This document provides an introduction to a presentation on the psychodynamics of opiate addiction and its treatment with ibogaine. It begins by establishing the presenter's perspective and experience with addiction and ibogaine treatment. The presenter was formerly addicted to heroin and other substances for over 20 years, and underwent 14 standard treatment programs before being "saved" by ibogaine treatment. The presentation will examine addiction through various lenses, including Jungian depth psychology, existentialism, anthropology, transpersonal psychology, and mythology. It will also explore ibogaine's ability to interrupt addiction and facilitate healing across multiple dimensions of the human being. Complexes in the psyche and the specific addictive complex will be analyzed. The

1. The Psychodynamics of
Opiate Addiction
and
Its Treatment with Ibogaine
A Multivalent Key to a Disorder of
Multidimensional Human Beings

2. Introduction
• I am a qualitative researcher
– Transparency is necessary to validation
– I should make clear my values, assumptions and premises for your assessment
• I am a Fourth Wave psychologist
– I inhabit an ensouled universe; everyone and everything is made of spirit
– Being is conscious, but only some entities in Becoming are self-reflectively so
– As human beings, higher realms of consciousness are available to us
– Humans are bipartite beings; our psyche and soma are coextensive, so that…
– Our consciousness affects the state and function of our bodies
• I was a heroin addict for 22 years and was on methadone for the last 6 years, also
smoking tobacco for 30 years, so I have intimate knowledge of the characteristics
of addiction
– I undertook 14 standard treatment programs over 17 years, trying to escape
• I was saved by ibogaine (my 15th addiction “treatment”)
– I was a research subject for Dr. Mash on island of St. Kitts, W.I., 1997 (SKM17)
– Ibogaine: addiction interrupter par excelence: I escaped my opiate addiction
– Returned for a second dose there in 1998 (SKM 31), when I stopped tobacco
– Helped form and participated in iboganaut integration circles after St. Kitts
– Met and spoke with dozens of other iboganauts from later clinical rounds
• My story can be found at http://adrianauler.tumblr.com/

3. Tonight I will NOT talk about:
• A review of Sri Aurobindo’s scheme of the stages of the involution
of Source to explicate the fundamental nature of human beings;
• Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic fields as a lens for examining the
energetic characteristics of human beings and our embedded
relationship with Source, Nature, and other beings;
• A hermeneutic comparison of Fourth Wave psychological theories
and perspectives;
• Medical anthropology’s comparison of the traditional practices of
energy medicine: Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the
shamanic healing traditions;
• An anthropological discussion of culturally inherited factors that
generate and maintain addictions;
• The sociological consequences of addiction: comparing addiction to
other disruptive social phenomena that have received more
extensive and effective attention; or
• The use of ibogaine in the Bwiti cult; or its research history in the
West.

4. Wilber’s Four-Quadrant Model of Reality

5. Actions of Ibogaine on the Elements of Addiction in the 1st Quadrant
Personal (within)
•Detoxifying and healing the somatic;
•Reviving and strengthening the will;
•Softening and opening the heart; showing how to live with emotions and
make use of them;
•Psychological clarification, reorientation, and illumination; and
•(Re)Connection with the sacred
Social (without—horizontal)
(Re)Connection with family, friends, tribe, nation, species, biosphere
Transpersonal (without—vertical)
•(Re)Connection with place, soil, ancestors (whose bones are in the ground),
Mother Earth/Gaia; and
•(Re)Connection to star people; gods; God; and one’s place within the cosmos

6. A Multidimensional Human Being
The progressive disease of addiction ramifies like a cancer
throughout the body’s energetic layers

7. Toroidal Assemblage Point & Human Energy Field

8. Aurobindo’s Scheme for the Descent/Involution of the Divine
into Matter – Being into Becoming – the Elements of Psyche

9. Section Scheme
• Introduction
• Six perspectives on addiction
• Thesis: addiction as a complex
– Definition from Jungian depth psychology – Jung/Stein
– Existential perspective – Frankl; Laing
– Anthropological perspective – Bateson
– Psychodynamic energetics of the addictive complex – Jung/Stein
– Transpersonal, COEX Perspective - Grof
– Mythic perspective: the Amfortas Wound – Haule
– Archetypal element – Schoen’s view
– Archetypal element – my suggested alternative: Abandonment
• Entheogenic treatment of opiate addiction
– Current misclassification of ibogaine by government
– Description of the challenge faced by ibogaine in the addict – Revelec
– The relevant abilities of ibogaine – Paicheler; Ravelec; Naranjo
– My Experiences from St. Kitts
• Conclusion

10. Complexes in the Psyche

11. A Structured Complex

12. Exploded view of a carburetor as an analogue
for the addictive complex

13. Elements of the Addictive SuperComplex

14. An Older Complex
Having Grown in Size