I'm thrilled to have Nora Gedgaudas — author of the international best-selling book, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond the Paleo Diet for Total Health and a Longer Life — back on ReWild Yourself! podcast to talk entheogens. Episode Breakdown: * Traditional native entheogen use * Holotropic Breathwork * Recreational experience vs meaningful spiritual experience * We have an interconnected network of specific receptors that seem to illicit different types of consciousness * Entheogen help for PTSD * What does the future of shamanism look like? * Controlling drug use is controlling consciousness * Entheogen use can give you the state change that “stuff” cannot  * Legality of entheogens * Effects of marijuana use on the brain * Psychedelics help de-condition us from our cultural values * Let medicine be thy food

In this episode of ReWild Yourself! podcast, Dennis McKenna — an ethnopharmacologist who has studied plant hallucinogens for over forty years — explains what happens when psychedelics are in our systems and recounts some of his fascinating adventures with his brother Terence McKenna in South America hunting psilocybin mushrooms and DMT. Episode Breakdown: * What is ethnopharmacology? * Merging science and the spiritual * The spectrum of food and medicine in tribal cultures * What happens when psychedelics are in our system * Seretonin upgrades * Psychedelics bring the background to the foreground * Plant vs synthetic drugs * Adventures with his brother Terence McKenna in South America hunting mushrooms and DMT * A nutrient deficiency causing reductionist and materialistic world view