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Harrison, Kathleen

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Kathleen Harrison is a scholar and teacher of ethnobotany. She focuses on how native cultures perceive nature, and how that is applied to ritual and healing.She has done fieldwork in Mesoamerica, the Amazon Basin, the West Coast subcultures, and Pacific islands, and is a published author and photographer. She is the president of Botanical Dimensions, a non-profit organization which she founded with her former husband, Terence McKenna. Through Botanical Dimensions, she has worked for 30 years to collect medicinal and shamanic species and the lore that helps us understand how to regard them. (Source: plantteachers.com)