Oct 6, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min · 13 segments
Marissa Franco is a Bwiti initiate, threshold doula, and co-lead facilitator at the Illuminating Collective in Austin. She shares the spiritual side of ibogaine that rarely gets talked about, from a…
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Now fast-track multiple years later And I went to, um, Gabon through a dream.

I had a dream a few years before the invitation came, where I was sitting around a fireplace with all these, um, African chiefs and these sort of ancestor beings.

Um, quick side note, my, I found out my lineage comes from Senegal, which is also an area where iboga may be growing too.
Hmm.
Wow.
Cool.

And in the dream, um, just to paraphrase here, they, they said that I was gonna be going somewhere to get initiated.

And so I looked for years to try to find that invitation, and, um, it never came until I stopped looking.
In your dream, you, you were being told you're gonna be initiated.
You're gonna go somewhere.
Okay.

Yeah, and then I woke up, and then I was like, "Oh, okay, it's gonna happen," but it never did-
Hmm
How many times did you have that dream?
Oh, okay.
Wow.

B- I think this is something, at least for me in my experience, is there's different types of dreams, and there's some dreams that are so loud and so strong and so forceful, and they're designed to stay with you as a little mile marker in your journey.

Now fast-track multiple years later And I went to, um, Gabon through a dream.

I had a dream a few years before the invitation came, where I was sitting around a fireplace with all these, um, African chiefs and these sort of ancestor beings.

Um, quick side note, my, I found out my lineage comes from Senegal, which is also an area where iboga may be growing too.
Hmm.
Wow.
Cool.

And in the dream, um, just to paraphrase here, they, they said that I was gonna be going somewhere to get initiated.

And so I looked for years to try to find that invitation, and, um, it never came until I stopped looking.
In your dream, you, you were being told you're gonna be initiated.
You're gonna go somewhere.
Okay.

Yeah, and then I woke up, and then I was like, "Oh, okay, it's gonna happen," but it never did-
Hmm
How many times did you have that dream?
Oh, okay.
Wow.

B- I think this is something, at least for me in my experience, is there's different types of dreams, and there's some dreams that are so loud and so strong and so forceful, and they're designed to stay with you as a little mile marker in your journey.
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