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This is Lorenzo and I'm your host here in the psychedelic salon.

And, as you most likely know already, our beloved Sasha Shulgin died on June 2nd.

News of his death, surprisingly for many of us, was well reported in dozens and dozens of newspapers

and on television and radio all

around the world. This world recognition of the man that many of us think to have been the

greatest chemist who have lived during our lifetimes, well, that recognition is very heartwarming.

It's the kind of notice that I think he would have modestly appreciated it.

And in the weeks and months to come, I'm sure we're going to be hearing and seeing many more tributes to the life of Sasha Shogun and of the work that he and his wife Anne jointly pursued.

We owe the two of them and their small cadre of explorers, well, more than just a simple debt of gratitude,

much more, as I'm sure future historians will eventually figure out.

For my part, I thought that maybe you'd like to hear a couple of things that I haven't played

here in the salon before, and then I'll close with the talk by Sasha that actually changed the direction of my life.

And that is the talk that I played back in my podcast number 100. The talk itself was given in

1983 and a transcript of it was given to me the first night that I used MDMA. In just a bit,

you're going to hear it for yourself,

and I hope you'll understand why it so impacted me.

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