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ADD - What are you reading?

I'm reading THIS! haha don't look at me like that!
i love to read, always been a little nerdy i guess. i'm actually writing my first book, which i'll share some about later, a lot of you guys on here will identify. imagine "thelma & louise" meets "cheech & chong".....what?? seriously.
but here's a suggestion some of you who lke to trip will love: "The Politics of Ecstacy" by Timothy Leary. there's always "Be Here Now" by Ram Dass. i've tripped while reading that book many many times. totally cool stuff. i believe that's what we're supposed to learn by expanding our conscious-ness. just becoming love. becoming one. melting into eachother. no masks, facades or games. stuff like that literally changed my life a long time ago....peace!
 
Oh I forgot to mention my dick is around 6 and 5/8ths inches (7/8ths under special circumstances). Yea......that's the direction this thread is going....
 
Currently reading a copy of Shulgin Index Vol. 1, signed by Sasha and his coauthors. <3
 
Sorry for the vulgarity.....i just though this was heading in that direction. In regards to shulgin, skip his wifes nonesense, i found nothing of substance in her" additions", but who knows....
 
I mentioned earlier I had "Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream" next in line. I decided to start reading it concurrently with "The Pot Book"

I'm really enjoying "Storming Heaven" Its interesting for those interested in the drugs or the people, (or both). I had never really associated certain authors with the psychedelic movement so its interesting to read about Huxley, Kerouac, Ginsberg, etc in connection to the development of modern psychology, psychotherapy, as well as psychedelic drug use.
 
^Storming Heaven is excellent. It's the single most absorbing, not to mention the most extensive and unbiased, piece of non-fiction ever written about the history of psychedelic drugs in the west. It transports you back in time, introducing you to the usual suspects, and allowing you to become intimately familiar with the unrelenting controversies that spoiled all the fun. I highly recommend it to anyone who has an interest in the role that psychedelics played in American culture and politics starting with the synthesis of LSD in 1943 up through the summer of love in 1967 and beyond, which should be just about all of ya!

Speaking of non-fiction psychedelic history books, has anybody read the newish Harvard Psychedelic Club?
 
mgrady3 said:
I'm really enjoying "Storming Heaven"
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Great book. I really enjoyed the tales of Al Hubbard! What a character. Actually, there are so many wonderful characters in the book, it's almost as if it were made up.

I finished the book the week Owlsley died in the car accident. :( It was very poignant to say the least.

negrogesic said:
In regards to shulgin, skip his wifes nonesense, i found nothing of substance in her" additions", but who knows....
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Perhaps your thinking of a different book?

I'm talking about The Shulgin Index Volume 1 (SIV#1), not the XiHKAL(s).

SIV#1 has no such commentary (from Ann or anyone else) that I have seen. It is a straight up literature review, organizational chart and compendium of mass spectra.
 
The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics Fourth Edition By Goodman and Gilman, this one is from 1970, with the first edition from like the 40s or something. So basically no specific receptor sites were known, nothing about ligand gated ion channels or the like, a great book for the layman with a passing interest in drug action. Also, it's chapter on subtsance abuse was also really good imo, a lot better than the stuff I read in modern books, very harm reduction oriented and it blatantly criticizes criminalization as making the issue harder to deal with by medical professionals. They may not have known about receptor down-regulation, but they got the psychological aspects of it down wonderfully. I think that's probably the only chapter I'd recommend to everyone, unless you're a GP or want to read about some old medications and techniques no longer in use. Or just marvel at how far knowledge has advanced since then.
 
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I'd like to tackle that beast this summer but the fact that my good friend, an literature masters student, said it was tough scares me a bit
 
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