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Ep 6 : Sasha & Anne Shulgin’s PiHKAL, The Analog Act, Web Tryp & the DEA Psychonaut Crackdown

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Abby & Robbie Martin

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4.6814 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Abby and Robbie dive deeper into the life and work of Sasha and Anne Shulgin and their close yet tumultuous relationship with the DEA, their books PiHKAL / TiHKAL , the raid of his home and the crackdown on “designer drug” internet retailers that were selling pure chemical drugs following the recipies from both of Shulgin's books. This is Episode 6 of an ongoing series on Psychedelic History, Episodes 1-6 are availible now. Patreon subscribers at the $5 tier get access to Episode 4 of the series: www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio Previous: Episode 1: A Brief History of Hallucinogens, MK-Ultra, the CIA, LSD, Leary & the Psychedelic 60s / 70s Episode 2: How Raves Brought Back the Psychedelic Subculture, DanceSafe, Pill Tests & the DEA vs MDMA Episode 3: Terrence McKenna, Johnathan Ott, DMT, Pharmahuasca, Heroic Dosing, Utopianism & the Psychedelic New Age Episode 4: When Microsoft Employee #9 Boosted an Online Psychedelic Revolution, Erowid.org, DXM & Salvia Episode 5: the Acid Drought, Making DMT, A Godfather of Psychedelic Analogs & His Problem Child 2-C-T-7 FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey //

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0:00.0

This is Abby Martin. This is a disclaimer to say that psychedelic drugs do not universally work the same for everybody.

0:07.5

They can cause psychosis at high enough doses, and they can be life-changing in ways that are not always intended or desired.

0:15.3

Psychedelics should be used responsibly and with extreme caution.

0:23.6

One thing I've learned a very basic rule, which I think is very nice,

0:26.6

and that is keep your sense of humor and don't take yourself seriously.

0:30.6

And that's a hard, hard one to learn.

0:33.6

Have fun. Enjoy it.

0:35.6

And simplify. Very good, very thing with the thing.

0:39.3

This is coming very much in the last decade to simplify things.

0:43.3

You tend to build complex relationships and explanations and details and try to find how the elves indeed got on that side of that branch of the tree.

0:53.3

Enough to know maybe they're elves.

0:56.0

And even at that, maybe they're not elves, but they're as if there were elves.

1:01.0

Simplify. Make things a little bit easier to take, you can't take it all with you when you go.

1:07.0

So at least you can, who is it, Navakovov, I think it was, wrote this marvelous little line,

1:13.6

which said in essence, the last two seconds of your life are spent.

1:17.6

The first second is reliving your entire life and going through everything kind of all over again

1:22.6

to where you had come from and where you are now.

1:25.6

That's an ultimate second. And the last second is preparing yourself

1:29.3

for truly the ultimate change in state of consciousness.

1:33.3

So maybe that's what you're learning.

1:36.3

You're learning how to change your state and live,

1:38.3

if I may use it as a slightly misdirected word,

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