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 rites. One of the syncretic traditions among Fang people is called Bwiti, a monotheistic religion that celebrates Christian Easter but over four...

Africa. They are the originators of the Bwiti religion. Other peoples in Gabon have combined traditional Bwiti practices with animism and Christian concepts...

also occurs naturally in this plant. The Iboga tree is central to the Bwiti spiritual practices in West-Central Africa, mainly Gabon, Cameroon, and...

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...

Africa, most notably among the Fang people regarding the Bwiti cult, as represented by his work Bwiti.  Fernandez has taught at several American universities...

ended, their traditional religion has enjoyed a resurgence, such as the Bwiti religion and, as has a flowering of new styles of music and dance, such...

spiritual center of religious initiations", due to the sacred music of the Bwiti, the dominant religious doctrine of the country, variously ascribed to the...

medicinal and ritual purposes within African spiritual traditions of the Bwiti. LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), a semi-synthetic psychedelic drug famous...

litterateur to psychedelic acolyte. Pinchbeck details his initiation with the Bwiti and their use of iboga. The account remains personal with Pinchbeck crediting...

States (as has happened with alcohol and cannabis). Aztec use of entheogens Bwiti Cognitive liberty Concord Prison Experiment Designer Drugs Dissociative...

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...

religion Banyole traditional beliefs Bubi spirituality Bushongo religion Bwiti Chaga faith Chokwe spiritual beliefs Duala traditional religion Fipa religion...

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...

Churches reach up to a few hundred million. In West-Central Africa, modern Bwiti incorporates animism, ancestor worship, ritual use of iboga, and Christianity...

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...

Pygmies, though they are not particularly short. They are originators of the Bwiti religion, based on consumption of the intoxicating hallucinogenic iboga...

syncretic traditions and movements include: Alleluia church Aymara spirituality Bwiti (Some sects) Burkhanism Cao Đài Chrislam Christopaganism Christian Wicca...

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...

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...

French Common languages Ewondo Fula Basaa Bulu Bamum Religion Christianity, Bwiti, Islam Government Mandate History   • German Cameroon partitioned 20 July...

traditional African faiths were proper religions. Practitioners of the Bwiti religion have faced persecution by Christian missionaries and French colonial...

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...

not break completely with his faith. He instead became a follower of the Bwiti religious sect, which Fangs were particularly receptive to. He believed...

Ba as Papa Minuit, a member of the Hyenas of Bangui well-versed in the bwiti spiritual practice, using the alias "Maudou" at the resort. Evelyne Ily...

Common languages French (official) Fang, Myene, Kongo, Lingala Religion Christianity, Bwiti, Islam, traditional religions History   • Established 1882 • Renamed Middle...

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...

the Middle Ages. Iboga Tabernanthe iboga Root bark: Ibogaine Psychedelic Bwiti religion of West Central Africa. Used by Western nations to treat opioid...

groups including the União do Vegetal, the Native American Church, the Bwiti religion and the Rastafari movement (see religious and spiritual use of...