Welcome to Otherworld.
I'm your host, Jack Wagner.
This is part two of Down the Silver Strand.
If you haven't heard the first part, you should definitely go back and start at the beginning.
In part one, we met Jake,
who is a Navy SWCC veteran who sustained a traumatic brain injury from heavy machine gun fire during his time in the military.
This injury, also known as a TBI,
had horrible daily symptoms that only got worse with time and pushed Jake to the point where he considered taking his own life.
After exhausting every available doctor and resource at his disposal,
Jake decided to travel to Mexico to undergo a treatment using Ibogaine and five MEO DMT.
These are two ancient sacred medicines with long ceremonial histories that are now being examined by Western researchers for their potential to treat a wide range of conditions.
I know that part of the reason Jake wanted to share his own story on the show is that treatments like these might be intimidating or completely unknown to the people who need it most.
I think sharing this is important and also incredibly fascinating to hear such a vivid description of it.
With that, let's get back into the second part of Jake's story.
He has just woken up.
in Rosarito, Mexico, after taking Ibogaine, and is about to begin his day of DMT.
This episode is called Down the Silver Strand, Part Two, and you're listening to Otherworld.
Everything moves back into the light, even if it takes them a minute.
I woke up the next day, and the first thought that popped into my head was,
I get to feel like this every day.