Dennis McKenna is an Ethnopharmacolgist, research pharmacist, lecturer, and author.

Dennis is a founding member and director of ethnographic research at the Heffter Research Institute, a non-profit organization involved in investigating the potential of therapeutic use of drugs. He is the brother of the famous psychedelic advocate Terence McKenna.

In this episode:

• Preserving indigenous practice, challenges we face
• Mckenna Academy of Natural Philosophy
• The brain as a reducing valve of reality
• The mind-brain problem
• Psychedelics bring the background forward
• Serotonin
• Consciousness and symbiosis
• What research questions should be asked in the next 5-10 years
• Who will be the gatekeepers of these medicines
• The need to arm psychiatrists and mental health practitioners with psychedelics

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