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Ann Shulgin

Ann Shulgin Biography

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Ann Shulgin, born on March 22, 1931, is a renowned author. Her works primarily focus on psychology, pharmacology, and human behavior. She is best known for her research and descriptions of psychedelic drugs, particularly LSD, which have had a profound impact on the culture of psychedelic drugs and psychological research.

Ann Shulgin, born on March 22, 1931, is a renowned author. Her works primarily focus on psychology, pharmacology, and human behavior. She is best known for her research and descriptions of psychedelic drugs, particularly LSD, which have had a profound impact on the culture of psychedelic drugs and psychological research.

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“I don't know if you realize this, but there are some researchers — doctors — who are giving this kind of drug to volunteers, to see what the effects are, and they're doing it the proper scientific way, in clean white hospital rooms, away from trees and flowers and the wind, and they're surprised at how many of the experiments turn sour. They've never taken any sort of psychedelic themselves, needless to say. Their volunteers — they're called 'subjects,' of course — are given mescaline or LSD and they're all opened up to their surroundings, very sensitive to color and light and other people's emotions, and what are they given to react to? Metal bed-frames and plaster walls, and an occasional white coat carrying a clipboard. Sterility.”

Science Nature Beauty Research Psychedelics

Book:Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story

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“Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.”

Knows Long Simple Attention Seeing Forgotten Pay Attention Revelations Finding Yourself Something New Long Ago Cliche Psychedelic Simple Things Liable

Book:Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story

Source: Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story

“Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true.”

Has Beens Government School Generations Heard Information Students Taught Drug High School Police Including Factual High School Students

Author:Ann Shulgin

“There is a coming home. A home base. Psychedelics help you reconnect with home.”

Helping Home Coming Home Home Base

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“We have friends who don't use psychoactive materials but who are still interested in how the brain works and psychology and spiritual training. It's a very large and very intelligent bunch of people. We have two big parties each year where people bring food and drink and get to know each other. It makes a very good party.”

People Spiritual Party Brain Psychology Drink Training Intelligent Very Good

Author:Ann Shulgin

“Every person's body chemistry is different. The effect of one single drug that appeals to me might have a different effect on someone else. There's no way to tell what the perfect psychedelic drug would be, because it would be perfect for only you.”

Different Perfect Drug Chemistry Psychedelic

Author:Ann Shulgin

“If you haven't been to Burning Man, you should do it once. It's an extraordinary experience. Some of the best artwork I've ever seen in or out of a museum. Amazing.”

Men Extraordinary

Author:Ann Shulgin

“You contain a universe inside yourself. There's no end to it - your conscious, your subconscious. There is no limit to what's inside you. We are very much connected. There's no end to it.”

Universe Conscious Subconscious

Author:Ann Shulgin

“It [MDMA] takes away the feelings of self-hatred and condemnation, which are the biggest obstacles to insight... For reasons we don't understand, MDMA allows people to do this, typically in one [psychotherapeutic] session.”

People Self Reason Feelings Drug Hatred Obstacles Insight Session Condemnation Self Hatred Biggest Obstacles

Author:Ann Shulgin

“MDMA is penicillin for the soul; you don't give up on penicillin when you see what it can do.”

Giving Soul Can Do Drug Giving Up Don't Give Up Penicillin

Author:Ann Shulgin

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Born: March 22, 1931
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