Unfortunately I currently don’t have much time to be at the bl. Nevertheless I feel the urge to share some interesting things from the symposium that just spring into my mind:
1. Shulgins new book, the “Psychedelic Index Book” will probably come out in the middle of the year, and it contains, in opposite to the opinion of some guys, no information of any opioids.
2. He did not discover any psychedelic isoquinoline, and the psychedelic effect of many cacti bases probably on the principle we know from ayahuasca. IQs that are inactive alone, but are MAOIs, and PEAs that are also inactive alone, but the mixture is extraordinary psychedelic.
3. Some compounds he investigated cause seizures. When he feels the seizure coming, he takes a phenobarb and developed a strategy to prevent the seizure until the phenobarb does his job. (20 min) He says, it’s important to bring none of your thoughts to an end. When this happens, the seizure will come. So, when you feel that your thoughts on one topic comes near to an end, switch to any other thing, you think about. This works very effectively, in his opinion. (We all hope that we will never come in such situation!!)
4. The mushroom pope Gatz claimed that a newly in mushrooms discovered compound, the quat salt of psilocybin is also psychedelic. But this compound has never been made and tested by itself. (I anyhow doubt, that the quat can be active. It would be the first one.)
5. Nichols mentioned a new and (until now) unpublished compound with enormous psychedelic affinity. It is one of his modelled compounds, and it has a bizarre looking cyclobutane structure. (Formula is attached).
6. Unfortunately I could not join Shulgins last talk about psychedelics of the future. Perhaps there is anybody out there who could give a short overview. –It would be great.
1. Shulgins new book, the “Psychedelic Index Book” will probably come out in the middle of the year, and it contains, in opposite to the opinion of some guys, no information of any opioids.
2. He did not discover any psychedelic isoquinoline, and the psychedelic effect of many cacti bases probably on the principle we know from ayahuasca. IQs that are inactive alone, but are MAOIs, and PEAs that are also inactive alone, but the mixture is extraordinary psychedelic.
3. Some compounds he investigated cause seizures. When he feels the seizure coming, he takes a phenobarb and developed a strategy to prevent the seizure until the phenobarb does his job. (20 min) He says, it’s important to bring none of your thoughts to an end. When this happens, the seizure will come. So, when you feel that your thoughts on one topic comes near to an end, switch to any other thing, you think about. This works very effectively, in his opinion. (We all hope that we will never come in such situation!!)
4. The mushroom pope Gatz claimed that a newly in mushrooms discovered compound, the quat salt of psilocybin is also psychedelic. But this compound has never been made and tested by itself. (I anyhow doubt, that the quat can be active. It would be the first one.)
5. Nichols mentioned a new and (until now) unpublished compound with enormous psychedelic affinity. It is one of his modelled compounds, and it has a bizarre looking cyclobutane structure. (Formula is attached).
6. Unfortunately I could not join Shulgins last talk about psychedelics of the future. Perhaps there is anybody out there who could give a short overview. –It would be great.
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