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From:  [den 0] at [midway.uchicago.edu]

The latest issue of _Whole Earth Review_ (No. 47, Fall 1991) contains the
introduction to Alexander Shulgin's long-awaited _Phenethylamines I Have
Known and Loved_ (AKA "PIHKAL").  The book will be available in September
from Transform Press, Box 13675, Berkeley, CA 94701 for 22.95 postpaid
(CA residents add 1.32).  This is a major event.  The book has been
described as "part autobiography, part metaphysical guidebook, and part
cookbook."  Whoopdeedojamboree!

   --Matt Funkchick

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From: [s--nd--r] at [mit.edu]
Date: 10 Oct 91 01:05:50 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.med,sci.chem,alt.drugs,alt.sex
Subject: PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story

(I'm posting this for a friend.)

				PiHKAL*

			 CHEMICAL LOVE STORY
		 by Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin

Book I:  The Love Story --- tells the tale of a scientist who has
         devoted over 30 years to the creation and investigation of
	 psychedelic drugs as tools for the study of the human mind.
	 There is a love triangle in which certain aspects of the
	 altered-state experience are explored in depth.

Book II: The Chemical Story --- describes in detail a wealth of
         phenethylamine compounds:

	 * Synthesis and physical properties (in the format of the
	 Journal of Medical Chemistry).

	 * Structural correlates to human central nervous system
	 activity. 
	 
	 * The dosage used and duration of effects observed.

	 * Commentary and speculation on why (for instance):

	 	-- Some which should have been active are not;
		-- Some which should not have been active are;
		-- Some are too toxic to determine activity;
		-- And some have yet to be tasted.



"PiHKAL is a compelling novel...  psychedelic biochemistry and sexual
chemistry...  brisk and vivid writing."
	Marilyn Ferguson, author of "The Aquarian Conspiracy."

"They have written a book...  PiHKAL...  that is part autobiography,
part metaphysical guidebook, and part cookbook."
	Howard Rheingold, editor of Whole Earth Review.

"PiHKAL is science at its best."
	Bradley Lenz, Ph.D., Research Fellow in the History of
	Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

"This courageous and compelling book...  provides a marvelous glimpse
of altered states of consciousness..."
	Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard
	University. 

"Some day in the future, when it may again be acceptable to use
chemical tools to study the mind, this book will be a treasure-house,
a sort of sorcerer's book of spells, to delight and enchant the
psychiatrist/shaman of tomorrow."
	David Nichols, PhD., Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Purdue
	University.


PiHKAL
Phenethylamines I have Known and Loved
xxviii + 978 pp. $18.95 (+ $4.00 postage & handling)
California residents, add $1.38 tax
ISBN 0-9630096-0-5
		

Available From:
TRANSFORM PRESS
Box 13675
Berkeley, CA 94701




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