Rebekah Senanayake 🐇

PhD Candidate (Anthropology) | Cultural Psychologist | Human flourishing | (Psychedelic) plant medicines | Amazonia | IG: @bekplants

[Rebekah Senanayake 🐇 @bekplants]

New blog post!

The Amazon is home to many of our modern medicine advancements. What does it mean when the present NZ Minister decides to cut funding for Social Sciences and Humanities? We lose access to these valuable fieldsites and sources of knowledge

https://t.co/ybFwYrEyt3

[Rebekah Senanayake 🐇 @bekplants]

Officially migrating to Bluesky: @bekplants.bsky.social

See you there!

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This is where I live!

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@wardwyatt_ @PlantsofGodsPod @DocMarkPlotkin Not to mention it’s absolutely delicious 🤤

[Rebekah Senanayake 🐇 @bekplants]

Sunday ritual: meal pre & learning with the @PlantsofGodsPod. This week I am listening to S6E8: The Ethnobotany of Isolatef and Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples with @DocMarkPlotkin

Highly recommend this episode for anyone interested in traditional knowledge & medicines.

[Rebekah Senanayake 🐇 @bekplants]

@wardwyatt_ @PlantsofGodsPod @DocMarkPlotkin But I was thinking about how my Amazonian friends had so many variants of honey, distinguished by the bees rather than the flower/bush and of course some valued more than others for their health properties.

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@ee_schenberg @MasonMarksMD @SusannahBaruch @CohenProf @PetrieFlom Congratulations!!

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On my way to a women in botany talk in the Botanic Gardens

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“A south Auckland contractor who caused significant environmental damage has been handed one of the largest fines in recent history for resource management breaches.”

https://t.co/3BkynRuI9W

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Weekend listening!

[Plants of the Gods Podcast @PlantsofGodsPod]

New Episode OUT NOW! Join @DocMarkPlotkin on #POTGS6E8 as he explores the secrets of isolated (and even uncontacted!) indigenous groups in the Amazon and their knowledge of healing plants.

Available wherever you get your podcasts (and on youtube)! https://t.co/Xi53wrCL65

[Rebekah Senanayake 🐇 @bekplants]

@PlantsofGodsPod @wardwyatt_ Yes yes yes

[Plants of the Gods Podcast @PlantsofGodsPod]

Western society often romanticizes contact w/ 'untouched' civilizations, wondering: What can we teach them? How will they react to our culture & tech?

We SHOULD ask: What can WE learn from them before it's too late? And how best to help them decide their own fate & future?

[Rebekah Senanayake 🐇 @bekplants]

Happy Sunday 💜

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The Shaggy Mane revisits! This time, we see basically the whole lifecycle from fruiting body to when deliquesces into a black ink.

#GratefulDead #ShaggyMane

Filming by Pamela Kryskow

[Plants of the Gods Podcast @PlantsofGodsPod]

Check out #POTGpod's two-part episodes, "The Plants of the Apes - How Animals Use Medicinal Plants," exploring the fascinating world of #Zoopharmacognosy! #POTGS2E9 #POTGS2E10
🦍🌿🌱🌿🌱
https://t.co/Ov16rTTuWp

[Rebekah Senanayake 🐇 @bekplants]

Thank you Antanika Hoberg for having me in your new podcast: Altered States of Consciousness. We had a great chat on altered states, the Amazon, integration, and moving forward with psychedelic science.

The episode will be out on November 5th.

[Plants of the Gods Podcast @PlantsofGodsPod]

"In Suriname, there’s a saying: “The Amazon holds answers to questions we have yet to ask!”

At this moment, some of those answers are going up in flames." @DocMarkPlotkin
https://t.co/Ofr6qVFzhx

[Rebekah Senanayake 🐇 @bekplants]

Unfortunately these areas of concern and the absence of traditional knowledge perspectives are all-to-common in Psychedelic Science more broadly. It would be of great benefit of Psychedelic Science to consider the wealth of knowledge held in these perspectives.

[Rebekah Senanayake 🐇 @bekplants]

An interesting study on DMT/Harmine combinations for meditators just out. But there are some niggles that I have noticed. The gaps in the present study highlight the desperate need of Psychedelic Science to learn from traditional cultures and practices.

[Rebekah Senanayake 🐇 @bekplants]

Whilst the outputs of the paper are interesting, there are definitely some major areas for concern and a clear need for a more robust understanding of the landscape within which these compounds are traditionally situated, and the repercussions of using such terminologies.