Dennis McKenna | What the Plants Are Telling Us

Dennis McKenna is a world-renowned ethnobotanist and public speaker and founder of the new organization the McKenna Academy for Natural Philosophy. In his talk at AYA2019, McKenna explored the notion of plant intelligence, describing how plants communicate through chemical messenger molecules, and how hyperconnected networks between organisms support life on earth.
McKenna's key message is clear: Mother Earth, through her plant messengers, is sending global humanity a wake up call. To wake up to our relationship with Nature. To wake up to our responsibility to care for the plant. And to take action.
Following McKenna’s presentation, moderator Sir Gillhean Prance shares his perspective on what the plants are telling us, providing examples from his work as an ethnobotanist. He says, “All over the world I go, the plants are telling us that there’s something wrong with the climate.”
The McKenna Academy for Natural Philosophy: mckenna.academy/
About Dennis McKenna: www.ayaconference.com/speaker...
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[@JohnSmith-dq4dx]

This video came on - I had to pause it because my friend came to bring me a gift. She brought me a plant to take care of. I'll watch the video now.

[@obedientconsumer5056]

Big ups to the McKenna brothers. Two of my favorite people in the universe.

[@buffy377]

I would love to know what their parents were like lol

[@kevinmcc8419]

Do you know many other people from outside of earth?

[@obedientconsumer5056]

@@kevinmcc8419 Humans? No. But I have smoked a high dose of Dmt and met beings that are maybe from outside the universe..

[@laurenbriscoe6547]

Please know psychedelics that psychosis can mean terrrifying mental images, flashbacks, being unable to speak or eat or drink, inability to work and function, loss of intelligence, creative skills, cognitive skills, extreme depression, loss of identity, inability to parent, suicide, delusions, paranoia, auditory and visual hallucinations, loss of job, hospitalization, and possibly homelessness. This is the equivalent of brain surgery with a stranger. Many people have suffered. I’m not exaggerating.

[@buffy377]

@@laurenbriscoe6547 This comment should be under street drugs not scientific studies unless you know more then the scientist speaking and if that’s the case you should listed your credentials. People often listen better with credentials 😉

[@benicetoanimals8471]

Thank you for posting this paramount information (tres share worthy!) about plants, and nature. I wish I had known about this when I was younger. My life has improved tremendously since learning about telepathy, our loving mother Gaia, even more love from Mother Earth, the rocks and crystals , bodies of water, the mountains, the fishes and all the creatures great and small. It’s wondrous when I send love and respect to my fellow beings and the loving energy I receive in return is a hundredfold. Blessings.

[@ericwolfe7673]

That jus made my day .... my hat is off ... to you well said great to hear beauty... and a positive message

[@rickynoodles2816]

Respect 🙏 🙌

[@mikehawk637]

Extremely Underrated Post.. Thank you. I wish more people in this world could understand

[@susanfox9711]

Heck I volenter now that I older. To just ck , out this life, the nice sweet way. I live in some pretty bad pain. I volenter to take a few last trips. To.help open up the closed minded. Let s go on a journey. Trip ,And Say bye a peaceful way . Oh how I wish. But oh I can only give my own body for science after I dead. Wow. What about what I want.

[@justinakers3196]

So many will never get to experience the most incredible thing that can be experienced on this planet and in this universe. As Terrence said, Psychedelics are our birthright.

[@ethanbabbage4336]

Spread the message! The plants are trying to wake us up, as the planet is running out of time. They need more ambassadors.

[@landryprichard6778]

I fear they won't understand...until it is too late.

[@chyfields]

The plants are telling us that they are cleverer than people. They were long here before humanity.

[@bobbyginnings9273]

...cleverer in deed.

[@adamweisenberg7893]

Hi! I started listening to your brother years back. His advice to go ahead and claim my true birth right gave me the courage to do so. That first experience changed my life! I have not read the book, "Food Of The Gods," but I did listen to your brothers explanation of it on youtube. I think the book should be turned into a movie. I think the truth has to be told especially at this time in history!

[@CALIBA88]

can you PLS tell me, what exactly is meant by claiming birth right. as i read it, i realized that my whole live i felt like i have to be sorry for existing and just the sentence "advice to claim my birth right" triggered such change in my paradigma of understanding my existence. i feel like maybe, his words could be useful for me too. i am actually googleing and searching youtube but with "brother of mckenna tells to claim birthright" i dont get very far. i found out his name is terence but if you tell me the name of the video or whatever it is, you could save me some real draining investigation. would be lovely if you do.

[@Thedewarmy]

@@CALIBA88 oh man please go follow we plants are happy plants here on KZbin!! It’s a person who regularly uploads a ton of Terrances lectures that I’m sure you would find life changing.

