[NEW EPISODE] Confessions of a Psychedelic Elder: Dennis McKenna

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An interview with the famed ethnobotanical explorer on his lifetime of curiosity

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The great Dennis McKenna is author of the classic book The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna. He is a founding board member of the Heffter Research Institute and was a key investigator on the Hoasca Project, the first biomedical investigation of Ayahuasca—a potent rain forest concoction containing the active ingredient DMT. From 2000 to 2017, he taught courses on ethnopharmacology and plants in human affairs as an adjunct assistant

professor in the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota. He is the managing editor of the historic fifty-year anniversary publication documenting the worldwide symposium Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs (ESPD).

In the spring of 2019, in collaboration with colleagues in Canada and the U.S., he incorporated a new nonprofit, the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy. He emigrated to Canada in the spring of 2019 together with his wife Sheila, and he now resides in Abbotsford B.C

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