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- From: Nicholas Saunders <nicholas@neals.demon.co.uk>
- Subject: New Book The Essential Psychedelic Guide
- Message-ID: <Cx0Lzn.3w1@demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 1 Oct 1994 22:18:58 GMT
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- The Essential Psychedelic Guide by D. M. Turner $12.95 in shops or mail
- order by phone with credit card from +1 (415) 753-6481. (I have just been
- sent this book, and this publicity was not solicited.) ISBN
- 0-9642636-1-0, 112 pages, paperback, published by Panther Press, 1032
- Irving #514, SF, CA 94122, USA.
- This is the published version of a guide called Psychedelic Explosion
- that circulated over the past year in various and much re-photocopied
- versions.
- This is unlike all the other books you have seen on drugs. It is a
- consumer's guide based on the personal experiences of a psychedelic
- explorer, a true connoisseur of psychedelics, written in the first person.
- Anyone taking any particular psychedelic for the first time, or intending
- to experiment with mixtures, will find this book invaluable. The first
- DMT I tried was wasted through not knowing how to use it; the next time I
- had an earlier version of this book, followed its advice and it worked.
- The safety section lists combinations to avoid, particularly MAO
- inhibitors and which drugs and foods should not be taken with these. It
- is a surprisingly large list including aged cheese and over ripe avocados.
- "Contrary to being dangerous, throughout most of history psychedelics h
- ave been considered gifts of the Gods, and have been associated with the
- healing of the body, mind and soul."
- Psychedelics are rated 0-10 for intensity. Ecstasy comes bottom at 2-4
- while Ketamine tops the list at 10 leaving LSD, mescaline and psilocybin
- in between. Though this may be true of intensity, I get the impression
- that this is also the author's rating for value of experience, and this
- is where I disagree.
- "Multiple Combinations" is the chapter of most interest to experienced
- readers. There are several described in detail, and all of them have been
- tried by the author, such as LSD + Syrian Rue + DMT + Nitrous Oxide +
- Cannabis which "felt absolutely beautiful". In addition, the section on
- each drug includes suggestions of other drugs to combine with it.
- My only criticisms are that the book undervalues empathic drugs in favour
- of Ketamine which is described as "the ultimate psychedelic journey."
- Contents:
- Introduction followed by a
- Brief History of Psychedelics and
- Psychedelic Safety
- Section 1 Traditional Psychedelics - LSD, Psilocybin Mushrooms and
- Mescaline
- Section 2 Empathogens - Ecstasy and 2CB
- Section 3 Exotic Highs of a Connoisseur - DMT, Harmala Alkaloids,
- Ketamine and Multiple Combinations.
- The book ends with a discussion about "Cydelikspace" and the future.
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- Nicholas Saunders
- (nicholas@neals.demon.co.uk)
- Author, _E_for_Ecstasy_ ftp://ftp.hmc.edu/pub/drugs/mdma/e.for.ecstasy.Z
- and e.for.ecstasy.append.Z.
- Read/Search it for information on Ecstasy (MDMA), inc Alexander Shulgin's
- Bibliography. Updated 1994, please send me any new information.
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