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Psychedelics & Healing
Psychedelics & Healing Lecture & Workshop Series presented by ITM
Starting this Spring ITM presents lectures, workshops and salons on the use of Psychedelics for Healing. From scholars to traditional healers - we will introduce traditional and modern uses, and how these medicines have been used for generations and now as a contemporary healing modality.
Psychedelics Rediscovered: New Uses for Ancient Medicines with Psychedelic Pioneer, Dennis McKenna
Friday March 24, 7-9pm: Introduction to Psychedelics & Healing. Lecture, Book Signing (The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss), & Discussion.
Saturday March 25, 10-3pm: Workshop on Psychedelics: Tools for a Culture of Healing. Topics covered include: Psychedelic History, Shamanism, Current Uses & Research, LSD & Psilocybin, DMT, Psychedelics in Neuroscience & Medicine, Mystical Experiences, Existential Anxiety in the Terminally Ill, Psychedelics in Therapy, Addictions, PTSD, Ayahuasca - Going Global, and the Future of Psychedelics ~ New Therapeutic Modalities.
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Dennis McKenna Ph.D.
Dennis and his brother Terrence have made an profoundly important contribution to Western culture as researchers, authors and thinkers, exploring the nature, healing and transformational potentcies of psychedelic plants and substances. Terence passed in 2000, and Dennis continues this work as an international leader in psychedelic research. The legacy of their collective work continues to inspire curiosity, excitement, and public awareness regarding the incredible healing and transformational powers of psychedelics.
Dennis is an American ethnopharmacologist, research pharmacognosist, lecturer and author. He is seen as one of the leading experts in the field of ethnopharmacology and plant hallucinogens today, and was a dignitary at the convention in Brazil that helped secure ayahuascas legal status as an important and protected part of their cultural heritage. Today, Dennis continues to author books and speak around the world, and is one of the co-founders and board members of the Heffter Research Institute, which is a leading nonprofit in advancing the study of psilocybin for treating alcoholism, end-of-life anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and more.
He is the author of many scientific papers, and co-author, with his brother Terence McKenna, of The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching, and Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide. He holds a doctorate from the University of British Columbia, where his research focused on ayahuasca and oo-koo-hé, two hallucinogens used by indigenous peoples in the Northwest Amazon. He received post-doctoral research fellowships in the Laboratory of Clinical Pharmacology, National Institute of Mental Health, and in the Department of Neurology, Stanford University School of Medicine. In 1990, he joined Shaman Pharmaceuticals as Director of Ethnopharmacology, and in 1993 became the Aveda Corporation's Senior Research Pharmacognosist. Dennis has been an adjunct assistant professor at the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota since 2001, where he teaches courses in ethnopharmacology and botanical medicine. He is a founding board member of the Heffter Research Institute, a non-profit organization focused on the investigation of the potential therapeutic uses of psychedelic medicines.
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Toronto, ON M5V2B6
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