Friday, August 30, 2013

Shulgin Benefit Blotter Art Auction #6 (Some of my pieces that were donated have been included)

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As promised, when the blotter art I donated goes up for auction, here is the link and the post!! Numbers 1 and 2, the Robert Anton Wilson, and the John Lilly signed pieces in this auction were both donated by me. Bid long, and bid often, and bid high! The cause is superb!

http://www.32auctions.com/organizations/8658/auctions/10550

Saturday, August 24, 2013

The anecdotal proof that when you trip, everything living around you trips too.

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I am specifically referring to a trip or a roll, as in, we're talking about empathogens and/or psychedelics. Its a fact of life amongst those who know from firsthand experience that if you are tripping hard, your cats and the wildlife around you end up tripping too, and sometimes it seems like they are wigged out even harder than you might be. My (now) wife and I, back when we first met in our raver days circa the mid 90's, were walking down a street back to my apartment one night tripping sack like crazy. As we approached our apartment building we froze in our tracks. There was a BIG city racooon about 12 feet up a trree directly in front of us. The tree was maybe 25 feet away. He was starting right at us like he knew we were coming already.

 I just whispered Sssshhhhh to the ol' lady, and we slowly appraoched the tree. In like super slow motion we crept, and the raccoon did the same thing, I could almost see it sensing...knowing even, that we presented no danger. As we got to withing 5 feet of the base of the tree, the raccoon was now at the foot of the tree at ground level.

We slowly began to crouch down as slowly as our legs would possibly allow us to do. It took what seemed to be 10 minutes for him to inch closer to us and for us you lower ourselves all the way down into a crouching position. Finally we were all the way down but our legs and ankles were starting to scream at us... The raccoon was staring, alternatingly right into my eyes, then my wife's.

  Eventually we were so close that we put out our hands and the raccoon smelled our hands. After he had done so, he crept back up a few steps and slowly, without any fear, walked back up the tree. We took the opportunity to stretch our legs, as our tendons and muscles were crying out in pain as this whole showdown had taken about 20 minutes of deliberate slow motion moving then crouching. We felt like the most amazing thing ever had just occirred to us, and we knew without a doubt that the raccoon became as high from the LSD we had taken as we have, and he sort of made this connection with us.

The best part? That this story is not yet over.

A bout a week later, we were out having sex in the parking lot, in my car. (A "lovely" 1986 Buick Somerset with the space-aged digital computer dash. I had adorned the vehicle, which backfired frequently, with all manner of stickers, including one of a mouse with a syrunge being pressed into him that was meant to cover a big patch on the center of a skateboard ramp, that covered my entire drivers side door. Quite the idiotic police magnet...) The car was off and all was quiet. We were on, I think, LSD and a light dose of MDMA, both.

At the time, I don't recall who was on bottom but we were in the front seat with the passengers side tilt tipped all the way down and back, and so one of us who was naturally facing upwards and out of the windshield at the large privacy fence that encircled our parking lot, (I think it was me that) gasped and pointed upwards at the top of the fence. Walking along the top of the fence, as if he had come from wherever knowing he was going to find us, was our raccoon buddy. He was carrying something in his mouth, and it was easier to see once he had stopped, DIRECTLY above my windshield in the spot with the best view of our activities.

He had decided to sit there and intently watch us fuck, and we could now see that he had brought a snack with him. He sat up on his haunches, like a little man, and began eating an ENTIRE bagel he had gotten from the garbage somewhere. I do not remember if we were able to finish or not, as it was very weird having this raccoon eating a bagel watching us fuck, but whether we did or not, is irrelevant. This story was not about us. Ive told it with the 100% truth, and looking back, its obvious this was a story *ABOUT* the raccoon.

If you ever needed further proof that your trip effects the behavior of people and other living creatures around you, then look no further then this. I have never doubted it again since that approximately 1 week long period and our two encounters with what was CERTAINLY the same raccoon.  It goes without saying that cats are affected very intensely as well, by your trip aura. And there is no reason to think other mammals/living creatures are any different.

By the way: I was inspired to write this blog post when I saw the comment (not the story itself) posted by Cris E from one of the groups I'm a member of. See her post here:
Cris E's Post About Her Dog Sharing Her High

Friday, August 9, 2013

Enjoy MDMA? How about 2C-B? 2C-I, 2C-C or 2C-E? Enjoy the NBOMe series? Earn some good Karma. Help The Shulgins. (Post now includes vastly improved prose at no cost to you!!)

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Enjoy MDMA? What about MDA? How about 2C-B? 2C-I,C or E? What about DOC, DOI, or DOB? 5-MEO-DMT? 5-MEO-DIPT? 4-ACO-DMT? DPT? 


