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The Lie We Live

Tim - 9 months after Iboga drug detox treatment @ Iboga Wellness Center

What do you get when you mix an iboga treatment with someone who is 100% ready to change their life? THIS!!!! Nice work Tim, you da man!

Heart Medicine: A TRUE-LOVE Story

My boy Chor Boogie and his girl Elizabeth got a book coming out about Iboga, check it out!

ESPN Films - Chris Herren Story "UNGUARDED"

I had the privilege to hear Chris Herren speak a couple of years ago at a high school near my home town back in MASS. If you ever have a chance, go hear this dude speak! AMAZING story. The next best thing to hearing him speak, is this movie about his life story. I just watched it again this morning for like the 10th time. I feel so many emotions every time I watch it... I can relate to his story in so many ways. I surely never played in the NBA, but his story is so similar to mine and so many others, the ups and downs, the struggles of being a junkie. Having everybody fooled, making it appear on the outside that everything was OK, but inside, living in a dark dark place of cocaine and heroin addiction. So happy for Chris that he has final found peace, he is doing amazing things by sharing his story. Sometimes it takes going to the bottom to finally break free, I know that's what it took for me. Helping people like us is the most amazing high I have ever found, and I've tried it all. Life is a gift and all we have is today. - Pura Vida

My boy Steven, newest member of the Iboga Wellness team!

We have an amazing team at Iboga Wellness Center, and it just kicked up a notch. So pumped to have my boy Steven officially part of the crew. He is the real deal and one of the best Iboga Providers I know. Its funny that our current team all met at Iboga House, at the same time, my Dad, me, Brad, Jeanie, and Steven. All of us were there for different reasons, had come from different pasts, and from different parts of the country, but we all lined up in Costa Rica, back in February, 2012. Now three years later we are all together, doing what we love, healing and spreading the word of Iboga. Coincidence? I don't think so...

New Iboga Wellness Center website

I just finished a new version of IbogaWellness.com Check it out. I think this is the 4th version I have made over the last year, really diggin this one. My life is much different now from when I was back in the states running my sign/graphics shop. There is not a lot I miss from running that business, but I have always loved to play with graphic design, so its cool to still have a design outlet when I'm feelin it.

-Pura Vida

Matt - Iboga 18 Day Detox Program - Iboga Wellness Center, Costa Rica

Iboga Wellness team on Dr. Martin Ball's Podcast

A couple of days ago our team at the Iboga Wellness center had the opportunity to go on Dr. Martin Ball's podcast, called The Entheogenic Evolution. Martin was really cool, check it out and here us talk a bit about Iboga & the Bwiti Tradition.

Click here for direct link to podcast

Have you reached that point? - iboga

2 Pac - Quotes

Article from - SoberNation.com - Addict Advantages

The Advantages of Being an Addict

I am a big fan of Malcom Gladwell. For those who are unfamiliar with him, he is the author of famous works such as “The Tipping Point” and “Outliers.” Both of these books had huge impacts on me as a person, and changed my perspective on many aspects in my own life. I mention Gladwell because he recently published a book entitled “David and Goliath.”
I have not yet read the book, but in a recent interview he did on The Daily Show, Gladwell explained the overall premise of the book. He wanted to look at what we consider advantages, and really dig into what we think of as being advantageous. Some of his are examples include the fact that many successful businessmen are dyslexic. In interviews of these people, it became clear that their dyslexia turned into being an advantage for these people. This happened for two reasons. First, because for whatever reason, this hardship gave these people resolve to work hard and not their “handicap” become something to deter them from achieving their dreams. Second, he says that their dyslexia became an advantage because it forced these people to find solutions to problems in other creative ways. This got me thinking…

In my experience, people that have dealt with addiction, have an uncanny ability to turn this hardship into a strength.

As usual, this is the part of the article where I mention that I am not a doctor, or a psychologist. I do not have a degree is social dynamics. This article is nothing but an opinion I have formed through my own experience.
Speaking from my experience, I vividly remember feeling so beaten and burdened by my addiction.
I think once you have escaped the stronghold of addiction, your life changes. You are grateful for things that used to seem irrelevant. More then anything, we are grateful for life. I have realized how precious and fragile of a gift life is, and how quickly it can end. I use this gratitude to motivate me. Every second wasted is a second I will never get back. Time… is in fact, priceless. You can’t buy it, you can’t steal it, you can’t give it away.
Addicts have a curtain way of thinking. We all know the phrase “more then one way to skin a cat.” However morbid that slogan may be, there is a lot of truth to the idea that there is always more than one way to solve a problem. I think addicts understand this. We are creative thinkers. If there is something we decide we want, usually, very little will stand in our way. The problem becomes what we use this energy for. Once I learned to better harness this creative thinking, I found myself being able to achieve and solve very complex situations. The biggest difference is, that the energy I now produce is good energy. I became able to rapidly better my life, as well as the lives of those around me. This positive energy is contagious, and many times, it is exponential. Events stack on top of each other. One day I woke up, and I felt happy. I have never looked back.
The question becomes, what are you going to use your energy towards? This gift of sobriety, and change of perspective, still has the capacity to produce very bad energy. Lots of sober people still do really bad shit. I think the Universe has its own justice system, and in the long run, good will prevail. We all have to look at ourselves in the mirror. The truth is permanent, and the rest will fall by the wayside.
With recovery, came an unprecedented and untapped determination and strength, that I never even know I possessed.
My challenge to you. Use your addiction. Use all the pain, the heartache, the regret, the mistakes, blood, tears and life we have already spent. Use your recovery, as a self fulfilling engine for good. I am a huge believer that we can literally accomplish anything we want. If we can get sober, then we can do anything. Believe it.
In closing. Remember that you are beautiful. You are strong and powerful. You can do anything you set your mind to. Your only limitations are your own insecurities. Fuck that. Push through the fear. If you have recovered from addiction, you can do anything. Believe it, because its true.

