Pikhal: A Chemical Love Story
Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin
“For nearly 30 years one of the authors, Dr. Alexander Shulgin, affectionately known to his friends as Sasha, has been the only person in the world to synthesize, then evaluate in himself, his wife Ann, and in a dedicated group of close friends, nearly 200 never-before-known chemical structures, materials expected to have effects in man similar to those of the mind-altering psychedelic drugs mescaline, psilocybin and LSD… In the first two parts, the Shulgins describe the individual life paths which led each of them to a fascination with psychedelics and, ultimately, to their fascination with each other… The second half of the book is an almost encyclopedic compendium of synthetic methods, dosages, durations of action, and commentaries for 179 different chemical materials… Some day in the future, when it may again be acceptable to use chemical tools to study the mind, this book will be a treasurehouse, a sort of sorcerer's book of spells, to delight and enchant the psychiatrist/shaman of tomorrow.”
Publisher: Transform
Paperback: 978 pages