Two major religious movements involving such usage have emerged during the last 150 years, both synchronizing with Christianity and both taking shape at the national-ethnic level.

1. The American Indian Church in Arizona that uses the peyote plant.

2. The Beviti religion, practiced by the people of Fang (an ethnic group in Guinea) and other places in equatorial Africa who use the T. iboga plant.

- In contrast to the peutal religion, which was considered by the Indians to be exclusive (this is a liberation movement of their people), Beviti is considered a universal and monotheistic religion accessible to everyone.

• Accusations of criminal and satanic witchcraft that the Iboga visions produce have always been a part of Bewitt history. The persecutions carried out by missionaries - with the approval of the French colonial government - were especially felt in the years 1920-1940.

• The Baptist criticism of Christianity is that in the church you talk to God, with Iboga you live God.

The iboga replaces the Catholic priest in practice and in concept.

The structure of religion and mythology:

The free interpretation of the values ​​expressed by the Beviti movement led to the creation of many sects, each of which has its own founding father and its own strange relationship with Christianity.

There is no rivalry between the communities and you can join more than one (provided they invite you). Each sect consists of a group of 10-50 people, who usually live in the same village, where the Beviti (abeñ) temple is located, around the temple there are dozens of T. Iboga bushes.

At the head of the community is Nima - the religious leader, after him - Yamba a priest who oversees the worship during the ceremony, then there is the temple guard, the director of the dances and the harp players.

At the top of Baviist mythology there is one god, Nezme Mbege-parallel to the Christian god, but less angry and vengeful (there is no hell in Witty).

Initiation ceremony:

This ceremony is experienced by those who wish to join the community and it mainly consists of taking a large dose of the iboga root.

Before the ceremony, they offer an offering to the jungle and trees, confess to the priest and go through the rite of baptism.

The trainee must drink the massive dose slowly, for 7-12 hours. The effects of the iboga last for about three days and nights. The trainee will lie down on the floor during this time, with the help of a couple who is considered a father and mother in the initiation process.

Usually, during the third night, one of the priests will prick the apprentice with a thorn to ensure his separation from the outside world. If he does not respond, it is understood that he is at the peak of the experience (epopteia).

During the vision, the trainee makes journeys to the land of the dead who act as mediators with the heavenly forces. The trainee may even encounter his ancestors or other people familiar to him. The hallucinations experienced during the trip are full of deep, personal and cultural symbolic meaning.

After the three days and nights the trainee awakens to a new life. Sometimes energetic intervention on the part of the priest is necessary to wake up and ground the trainee.

A long sleep, which may last several days, concludes the initiation ceremony.

As an ecstatic religion, the Baviites rely on hallucinations and the integrative experience after the ritual to present their teachings as legitimate. It is the instructive experience that actually brings faith.

This act of faith in Christianity should precede any act of determination and conviction.

Night rituals:

Most Iboga ceremonies take place at night.

The Baptists are well aware of the importance of community dosage in order to bring about the positive results desired for a collective experience.

- There is sometimes the presence of alcohol in the ceremonies, contrary to the general tendency that sees it as inappropriate, the Bovists claim that the alcohol allows them to dance for long periods of time (many of the dances last more than an hour).

Alcohol is used as a physical stimulant for them, while the brain is controlled by the iboga.

Psychotherapeutic aspects of the cult:

There is no shortage of people among the Bevits with a great interest in curing diseases.

The use of iboga brings together many communities and sects with the practices of the Ombwiri—an influential healing society that exists within the same ethno-geographical boundaries as the Bewiti.

This practice also involves taking iboga, through which the patient makes contact with the Imviri-jinn in human form who live in the invisible world.

- About 40 Imbivir genes are known, each of which is identified with a group of diseases that it can cure.

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Sources:

-flesh of the Gods.

- encyclopedia of psychoactive plants

- https://www.drugs.com/npp/iboga.html

- https://ibogainedossier.com/samorini.html#intro