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Dennis McKenna Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Founder: @McKennaAcademy. The reedition of Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss: My Life with Terence McKenna is now available!

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Book Cover for: The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications, Christian Rätsch

The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications

Christian Rätsch
Dennis McKennaDennis McKenna

Christian Rätsch sadly passed away last month. He was a German anthropologist and author on subjects such as ethnopharmacology and psychoactive plants. Christian Rätsch's The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants describes over 400 psychoactive plants and fungi. https://t.co/2DK44zWScv

Hardcover, 2005

$125.00$100.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: The Preacher's Commentary - Vol. 17: Isaiah 1-39: 17, David L. McKenna

The Preacher's Commentary - Vol. 17: Isaiah 1-39: 17

David L. McKenna
Dennis McKennaDennis McKenna

Join Dennis McKenna at: Psychedelics: the game-changer in mental health and medical science  The international online conference RIGA, MAY 17  Along Paul Stamets, David Nutt and many more. https://t.co/FZdtSJgkDz https://t.co/DOP4Hy3yc1

Paperback, 2004

$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Michael Pollan

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

Michael Pollan
Dennis McKennaDennis McKenna

"How To Change Your Mind" is a docu-series based on the best-selling book by @michaelpollan which brings focus to the psychedelic renaissance. Now on Netflix! A while ago @DennisMcKenna4 had a great conversation on psychedelics with Michael. Video https://t.co/cE0BC24Oq7 https://t.co/vNOa1sEcaM

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Book Cover for: Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth, James Lovelock

Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth

James Lovelock
Dennis McKennaDennis McKenna

"James Lovelock, creator of Gaia hypothesis, dies on 103rd birthday. The scientist was best known for his theory that the Earth is a self-regulating community of organisms." He was a pioneer, a visionary ahead of his time. Source: The Guardian https://t.co/YZvJzOjFby

Paperback, 2016

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradis, Terence McKenna

True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradis

Terence McKenna
Dennis McKennaDennis McKenna

True Hallucinations The book recalls the expedition of the McKenna brothers to La Chorrera in the Seventies. "We were refugees from a society that we thought was poisoned by its own self-hatred and inner contradictions." Terence McKenna Support: https://t.co/VNW03OJqbA https://t.co/2Rv932MqLr

Paperback, 1994

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: LSD: My Problem Child, Albert Hofmann

LSD: My Problem Child

Albert Hofmann
Dennis McKennaDennis McKenna

Happy Birthday to Albert Hofmann, the father of LSD and the first person to isolate psilocybin. "I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.” ― Albert Hofmann https://t.co/TgqePFHc6d

Paperback, 2019

$33.99$17.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, Mike Jay

Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind

Mike Jay
Dennis McKennaDennis McKenna

Historian Mike Jay is out to challenge this narrative of psychedelic exceptionalism. I loved his new book: Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, where he explores 19th century drug culture. https://t.co/N4OLcM0K4Z @MikeJayNet https://t.co/7hbxVaLXRQ

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Book Cover for: One River, Wade Davis

One River

Wade Davis
Dennis McKennaDennis McKenna

ONE RIVER BY WADE DAVIS "In the 1970s, Schultes sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follow in his footsteps and unveil the botanical secrets of coca, the notorious source of cocaine, a sacred plant known to the Inca as the Divine Leaf of Immortality." https://t.co/WS1ncjoeiE

Paperback, 1997

$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline, Richard Evans Schultes

Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline

Richard Evans Schultes
Dennis McKennaDennis McKenna

Richard Evans Schultes was an American biologist and is considered the father of ethnobotany. He was the first non-native person to academically examine the ayahuasca brew. Learn more about Schultes from Mark Plotkin in his talk at the ESPD55 event: https://t.co/8SwwchNb4R https://t.co/D35wr1j3L3

Paperback, 2008

$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan

This Is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan
Dennis McKennaDennis McKenna

Michael Pollan, #1 best-selling author, in conversation with Dennis McKenna over his recent book "This Is Your Mind On Plants" Thursday July 29, 2021 7pm BST Free online event: https://bit.ly/3l3LVmw @michaelpollan https://t.co/VXI5gBzZn3

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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