Guest speakers: Sasha Shulgin and Alan Watts
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[NOTE: The following quotations are by Sasha Shulgin.]

“So I look upon these materials [psychedelics] as being catalytic, not productive, they do not DO what occurs. The allow YOU to express what is in you that you had not had the ability to get to and express yourself without the help of a material.”

“I find that still the human animal is the only one that is really effective in evaluating and comparing these various psychedelic materials.”

[In testing a new substance] “You go with great caution. Decide what is the amount is that would have no effect and take one thousandths of that amount.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 227-Shulgin-Watts: “Sasha at MIT plus Alan Watts””

Guest speakers: Gary Fisher, Sasha Shulgin, Ann Shulgin, Myron Stolaroff, Baba Ram Das, Timothy Leary, and Terence McKenna
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SASHA SHULGIN:
“So I looked upon these materials as being catalytic, not productive, they do not do what occurs, they allow you to express what is in you that you had not had the ability to get into and express yourself without the help of the material.”

“My main argument for continuing to use the term [psychedelic] is that people may not approve of what you’re working in or what you’re saying, but at least they know what you’re talking about.”

ANN SHULGIN:
“My interest in these compounds is that they let you open up the doors inside your own psyche. They allow things to be more obvious, more apparent than the conscious mind usually lets them be.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 200 – “A Few Words From Our Elders””

Guest speaker: Sasha Shulgin
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[NOTE: The two quotations below are by Sasha Shulgin.]

“Internally, no one’s an elder. Internally everyone’s kinda around 35 or so.”

“The people at the industry said, ‘Gee, if you have that kind of imagination that you can look at a structure and guess at another structure that might be active, why don’t you just do whatever you want to do.’ And I did.”
» Continue reading “Podcast 173 – Shulgin: “How I Go About Inventing New Drugs””

Guest speakers: Robert Forte, Ann Shulgin, Sasha Shulgin
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“I think it’s extraordinarily important, again, the context of set and setting that we use these drugs in, if we’re going to succeed in the Psychedelic Renaissance, is something that needs to be underlined again and again.” –Robert Forte

“I would say that, arguably, the oldest use of psychedelics in our Western culture, let’s say, is the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were a psychedelic drug ceremony that occurred every year for 2,000 years in ancient Greece.” –Robert Forte

“Using appropriate scientific methodologies and naturalistic observations, [Timothy Leary] showed that psychedelic drugs were safe. He showed their clinical effectiveness. He showed their effects on enhancing creativity.” –Robert Forte

“Personally, I think my most keen friend amongst the various phenethylamines and alkaloids I’ve worked with and synthesized has been 2CB. To me, it’s a vary favorable, warm, and very comfortable compound.” –Sasha Shulgin
» Continue reading “Podcast 159 – “Shulgin & Forte at Horizons 2008″”

Guest speakers: Ann and Sasha Shulgin
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“It’s amazing what children don’t know their parents do.” . . .Sasha

“Let me tell you, MDMA is an extraordinary psychotherapeutic drug.” . . . Ann

“I really cannot conceive of a color test that would show positive with 2C-B or 2C-I in urine because the amounts there are so small.” . . . Sasha
» Continue reading “Podcast 138 – “The Shulgins at Mind States 2005″”

Guest speakers: Sasha Shulgin and Terence McKenna
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10:09 Sasha Shulgin: “First, I am a very firm believer in the reality of balance in all aspects of the human theater.”

11:00 Sasha Shulgin: “One definition of the tools I seek is that they may allow words of a vocabulary, a vocabulary that might allow each human being to more consciously — and more clearly — communicate with the interior of his own mind and psyche. This may be called a vocabulary of awareness.” » Continue reading “Podcast 100 – “Psychedelics and Spirituality Conference – 1983″ (Part 1)”

Guest speakers: Jean and Myron Stolaroff
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04:53Jean Stolaroff:Tells the story of how she first became involved with psychedelic medicines.

07:50 Myron Stolaroff: Tells how Death Valley came to be a favorite location for taking acid trips.

09:20 Myron tells some stories about Al Hubbard and Death Valley.
» Continue reading “Podcast 083 – “Lone Pine Stories” (Part 1)”

Guest speakers: Ann & Sasha Shulgin
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This program features Ann and Sasha Shulgin in their 2006 appearance at Burning Man where they participated in the Palenque Norte lecture series with their ever-popular “Ask the Shulgins” question and answer session. Questions that the Shulgins answered that day included such diverse issues as:

• What is your favorite drug?
• What do you think about using drugs with psychotherapy
• How do you feel about chronic drug use
• How do you know that the psychedelic path is one you should go down
• What advice do you have for couples who are on a psychedelic path
• What do you think about polydrug use

Also, Sasha describes how his first mescaline experience led to his future experiments with various compounds . . . and he warns about the unpredictability of these substances.

More Burning Man 2006 photos

Guest speakers: Julie Holland, Rick Doblin, Charles Grob, Ann & Sasha Shulgin, Alex Grey, and Lorenzo
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Here are a few samples from the 2005 Mind States conference that was held in Berkeley, California in May of that year. Sound bites from the following talks are included here:

Dr. Julie Holland: “Medical Ecstasy: A Harm Reduction Model”
Dr. Rick Doblin: “Psychedelic Psychotherapy & Culture”
Dr. Charles Grob: “Psilocybin Use in Psychiatry”
Ann & Sasha Shulgin: “Ask the Shulgins”
Alex Grey: “Artists & Their Drugs”

Additionally, this podcast includes a talk by Lorenzo at a salon in Venice Beach, California in 2003, where he recapitulates his “Living Under the Radar” talk from Mind States IV.

Guest speaker: Sasha Shulgin
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This podcast of the Psychedelic Salon Sasha Shulgin’s in-depth talk about cacti, which was given at the 2002 Mind States Conference held in Jamaica. After podcast #022 of another talk Sasha gave in Jamaica, we received a lot of eMail saying, “More Dr. Shulgin!!!!” . . . And so, here he is once again.

Although Sasha has given a lot of presentations at conferences all over the world, it isn’t often that he has devoted a single talk exclusively to a discussion of his extensive research into these intriguing plants.

In addition to PIKAL and TIKAL, Transform Press has also published Sasha’s new book about cacti, all of which are listed in the BOOKS section on the Shulgin’s page at Palenque Norte.