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EBANDO Fang Bwiti Initiation, Gabon, Libreville 2010 2,129

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Traditional Equatorial African Music Music of Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Ethiopia, Burundi and Kenya. Primarily vintage recordings.

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Forest Peoples Greatest Hits! Africa's Indigenous Music. Deep cuts from my friend's rare African indigenous music collection, music of the "pygmies". It is astonishing to me that the Forest People's incredible musicality is not more appreciated. Enjoy this rare music. Most is from vintage recordings.

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Gabon's BWITI Music The Music, The Sacred Root, The Power of the Forest. We are only the sum of all that came before us. Bassé! I have been collecting Bwiti music from wherever I could get it for the last 5 years. I'm happy to share it because it should be more accessible. I have started posting 'deep cuts', and some of this music comes from sacred ceremonies. I hope you enjoy it in that holy spirit. Music helps us find our way to the Bwiti!

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African M'bira/Kalimba/Likembe Suite Kalimba music from equatorial Africa, mostly vintage recordings. Enjoy!!!

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About Bovenga na Muduma

MUSIC: Bwiti recordings, Forest People (pygmy) Deep Cuts, and Equatorial African Deep Cuts.

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Dec 13, 2011

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Dec 7, 2008

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Thankful to Mother and Father, Grateful to my Grandfathers and Grandmothers, Blessed by my ancient relatives. I am nothing without them. Everlasting Love for Howard Lotsof, forever blesséd in Dreams. And I love you Michael.
Embraced by Iboga 6 years ago when I had to address an 18-yr alcohol addiction. Ibogaine gave me my life! Iboga gave me my soul!

And many blessings get realized every day! Bassé!
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Iboga: Gift of the Gabonese Forest

Iboga has been used for certainly hundreds but probably many thousands of years. It is a powerful, activating plant "teacher" and spirit. Its' origins lie in central west Africa and it is in popular use today in Gabon and parts of Cameroon. It is the central sacrament of the Bwiti spiritual system, with perhaps 300,000 practitioners.

Bwiti may be the reason Gabon has been called "The Tibet of Africa," and iboga is at the center of Bwiti spirituality. It is both a sacrament and a traditional staple of initiates. Taken in small doses, iboga stimulates the central nervous system and heightens the senses. In larger doses, it can temporarily provide the consumer with deep visionary journeys, the processing of which can lead to long-term, beneficial life changes. This dramatic "peak" experience is what provides the participant--the banzi--with their "Bwiti" during ceremonies lasting many days, called initiations.
Iboga was virtually unknown in the west until relatively recently, when drug users realized its effectiveness at attenuating withdrawals from opiate cessation. The miracle discovery was made by Howard Lotsof, our Bwiti father, in 1962 in New York City.

Now there are several thousand iboga initiates in the west, most of them addicts or former addicts. Interest in iboga/ibogaine is now also propelled by a growing group of plant medicine enthusiasts, seekers of shamanic experiences, the entheogenic community, and those interested in traditional African culture and its healing practices.

Iboga/Ibogaine therapy is also being applied to post-traumatic stress disorder and a range of other psychological maladies. It is a common observation that one can accomplish in a few days with iboga/ibogaine what would take years of one-on-one therapy.

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