ISBN10: 0963009605, ISBN13: 9780963009609, [publisher: Transform Press,U.S. Mai 1995] Softcover Neuware - Alexander (better known as 'Sasha') and Ann Shulgin's PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story has become a foundational work in the genre and was the first book to fully impart the how-to chemistry, and convey the effects, of many of the entheogenic drugs that are currently being studied and used to heal trauma and deal with death. An acronym for 'Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved', the book spans autobiography, organic chemistry, politics, ethnobotany, and psychopharmacology, and the cultural impact is likely to be profound for decades to come, as it has already. PiHKAL is divided into two parts, the first of which is a fictionalized autobiographical 'novel' - the main fiction is that it is fiction. This first half of the book is The Love Story, about two people named Shura and Alice who fall in love, though one of them is already in love with someone else. This love triangle is a painful ordeal they must go through, and that process unfolds before the reader with grace and great insight into human nature. Shura is a brilliant chemist who has dedicated his career to making psychoactive drugs, in the story they go through many experiences with the psychedelic compounds that Shura has discovered and has made in his lab, all of which have been bioassayed himself. The reader will find themselves going on this journey with them, ...
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ISBN10: 0963009605, ISBN13: 9780963009609, [publisher: Transform Press,U.S. Mai 1995] Softcover Neuware - Alexander (better known as 'Sasha') and Ann Shulgin's PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story has become a foundational work in the genre and was the first book to fully impart the how-to chemistry, and convey the effects, of many of the entheogenic drugs that are currently being studied and used to heal trauma and deal with death. An acronym for 'Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved', the book spans autobiography, organic chemistry, politics, ethnobotany, and psychopharmacology, and the cultural impact is likely to be profound for decades to come, as it has already. PiHKAL is divided into two parts, the first of which is a fictionalized autobiographical 'novel' - the main fiction is that it is fiction. This first half of the book is The Love Story, about two people named Shura and Alice who fall in love, though one of them is already in love with someone else. This love triangle is a painful ordeal they must go through, and that process unfolds before the reader with grace and great insight into human nature. Shura is a brilliant chemist who has dedicated his career to making psychoactive drugs, in the story they go through many experiences with the psychedelic compounds that Shura has discovered and has made in his lab, all of which have been bioassayed himself. The reader will find themselves going on this journey with them, ...
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ISBN10: 0963009605, ISBN13: 9780963009609, [publisher: Turnaround|Transform Press] Softcover Das Buch besteht aus zwei Teilen. Der erste Teil beschaeftigt sich mit biographischen Aspekten beider Autoren. Zusammenkuenfte eines Freundeskreis werden geschildert, bei der neue psychoaktive Substanzen im Selbstversuch unter wissenschaftlichen Bedingungen g.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 1995]
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