[@sbcap3809]

The plants are saying that the water quality is becoming toxic and that a magnetic shift is about to take place. Plants only become frantic when major shifts occur because like our panic, they know they have only a few generations to prepare. That’s what the plants are trying to tells us. To learn more, we must really be with them, for them to talk with us. Most people live in boxes, so there is little communication, and much, I believe, occurs at night while we sleep, because only then, do we stay still enough for the plants to speak, ever so softly to us.

[@susanfox9711]

First time ive heard of this. But . When i was a teen, And that was 1972 we did LSD, And what i remember on my trip.. WAS A Tree. That Moved side to side. And let me know that All Things on the Earth , The grass is alive. Flowers. Ect.. Now to be 63 And see this Dennis McKenna tell how they are alive. Made me feel so much better. Cause i have felt this way my whole life. Now i understand more of why i love the Forest, And Nature..I even moved to The Forest that i now i live in The Great Smoky Mt. And i love it so much . I enjoy just walking through a park looking for Waterfalls.. And by the Way.. The water is full of life. Id love to work with him. Be where they are. Enjoy Peace. Thank you.

[@susanfox9711]

Living breathing Earth. ! Oh by way. A pea vine seems to respond to a touch, And haven't they showen how to baby a plant makes it grows really good. Or how soft music or taking to plant hooked to montors spike up ? Just think of how much we could see if we can open our doubtful minds. Even God say. If we had the faith of a muster seed. We could move mountains. Just a thought, if the seed can have or respond to faith. Wonder what plant can do. Lol

[@deborahnorris4613]

Why so in a hurry to grow up? I'm going on 62, and have never. Life is challenge You kind of need to be presentfor. A'ho.anyhow.

[@SuperStargazer666]

We need to reclaim our lost heritage. Our ancestors were guided by the Holy Plants and fungi. We need to rediscover our true nature, so that we can save ourselves and save the planet.

[@deborahnorris4613]

Depends on who your ancestors are. Ps. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

[@SuperStargazer666]

@@deborahnorris4613 My ancient ancestors I assume would have lived in India. Soma is the psychedelic that is extensively praised in our ancient scriptures.

[@landryprichard6778]

"Help us, please! Help us!" I cried. It's that bad. That sad.

[@mR-dc4oq]

@iTrene Terboil lol! Right!! 😂

[@johnw65]

I've always loved trees and they often respond with energy when I touch them.

[@johnw65]

Grass root system is like synapses that connects an entire lawn...

[@johnw65]

All life has varying degrees of consciousness. Plants, Animals, Insects, even the Planet

[@peacelovejoy8786]

Excellent talk! Of course the earth is alive - it's a magical thing💞

[@pharmakognosis7778]

All our love to Dennis

[@Mr3c2b1a]

Mind blowing to think of flora running the show

[@klebs6]

thank you Dennis!

[@alithejumbo]

The McKenna family 💜

[@multimillionaire8489]

Thanks for your efforts brother

[@michaelbisceglia9154]

Change is inevitable, no matter who is responsible, just live with it.

[@forfreedomssake4315]

Fascinating thank you !

[@jeremylecocq826]

If we are the stars witnessing themselves it would make sense there would be a force keeping it into a cycle, like the plants with photosynthesis absorbing it's energy and feeding it to us, keeping us connected to their world.

[@deborahnorris4613]

You would know if you were a star. Certain behavioral patterns. Js

[@brandenhatton1467]

This is IT. THIS. we need know more!!!!

[@Jsmithyy]

Lets get our shoes off and reconnect and let the myciliam speak to us from the souls of our feet.

[@rhondasmith7413]

GROUNDING 😍

[@pookah9938]

"I'd like to see more human intelligence.....Yeah!" And don't forget the Symbiocene.

[@JDubeta]

Thanks for posting this.!

[@karenmcardle142]

Awesome. Thanks for sharing 👍 🌹💐

[@averyscott9786]

We need more people to understand this. And also i believe recycling should be mandatory. Be blessed eveyone

[@alNange]

Just brilliant

[@andrereog5419]

👍🏿🙏🏿 for Mr.Mc.Kenna.

[@danalexander186]

I wish I could find a place where I could sit on a stage and have people ask questions because I have so many answers that are easily understood that people would start appreciating the world that we live a lot more. I can’t find any place that will allow me to speak but that’s because I’m against the system that holds people down and lies to them. Does anyone know of a place where this can be done without a degree or something of that sort? Online won’t cut it. It needs real life interaction in real time. Human intelligence would have a great boost if I could be heard, I say this not to be a smart ass but because it’s true. I do have a message that would truly help humanity. Anyone who is interested in doing such a thing should at least have 10 minutes of their time to listen to someone who wants to help but I can’t even find that anywhere.

