Biognosis: Bridges to Ancestral Wisdom

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In this episode, Marc Caron and Stephen Gray, joined by Casey McFarlane, speak with ethnobotonist Dennis McKenna and film maker Greg Hammer about their two films – “Biognosis: Bridges to Ancestral Wisdom”, and “Back to Camp 41”. Listen in here, or watch on YouTube Here.

Biognosis: Bridges to Ancestral Wisdom

Biognosis shares stories of people who study, use, and protect the healing plants that surround an Amazonian community at a time when traditional knowledge is being lost as rap- idly as the Amazon Rainforest itself.

The McKenna Academy’s Biognosis project aims to renovate and digitize an immensely important collection of 150,000 biological specimens currently housed at the Herbarium of the Amazon in Iquitos, Peru. The herbarium includes vital knowledge on how the indigenous people use the plants for healing. It is our vision to make this reservoir of knowledge and wisdom available for future generations.

Return to Camp 41

On December 25, 2021, the world lost one of its greatest scientists and the “godfather of biodiversity,” Dr. Thomas Lovejoy. Join his family and several of his closest friends and col- leagues on an educational journey and heartfelt mission of love and hope as they travel together to return Dr. Lovejoy’s ashes to the magical place where he devoted his life to understanding and protecting the Amazon rainforest.

Both films; “Back to Camp 41”, and “Biognosis” are projects supported by B Corp film production company Hemmings House through their 1% For the Planet commitment to supporting environmental non-profits. Refreshments, including a botanical beverage bar will be available, compliments of Casey McFarlane. All proceeds go to the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy to support their continued work in cultivating harmony with nature through educational programs, ethnobiological exploration and engagement with indigenous wisdom.

About Dennis McKenna

Dennis McKenna’s research has focused on the interdisciplinary study of Amazonian ethnopharmacology. He has conducted extensive ethnobotanical fieldwork in the Peruvian Amazon. His doctoral research (University of British Columbia,1984) 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.

He is the younger brother of Terence McKenna. From 2000 to 2017, he taught courses on Ethnopharmacology and Plants in Human affairs in the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota.

In 2019, in collaboration with colleagues, he incorporated a new non-profit, the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy. He emigrated to Canada in the spring of 2019 together with his wife Sheila, and now resides in Abbotsford, B.C.

Dr. McKenna is one of our strongest advocates on behalf of the entheogenic plant medicines and is often called upon to speak at related conferences and symposia. He also has a recent memoir The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna

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Visit the McKenna Academy: www.McKenna.Academy

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