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Spiritually Inspired with Dennis McKenna, ethnopharmacologist, psychedelics pioneer.
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Dennis McKenna has conducted research in ethnopharmacology for over 40 years. 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. From 2000 to 2017, he taught courses on Ethnopharmocology and Plants in Human Affairs as an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota.
Dennis is the founder of the McKenna Academy, an incubator that nourishes the emergence of this still embryonic global consciousness. He is the younger brother of Terence McKenna. Dennis authored or co-authored several books among which are: ‘The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss’, The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching, and, published in 1975 (under pseudonyms), Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower’s Guide. He is also the founder of McKenna Academy.
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