Harambe Ibogaine Detox Retreat Centre - Testimonials

Hello I have 27, for more than 10 years I was addicted to morphine and especially the last two years I was falling into the abyss of this drug I had used more than 500mg a day, I lost my marriage and my child and I was attending an center addiction but they no offer alternatives except methadone or another synthetic opiate, until the day I started to search on the net and I am to fall on the site of Catherine and Bilal, so I started to read the positive comments and after a few weeks I decided to have passed the course I send a message to Catherine explaining my problem and she has very quickly answered by explaining the progress and she reassured me a lot.

1 week later I arrived at home Bilal, her husband came to pick me up at the airport, to be honest with you I was very skeptical about the outcome of this detox and I did not really think it could help, well I was wrong, it was a very hard test but Catherine and Bilal are very professional and they knew their job well, the environment is very favourable for a cure, I advise anyone who if you believe in taking plant medicine, you will have a very close family and people who have their hands on their hearts, something that is rare nowadays.

Why you should choose Harambe Ibogaine Detox Centre?
I fully recommend the ibogaine experience with Bilal and Cathy. I had a preconception that they might be two crazy hippies who would encourage me to talk to trees and denounce myself as an animal murderer, but they are just two lovely, knowledgeable and down-to-earth people. As soon as I arrived and got chatting to them and their kids, I felt relaxed and I really enjoyed getting to know the whole family over the course of five days. They also have the loveliest and most well-trained (Ridgeback) dog: Jamma.

They live in a beautiful part of the world and after I recovered from the Ibogaine experience, I spent my time either lying in a hammock in their botanical conservatory, sunbathing on the roof or walking with the dog through the orange groves and eating delicious oranges. By the end of my stay, I felt fully recharged and ready to face the world again.

I fully recommend Cathy, Bilal and this setting over staying in a clinic. They have all the relevant knowledge to ensure you have the experience you need, and probably twice the compassion (compared to clinic doctors).

How was my ibogaine experience?
Cathy picked me up from the airport and took me to their house; when I arrived, Bilal gave me a drink which cleared out my system. Then I just relaxed on my bed and watched films on my laptop and went to sleep. The next morning Bilal gave me the first ibogaine capsule, then another an hour later but nothing was happening. However, I lay there a little longer and I started to enjoy the shard of light coming through the blind turning into a hallucination of a beach. This was just the beginning. Throughout the following few hours as things got more intense, Bilal and Cathy both made regular checks on me without disturbing me (which was perfect). The whole time I was also fully aware of who I was and where I was; I even tried to test myself with thinking of scary stuff and it was fine because I knew that I was in control. As others have said, you do get more sensitive to noise. I would recommend bringing ear plugs because you are in a house and there naturally will be some noise, but for me it wasn’t really a bother.

I cannot really recall any of the visions I had. They were not linked in any emotionally relevant way to me, nor did they show me anything revelatory. However, I was able to think deeply about who I was as a person, the things I said to people and why I said them. It was like, for the first time, I was able to think without all the other opinions and influences from outside casting doubt on the truthfulness of my thoughts and beliefs. I discovered some stuff that really struck on a visceral level, and this was stuff I had already known on an intellectual level but it had never penetrated to motivate active change.

This stuff was mainly my need for attention and focus on myself. I kept remembering snippets of conversations I had had over the past few months and all of them were showing me that the stuff I was saying was designed to draw attention to me (both positive and negative), and the focus was always on how I was presenting myself to the world. The ibogaine also revealed a false self I had developed to mask a fragile ego. This false self was opinionated, controversial and somewhat obnoxious.

After a few hours, the ibogaine began to subside in strength. This is the hardest part because you lay there with your thoughts for the next 24-48 hours and it is really really boring. However, it is vital because you can still think in a creative way and it helps cement and clarify new insights. The next morning after the experience, Bilal brought me fruit, granola and yoghurt (after no food for about 40 hours). I was sooo happy and I definitely felt Stockholm syndrome towards him J.

How do I feel now (3 weeks later)?
In some ways I am not much different. My personality has not changed drastically. I still drink more than I should and I love meat just as much as before. However, I feel like I scraped out a negative and false feeling inside myself. I feel calmer and more compassionate towards my friends and family, and I also feel this more towards myself. I can see aspects of myself that I really like more clearly and I feel less attached and ashamed of my negative traits. It’s like I’ve detached the negative traits from my identity and now they just live in my mind, ready to be slowly destroyed (no rush). Finally, I feel motivated to make active changes towards self-improvement in the form of therapy.

Final advice?
Don’t be afraid to undertake this experience. It will give you what you need.

I wanted to take iboga because I have had a lot of trauma and problems in my life. The relationship with my mother broke early. She turned my siblings against me. As a man, relationships with women seemed to get to a point but not go further due to my mental/emotional blocks. I then went through many problems. By 13 began smoking weed and by 30 I was spending three quarters of my surplus wages on it. I had heard about iboga treatment for a while but was sceptical. My uncle did the treatment and he directed me to www.harambedetox.com

When I arrived at Harambe Detox I felt safe with them. They are very practical and down to earth; they are not fake shamans and are respectful of the medicine and they give all the credit to the medicine and not themselves. The iboga was something else! I was in another world of confusing visions and crazy dreams. Every one´s visions/experience is different so I won’t go into the details. When I awoke, I felt an amazing calmness, happiness and lack of cravings. I could think about weed and not feel that I needed to smoke it, not even tobacco! This has created an amazing freedom in my life. Now I look at the situation with my family and not feel the rage and disappointment that I once felt. Having so much more money and being free of addiction is a great feeling!

