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(Sasha Shulgin, who died in 2014, was a brilliant chemist who held a DEA license allowing him to synthesize novel psychedelic compounds, which he did in prodigious numbers. He also was the first to synthesize MDMA since it had been patented by Merck in 1912 and forgotten. Recognizing its psychoactive properties, he introduced the so-called
... See moreMichael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Henry Miller • Henry Miller: Few Can Escape the Treadmill
During those years I was taking acid once each year to find out what I was forgetting, to uncover any subtle ways in which I was conning myself. One year I took it in the Mid-America Motel in Salina, Kansas; that was my mid-America trip.
Stephen Levine • Grist for the Mill: Awakening to Oneness
We’re all a bit like Mississippi Gene, whom Sal meets in On the Road: “He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere.”
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Who am I
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Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
It was during one of these Saturday afternoon experiments, in an apartment in Baltimore, that Jesse, twenty-five years old and having ingested a high dose of LSD, had a powerful “non-dual experience” that would prove transformative.
Michael Pollan • How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
this is the opposite of a slave auction.