Episode #1133
Dennis McKenna
Books mentioned
The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss
Mentioned by Dennis McKenna · at 00:06:20
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The Ayahuasca Reader
Mentioned by Dennis McKenna · at 00:07:48
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Changing Our Minds
Mentioned by Dennis McKenna · at 00:08:39
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The Teachings of Don Juan
Mentioned by Dennis McKenna · at 00:10:55
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The Psilocybin Solution
Mentioned by Dennis McKenna · at 00:31:34
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The Magic Mushroom Explorer
Mentioned by Dennis McKenna · at 00:31:34
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The Invisible Landscape
Mentioned by Dennis McKenna · at 00:57:09
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I Ching
Mentioned by Dennis McKenna · at 00:57:09
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Communion
Mentioned by Dennis McKenna · at 01:20:52
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The Serpent and the Rainbow
Mentioned by Dennis McKenna · at 01:53:17
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One River
Mentioned by Dennis McKenna · at 01:53:29
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Dennis McKenna is an ethnopharmacologist and author, known for his research on psychedelics and as the brother of Terence McKenna. This episode covers his new book on ethnopharmacology, the history of psychedelic research, DMT's role in nature, and his plans for a research center in Peru, along with discussions on consciousness and transhumanism.
What they talked about
- Institute for Ecotechnics and Biosphere 2
- Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs conference
- Michael Pollan's book on psychedelics
- Limitations of clinical psychedelic research
- DMT entities and endogenous DMT debate
- UFO encounters and La Charrera experience
- McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy
- Simulation theory and future of humanity
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