Brainforest Café

In the Brainforest Café, Dennis McKenna discusses a wide range of topics related to philosophy, plant medicines, psychedelics and consciousness in nature. Guests are invited from diverse fields such as anthropology, neuroscience, and spirituality to ...more

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April 20, 2026 01:07:18
Decoding the Divine: The Shared LSI Secret of the Greek Kykeon and Vedic Soma

Decoding the Divine: The Shared LSI Secret of the Greek Kykeon and Vedic Soma

Matthew Stahl learned Lab chemistry while attending Texas A&M University and Texas Lutheran University for 4 years at Texas A&M University and 2 years...

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April 06, 2026 00:53:05
Herbalism, Citizen Science, and Ancestral Knowledge

Herbalism, Citizen Science, and Ancestral Knowledge

Rebecca Lazarou’s work is an ecology of different disciplines spanning across medical science, ethnopharmacology, herbalism, holistic healthcare, cannabis and psychedelics. She is also an...

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March 23, 2026 00:53:16
Rewiring the Muse to Restore Creative Flow

Rewiring the Muse to Restore Creative Flow

Greg Hemmings is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker whose work examines how storytelling can catalyze positive social and environmental change. He is the founder of...

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March 09, 2026 01:12:11
Books, Human creativity and "humble", a graphic meditation tool for openness

Books, Human creativity and "humble", a graphic meditation tool for openness

OpticMystic a.k.a Hugo Amadeu is just a human fascinated by being alive. He intended to be an astrophysicist or an oceanographer but ended up...

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February 23, 2026 01:15:30
Remarkable Amazonian plants that shape human consciousness

Remarkable Amazonian plants that shape human consciousness

Dr. Mark Plotkin is a renowned ethnobotanist who has spent more than four decades working alongside Indigenous communities of the Amazon to document and...

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February 09, 2026 00:52:21
Honoring Dennis McKenna’s Lifetime of Enduring Plant Wisdom, Mentorship, and Inspiration to the Next Generation

Honoring Dennis McKenna’s Lifetime of Enduring Plant Wisdom, Mentorship, and Inspiration to the Next Generation

Michael Coe is an ethnobiologist and applied ecologist with a Ph.D. in Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation Biology. As an Assistant Professor at Tarleton State...

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