McKenna, Dennis

McKenna, Dennis, and Terence McKenna. The Invisible Landscape. New York Seabury Press, 1975. 

Dennis was oddly preoccupied, yet he assured me that his effort had succeeded and that all over the world the wave of hyper-carbolation was sweeping through the human race, eliminating the distinction between the individual and the community as everyone discovered themselves spontaneously pushing off into a telepathic ocean whose name was that of its discoverer Dennis McKenna. 

I walked on toward the river. As I walked, I did some experiments. I said "Terence. Terence." It was very much like talking to myself Then I said "Dennis," and the thing was instantly there, ready to do business. Then I said "McKenna, McKenna," and it was still there. I realized that I couldn t reach it with my first name, but I could reach it with my last name. I felt simultaneously enlightened and bewildered, I could not understand what was going on. 

Dennis J. McKenna. "DMT Nature s Ubiquitous Hallucinogen." Interdependences, in press. 

Constantino M. Torres, David B. Repke, Kelvin Chan, Dennis McKenna, Augustin Llagostera, and Richard E. Schultes. "Botanical, chemical, and contextual analysis of archaeological snuff powders from San Pedro de Atacama, Northern Chile." Current Anthropology 32 (1992) 640-49. 

Dennis J. McKenna, X.-M. Guan, and A. T. Shulgin. "3,4-methyl-enedioxyamphetamine (MDA) analogues exhibit differential effects on synaptosomal release of 3H-dopamine and 3H-5-hydroxytryptamine." Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior 38 (1991) 505-12. 

Chester A. Mathis, John M. Gerdes, Joel D. Enas, John M. Whitney, Yi Zhang, Scott E. Taylor, Dennis J. McKenna, SonaHavlick, and Stephen J. Peroutka. "Binding potency of parox-etine anaolgues for the serotonin uptake complex." Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology. Submitted. 

David E. Nichols, Robert Oberlender, and Dennis J. McKenna. "Stereochemical Aspects of Hallucinogenesis." In Biochemistry and Physiology of Substance Abuse, vol. Ill, edited by R. R. Watson, pp. 1-39. Boca Raton, FL CRC Press, 1991. 

Dennis J. McKenna and Stephen J. Peroutka. "Serotonin neuro-toxins Focus on MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethampheta-mine, Ecstasy )." In Serotonin Receptor Subtypes Basic and Clinical Aspects, edited by S. J. Peroutka, pp. 127 8. New York Alan R. Liss Publishers, 1990. 

Dennis J. McKenna, David B. Repke, Leland Lo, and Stephen J. Peroutka. "Differential interactions of indolealkylamines with 5-hydroxytryptamine receptor subtypes." Neuropharmacology 29 (1990) 193-98. 

Dennis J. McKenna. "If s a Jungle Out There Biochemical Conflict and Co-operation in the Ecosphere." Whole Earth Review 64 (1989) 40-47. 

Dennis J. McKenna, Adil J. Nazarali, Andrew J. Hoffman, David E. Nichols, C. A. Mathis, and Juan M. Saavedra. "Common receptors for hallucinogens in rat brain a comparative autora-diographic study using [125IJLSD and [125IJ-DOI, a new psychotomimetic radioligand." Brain Research 476 (1989) 45-56. 

Dennis J. McKenna, C. A. Mathis, and Stephen J. Peroutka. "Characterization of 1251-DOI binding sites in rat brain." Neuroscience Abstracts 14 (1988), no. 247.12. 

Dennis J. McKenna and Juan M. Saavedra. "Autoradiography of LSD and 2,5-dimethoxyphenylisopropylamine psychoto-mimetics demonstrates regional, specific cross-displacement in the rat brain." European Journal of Pharmacology 142 (1987) 313-15. 

Dennis J. McKenna, L. E. Luna, and G. H. N. Towers. "Biodyna-mic constituents in Ayahuasca admixture plants an uninvesti-gated folk pharmacopoeia." America Indigena 46 (1986) 73-101. 

Dennis J. McKenna, G. H. N. Towers, and F. S. Abbott. "Mono-amine oxidase inhibitors in South American hallucinogenic plants Tryptamine and B-carboline constituents of Ayahuasca". Journal of Ethnopharmacology 10 (1984) 195-223. 

TERENCE MCKENNA is the author of Food of the Gods and The Archaic Revival and the coauthor, with Dennis McKenna, of The Invisible Landscape Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching. 

I then put the same question to Dennis McKenna, an ethnopharmacologist who has studied plant hallucinogens for more than 20 years. In 1975, he co-authored the book Invisible Landscape with his brother Terence McKenna. The book detailed his investigations of Amazonian hallucinogens. He wrote to me ... 

The Inner Landscape, Dennis Terence McKenna (Shambala, 1974)... 

In his preface to the German edition of The Invisible Landscape, Dennis McKenna says ... 

What these fossils would find is a book divided into three sections. The first is Dennis McKennas attempt to understand the psychedelic effects of the mushroom revelation in neurobiological terms. Dennis was interested in the cellular and molecular changes that accompanied the altered state, assuming that the dozens of techniques humans used to promote these states were just different ways of triggering the same organic process. Just different roads to the top of the same mountain. 

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