Alexander Shulgin

Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Biochemistry, post-doctoral work in the fields of psychiatry and pharmacology. Read my books #PiHKAL and #TiHKAL.

[Jamie @Jamie199]

@DrAShulgin most parents would be horrified if their son/daughter said that to them... isn't that the shame of a situation

[The Toxic Tara @ToxiicTara]

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[Alexander Shulgin @DrAShulgin]

@kristofbel extensive testing

[Alexander Shulgin @DrAShulgin]

Most drugs are not addictive, and theyre certainly not escapist, but theyre valuable tools for understanding the human mind and how it works

[Joe Kavanagh @JosephJkavanagh]

feel like @DrAShulgin should have far more than 374 followers

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Is LSD a Treatment For Suicide, Headaches? - http://t.co/Peo5t5o

[Alexander Shulgin @DrAShulgin]

People give god credit for the healing marvels of the human body.

[Alexander Shulgin @DrAShulgin]

It was only after a great deal of introspection that I realized that mescaline no more produced beauty than TMA produced anger...

[Alexander Shulgin @DrAShulgin]

...Just as the beauty was always within me, so was the anger.

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http://youtu.be/QD260LPqHKA

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A word creates boundaries, it says this is the shape of what you are describing, as different from other shapes still bounded by other words

[Alexander Shulgin @DrAShulgin]

The definition of a drugs action can only come from a consensus amongst the users of that drug...

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...the more contributing to that definition, the closer it will be to the truth.

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Is creativity the making of a thing or a revealing?

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Creativity requires knowledge of the past, then an ignoring of the past.

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Chemistry. The infinitely effective catalyst. It is truly intergalactic communication. Not radio, or light, or X-rays, or binary. Chemistry.

[Alexander Shulgin @DrAShulgin]

...Slaves to words which have no equivalent in another language. Therefore nonverbal is the only way.

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Bonsai, gestalt, dharma. We all live our language and are captives of our language...

[Alexander Shulgin @DrAShulgin]

I am perhaps the Rosetta stone. The chemistry translates to the concept, which translates to what? The power to act?