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.

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:

Gabor Maté and Adele Lafrance explore the many facets of love, its role in healthcare, and the potential for the psychedelic renaissance to support our culture to evolve in love. This video presents some highlights from a Chacruna Community Forum livestreamed in April 2021. To watch the full conve

Physician, best-selling author and renowned speaker, Dr. Gabor Maté shares his experience drinking ayahuasca and receiving healing from the Shipibo Onanya at the Temple of the Way of Light in June 2019. After working with ayahuasca over the last decade, this was Gabor’s first time drinking ayahuas