web02.fireside.fm Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:15:25 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) MAPS Canada Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “The Mckenna Academy” https://podcast.mapscanada.org/tags/the%20mckenna%20academy Mon, 01 May 2023 17:15:00 -0700 As you explore the promising world of psychedelic healing, the MAPS Canada Podcast is your resource for science-based information, learning, and invigorating conversation! Tune in to keep up to date with the international psychedelic movement. MAPS Canada works with partners in government, business, and the community to advance equitable access to legal and regulated psychedelic medicine in Canada by supporting scientific, multidisciplinary research; advocating for drug policy reform; offering public education. Subscribe to our Youtube channel for the full experience of the video podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@MAPSCanada Become part of the psychedelic renaissance by donating at https://mapscanada.org/donate/ en-us episodic Exploring the frontiers of psychedelic science. MAPS Canada As you explore the promising world of psychedelic healing, the MAPS Canada Podcast is your resource for science-based information, learning, and invigorating conversation! Tune in to keep up to date with the international psychedelic movement. MAPS Canada works with partners in government, business, and the community to advance equitable access to legal and regulated psychedelic medicine in Canada by supporting scientific, multidisciplinary research; advocating for drug policy reform; offering public education. Subscribe to our Youtube channel for the full experience of the video podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@MAPSCanada Become part of the psychedelic renaissance by donating at https://mapscanada.org/donate/ no microdose, micro, dose, micro-dose, psychedelic, psychedelics, science, renaissance, research, mental health, therapy, history, LSD, psilocybin, DMT, mescaline, peyote, hollywood hospital, MKUltra, MK Ultra, Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Vancouver, MAPS, MAPS Canada, mushrooms, shrooms, shroom, magic, magic mushroom MAPS Canada admin@mapscanada.org Episode 8: Can Psychedelic Help Solve The Climate Crisis? | Podcast with Dr. Dennis McKenna https://podcast.mapscanada.org/8 6efb7da2-5842-4f90-9e08-284ad0c6a7a5 Mon, 01 May 2023 17:15:00 -0700 MAPS Canada full MAPS Canada 1:03:28 no In this episode Dennis McKenna joins MAPS Canada in discussing Ayahuasca tourism, the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy, Biognosis, the future of the psychedelic movement and the counter-force to the movement—the "war on consciousness". Dennis McKenna has conducted research in ethnopharmacology for over 40 years. He is a founding board member of the Heffter Research Institute and was a key investigator on the Hoasca Project, the first biomedical investigation of ayahuasca. He was part of the original Scientific Strategy Team at Shaman Pharmaceuticals in the early 90s. He is the younger brother of Terence McKenna. From 2000 to 2017, he taught courses on Ethnopharmacology and Plants in Human affairs as an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota. In the spring of 2019, in collaboration with colleagues in Canada and the US, he incorporated a new non-profit, the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy. In collaboration with colleagues he organized two landmark conferences in 2017 and 2022, the Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs (see ESPD50.com and ESPD55.com) He emigrated to Canada in the spring of 2019 together with his wife Sheila, and now resides in Abbotsford B.C. Learn more about the McKenna Academy, Biognosis and how you can support, here: https://mckenna.academy/ psychedelic, psychedelics, science, renaissance, research, mental health, therapy, history, LSD, psilocybin, DMT, mescaline, peyote, hollywood hospital, MKUltra, MK Ultra, Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Vancouver, MAPS, MAPS Canada In this episode Dennis McKenna joins MAPS Canada in discussing Ayahuasca tourism, the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy, Biognosis, the future of the psychedelic movement and the counter-force to the movement—the "war on consciousness".

Dennis McKenna has conducted research in ethnopharmacology for over 40 years. He is a founding board member of the Heffter Research Institute and was a key investigator on the Hoasca Project, the first biomedical investigation of ayahuasca. He was part of the original Scientific Strategy Team at Shaman Pharmaceuticals in the early 90s. He is the younger brother of Terence McKenna.

From 2000 to 2017, he taught courses on Ethnopharmacology and Plants in Human affairs as an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota. In the spring of 2019, in collaboration with colleagues in Canada and the US, he incorporated a new non-profit, the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy. In collaboration with colleagues he organized two landmark conferences in 2017 and 2022, the Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs (see ESPD50.com and ESPD55.com) He emigrated to Canada in the spring of 2019 together with his wife Sheila, and now resides in Abbotsford B.C.

Learn more about the McKenna Academy, Biognosis and how you can support, here: https://mckenna.academy/

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]]> In this episode Dennis McKenna joins MAPS Canada in discussing Ayahuasca tourism, the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy, Biognosis, the future of the psychedelic movement and the counter-force to the movement—the "war on consciousness".

Dennis McKenna has conducted research in ethnopharmacology for over 40 years. He is a founding board member of the Heffter Research Institute and was a key investigator on the Hoasca Project, the first biomedical investigation of ayahuasca. He was part of the original Scientific Strategy Team at Shaman Pharmaceuticals in the early 90s. He is the younger brother of Terence McKenna.

From 2000 to 2017, he taught courses on Ethnopharmacology and Plants in Human affairs as an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota. In the spring of 2019, in collaboration with colleagues in Canada and the US, he incorporated a new non-profit, the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy. In collaboration with colleagues he organized two landmark conferences in 2017 and 2022, the Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs (see ESPD50.com and ESPD55.com) He emigrated to Canada in the spring of 2019 together with his wife Sheila, and now resides in Abbotsford B.C.

Learn more about the McKenna Academy, Biognosis and how you can support, here: https://mckenna.academy/

Support MAPS Canada Podcast

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