Source: http://www.sobernation.com/advantages-addict/

The Key to Life

Nice work in my hometown Pepperell, MA

Just want to say nice work to Bill Greathead! I've know Bill for a long time, shit he personally arrested me multiple times back my younger punk days...but I always respected Bill because he was a real dude. So my hats off to Bill & the Pepperell Police Dept. for saving this kids life.

One Week After Deploying Narcan in Cruisers, Pepperell Police Save First Overdose Victim

PEPPERELL — Police Chief David Scott announces that the Pepperell Police Department, just one week after completing the necessary training to deploy Narcan in its police cruisers, has already saved a life with the overdose-reversing drug,
Early Tuesday, at about 5:30 a.m., Pepperell Police Sergeant William Greathead was the first member of the department to use the new tool – and he saved a life. Pepperell Police and Fire were called to a residence where a 23-year-old male had reportedly overdosed on heroin. The subject was found by Sergeant Greathead and Officer Jared Carrubba on the floor and was unresponsive. Sergeant Greathead decided to use Narcan after recognizing the signs of an overdose that he recently learned at the training session all Pepperell Police Officers attended last week before Narcan was deployed.
The previously unresponsive subject opened his eyes and began responding to questions less than a minute later.
“Narcan is really an amazing drug,” Chief Scott said. “Without it, we would be talking about another overdose fatality in Pepperell. Instead, we are talking about a life saved. But, at the same time, we recognize that Narcan is only one tool in the fight against drugs and drug overdose.”
Opioid overdose is now one of the leading causes of death in Massachusetts, leading Governor Deval Patrick to declare it a public health crisis in March.
Narcan, the brand name for the drug Naloxone, is an “opioid antagonist,” which means it displaces opioid from receptors in the brain and can immediately reverse the effects of an overdose. Narcan is administered nasally, has few side effects, and it will not harm a patient who has not overdosed. Nasal Narcan does not use needles/sharps, further increasing its safety. Narcan can be used to reverse heroin overdose, as well as overdoses of OxyContin, Percocet, Percodan, and hydrocodone drugs like Vicodin.
Though Sergeant Greathead was the one to deploy the Narcan this time, Chief Scott would also like to recognize Pepperell Firefighter/EMT Justin Zink and Paramedic Benjamin Simmons for all of their assistance getting the Narcan deployed in Pepperell cruisers.
“Firefighter Zink wrote a grant that paid for much of the start-up costs associated with the deployment of Narcan, and Paramedic Simmons trained the police officers to use it,” Chief Scott said. “They worked alongside Dr. Scott Murray at Nashoba Valley Medical Center and got it done correctly, and apparently just in time.”

THE MATRIX is Real - Take the Red Pill - IBOGA

Morpheus: I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice. Tumbling down the rabbit hole?
Neo: You could say that.
Morpheus: I can see it in your eyes. You have the look of a man who accepts what he sees because he's expecting to wake up. Ironically, this is not far from the truth. Do you believe in fate, Neo?
Neo: No.
Morpheus: Why not?
Neo: 'Cause I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life.
Morpheus: I know exactly what you mean. Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind -- driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to me. Do you know what I'm talking about?
Neo: The Matrix?
Morpheus: Do you want to know what it is?
(Neo nods his head.)
Morpheus: The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, or when go to church or when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Morpheus: That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage, born inside a prison that you cannot smell, taste, or touch. A prison for your mind. (long pause, sighs) Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.
(In his left hand, Morpheus shows a blue pill.)
Morpheus: You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. (a red pill is shown in his other hand) You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. (Long pause; Neo begins to reach for the red pill) 
Remember -- all I am offering is the truth, nothing more.

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Why we do what we do!

Here is an email my father and I got yesterday, this is why we do what we do!

Gary and Jeff: I would like to personally thank you for the care that Matthew received during his August visit to your facility. I had great hopes but no real expectations as I felt his venture to Costa Rica was an unknown.  His successful experience there far exceeded even my wildest dream.  Matthew speaks so highly of you both and of the others who cared for him.  He is so committed to maintaining the "pure life" and I have every hope that he will do so.  He is such a nice person, always has been, an easy child to raise and so loved by his family.  I hope some day to meet you both.

  

An old Mayan proverb says: "One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies in debt to those who are kind"

- Happy Mom

Iboga and the Roots of Self-Destruction

Check out this article on WakingTimes.com

Iboga and the Roots of Self-Destruction

Happy Birthday To My Dad

I recently took a short break from my blog, today couldn't be a better day to get back at it with a new blog post. Today is a very special day, it's my Dad's birthday. Eliza, Mikayla, and I are getting everything ready for the party we are throwing him at our house in a few hours. I thought I would take the time now to talk about how much my Dad means to me and how grateful I am that he's my Dad. I have been pretty open about the problems my father and I had over the years. For most of my life, we did not get along very well at all. But Iboga has brought us back together, what an amazing gift! I am closer with my Dad now than I have ever been in my life. Through our struggles, he never gave up on me and I never gave up on him. I am so thankful for that and everything that he has done for me. Happy birthday Dad, so proud to be your son. I love you.