Please know that one person created many of the world's foremost psychedelic and entheogenic chemicals. In addition to what he created, many more that he didn't create he nevertheless dragged back into the sunlight of popular consciousness by making the easiest route to synthesis public knowledge, as well as provided (trustworthy, professional) personal experience reports RE: Which chemicals at what doses reacted in what way, and how intensely each dose acted. And finally as if all this were not enough, he wrote several enormously valuable compendiums of the knowledge he used to make his discoveries, the specific chemistry needed to recreate them, and the qualitative information about each chemical, one book for the tryptamines, Tihkal, and one for the phenethlyamines Pihkal, (and much more at a later time, to boot, in "The Shulgin Index"!)  and then he had them published, ensuring they were widely available to the public for all time. 

His out and out creation of an insanely genius methodology, which he then employed for use in the discovery of hundreds of psychedelic and empathogenic chemicals that did not exist before his discovery, and just as important, the RE-discovery of many hundreds of others that fit the same profiles, but simply may have been synthed or patented or extracted elsewhere at one point in human history... And just as important, his RE-introduction of these chemicals to any/all who are interested enough to come looking, complete with a how-to manual covering the step by step chemistry, and the thought process behind it all for everything created....These are the reasons, exclusively, why the vast majority of "Alternative" or "Nontraditional" psychedelic chemicals that exist today, exist at all, and that you are able to find them at reasonable cost. 

So whether you are into 2-CB which Shulgin discovered/created, or whether you are into MDMA which he simply resurrected from obscurity, or whether you are into 25i-NBOMe, which he did not create, but without his 2C-i to build off would not exist anyway..... Odds are good you have some reason to pay a hearty thank-you to Sasha and Ann Shulgin. Without them, for one reason or another, things would be extremely different today, in the psychedelic scene, and subsequently, the world around us, if not for their immense personal risks taken, and their  selfless contribution made solely curiosity, science, and overall, for the greater good . And now they need YOUR help.

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Other than MDMA ......Other than those two I just mentioned, many of these relatively well known chemicals listed up top, and also MANY hundreds and hundreds more would not even exist if they had not been discovered/invented/rediscovered/reintroduced by Sasha, and trialed by Sasha and Ann a cadre of close friends, and then chronicled for the world to read about in Pihkal and Tihkal. Also, its worth mentioning that while a different man (technically, while two different unaffiliated men) are responsible for creating the NBOMe series, without the 2C-B, I, E, and C structure there to be added to, this series would not exist either. So really, a whole lot of the counterculture owes the Shulgins an enormous amount of gratitude. Being that Sasha has had failing health after suffering a stroke some years back and their medical bills cost a fortune, and they are not at all wealthy people, there is a way to SHOW that gratitude by giving something back to the Shulgins. I am attempting to lead by example.
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I donated a good cache of blotter art to help out Sasha & Ann Shulgin. Big thx to Mark & Kelly @ Elysium Foundation for making it possible for me TO help. Read on to learn what you can do, too!
Sasha & Ann Shulgin are truly lucky to have folks like you working to provide them with even a small fraction of the immense amount of comfort and care they deserve.   
For being a pair of people whom so many of us are MOST indebted too, its quite sad how few people are aware of it, and even sadder how few are aware of the fact that they actually DO need our help right now. 

If you, too, owe Sasha a favor, its time to repay that favor right now.

You can visit the Elysium Foundation's Facebook page, and get in contact with them in order to ask about what sort of stuff you might be able to donate to the cause to be auctioned. You can also contact them and simply ask how best to make a cash donation for Sasha's medical bills, and/or check up on Sasha's progress. Find them here:



If you prefer to make a direct donation by paypal, then see below. You can choose a recurring or a one time donation via the buttons below. Please give generously. Sasha and Ann need all the help they can get at this point.

For non-tax-deductible contributions that will help cover recent medical costs for Sasha, and pay for the home-based caregiving help that is required during his time of healing, please use PayPal to make donations via the buttons below. Please choose a monthly amount from the “Subscription options” drop-down menu and then click the ”Subscribe” button to make a recurring monthly donation. Alternatively, you may choose to click the “Donate” button to make a one-time donation.
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Alternatively, donate via snail mail to:
Sasha Shulgin, c/o Transform Press
PO Box 13675 . Berkeley, CA . 94712
For tax-deductible online donations to support the completion of Shulgin publishing projects that are underway,
Alternatively, donate via snail mail to:
Sasha Shulgin, c/o Transform Press
PO Box 13675 . Berkeley, CA . 94712
For tax-deductible online donations to support the completion of Shulgin publishing projects that are underway,


 If these buttons/code seen below are not working, you can also visit the page that I initially co--opted the code from and read up yourself on how things are going as of last update, and then utilize the working donation buttons found on that page: http://www.shulginresearch.org/home/donate/


I will also be sure to post links when any more blotter artwork, or any type of artwork or otherwise goes up for sale or auction where the proceeds are slated to go 100% to help cover Sasha's medical bills, and I will certainly post any links to auctions that contain blotter that I donated to the cause in case you want to bid on any of that specifically.