c/terence-mckenna
The largest collection of talks by Terence McKenna — visionary ethnobotanist and advocate for the mindful use of natural psychedelics.
…people, and also if you stay in a field like this, you eventually get to meet everybody. You get to meet Albert Hoffman and Sasha Shulgin and Leary and Lily and all these people, and you begin to have a view of how all these people viewed it. So what…
…was increased in the presence of psilocybin visual acuity. Well, I gave this. I gave a talk like this in Mexico, and Sasha Shulgin was in the audience, and he said, there's an even better set of Fischer experiments which make your point even more…
…content of pigamon harmola is vaseline, about which virtually nothing is known other than melting point and activity in dogs. Sasha Shulgin, in this mexican meeting I just came from, lectured on the alkaloid content of pygamon harmala. So vaseline is in…
…want. First they said it was Cathinone from cotin and then they changed the story and said that it was something else. But Sasha Shulgin took some and analyzed it, and he said it was the purest two cb he's ever seen outside of his own laboratory. So…
…yes and yes. There is nothing more variable in human beings than our reactions to drugs. Years ago, I took a course from Sasha Shulgin at Cal. It was actually in forensics, believe it or not. And the name of the course was the biochemical basis of…
…people, and also if you stay in a field like this, you eventually get to meet everybody. You get to meet Albert Hoffman and Sasha Shulgin and to Leary and Lily and all these people, and you begin to have a view of how all these people viewed it. So…
…thing. Yeah, I heard a report and I hope you can confirm it or deny it about a conference of which Sasha Shulgin and you were attending with FDA Representative, and Sasha was asking, you know, why the hallucinogens weren't rescheduled and the reports…
…it you certainly should be I mean obviously you should buy and read every word I've ever written. In addition to that, Sasha Shulgin and Ann Shulgin's book pikal has come out. You should be aware of Jonathan Ott's book pharmacotheon, which in between the…
…it was a funny course too it was called forensic pathology, if you can imagine, and it was taught by if you can imagine, Sasha Shulgin Forensic pathology right. So one of the things he did in this class is he brought in a little vial of some substance…
…at uc Santa Barbara in may 1983 that featured a number of established and emerging luminaries, including Albert Hoffman, Sasha Shulgin, Andrew Weil, Ralph Metzner, Karl Ruck, Walter Houston Clark and others. Terence's Edgy talk was titled hallucinogens monkeys…
…then try and figure out a strategy, chemical or otherwise, to work on a problem like that. Oh people like frank Barr, Sasha Shulgin, my brother, John Lilly, if he would behave himself all these great people you know would have a great interest in this.…