Spirit Plant Medicine – Steve Beyer PhD and Dr. Dennis McKenna

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Dennis McKenna, Co-founder of Heffter Research Institute, Director of Ethnopharmacology, Treasurer Dennis McKenna’s professional and personal interests are focused on the interdisciplinary study of ethnopharmacology and plant hallucinogens. He received his doctorate in 1984 from the University of British Columbia, where his doctoral research focused on ethnopharmacological investigations of the botany, chemistry, and pharmacology of ayahuasca and oo-koo-he, two orally-active tryptamine-based hallucinogens used by indigenous peoples in the Northwest Amazon. Dr. McKenna 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. He joined Shaman Pharmaceuticals as Director of Ethnopharmacology in 1990, and relocated to Minnesota in 1993 to join the Aveda Corporation as Senior Research Pharmacognosist. He joined the faculty of the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota in 2001. He is a founding board member of the Heffter Research Institute and serves on the advisory board of non-profit organizations in the fields of ethnobotany and botanical medicines. He was a key organizer and participant in the Hoasca Project, an international biomedical study of ayahuasca used by indigenous people and syncretic religious groups in Brasil. He recently completed a project, funded by the Stanley Medical Research Institute, to investigate Amazonian ethnomedicines for the treatment of schizophrenia and cognitive deficits. At the Heffter Research Institute, he continues his focus on the therapeutic uses of psychoactive medicines derived from nature and used in indigenous ethnomedical practices. More info – click here

Steve Beyer, A bit about myself: I have a law degree and doctorates in both religious studies and psychology. I lived for a year and a half in a Tibetan monastery in the Himalayas, and have published three books on Buddhism and Tibetan language and religion. I have been a professor at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, the University of California—Berkeley, and Graduate Theological Union.

For twenty-five years, I was a lawyer and litigator at a major international law firm in Chicago. I have been a wilderness guide and a peacemaker and community builder. I studied wilderness survival among the indigenous peoples of North and South America, and sacred plant medicine with traditional herbalists in North America and curanderos in the Upper Amazon, where I received coronación by banco ayahuasquero don Roberto Acho Jurama.

I have worked with ayahuasca and other sacred plants in the Amazon, peyote in ceremonies of the Native American Church, and huachuma in Peruvian mesa rituals; and I have undertaken numerous four-day and four-night solo vision fasts in Death Valley, the Pecos Wilderness, and the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico. I am a member of the Society of Shamanic Practitioners, American Herbalists Guild, Foundation for Shamanic Studies, and Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness. I have served as an editor of the Journal of Shamanic Practice and as a contributing editor of Ayahuasca.com.
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