[@mollymaguire1391]

Please speak out on KZbin, create your own site. I would love to listen.

[@mrs_Mccoy]

I got some psychedelic products from an online store

[@dudecctv]

Legendary. The future seems brighter.

[@BritainsAyahuascaChurch]

dennnnnis, deeennnnis denniss. GO DEnNIS

[@thinginground5179]

GO DENNIIIIS!!

[@ilankeidar8562]

does anybody know if I can download a high quality audio of this somewhere?

[@michaeljohnson7297]

Use a media recorder on your computer. Play and record. OBS, Nividia, etc. That is what I would do thus it’s in your personal collection of media.

[@zezuntxiduntxi]

Or alternatively you could go to youtube to mp3 site and convert this. I use that all the time for videos I like to listen to.

[@zezuntxiduntxi]

Why isn't this on TV all the time?

[@jm-mj1ny]

tha media trifling

[@Standownevil]

@@jm-mj1ny not for long huh? We ought to determine what content comes into our consciousness or subconsciousness! Lol

[@ShroomFactory]

'Because we are unaware, it cannot be unconscious. Our only way of apprehending it is by studying the processes of nature.' @21:20

[@scottanthony6269]

So look after your mother earth it's all we have

[@duewhit310]

The immortal mutants are running the show

[@GuanTones]

I love his shirt LOL

[@andrereog5419]

Ms.Leila Wolfert,I also experience what you experience.🔥

[@Uri1000x1]

Organisms take in needed sensory information and act on it. The only thing that can be done with information is computation. So a plant turning toward the sun is computation. This is a consciousness. He's talking about plant intelligence at 10:50. He hallucinated in S. America but that has little to do with plants talking to him . Plant computation is just normal routine stuff even though he may have received information from a plant molecule. Receiving information generally means questions are answered or uncertainty is resolved.

[@duewhit310]

During the 21st minute, consider that the sun is most primary. And also hypothetically that someone intelligent came here and greatly contributed to the formation of so so much.

[@michaelgarrow3239]

This is what an old hippie sounds like. 😎

[@vphathom]

a rain tree also know as Mimosa tree have a nerves system they since danger if you touch the leaves the whole tree leaf's go limp

[@vagabondslot-machine8832]

'What have we done to our fair sister?' Jim Morrison

[@Makeshiftjunkbox]

Father drew a cometary light bolt into his dark depth appearing with the earth germinating ever since, welcome to the photogenesis!

[@andrereog5419]

🌱🌱🌅🌱

[@fumarate1]

The Archon world.

[@soilculturist6067]

Plant and grow organically for the sake of all humanity.

[@goddessofkratos]

So next time u hug a tree u better get consent. Lol

[@Standownevil]

I usually do:)~ I feel it out! Lol it generally feels like it wants my attention. XOXOXOXO Hug a tree It’s safer!!! Haha

[@vikibanaszak4881]

LOL I told my cat when I take him for his walk, that if he wanted to climb a tree, he should ask them first. I have seen him run over to a tree and stop and meow at it looking up. So far he has only gone up 1 tree since then. The trees are seeming a bit grumpy lately.

[@goddessofkratos]

@@vikibanaszak4881 Covid

[@rnunezc.4575]

Gaia is consciousness. Intelligence is consciousness. We are all one and connected by this mother field of consciousness. Organisms which are not in frequency with this field being in harmony with the mother field will destroy itself.

[@alsimikolon3526]

✨💫🌟🌈❤️🌈🌟💫✨

[@deborahfielder8620]

My sister remembers being a flower and turning towards the sun

[@shobhabhatt6205]

Yeah plant to respond us

[@NickBatinaComposer]

I wonder what would happen if we made plants ingest animal neurotransmitters, if they’re cross compatible I guess lol. Poor lil apple tree is gonna have a wild evening lolol

[@caronwilliamson951]

Thankyou yes,I don't believe it's the climate,I believe it's Round up and all the other geoengineering we've had to contend with for the last 50 year's

[@mirellajaber7704]

