ALL PROCEEDS GO DIRECTLY TO THE ARTIST AND A SMALL PORTION SERVES AS A DONATION TO THE MCKENNA ACADEMY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
ABOUT
DONNA TORRES
Donna Torres is a Miami-based artist whose work reflects her interest in travel, research, conservation, and the natural world. The legends and traditions of plant use through time fascinate the artist, who, for the past 50 years, has traveled extensively exploring, observing, and documenting plants used in healing the body and the mind and their cultural interconnectedness to the people and communities past and present that have used them.
DENNIS MCKENNA
Dennis McKenna has conducted research in ethnopharmacology for over 40 years. He is a founding board member of the Heffter Research Institute, and was a key investigator on the Hoasca Project, the first biomedical investigation of ayahuasca. He is the younger brother of Terence McKenna. From 2000 to 2017, he taught courses on Ethnopharmacology and Plants in Human affairs as an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota. He emigrated to Canada in the spring of 2019 together with his wife Sheila, and now resides in Abbotsford.
Since 2019, he has been working with colleagues to manifest a long-term dream: the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy, a non-profit organization founded in the spirit of the ancient Mystery Schools and dedicated to the study of plant medicines, consciousness, intelligence in nature, preservation of indigenous knowledge and a re-visioning of humanity's relationship with Nature. Dr. McKenna is author or co-author of 6 books and over 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals.
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DOLCEZZA
The origins of DOLCEZZA can be traced back to Amazon Jungle working with the magical plants of ayahuasca, where Violeta & Robb met at a conference organized by Dennis Mckenna in the year 2000. They drank ayahuasca 5 of the 10 nights and then traveled for over 3 months, floating 1500 miles down the Amazon River and running 3,000 miles down the Brazilian coast. They ended up in Violeta’s hometown of Buenos Aires, Argentina and that first fated night the idea was sparked inside the city’s popular gelato parlors. Now, after 24 years we finally can give back to this community and these people who we consider our family and who hold some of the most important truths we have learned in this life.
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