The Depths of Ayahuasca: 500+ Sessions — Dennis McKenna

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  @timferriss · 3 years ago · pinned

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  @BestAudiovisualTricks · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShBqAcBLqaI&amp;t=415">6:55</a> Interview FINALLY begins. You are very welcome ladies and germs!

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  @mikestirewalt5193 · 4 years ago

  For those interested in McKenna and his brother and are unfamiliar with their lives, the story all really starts here:<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs-pJu-Gb1I">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs-pJu-Gb1I</a><br><br>This is a nine+ hour account of their journey into the Amazon in 1971. &nbsp;Beware the severely abbreviated video by the same name (True Hallucinations) that is only 2+ hours long that can also be found on YouTube. &nbsp;I haven&apos;t even tried to listen to it but reducing a nine+ hour journey to a 2+ hour journey can&apos;t help but have ruined it. &nbsp; &nbsp;<br><br>Thanks Tim for such a non-intrusive conversation with Dennis, and for your generosity.

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  @carolinewells4355 · 5 years ago

  Around <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShBqAcBLqaI&amp;t=4500">1:15:00</a> the story of Dennis and brother Terence back in the day spicing up their ramen noodles daily with mushrooms 🍄 because they lacked a variety of foods. &nbsp;So Epic‼️ &nbsp;<br> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Stop the war on vegetables🍄‼️☯️

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  @MosesRabuka · 5 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShBqAcBLqaI&amp;t=6839">1:53:59</a> &nbsp;<br>“You can’t be a true scientist without being a mystic” ~ Dennis McKenna <br><br>reminds me &nbsp;of one my favorite quote by Fritjof Capra “Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.”

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  @TheMothernerd · 5 years ago (edited)

  I found out years after the fact that I had done ayahuasca 3 times with a brujo who used datura in his ayahuasca brew. I would have NEVER done it with him if I had known he was using datura. 😔 I do have to say though, although there was some massive challenges around the trauma of integration (I didn&apos;t have a support network), my capacity for self introspection and mental fortitude is lightyears ahead because of this work.

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  @LumocolorARTnr1319 · 4 years ago

  I fell asleep and woke up to this podcast rolling by the algorithm. I was still dreaming with my eyes closed, I was dreaming lucidly; aware I was thinking at the same time as I was dreaming, listening to the podcast.It felt like I was doing this for 20 minutes before I woke up to much. It was such a great experience.

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  @Jonofthemadlife · 3 years ago

  I appreciate the integrity and seriousness of this conversation. Thank you so much

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  @evelynbecker4916 · 3 years ago

  I can&apos;t find a source anywhere for any good psychedelics in my area, I suffer some pretty bad depression and i got a chance to try K and man it was a miracle substance, I felt free,the only high or euphoria was from the relief of my vices being released, that&apos;s exactly what it did

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  @kevinthepark · 5 years ago

  This interview was exceptional Tim. Kuddos on your generous contribution as well.

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  @diablominero · 5 years ago

  I took something ayahuasca-like (acacia confusa rootbark + syrian rue) and it pushed me right up to the edge of psychosis. I could tell the difference between real and imagined sensations, in the sense that I knew there were two categories of sensations and in retrospect one of them was the real one, but at the time I couldn&apos;t see any reason to care about one more than about the other. And since I came down, weirdness has been occasionally poking its head up from my subconscious into the realm of my awareness. I&apos;ll randomly remember seeing three of something, but I can&apos;t remember what there were three of. I&apos;ll find myself thinking a phrase without any idea what it means. It&apos;s cool and weird, and I definitely got to the highest dose I want to be anywhere near. It&apos;s a good thing I have a scale, because that experience isn&apos;t something I ever want to encounter accidentally.

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  @breckannielsen · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShBqAcBLqaI&amp;t=302">5:02</a> start of the podcast

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