New from Tim — "Dennis McKenna — An Ethnopharmacologist on Hallucinogens, Sex-Crazed Cicadas, The Mushrooms of Language, BioGnosis, and Illuminating Obscure Corners"

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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 at the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota. In 2019, in collaboration with colleagues, he incorporated a nonprofit, the [McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy](. Currently, the Academy has several projects underway, with the most immediate being preparations for an upcoming conference in the UK May 23rd–26th, [ESPD55](, which will cover a wide range of topics related to psycho-ethnopharmacology and feature an exclusive, pre-release screening of the McKenna Academy’s first short documentary, [BioGnosis, Bridges to Ancestral Wisdom](). Dennis emigrated to Canada in the spring of 2019 with his wife Sheila and now resides in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Please enjoy! Listen to the episode on [Apple Podcasts](), [Spotify](, [Overcast](, [Podcast Addict](, [Pocket Casts](=), [Castbox](), [Google Podcasts](=), [Amazon Music](=), or on your favorite podcast platform. You can [watch the interview on YouTube here](=). The transcript of this episode [can be found here](). Transcripts of all episodes [can be found here](=). ​ --------------------------------------------------------------- ​ ​This episode is brought to you by [Shopify](=)! 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