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    <tr><td bgcolor="#111111" align="CENTER"><font color="#33CC33">pkeffect</font></td><td bgcolor="#000000"><font color="#6666FF"> Thanks Ed For the last twenty-five years, Dennis McKenna has pursued the interdisciplinary study of ethnopharmacology and plant hallucinogens. He received his doctorate in 1984 from the University of British Columbia. His doctoral research focused on ethnopharmacological investigations of the botany, chemistry, and pharmacology of ayahuasca and oo-koo-he, two orally-active tryptamine-based hallucinogens used by indigenous peoples in the Northwest Amazon. Dr McKenna has authored and co-authored of over 35 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. His publications have appeared in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology, European Journal of Pharmacology, Brain Research, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neurochemistry, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Economic Botany, and elsewhere. Following the completion of his doctorate, Dr. McKenna 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. He currently works as a scientific consultant to clients in the herbal, nutritional, and pharmaceutical industries. Together with two colleagues in the natural products industry, he incorporated the non-profit Institute for Natural Products Research (INPR) in October 1998 to promote research and scientific education with respect to botanical medicines and other natural medicines. Dr Mckenna serves on the Advisory Board of the American Botanical Council, and on the Editorial Board of Phytomedicine, International Journal of Phytotherapy and Phytopharmacology. He is a founding board member and Vice-President of the Heffter Research Institute, a non-profit scientific organization dedicated to the investigation of therapeutic applications for psychedelic plants and compounds. He was a primary organizer and key scientific collaborator for the Hoasca Project, an international biomedical study of Hoasca, a psychoactive drink used in ritual contexts by indigenous peoples and syncretic religious groups in Brazil.</font></td></tr>
    <tr><td bgcolor="#111111" align="CENTER"><font color="#33CC33">DJM</font></td><td bgcolor="#000000"><font color="#6666FF"> Not much. When I first graduated after doing my initial ayahuasca research in 84, I came to California looking, basically for a job. And it seems like everyplace I contacted; STanfor research Institute, Alza, Plant Biotech, all these places, it was like, "oh yeah, a guy came through here a few weeks ago, raving about the same thing... And so then I didn't hear anything more for a couple years. And then when I was postdocing at NIH, I got several calls from the guy. He was interested in some medicinal application, but was not very specific about just what it was. I urged him to write a proposal, but I never heard from him again. Only much later I heard about his troubles with the patents, indigenous property rights, and all that.</font></td></tr>
    <tr><td bgcolor="#111111" align="CENTER"><font color="#33CC33">DJM</font></td><td bgcolor="#000000"><font color="#6666FF"> Well, the eschaton was always Terrence's shtick, and I've been very skeptical about the Timewave for many years. There are things about the time wave that are very interesting, no doubt about it... but the devil is in the details. I think what Terrence did was probably to rediscover an ancient calendar based on the I Ching. But then without much proof (how bout any proof?), he extrapolated it to a predictive vehicle, something which purported to explain all and everything. And that has so many holes you could drive a truck through it. I think if T had focused more on the calendrical and astronomic aspects of the wave, and not so much with the historical, some very interesting correlations might have emerged. As it was, the only person who could really interpret the wave was Terence...</font></td></tr>

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