BioGnosis

Diretor: Greg Hemmings
Canada , Peru | 2022 | 32 min | Spanish, English , Heb sub

 

The McKenna Academy’s BioGnosis project aims to renovate and digitize an immensely important collection of 150,000 biological specimens currently housed at the Herbarium of the Amazon in Iquitos, Peru. The herbarium includes vital knowledge on how the indigenous people use the plants for healing. It is the McKenna Academy's vision to make this reservoir of knowledge and wisdom available for future generations. Biognosis, Bridges to Ancestral Wisdom, introduces the project and its custodians to the viewer and transports them to the heart of the jungle where the herbarium is currently housed and where ancestral plant wisdom is under threat.