Comments on: WEST AFRICAN ZOMBIE RELIGION

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 01:28:38 +0000

Interesting ideas. This article needs some serious spellcheck.

By: Jeremy Wold

Jeremy Wold — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:38:09 +0000

Ibogaine is a psychoactive drug found in the Iboga plant that is commonly used to treat dope-sickness, and when drunk with a tea containing MAOI inhibitors, can offer a particularly strange and introspective hallucinogenic experience, with some nice visuals to tout. People who take hallucinogenics expecting to “see” anything do. Take acid thinking your gunna see spiders, you probably will. What’s most interesting here is the fact that this African tribe recognizes that alter your brains ability to intemperate it’s senses, and managed to build an entire religion around this drug. They got high, their brain changed frequencies and they were able to astral project while in a conscious state. Whohoo. Sounds like a typical Friday night.

By: BzD

BzD — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:49:38 +0000

I’d like to see studies on this as well. If the participants continue all other functions perfectly, there’s really no reason to doubt it. If that is the only side effect of the plant, no other hallucinations, for lack of better words from a skeptic, and there is no distortion of judgment or alteration in motor skills like many drugs – including lethargy – then there’s really no reason to look into it further. (it’s kind of obvious what my opinion is here)

Personally, I’d like to see two people both partaking in the ritual, one attempting to disprove the plant, the other unaware of the firsts intentions. The first would point out zombies s/he sees (assuming they see any first) and describe them to person number two so as to see if person number two sees these same physical entities. Then describe one s/he doesn’t see and if the second person sees it anyway. *shrug* Testimony can be enough evidence sometimes.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:40:07 +0000

I’d like to take part in this ritual myself and see what happens. I think this is one of the times that you will see exactly whatever you had expected to see beforehand.

By: Gingerlord

Gingerlord — Sat, 15 May 2010 04:04:46 +0000

That’s a very interesting theory, and very worth investigating just to see if its true.