Eco-Consciousness and Ayahuasca: A talk with Greg Wrenn

The planet is heating up, oceans are acidifying, species are dying off—and at bottom, it is because of humanity’s flawed relationship with nature. What part might Ayahuasca have to play in healing this relationship?

Author and poet Greg Wrenn, a former lecturer at Stanford University, went through a process of healing his own relationship with nature, and himself, using this jungle medicine. Tonight, he shares his story with us.

Weaving together memoir and cutting-edge science, Mothership: A Memoir of Wonder and Crisis is both a queer coming-of-age story and a deeply researched account of how coral reefs and ayahuasca helped Greg heal from complex PTSD—a disorder of trust which makes the very act of bonding with someone else panic-inducing.

Highlights:

• Explore a healing paradigm possibly more powerful than many traditional therapeutic models, and the role psychedelics can play in our time of widespread mental illness and ongoing climate crisis.

• Hear…