PiHKAL

This book by Alexander Shulgin was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Tim Ferriss. It comes up in conversations about addiction & recovery, brain health, consciousness, psychedelics. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

By Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin. Tells the tale of a psychopharmacologist and his wife/research partner, and recounts decades devoted to the creation and investigation of psychedelic drugs as tools for the study of the human mind. Altered state experiences are explored in the context of intimacy.

• “incredibly prolific biochemist, very much recommend people check out PiHKAL and TiHKAL, which he wrote with his wife”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “very much recommend people check out PiHKAL”
  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 202301:18:24

  Said during "Rethinking Psychedelics, Octopuses on MDMA, and The Master Key of Metaplasticity | Dr. Gül Dölen". The episode features Dr. Gul Dolen: Associate professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a pioneer in psychedelics research; her lab discovered that psychedelics reopen a critical period for social reward learning. Neuroscientist Gul Dolen explains how psychedelics may be a master key that reopens the brain's critical periods for healing.