Rebekah Senanayake 🐇

New blog post! The Amazon is home to many of our modern medicine advancements. What does it mean when the present NZ Minister decides to cut funding for Social Sciences and Humanities? We lose access to these valuable fieldsites and sources of knowledge bekplants.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/whe…

Officially migrating to Bluesky: @bekplants.bsky.social See you there!

This is where I live! rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

@wardwyatt_ @PlantsofGodsPod @DocMarkPlotkin Not to mention it’s absolutely delicious 🤤

@bekplants @PlantsofGodsPod @DocMarkPlotkin My word mānuka honey has many health benefits! 🍯

Sunday ritual: meal pre & learning with the @PlantsofGodsPod. This week I am listening to S6E8: The Ethnobotany of Isolatef and Uncontacted Indigenous Peoples with @DocMarkPlotkin Highly recommend this episode for anyone interested in traditional knowledge & medicines.

@wardwyatt_ @PlantsofGodsPod @DocMarkPlotkin But I was thinking about how my Amazonian friends had so many variants of honey, distinguished by the bees rather than the flower/bush and of course some valued more than others for their health properties.

@bekplants @PlantsofGodsPod @DocMarkPlotkin 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3QzepP…

@ee_schenberg @MasonMarksMD @SusannahBaruch @CohenProf @PetrieFlom Congratulations!!

On my way to a women in botany talk in the Botanic Gardens

“A south Auckland contractor who caused significant environmental damage has been handed one of the largest fines in recent history for resource management breaches.” rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Weekend listening!

@PlantsofGodsPod @wardwyatt_ Yes yes yes

Western society often romanticizes contact w/ 'untouched' civilizations, wondering: What can we teach them? How will they react to our culture & tech? We SHOULD ask: What can WE learn from them before it's too late? And how best to help them decide their own fate & future?

Happy Sunday 💜

The Shaggy Mane revisits! This time, we see basically the whole lifecycle from fruiting body to when deliquesces into a black ink. #GratefulDead #ShaggyMane Filming by Pamela Kryskow

Check out #POTGpod's two-part episodes, "The Plants of the Apes - How Animals Use Medicinal Plants," exploring the fascinating world of #Zoopharmacognosy! #POTGS2E9 #POTGS2E10 🦍🌿🌱🌿🌱 open.spotify.com/episode/6rQ4OG…

Thank you Antanika Hoberg for having me in your new podcast: Altered States of Consciousness. We had a great chat on altered states, the Amazon, integration, and moving forward with psychedelic science. The episode will be out on November 5th.

"In Suriname, there’s a saying: “The Amazon holds answers to questions we have yet to ask!” At this moment, some of those answers are going up in flames." @DocMarkPlotkin news.mongabay.com/2024/09/the-am…

Unfortunately these areas of concern and the absence of traditional knowledge perspectives are all-to-common in Psychedelic Science more broadly. It would be of great benefit of Psychedelic Science to consider the wealth of knowledge held in these perspectives.

Whilst the outputs of the paper are interesting, there are definitely some major areas for concern and a clear need for a more robust understanding of the landscape within which these compounds are traditionally situated, and the repercussions of using such terminologies.

An interesting study on DMT/Harmine combinations for meditators just out. But there are some niggles that I have noticed. The gaps in the present study highlight the desperate need of Psychedelic Science to learn from traditional cultures and practices.