What Is The Medicine?  

Through the lens of the Indigenous Medicine Wheel, Duncan and Jen will invite you to consider that medicine may not only be what's in the cup—but  also what already lives within you.  

As our teachings often remind us, “When we do ceremony with the sacred  plants, the plants point us in the direction to go in and down. The  “medicine” is there, waiting for you. Follow it. Go down and in to your lodge,  and see for yourself what you find.”

Sadly, in our belief and practice of  “separation”, we “think” that what we seek is “out and up”, meaning “out  there and/or up there.”

Through cultural teachings, followed by a brief  practice, we will ask you to consider an alternative possibility

In this webinar, Brad Necyk of the Psychedelic Puppet Show will explore the power of storytelling to demystify and destigmatize psychedelics. Framing narrative as a tool for education, healing, and cultural change, he will invite creators, clinicians, and curious minds to consider how playful, imaginative storytelling can make psychedelic awareness accessible and engaging. The session concludes with a call to action: join a hands-on workshop to develop and share your own psychedelic stories.

Some knowledge cannot be found in books. It lives in the jungle, in the mycelium, in the stories passed between generations.

Dennis McKenna has spent a lifetime at the threshold — between science and spirit, between Western inquiry and Indigenous wisdom, between what we think we know about consciousness and what plants have been trying to tell us all along.

Dennis doesn't give lectures. He tells stories — and those stories have a way of quietly rearranging how you see the world. As an ethnobotanist, researcher, author, and one of the most respected elders in the global psychedelic community, Dennis has dedicated his life to a single, radical idea: that plants and fungi are not passive backdrops to human history. They are partners in it.

Join us for an intimate conversation as part of our Indigenous Wisdom Keeper Series — no slides, no panel, just Dennis and a circle of curious minds exploring the questions that matter most. From the Stoned Ape hypothesis to BioGnosis, from the Amazon to the ESPD symposia, from his legendary work alongside his brother Terence to the ongoing mission of the McKenna Academy — Dennis brings decades of hard-won wisdom to a simple, rare format: honest conversation.

How did consciousness arise? What is our relationship with the plant and fungal kingdoms, really? What does Indigenous knowing have to teach a world that has largely forgotten how to listen?

Come ready to wonder. And bring your questions.