Host: Dennis McKenna 5 Sessions, starts June 17 Discover how to apply insights from the emerging "intelligent nature" paradigm to your life with the field's leading pioneers. What can you learn from the brilliance of nature? A new paradigm is emerging that recasts how we relate to and understand nature, supported by new scientific evidence. Plants instruct us through their behavior, through their interdependence with the environment, and through direct transmissions conveyed by spirit. As we grow more sensitive to…

I wanted to let folks know about this wonderful upcoming festival in Groningen, Netherlands. I'll be there along with visionary painter Anderson de Bernardi and, oh, 5000 or so of our closest friends! Please come join the fun if you happen to be close; and if you happen to be far, well it's still not too late to rearrange your life, make your reservations and show up! See you there!    

Join legedary ethnopharmacologist and neuroscientist, Dennis McKenna, for a talk on his new memoir, The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna, which recalls the brother's 1971 quest for psychedelic secrets in the steamy rainforests of the Amazon that changed them, and everything, forever, though not in the ways they had anticipated.

The use of visionary/healing/awakening plants—such as ayahuasca, psilocybe mushrooms, iboga, peyote, cannabis, wachuma (San Pedro), and semi-synthetic substances like LSD and MDMA—is spreading rapidly during this period of intensified change. These allies may be the most direct and effective teachers many of us have now when we meet them in the best of conditions (set and setting) and are able to integrate the insights and openings into our daily lives. The Spirit Plant Medicine Conference is now in its fourth…

This half-day seminar will cover several topics, all loosely tied together by the unifying theme of psychedelics. The first part will focus on Dennis’ memoir, The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna. Dennis will do a reading and signing of his book, and unpack some of the themes addressed therein: ‘Although our ostensible mission was a search for exotic, indigenous hallucinogens, in fact our real goal, unknown even to us at the time, was a quest…

If you happen to be in the San Luis Obispo/Bradley area on Memorial Day Weekend, come on out for the Lightening in a Bottle Festival and celebrate with 15,000 or so of your closest friends! In other words, a nice, intimate gathering. There will be music — lots of music — dance, lectures, art, ecstasy and madness. In other words, lots of FUN! I will be there for most of it, flogging books and giving a lecture on the main…

Join Dennis McKenna for an evening of tales and adventure in consciousness, a stimulating Q&A, and a trip down memory lane with one of the leading lights in the field of psychedelics. For his first time in the UK, Dennis will be discussing his book 'The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna'. He will be sharing his personal experiences of growing up with Terrence, their time in the Amazon and their empirical research into psychedelics. A…

Plant Human Coevolution Origins Of The Imagination (Day1) Imagination makes us human. Yet we rarely stop to consider where the imagination came from. If evolution endows nature’s creatures with traits that aid in survival and reproduction, what may she have intended when she created the imagination? And from a physiological perspective, how may the imagination have come about? Dennis will discuss how our ancestors’ interactions with plants over millions of years may have laid the foundation for imagination. The biochemical…