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We cultivate harmony with nature through educational programs, ethnobiological exploration and engagement with indigenous wisdom. ☀️ @dennismckenna4

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At the Mckenna Academy we cultivate harmony with nature through educational programs, ethnobiological exploration and engagement with indigenous wisdom.

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Tomorrow, Dennis McKenna gives a virtual talk at the II Simposio Psiconauta: Navegación & Vanguardia.

“After the revolution: natural psychedelics and the right to symbiosis.”

🗓 Tue Oct 27
🕔 17:00 Chile · 21:00 CET · 16:00 ET

Hosted by Fundación Lobeliana

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Science or spirit? For clinical herbalist Kat Maier, there's no line. "You do both."
40+ years with the plants and a book that reframes healing as reading your inner landscape.

New Brainforest Café with Dennis McKenna 🌿
https://t.co/LotqvQrnqi

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Tiny, colorfully dressed people climbing the walls. Jumping into your soup.

Mycologist Colin Domnauer tracked this "little people" effect to one bolete mushroom: Lanmaoa asiatica.

He joins Dennis McKenna on the Brainforest Café  
🍄https://t.co/VtsIP0k20G

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Oct 10, St. Andrews NB 🌿 Dr. Dennis McKenna & filmmaker Greg Hemmings present Bridges to Ancestral Wisdom: 4 films, keynotes on Coca, Huachuma & the ESPD legacy, live music by Ryan Leblanc and a Q&A.

🎟️ Get your tickets: https://t.co/ELQjApoQDX

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Everything resonates. Everything that resonates has some flicker of mind.

Tam Hunt's new book The Hippies Were Right! argues your brain is not a digital computer. It's a field computer.

He joins Dennis McKenna on the Brainforest Café.

https://t.co/8GHFx6yLBk

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Two films at the World Ayahuasca Forum in Girona, presented by MKA Advisory Board member Annette Badenhorst. Both on Saturday 12th:

The Healing Circle (6 min), Chill Out Room, Hall 4, Thematic S.2
Just Our Heart, 11:00, Carlemany Hotel

Join us for one or both.

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Part 2 of Dennis McKenna's conversation with Jonathan Dickinson is live.

Inside ibogaine: the voices people meet, the molecule one researcher called a modern key, and the long road to FDA acceptance.

New here? Start with Part 1.

🎧 Listen now: https://t.co/lQgiwbSg1v

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New on the Brainforest Café: Dennis McKenna talks with Jonathan Dickinson, one of the world's leading voices on ibogaine.

Part 1 traces his path from harm reduction in Vancouver to Bwiti initiation in Gabon.

Part 2 lands later this week.

🎧 Listen now: https://t.co/QnkDlVRPXt

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New on the Brainforest Café: Dennis McKenna talks with Jonathan Dickinson, one of the world's leading voices on ibogaine.

Part 1 traces his path from harm reduction in Vancouver to Bwiti initiation in Gabon.

Part 2 lands later this week.

🎧 Listen now: https://t.co/QnkDlVRPXt

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Colombia is the forgotten cradle of ayahuasca.

Dennis McKenna talks with Sam Believ about the tradition tourism overlooked, growing the vine without felling a tree, and why set and setting decide everything.
New Brainforest Café episode out now.

Watch: https://t.co/x3KFD1DIyE

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The ALPS Conference returns to Aarau, 9-10 Oct 2026. Switzerland's largest gathering on evidence-based psychedelic science & mental health: ~16 speakers, panels, posters. New: a multilingual workshop day, 8 Oct. Early-bird until 20 Sept.
https://t.co/BfB2dXxBCH

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Patricia Eastman and Dennis McKenna explore psychedelic healing, kintsugi, ancestral wisdom, Patricia’s book Seeding Consciousness, and her upcoming retreat center in the Azores. A powerful conversation on ritual, nature, and transformation.

Watch here: https://t.co/rRmtVSaKzn

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Our friend Alexander Boëthus shared this beautiful video he made for the World Ayahuasca Forum. 🌿

Girona, Spain, Sept 11-13. Ancestral voices, researchers, artists and allies gathering for a new time of alliance. Dennis McKenna among them.

https://t.co/0ygN6nMPOW

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This Sept, something exceptional happens in Girona: the World Ayahuasca Forum—a historic convergence of Indigenous leaders, researchers, artists & allies. Not a usual conference. A New Time of Alliance. 11–13 Sept + pre-events. 
Use WAF2026 for 10% off. 
https://t.co/52qzVca8me

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Dennis McKenna talks with Carlos Tanner about ayahuasca, addiction recovery, ethical retreat work, indigenous wisdom, and why healing in the Amazon is really about relationship—with plants, people, and nature. 
Watch here: https://t.co/cTQPTjLxDQ

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A Stanford MBA running Willka T’ika Wellness Retreat in Peru… what could go wrong?
"Special Guests" by Terry Cumes is a funny, chaotic, and insightful story about healing, identity, and life in the Sacred Valley.

Find the book here: https://t.co/sKO80WJDgZ

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Could plants help replace animal testing? Matt Metcalf explains how Mimosa pudica, pea seedlings, and AI are being used to build non-animal drug assays in a fascinating conversation about ethics, pharmacology, and scientific creativity. 
Watch here: https://t.co/ed2RCPDIz9

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The final Capstone Edition of Galactic Trading Cards is now available! A visionary Art Oracle & Microgallery featuring art from 119 artists in 27 countries on 6 continents. The journey is complete. ✨

Check them out 
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What if the future of medicine is already on your plate? 
Cedric Baker and Dennis McKenna explore food as medicine, longevity, biopiracy, and the power of traditional plant knowledge in this fascinating episode.
Watch here: https://t.co/yryV2avztu

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What if psychedelic medicine could be made sustainably through bioengineering? Jeffrey Gerst and Dennis McKenna discuss mRNA trafficking, scalable production, indigenous reciprocity, and the ethics of biotech psychedelics. 
Watch here: https://t.co/P6OB2JXOPC