Six-and-a-half hours of the 1989 weekend Terence McKenna shared with Amazon explorer and medicinal-plant researcher Nicole Maxwell. Sound Photosynthesis sold the full event as a seven-and-a-half-hour set (5 audio cassettes #A478-89 / 4 video cassettes #V192-89) under the title "Shamanology of the Amazon"; this collection previously held only a one-hour video excerpt of it. McKenna opens by noting "last year I was here with Riane Eisler", which places this at the Ojai Foundation the year after that 1988 weekend. Maxwell is audible throughout, trading Amazonian pharmacopoeia -- contraceptives, abortifacients, plant taxonomy -- against McKenna's overview of shamanism and the ecological crisis.

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Dr. Gabor Mate participated in a Q & A after the Jan 3, 2013 performance of Medicine, TJ Dawe's autobiographical one person show about his experiences in a retreat Dr. Mate led, which included ingesting the Peruvian psychotropic shamanic plant medicine ayahuasca. Watch a performance in full here: