Join the Awake community for a free event about the entheogenic aka psychedelic plant medicine iboga and it’s root bark extract ibogaine, and the powerful journey of addiction-interruption, healing, and redemption it initiates for those struggling with deadly addictions like fentanyl, opioid, meth, alcohol, prescription meds, even sugar.

Hear from experts and experiencers.

Attend in person (if you’re in Denver/Boulder) or by Zoom.

Date: Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Time: 1:30 pm to 7 pm
Location: Canyon Theater, Boulder Library and on Zoom
Audience:  Adult

This event is sponsored and produced by Awake Media for sister company Awake.net, a 501(c)(3)-approved non-profit with the mission of ending addiction and saving lives one ibogaine treatment at a time. We are hosting free monthly public events at the Boulder Library Canyon Theater to educate people about plant medicine options available for ending addiction, healing ptsd, finding meaning and purpose in life, and connecting with the divine through direct experience. We will bring in experts from all over the world to these monthly events, either in person or by Zoom with live moderators on stage.

The live moderators for this event are Awake co-founder and president Lakshmi Narayan, Awake Community Builder George Monty, Awake FEAT Care Team Ibogaine Expert Asha Caravelli and Ben (Doc) Askins, MD, veteran and Ketamine doc. 

What is Ibogaine?

Ibogaine is a whitish powder that is contained inside the root bark of the Tabernathe iboga shrub, found in Central West Africa, as well as in a plant called Voacanga. Ibogaine has the amazing quality of physiologically interrupting addiction by restoring addiction receptors in the brain to a “pre-addicted” state in a single medically supervised treatment. Because iboga is a psychedelic aka entheogenic plant medicine, it is not available inside the US medical system. Over the years thousands of people have ended their addiction and redeemed their lives with the help of ibogaine or other plant medicines by traveling to Mexico or Canada or other parts of the world where it is legal or semi-legal. At Awake.net our non-profit goal is to raise $100 million to fund 10,000 individual treatments using the medical tourism model, and to build a community of mentors and masters on our platform who can raise awareness about entheogenic plant medicines and their power to heal and awaken and offer a model for actually healing and redeeming the individual.

It takes a village, as they say.