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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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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January 28, 2026 01:00:29
Psychedelics, Baltic Traditions & Rethinking Mental Health in Latvia​

Psychedelics, Baltic Traditions & Rethinking Mental Health in Latvia​

Una Meistere is a cultural journalist and curator, co-founder, and Editor-in-Chief of the international platforms Arterritory.com and Spiriterritory.com. Her interest in consciousness and psychedelics...

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January 12, 2026 00:54:44
Pacha Nishi Project, Ayahuasca Cultivation, and Amazonian Restoration

Pacha Nishi Project, Ayahuasca Cultivation, and Amazonian Restoration

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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January 05, 2026 02:39:02
Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna

Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna was the stand‑up philosopher of the apocalypse. A cognitive libertarian. The anti‑guru who rejected authority—even his own. Twenty‑five years after his passing,...

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