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Educational Talk

The Lost Amazon with Wade Davis

September 18 at 7pm

At Lightning Society Lofts

Bushwick

Schultes also hunted wild rubber for the WWII Allied war effort
Arrive early to soak up Lightning Society's famously warm vibes
Psychedelic curiosity helps, but no prior knowledge needed

Wade Davis, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, takes you deep into the Amazon through the extraordinary life of his mentor Richard Evans Schultes, the scientist who unlocked the secrets of ayahuasca and psilocybin while living among Indigenous peoples for over a decade.

What are you into?

  • intimate salon talk
  • ethnobotany exploration
  • Indigenous knowledge
  • psychedelic history
  • Lightning Society Lofts
  • Bushwick

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