Here he discusses a variety of plants that are used for both medicinal and entheogenic purposes – including dandelions, mescal, psilocybin mushrooms, cannabis, coca, and ayahuasca. He points out that the use of these substances throughout the world goes back far in history. They emerged from cultures that believed in animistic spiritual forces. Modern, industrial cultures tend to abuse these medicines.
Dennis McKenna is an ethnopharmacologist, author, and brother to well-known psychedelics proponent Terence McKenna.
OUTLINE
00:00:00 - The brotherhood of the screaming abyss
00:11:56 - Discovering Ayahuasca
00:23:35 - Psilocybin mushrooms in La Chorrera
00:32:20 - The transcendental object at the end of time
00:46:34 - Timewave Zero
01:00:45 - Dennis' disagreement w/ Terence
01:16:25 - Terence McKenna was a complex person
01:28:25 - Mushrooms are the ideal psychedelic
01:46:26 - Set & setting
01:57:06 - The reality hallucination
02:05:34 - We're made of drugs
02:12:40 - Stoned ape theory
02:21:38 - The Extratempestrial Model
02:29:43 - Galen & ancient drugs
02:32:59 - Extracting drugs from plants
02:43:44 - Psychedelics as medicine
02:48:07 - Cocaine
03:03:59 - New coca leaf study
03:10:53 - The biognosis project
03:23:40 - Extended state DMT studies
