment Designer Drugs Dissociative...
ISBN 0-89089-575-9. Archived from the original on 15 April 2012. Retrieved 9 May 2014. Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa Archived 28 June...
Gabonese ethnic groups. For example, Bwiti, the dominant religious doctrine of the country is a Mitshogo name and the Bwiti is based on the magic powers of...
litterateur to psychedelic acolyte. Pinchbeck details his initiation with the Bwiti and their use of iboga. The account remains personal with Pinchbeck crediting...
French Common languages Ewondo Fula Basaa Bulu Bamum Religion Christianity, Bwiti, Islam Government Mandate History • German Cameroon partitioned 20 July...
Churches reach up to a few hundred million. In West-Central Africa, modern Bwiti incorporates animism, ancestor worship, ritual use of iboga, and Christianity...
Christian-influenced syncretic traditions and movements include: Alleluia church Bwiti (Some sects) Burkhanism Cao Đài Chrislam Christopaganism Cults of many folk...
Bill of Rights. The systematic use of ibogaine was developed first by the Bwiti discipline from where it originated, by the Babongo, Mitsogo and Fang peoples...
of a religious nature) what appears to be entheogenic use of S. icaja: Bwiti, which is the great fetish [see page Fetish priest] of the land, has its...
iboga) has been declared a national treasure and is used in rites of the Bwiti religion. The active ingredient, ibogaine, is proposed as a treatment of...
Common languages French (official) Fang, Myene, Kongo, Lingala Religion Christianity, Bwiti, Islam, traditional religions History • Established 1882 • Renamed Middle...
a key instrument of bikutsi music. Mvet with multiple gourd resonators Bwiti List of musical instruments of Cameroon Kinnari vina, an Indian tube zither...
traditional African faiths were proper religions. Practitioners of the Bwiti religion have faced persecution by Christian missionaries and French colonial...
the Middle Ages. Iboga Tabernanthe iboga Root bark: Ibogaine Psychedelic Bwiti religion of West Central Africa. Used by Western nations to treat opioid...
eastern boundary of the ward. The wards of Mkinga and Doda are to the south. Bwiti ward is the final area to the west. According to the 2012 Census the ward...
to Gabon to film his initiation into Bwiti, and showed how Dimitri incorporated the spiritual practices of Bwiti into his detox treatments. In 2006, Mugianis...
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