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ReWild Yourself

Hunting Magic Mushrooms and DMT in South America - Dennis McKenna #21

ReWild Yourself

Daniel Vitalis

Health & Fitness

4.8924 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2014

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, Dennis McKenna — an ethnopharmacologist who has studied plant hallucinogens for over forty years — explains what happens when psychedelics are in our systems and recounts some of his fascinating adventures with his brother Terence McKenna in South America hunting psilocybin mushrooms and DMT. Episode Breakdown: * What is ethnopharmacology? * Merging science and the spiritual * The spectrum of food and medicine in tribal cultures * What happens when psychedelics are in our system * Seretonin upgrades * Psychedelics bring the background to the foreground * Plant vs synthetic drugs * Adventures with his brother Terence McKenna in South America hunting mushrooms and DMT * A nutrient deficiency causing reductionist and materialistic world view

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I show you teeth to everyone don't let no one prove you I'm Daniel Vitalis. I'm Daniel Vitalis of Daniel Vitalis.com and you're listening to the

0:27.8

rewild yourself podcast a show dedicated to transcending human domestication, yes that's right human domestication,

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activating our invincible genetic health, truly invincible, and uncovering our true potential. In each episode we explore the many aspects of the rewilding lifestyle for better health, fitness, and a more rich, and fulfilling life. I mean that.

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Rewild yourself.

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1:32.0

Well, I've got a really good show for you

1:36.0

this morning, afternoon, evening, I guess depends on where you are.

1:41.0

But that show is with none other than Dennis McKenna.

1:45.0

Kind of a really cool opportunity for me to have him on the show.

1:49.0

He and his brother, Terrence McKenna, who the late Terence McKenna are true icons of the

1:56.7

entheogenic world of the entheogenic community. These guys did some of the really pioneering work a few decades back and so much of

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the current culture has been a tremendous amount of the current culture around psychoactive plants and animals has been influenced by the work of these guys and getting to talk to Dennis was just a really cool opportunity

2:26.9

in fact the issue of rewild yourself, which this interview was featured in, I called a Chemical

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Ecology, which I just lifted out of the conversation I had with him. He was

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