PiHKAL A Chemical love story by Dr Alexander Shulgin

Call me late to the party, stumbled on this amazing piece of literature yesterday can't put it down. The irony is reading it in 2026 and seeing how Shulgin predicated there would be a day the book could not be found anywhere and ridiculed the criminalazation of psychedellucs in western culture I think he may be very pleased in the steps we have taken as of late !!! Let the train keep rollin

Available in various formats from https://annas-archive.gl/search?q=shulgin just use a vpn to download.

Heman said:

Available in various formats from https://annas-archive.gl/search?q=shulgin just use a vpn to download.

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shit my public library has 4 copies lol I didnt go there but they do

obviously pihkal and tihkal are his best works but also if you like the history of this stuff he wrote some 1975 paper called "drugs of abuse of the future" that was kinda prophetic (called the whole analogue game and upcoming fent crisis way back then)

sillycat said:

obviously pihkal and tihkal are his best works but also if you like the history of this stuff he wrote some 1975 paper called "drugs of abuse of the future" that was kinda prophetic (called the whole analogue game and upcoming fent crisis way back then)

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wow THANK YOU KINDLY I am absolutely the type to fall down the rabbit whole proveded the one leading has a flashlight and a good sense of where the surface is........I absoletly love Pihkal, I am early into it as I keep going back and reading and laughing, for a chemis he is a real stitch talking about the beta fish and his lab looking like an aquarium and his most "anayltical critical of sorts pal, stumbled upon the spatchla withl lysergia labeled on it and he handed it to him saying "bitter" I almost fell off my seat can you imagine.....from Sandoze labs lol lol and his reply was how would you know if it is bitter and he then licked the spatchula and said "well one thing is for sure we are certainly in store for a grand day this afternoon" sorry went on a rant just really enjoy the reading a great book written by an amazing human.

AlHoffman69 said:

Call me late to the party, stumbled on this amazing piece of literature yesterday can't put it down. The irony is reading it in 2026 and seeing how Shulgin predicated there would be a day the book could not be found anywhere and ridiculed the criminalazation of psychedellucs in western culture I think he may be very pleased in the steps we have taken as of late !!! Let the train keep rollin

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It's really good both it and TIHKAL. I still have to get around to reading his two other books "The nature of drugs" I've glanced but, sadly have commitment issues.

Bodhisattva said:

It's really good both it and TIHKAL. I still have to get around to reading his two other books "The nature of drugs" I've glanced but, sadly have commitment issues.

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I know I am loving Pakhal it's just hard I tried the ebook version don't like it found a bookstore that has both in stock going tmrw to purchase

Bodhisattva said:

It's really good both it and TIHKAL. I still have to get around to reading his two other books "The nature of drugs" I've glanced but, sadly have commitment issues.

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Holy cow I downloaded his movie and other books this morning I have always known of and even read as a kid but to me at my age now completely new uderstanding and appreciation

AlHoffman69 said:

I know I am loving Pakhal it's just hard I tried the ebook version don't like it found a bookstore that has both in stock going tmrw to purchase

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Yeah I remember searching for the versions I have of PIHKAL n TIHKAL Took awhile because there were just so many versions of each. There are so many bucket list substances I wanna try by Shulgin though. The only other person in similarity in level of effect in making new things or bringing them to public consciousness in the science world. Would be David E. Nichols which, they were apparently good friends when Shulgin was alive and communed on many things. If I remember correctly Nichols made the Nb@me Compounds enter the scientific radar. Which I love those compounds.

AlHoffman69 said:

Holy cow I downloaded his movie and other books this morning I have always known of and even read as a kid but to me at my age now completely new uderstanding and appreciation

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You' probably would enjoy the Dirty Pictures Documentary about Ann n Alexander Shulgin. If that's not the movie you were already mentioning. If I remember correctly just in one scene of him in it showing off a Compound he thought of, I believe it was 2@-b-fly. it instantly appeared on the market. Crazy how just a 10 second clip of him can effect the market so strongly.

Bodhisattva said:

You' probably would enjoy the Dirty Pictures Documentary about Ann n Alexander Shulgin. If that's not the movie you were already mentioning. If I remember correctly just in one scene of him in it showing off a Compound he thought of, I believe it was 2@-b-fly. it instantly appeared on the market. Crazy how just a 10 second clip of him can effect the market so strongly.

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Well when you created the market you know or shall I say decoded would be a more appropriate term as the answers were in nature the entire time. I still fell that way, every answer to every allment sickness....etc can be found in organic chemistry