You have blessed us with your knowledge and your kind warnings. But somehow we all know that things have gone seriously wrong, and that it’s time for us to do something serious about it. However. I can well recycle to the last hundred gram of household waste; I can take my shower with only one bucket of water, I can stop traveling more than once a year, I can reduce my carbon footprint to the lowest conceivable limit. But! As long as “technology smart” people and “futurologists” such as Gates and others are “fixing” the issue by ejecting massive dust clouds into the atmosphere, or financing ways to block the sun with technologic umbrellas, or are shooting mercury into the ionosphere, or are incessantly spreading chem trails, and, most importantly, powerful governments are using harmful climate-control technologies such as HAARP, SURA and CSES, what am I doing?? We need OXIGEN, and, by having forests, we gain on two levels - plans need the CO2, releasing the oxygen. In Romania, my country, there is a government- supported Mafia of the forests who are literally shaving our millenary forests - we, the population, did everything in our power, we signed petitions to the UE by the millions... and during the lockdown, especially, they are finishing forest after forest. In Lebanon, where I currently live, as well as in many 3rd world countries, there are no structures to recycle and do away with the plastic, etc, because when governments are barely struggling not to collapse, everything else collapses. Therefore, enough talking about what individuals, what a drop in the ocean can do.... the time has come to SERIOUSLY ask our highest forums to stop taking us for fools, while they are cashing money and bribes. We only have ONE PLANET!

[@plantpotpeople]

What are SURA and CSES?

[@benicetoanimals8471]

With the 5D shift, the whole world will ( including all of mother earth) be full of light and love. I’ve read extensively on the subject as well as listened to many videos of channelings from spirit explaining our future which is NOW. Please don’t worry and just do your part as well as you can; love your friends and family which includes your animals, love all the trees and plants who live close by, recycle well and plant more trees and gardens. Show love and respect to all the rest who is among your community. I learned we can’t save the world but we can work on our communities. Blessings.

[@missanna208802]

Nobody addresses this: saving the world is down to each one of us. Palm oil or "vegetable oil" and beef are the biggest things. Eating meat is extremely responsible for climate change. Use it as a condiment, not a main course. Plant native grass lawns that dont need watering or mowing. Turn off the damn lights. Beef up the insulation in your home. Shop locally, organic, and DONT WASTE FOOD. Tons of carbon is used in the transport of our food. And avoid palm and "vegetable" oil. This isn't anything any politician can or will do. Also, nuclear is one of the safest and cleanest energy methods, i hate to say, but it is. Dont drive an electric car who's po we r was made by burning coal. Take personal responsibility.

[@BritainsAyahuascaChurch]

but it isn't our personal responsibility? Our masters will destroy the world for profit if we let them, regardless of how insulated our homes are

[@eej902]

Nuclear energy? You are dumber than a doornail

[@dougesselman9948]

Tell that to fukashima Japan.Nuclear has destroyed the Pacific ocean.

[@marklampo8164]

Messianic scripture is all about "making all things new." Crucifixion and torture somehow "make all things new." Terrance saw Nature as "Novelty;" the concept of Novelty is born out of boredom! The observer is jaded out the wazoo and "Science" is about not having to sit through the same damned cell division twice! The "organism" demands entertainment and wonder or it bleeds out from boredom! The problem is the linear time factor; it takes various times to bore the shit out of various children and the DMT nursery seems to be all about entertaining adult children!

[@deborahnorris4613]

Thos is about shrooms?

[@deborahnorris4613]

🤣🤣🤣 Never done, but that's what the beginning leads me to believe 🙄

[@checkoutmyconueloninstagra4759]

If you ever need a good quality high check out myconuel page on Instagram he Has the good stuff very magical

[@deborahnorris4613]

Wow. Obviously you haven't had to garden.

[@GuanTones]

This makes me think that the plants created DMT to calm humans ego the fuck down so in return we wouldnt destroy the forests haha

[@Converted2truth]

there r still deaf ears, a kind of predetermined!

[@lrwiersum]

The planet will rebalance, humans are screwed but Gaia will be just fine.

[@Allplussomeminus]

Lots of negative comments... Very uneven... Heavy Bot Energy.

[@carolynanderson5033]

couldn't help but notice the plastic drink bottles on your table, humm. seems it's easier to talk the talk than it is to walk the walk

[@hosoiarchives4858]

The earth is not alive. It’s almost entirely lava.

[@lrwiersum]

Why is lava not alive ??

[@laurenbriscoe6547]

Please know psychedelics can trigger psychosis can mean terrrifying mental images, flashbacks, being unable to speak or eat or drink, deranged behavior, violence, inability to work and function, loss of intelligence, creative skills, cognitive skills, extreme depression, loss of identity, inability to parent, suicide, delusions, paranoia, auditory and visual hallucinations, loss of job, hospitalization, and possibly homelessness. The depression afterwards can be severe and take years to recover from. Many people have suffered. I’m not exaggerating.

[@christopherellis2663]

BS

[@allangillette8678]

Hogwash

[@jahroams]

Unsurprisingly unsatisfactory Dude

[@Cinepobrefilmfestival]

until 30:00 good talk, and then the childish climate whining from childish climate whiners

[@lrwiersum]

If you don’t think we’re fucked, do more research.