…in order to access to something that any teenager could grow in their bedroom as a result of Terrence McKenna, Dennis McKenna, Jeremy Bigwood and others. DMT underwent a similar transformation, going from an obscure psychedelic oddity that was described in…

…and I am a ethnomycologist from South Africa. Maybe to backtrack a little bit, just to toot your horn, man. to your podcast with Dennis McKenna a few days ago, and you were just speaking about how he was such an influence in your life. And I think for…

…ethically sourced in teabag form. You can find their teas at toptreeherbs.com. Okay, so this is a long-in-the-making interview with the great Dennis McKenna. There is so much that I wanted to talk with him about, and there's so much to say to this great…

…I think that everything that Terence McKenna did was immensely effective. But behind McKenna and all of his work was Dennis McKenna, who is toiling away in various labs doing extremely interesting scientific research. In this interview, I talk about the…

…toiling away in various labs doing extremely interesting scientific research. In this interview, I talk about the influence of Dennis McKenna on my own scientific trajectory, and it's absolutely true that reading his papers was one of my first introductions…

…and then extract the psilocybin from the mycelium, because fruiting them, that's something that nobody could ever manage. Dennis McKenna was the first person to translate the laboratory techniques for the cultivation of psilocybin-containing mushrooms into a…

…was LSD and then maybe a little bit of access to things like MDA, DET, DMT, and so on and so forth. I met Dennis McKenna once years ago. We were speaking at a psychedelic conference together and we were staying in the same house and I was preparing…

…came from. There's a lot of discussion on these forums about the various mushroom pioneers, people like Terence McKenna or Dennis McKenna or PF. And yet, I had difficulty finding an authoritative explanation for how exactly this strain emerged. And really,…

…This is supposedly derived from psilocybe Cubensis collected by Terence McKenna in the Amazon in his infamous trip with his brother, Dennis McKenna. So let me just take a step back quickly into the history of psilocybin mushroom cultivation. We live in a…

…mushrooms? Would it be possible for somebody to cultivate them? We take this completely for granted, but it was actually Dennis McKenna who first adapted laboratory techniques for the cultivation of fungi and published a book with his brother in 1975 that…

…there. All the people that I could that were interested in psychedelics, I even spoke with Alexander Shogun. I spoke with Dennis McKenna about my ideas, and, you know, they just all come together. I said, let's establish the Center for Psychedelic Research,…