Reddit mentions of TIHKAL: The Continuation

Entheogens is the word your looking for if you're talking about the phenethylamine and tryptamine analogues that Dr. Shulgin wrote about extensively in the 60's and 70's in Pihkal and Tihkal respectively. They're not that dangerous as long as you calculate your dose very carefully and understand the nature of the material.

Source: He owns a yoga studio not far from me in Portland, Oregon.

Abstinence only drug education is like abstinence only sex education; it does more harm then good. Here kids read a fucking book or two and learn some chemistry

On Erowid Pihkal and Tihkal

On Amazon Pihkal and
Tihkal


On Pirate Bay [Pihkal](http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3577874/(ebook_-_en%29_A._Shulgin_-_Pihkal_-_A_Chemical_Love_Story) and [Tihkal](http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3579128/(ebook_-_en%29_Shulgin__Alexander_-_Tihkal__On_Psychedelics__amp__How)

I love the part where he realizes he could make a potent form of THC from an extract from certain kinds of lichens and an extract from pennyroyal.

Oh, and stay away from cocaine unless you need a good local anesthetic; stay away from meth unless you need to loose some weight (don't smoke it); and if you find yourself addicted to heroin or whatever ask a doctor about suboxone.

The war on drugs is just so fucking pointless. All forms of puritanism seem to just make things worse. Just trying to help.

Edit: I hate the word just. "Justice is just us and nobody else."

To anyone who finds the Shulgins and their work interesting, I can't recommend strongly enough Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story and Tihkal: A Continuation. Sasha and Ann were, and are, incredible people, with a fascinating body of work.

Considered PiHKAL or TiHKAL? Doesn't necessarily have the good juicy chemistry, but still very interesting.

Something I haven't read but have heard good things about is The Shulgin Index. From what I've heard, it's more about the chemistry.

http://www.amazon.com/Tihkal-The-Continuation-Alexander-Shulgin/dp/0963009699

i guess i was more interested in the subjective traits to LSD that you enjoyed, because not all drugs are the same.

something like "i like the trippy shit i saw", or "i enjoyed the wacked out shit my brain would come up with", or "it felt like i was flying", or what-have-you...

skiming over that link, it seems like a change of perception is what got you interested, in which case, mescaline and 2c-e, would be my suggestions to be on top of the list to research. listen to /u/hedonistphilosopher's thoughts on 2c-e. also, read PiHKAL and TiHKAL. Shulgin literally wrote the book on this class of chemicals

There's more.

They're $20.92 each on amazon:

PIHKAL - http://www.amazon.com/Pihkal-Chemical-Story-Alexander-Shulgin/dp/0963009605

TIHKAL - http://www.amazon.com/Tihkal-Continuation-Alexander-Shulgin/dp/0963009699

If you're interested in what they look like, part 2 of both books is freely available on erowid:

PIHKAL - https://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal.shtml

TIHKAL - https://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/tihkal/tihkal.shtml

For those wanting more information regarding Alexander Shulgin, the wikipedia page offers some decent information.

Hammilton Morris' short documentary SIHKAL: Shulgins I Have Known And Loved offers a lot of great information as well.

The Los Angeles times published an interview with him in 1995, which is now available on Erowid.

His first book, PiHKAL: Phenethylamine I Have Known and Loved is available on amazon, and contains first hand accounts of the effects of, as well as information of the chemical structure of the drugs Mescaline, DOM, 2C-B, 2C-E, 2C-T-2, and 2C-T-7. All of these, apart from mescaline, are drugs created by Shulgin himself. The book also mentions and/or details the drugs PMA, 2,4-DMA, 3,4-DMA, MDA, MMDA, MMDA-3a, MMDA-2, TMA, TMA-2, DMMDA, DMMDA-2, and TeMA, as well as over 200 other substances, all first synthesized by Alexander Shulgin himself.

His second book, TiHKAL: Tryptamines I Have Known And Loved, is also available on amazon, and contains several essays on the war on drugs, the prevelence of DMT in nature, psychoteraphy, and a number of other topics. The book also includes detailed synthesis instructions and chemical information regarding 55 different Tryptamines, including 5-MeO-DET, LSD, 4-HO-DiPT, 2,alpha-DMT, Melatonin, MiPT, and Tetrahydroharmine, amongst others.

Huxley's The Doors of Perception is a great read. So are the autobiographical sections of PiHKAL and TiHKAL by Alexander Shulgin. And back in my stoner days, I used to really enjoy reading books about neuroscience like Phantoms in the Brain by V S Ramachandran and discussing them while high.

What exactly are you asking for here?