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If you find this topic interesting ignore everything in the above post and get yourself a copy of: Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogeni
by photochemsyn 3y ago
If you find this topic interesting ignore everything in the above post and get yourself a copy of:
Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers
by Richard Evans Schultes (Author), Albert Hofmann (Author), Christian Rätsch (Author)
- nico 3y agoFor the ones who might not know, Albert Hofmann discovered LSD
- anon____ 3y agoHe wrote another book about that, titled "LSD — My Problem Child". https://maps.org/images/pdf/books/lsdmyproblemchild.pdf https://maps.org/images/pdf/books/lsdmyproblemchild.pdf.
- neom 3y agoCouple of additional great reads around the subject: The Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley Food of the Gods - Terrence McKenna. And honestly reading Erowid trip report is super interesting/fun (especially DMT! Heh).
- c420 3y agoAnd PiHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved): A Chemical Love Story by Drs. Alexander & Ann Shulgin
- bozhark 3y agoAlso TIHKAL: The Continuation is a 1997 book written by Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin about a family of psychoactive drugs known as tryptamines. A sequel to PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story, TIHKAL is an acronym that stands for "Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiHKAL#:~:text=TIHKAL%3A%20The%20Continuation%20is%20a,I%20Have%20Known%20and%20Loved%22 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiHKAL#:~:text=TIHKAL%3A%20T....
- mellavora 3y agoCleansing the Doors of Perception by Hudson Smith.
- selimthegrim 3y agoDo they cover datura?
- capableweb 3y agoIn my experience, Datura isn't something I'd use for healing, it's something I'd use to break down myself. The experience with that is unlike others, and not in a good way.
- c420 3y agoI'd liken it to the salvia experience.
- jurynulifcation 3y agoI'd respectfully disagree. For the first part, datura is an anticholinergic neurotoxin, a deliriant. Salvia is a kappa-opioid dissociative, without any known toxicities. The important thing to keep in mind with salvia is minimalism. It has no tolerance to speak of, so nothing is lost by starting small, well smaller than you know will give noticeable effect. Then build up from there. (An effect of salvia overdose is 'automatic action', where your body moves on impulse without the intervention of your waking mind)
- amts 3y agoThough toxicity seems the main difference, comment above is talking about experience and not molecular mechanisms of action. In a similar vein, if someone would ask a distinguished professor of neuroscience to provide a full description of the exact brain molecular state that "generates" an exact salvia experience (including any communicative content), s/he would fail.
- capableweb 3y ago> Though toxicity seems the main difference, comment above is talking about experience and not molecular mechanisms of action. As someone who has done both, in similar settings, I'd still disagree with this. Datura was devilish like none other and probably one of the few psychedelics I'd never do again.
- max_ 3y agoI have searched for an EPUB copy and unfortunately I can only get Richard Evan's "Where the Gods Reign: Plants and Peoples of the Colombian"