Dennis McKenna

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Dennis McKenna
McKenna at a Synergetic Symposium in 2021
Born
Dennis Jon McKenna

(1950-12-17) December 17, 1950 (age 73)
Paonia, Colorado, U.S.
Occupations
RelativesTerence McKenna (brother)
McKenna's voice
On Ayahuasca
Recorded July 2013

Dennis Jon McKenna (born December 17, 1950, in

psychedelics proponent Terence McKenna and is a founding board member and the director of ethnopharmacology at the Heffter Research Institute, a non-profit organization concerned with the investigation of the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelic medicines.[2]

Education

McKenna received his Master's degree in botany at the

University of Hawaii in 1979.[3] He received his doctorate in botanical sciences in 1984 from the University of British Columbia,[2] where he wrote a dissertation titled Monoamine oxidase inhibitors in Amazonian hallucinogenic plants: ethnobotanical, phytochemical, and pharmacological investigations. McKenna then received post-doctoral research fellowships in the Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology, National Institute of Mental Health, and in the Department of Neurology, Stanford University School of Medicine.[2]

Career

McKenna's research led to the development of natural products for

research scientist for the Natural Health Products Research Group at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in the Vancouver area.[citation needed
]

His research has included the

Amazon.[citation needed
]

Psilocybin mushroom cultivation

Main article: Terence McKenna § Psilocybin mushroom cultivation

During the early 1970s Jeremy Bigwood and the McKenna brothers developed a technique for

psilocybin mushrooms and they published what they had learned in a book titled Psilocybin - Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide. The team of Bigwood and the McKennas were the first to come up with a reliable method for cultivating psilocybin mushrooms at home.[4]

Other

McKenna's memoir, The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss, about his and his brother Terence's life and journeys together, was published in 2012.[5]

He is featured in the documentary DMT: The Spirit Molecule.[6]

McKenna participated in the first Evolver Convergence 2012 in Pittsburgh, June 1–4.[7]

He has been the main guest several times on the popular radio show Coast to Coast AM. His last appearance on the show was the Sunday March 23, 2014, episode.[8]

On December 16, 2012, April 17, 2017, and June 21, 2018, McKenna was the guest on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.[9]

Dennis was also a key guest on The Cosmic Echo Podcast on September 18, 2018. [10]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ Solomon, Avi (June 9, 2011). Interview: Dennis McKenna. BoingBoing.net. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "Heffter - Our Board Of Directors". Archived from the original on April 29, 2014. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
  3. ^ "Famous University Of Hawaii Alumni". Ranker. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
  4. ^
    ISBN 0767907434
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  5. ^ Dennis McKenna (April 7, 2011), The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss!, Kickstarter.com, retrieved December 25, 2012
  6. ^ "Full cast and crew", DMT: The Spirit Molecule, IMDb, 2010
  7. ^ The Evolver Convergence, Facebook, retrieved December 25, 2012
  8. ^ "Dennis McKenna".
  9. YouTube
  10. ^ "Dennis McKenna psychedelic Indiana Jones Cosmic Echo". September 18, 2018.

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