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Dennis McKenna

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1. “Who was living there? And I determined to go see the great man, you know, to make a pilgrimage essentially to Shultis. And in those days, there was a deal. You could buy a bus ticket, $60 for 60 days. And you could get as far as you could go as long as you kept it within 60 days. made this pilgrimage to Harvard, to Cambridge. And where was your start?”

   2021-07-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #523: Dennis McKenna — The Depths of Ayahuasca: 500+ Sessions, Fundamentals, Advanced Topics, Science, Churches, Learnings, Warnings, and Beyond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

2. “Envisioned a career in ethnopharmacology for myself, which is something that I sort of realized was possible when I was 18. We can go back to this. This is earlier than Schultz, when I got my hands on this amazing book called The Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs. But I digress. We can return to that. So Schulte's was a figure, just a towering figure in this field. Like Einstein and physics or of that stature and many, many people with a passion about psychedelic plants and indigenous use of these things looked up to Shultes and wanted to work with him. And I was one of those. And in 1974, I was living in Berkeley with my brother, or close by my brother.”

   2021-07-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #523: Dennis McKenna — The Depths of Ayahuasca: 500+ Sessions, Fundamentals, Advanced Topics, Science, Churches, Learnings, Warnings, and Beyond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

3. “Shorties was a professor at Harvard. He's been called the father of ethnobotany. He certainly was not because ethnobotany as a discipline existed before there was Schultes. But he was one of the more high profile people. He was the director of the Botanical Museum at Harvard University for many years. He made many contributions.”

   2021-07-21 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #523: Dennis McKenna — The Depths of Ayahuasca: 500+ Sessions, Fundamentals, Advanced Topics, Science, Churches, Learnings, Warnings, and Beyond · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT