#523: Dennis McKenna — The Depths of Ayahuasca: 500+ Sessions, Fundamentals, Advanced Topics, Science, Churches, Learnings, Warnings, and Beyond

Dennis McKenna - The Depths of Ayahuasca: 500+
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Dennis McKenna (@DennisMcKenna4) has spent
more than 40 years researching the interdisciplinary study of
Amazonian ethnopharmacology and plant hallucinogens. He has
conducted extensive ethnobotanical fieldwork in the Peruvian,
Colombian, and Brazilian Amazon.


His doctoral research at the University of British Columbia
focused on the ethnopharmacology of ayahuasca and oo-koo-he, two
tryptamine-based hallucinogens used by indigenous peoples in the
Northwest Amazon.


He is a founding board member of the Heffter Research
Institute, and was a key organizer and participant in the Hoasca
Project, the first biomedical investigation of ayahuasca used by
the UDV, a Brazilian religious group. He is the younger brother
of Terence McKenna.


From 2000 to 2017, he taught courses on ethnopharmacology as well
as plants in human affairs in the Center for Spirituality and
Healing at the University of Minnesota. In 2019, in collaboration
with colleagues, he incorporated a new non-profit,
the McKenna Academy of Natural
Philosophy. He emigrated to Canada
in the spring of 2019 together with his wife Sheila, and now
resides in Abbotsford, B.C.


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