#7 — Hyperdimensional Healing, Ibogaine and Parkinson's Disease with Tobias Erny

<p>In the seventh episode of the Iboga Leadership Summit Podcast, Tobias “Edzing Nzame” Erny shares details of his most recent research into Iboga/ine as a treatment for Parkinson’s Disease with summit <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.roothealing.com/ryan-ghenigho-rich" target="_blank">co-organiser Ryan “Ghenigho” Rich.</a> <br /><br />The latest paper, celebrated in this episode, is part of an ongoing study in which <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/esploro/outputs/journalArticle/Ibogaine-for-the-treatment-of-Parkinsons/9926827043801891" target="_blank">participants are microdosing</a> to manage the condition, sometimes with miraculously effective symptom reduction. <br /></p><p>Tobias Erny began his career in the chemical-pharmaceutical industry of Basel, Switzerland, before his first encounter with Ibogaine in 2006 interrupted an addiction and opened a door to the spiritual, healing potentialities of Iboga/ine and lit up his pathway towards ethical, respectful clinical research of the Ibogaine molecule within the wider context of Bwiti and Iboga. <br /></p><p>In 2008, Tobias began working with the traditional plant medicine Iboga and went on to become initiated into the Dissoumba-Fang tradition of Bwiti, regularly returning to Gabon to deepen his understanding. Alongside the team at Nachtschattenverlag (publisher of Albert Hofmann and Stanislav Grof in the German-speaking world), he published the German standard reference on Iboga, organized conferences, and lectured at universities across Europe. <br /><br />As Co-Director of the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://ibogaalliance.org/" target="_blank">Global Iboga Therapy Alliance (GITA)</a>, a non-profit dedicated to raising awareness about Iboga and its alkaloids through sustainability initiatives, scientific research, education, and knowledge transfer, Tobias sits at the centre of the global conversation around this medicine.</p><p>Tobias describes the difference between Ibogaine and Iboga as the difference between exploring your own psychological bubble, and something outside of it arriving to guide you through yourself. <br /><br />Ryan and Tobias move between the nuances of conceptualistions of Iboga as a “hyperdimensional ally,” and a “teacher who gives homework and won't offer the next level of teaching until you've implemented the last.”<br /></p><p>The conversation holistically draws together spiritual and clinical