31. Tricia Eastman on meeting Iboga

We are very grateful to host Tricia Eastman on this Mangu.tv podcast episode. Eastman is a medicine woman, author, artist, speaker, advocate for the psychedelic movement, and founder of the non-profit platform, Ancestral Heart. She is in the process of creating a wellness and retreat centre with thermal hot springs, on the island of San Miguel in the Azores, to open in 2024. Eastman’s book, Seeding Consciousness: Plant Medicine, Ancestral Wisdom, and the Path to Transcendence is coming out in 2023. As a medicine woman, Eastman has curated retreats working with 5-MeO-DMT and Iboga for eight years. She has been initiated into multiple branches of Bwiti, the ancestral tradition from Equatorial Africa working with Iboga and facilitating the psychospiritual program with Ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT at Crossroads Treatment Center in Mexico. In this podcast, we look at Eastman’s journey from the womb into her adolescent years and discuss how Iboga helped reveal and heal her past traumas. Eastman discusses the influence of indigenous principles and prayer deeply rooted within her from her maternal Mexican ancestors. Later in the podcast, Eastman reveals the joys and intricacies of working with Iboga and 5-MeO-DMT and how personal experiences with these medicines have led her to where she is today.