Colin Beavan's coaching, consulting, speaking, writing and activism have encouraged tens of thousands of people to align their lives with what's truly important. The lifestyle and career adjustments he helps people make allow them to live abundantly and purposefully, for the sake of both themselves and their communities. He has a PhD, is the author of four books, has been on a bizallion TV and radio shows, ran for Congress, founded an environmental non-profit, teaches at Sarah Lawrence, and is world-known spokesperson on quality of life. It is Colin's mission is to wake people up, on both individual and organizational levels, to ways of life and doing business that are healthier, happier and more just for individuals, for our society, and for our planet.
Join us on Wednesday, Oct. 3, for a special evening with a leading spokesperson in psychedelics: Dr. Dennis McKenna, member of the renown Heffter Institute.
Dennis will start the evening with a short conversation on the changing cultural mores of psychedelics, then screen two documentaries. A Q&A will follow.
The Shaman and the Scientist, directed by Sarah Hutt and starring McKenna, explores the symbiotic relationship between the shaman and the indigenous plants in the Amazonian Rainforest and how these could useful in the treatment of mental illness.
A NEW UNDERSTANDING, directed by Robert Barnhart, chronicles the beneficial uses of psilocybin on terminally ill patients and his success in having psilocybin moved from a schedule 1 substance to schedule 2.
Tickets: $25 / Free for members.
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Dr. Dennis McKenna is an American ethno pharmacologist, research, and author. He is the brother of well-known Psychedelics proponent Terence McKenna and is a founding board member and the director of ethnopharmacology at the Heffter Research Institute, He received his doctorate in botanical sciences from the University of British Columbia, He has authored numerous scientific articles and books-authored The Invisible Landscape with his brother Terence and his recently wrote The Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss about his and his brother Terence's life and journeys together. Dennis has appeared on numerous talks shows and movies from Joe Rogan to DMT-The Spirit Molecule.
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