Learn · The lineage
Before he held a single ceremony for other veterans, Cory went to the forest in Gabon and sat as a beginner. He trained at Bwiti House under Moughenda Mikala, a tenth-generation Missoko Bwiti shaman, and came back a graduate of the program. These are photographs from that time.
Why it matters who holds the night
Missoko Bwiti is not a protocol you can download. It is passed from a practitioner to a student in the forest it came from, over weeks, in ceremony. That is the difference between a clinic that administers a compound and a practitioner who can sit with what the night brings up. Cory served ten years as a U.S. Navy SEAL and lived the transition out himself before he found iboga. He then went and learned the tradition where it is from.
The line it comes down
Bwiti House runs the training program in Gabon that our practitioners came through. It was founded by Moughenda Mikala, a tenth-generation Missoko Bwiti shaman, which means the practice reaches him through nine generations before it reached the people who now sit with you in Mexico. Michael Cassidy Mboma was one of the program's first graduates and has more than fifteen years of practice. Cory graduated later and now leads the veterans' retreats alongside him.
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