I still feel that I have more exploring to do with iboga and I will be coming back to do more. Catherine explained that we are like onions, and each treatment peels of a layer. In my opinion, everyone should take it in their lives. I would say Catherine and Bilal are humble not to give themselves credit as they are concerned, very caring and watchful, there to help you if you need.

You have to be ready to write a success story and I was not. At least not yet.

I went to Valencia for a one week stay in May 2017. Despite the 2 negative reviews, I found it to be exactly as advertised. Cathy picked me up at the airport with the 2 little ones in the back seat. The kids were 4 and 9 at the time and just the way kids that age are. The room I was in had an own bathroom, food and drinks were provided.

Now to the treatment itself. I was still on my medication, namely 800mg of xr morphine daily. Even though I’d didn’t take it the day of the treatment, I took it the day before.

To get the full psychedelic effect of ibogaine, one should be already clean or further into withdrawal. Not in full withdrawal, but further than I was when I got the first dose. There is of course the factor of me being an absolute sissy about wd’s.

I didn’t have a visual trip, didn’t have any revelations but except for some restless legs, sweating and shivering I didn’t have any wd symptoms either. So, it works and if you’re ready to go home sober and keep it that way, ibogaine is a valuable tool to get there. I literally skipped the worst part of withdrawal. The next day I was really weakened, but since I couldn’t stand being in that room with my own thoughts, I sought out Bilal and talked a little, went for a shaky walk around the house and then back to bed.

It’s not easy, but it’s the best chance I have. I relapsed after 24 hours back home. But I will definitely go back to take two flood doses when I’m finished with university. The service Cathy and Bilal provide fills the gap between shady clinics in eastern Europe, expensive retreats in Mexico that don’t give out full flood doses (as I hear) and doing it alone at home, which is dangerous.

I want to mention that I threw up a lot during the final stages of the ‘trip’ and since it might’ve been blood Cathy didn’t hesitate a second to take me to the hospital.

Looking forward to doing it right the next time. Even though I relapsed I’m glad I did the experience. Now I know for sure that there’s a way out that works.

Anledningen till att jag bestämde mig för att åkte ner till Harambe Ibogaine rehab var för att jag i ungefär 5års tid efter ett dödstrauma med jämna mellanrum känt mig deprimerad med panikångest attacker som följd och inte lyckats att få bort dessa känslor o tankar på traditionel medicinsk eller terapeftisk väg.

Oktober 2013 åkte jag till Peru o provade Ayahuaska med positivt resultat som varade i ungefär i 3-4 månader. Känslorna o tankarna återkom. Januari 2015 kände jag att nu var det dax igen att göra något åt min situation, fick kontakt med Bilal o Cathy på Harambe Ibogaine Rehab o kände direkt en famlijär o personlig känsla som jag ville jobba vidare på. Bokade in mig på en 10dagars behandling o åkte ner. Väl nere hos Bilal o Cathy så kände jag mig som en i familjen o nervositeten o spänningarna försvann.

Vi planerade upp att jag skulle ta Ibogaine vid 2 olika tillfällen under dom här 10 dagarna. Efter 1:a resan/dosen som varade i ungefär 5-6 timmar med ett vilo dygn kände jag mig fantastiskt mycket bättre, den här medicinen jobbar verkligen på djupet av en själv o rensade bort mina dåliga känslor o tankar som jag har burit med mig i så många år. Jag har bara känt mig bättre o bättre för varje dag som gått sedan behandlingen.

Efter 3dagar bestämde jag mig för att inte ta en 2:a dos och Bilal han höll med för han tyckte att vi gjort stora framsteg, det kändes härligt. Jag åkte hem efter 6dagar som en ny människa. Jag vill verkligen tacka Bilal o Cathy för deras härliga stöd under dom här sex dagarna och jag rekommenderar verkligen deras behandlingsform. Om jag ska jämnföra Ayahuaska o Ibogaine så kändes det som om att Ibogaine går mer på djupet med en som person o tar bort negativa känslor o tankar som kan fastna som minnen i kroppen, härlig känsla , 5kilo lättare fysiskt, 200kg lättare mentalt.:)

Dejan

Going to Spain to Harambe Detox changed my life, recovered/even disclosed my personality, gave me strength, clarity and peace.

Using cocaine and alcohol to escape pressure and daily routine but also to cover vulnerability, missing confidence and self-respect made me sick and unhappy. It changed my personality, took my sensibility, detached me from beloved people because of inability to love.

Psychotherapy, expensive clinical rehabilitation and the personal strength of thought did not help to get out of the wheel. With no option at hand and a horrible life to bear, the treatment with Iboga crystallized as the only possible way to go.

It was physically and mentally very intense but I was looked after with cosiness and understanding like in mothers’ arms. I felt secure, had no fear.

After treatment, before thinking about the meaning of my sub-conscious journey, I noticed a very strong feeling of happiness, just me with myself, alone, nothing and no-one involved, a feeling I never had before. This is what was missing in my life, I found it, no one could have helped me, only me and the curative effect of Iboga.

In this way, everyone going on the trip, makes his unique discovery, maybe a decision, a revelation or just a feeling, as I did. I am a very pragmatic, and structured person with regular job and family. I met people at Harambe Detox with completely different problems, addictions, personalities also having completely different visions/conclusions after their treatment, meaning, independent what and who you are, you will find something with Iboga, that can really help you and will hopefully last for a very long time (forever).

Catherine and Bilal, you helped me to change my life.

I have no words to say how much I thank you for everything.