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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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Alexander Shulgin * 2
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I was watching a documentary about him. He rediscovered mdma. He said something at one point:

People have receptors that react to psychoactive compounds.

The reason for this might be evolution.

Some long forgotten branch might have evolved the ability to produce psychoactive molecules.

They might have looked at a tigers saber tooth noticing the interesting design nature chose for it.

Natural selection pressure for survival made us lose the ability to produce those compounds but we still have the receptors for them. Same story with the appendix.

Interesting theory.
:sunny:


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Edited by korgoth (02/08/19 08:46 AM)

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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: korgoth]
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What documentary was it?


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Natural selection pressure for survival made us lose the ability to produce those compounds but we still have the receptors for them. Same story with the appendix.


Maybe. But are there actually any types of receptors in our bodies that no endogenous compounds interact with?

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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: psi]
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Good question.

Maybe the psychoactive ones were slowly replaced with less psychedelic ones, over time.


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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: korgoth]
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I think all that has since been dismissed even though it’s a pretty dope theory.  That interview clip was from a hefty chunk of years back..


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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: Amanita86] * 2
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@psi, this one:

Edited by korgoth (02/08/19 11:47 PM)

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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: korgoth] * 1
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Cool, I've heard of it but haven't seen it, will try to check it out soon. I've read PIHKAL and TIHKAL though. "DMT is Everywhere" is one of my favorite chapters in TIHKAL.

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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: psi]
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He's a really interesting character.

He worked for Dow Chemicals and made the company some millions of dollars with some insecticides he discovered.

Then the company just left him alone to do whatever he wanted.

MDMA had been discovered by somebody else working at Dow in the 1910s. It was ignored.

He found it in the archives.

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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: korgoth]
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I keep meaning to get TIHKAL but can justify the money to get it atm but read a sample of PIHKAL and enjoyed it.



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"great things may come to those who wait, but only what's left by those who hustle"

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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: Bumholio] * 1
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Alexander Shulgin created a lot of novel compounds.
All of his books are interesting, my favorites are Pihkal, Thikal and The Simple Plant Isoquinolines

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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: korgoth]
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It was discovered by the germans in 1912, confiscated by the US along with all their stuff after WW2 I believe and then that’s how Shulgin somehow ran across it but the Germans get credit for MDMA.


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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: Amanita86]
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His page on Wikipedia is kind of funny if you go to the part where it lists the awards he has won it says he won numerous "DEA" awards haha

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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: gillagin780] * 3
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He had a license by the DEA to possess and synthesize illegal chemicals. Half the reason he was pivitol in the resurrection and discovery of so many chemicals is because he had this free pass by the government as a research element into discovering novel psychedelics prior to their discovery on the street. They wanted him to synthesize existing and new chemicals so that they could be aware of them and have samples of them prior to any becoming popular in the black market.

The irony being that all this information is public knowledge and sped up their introduction to the public in the grand scheme of things.

Edited by PatrickKn (02/09/19 02:36 PM)

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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: PatrickKn] * 1
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After he published PIHKAL though they got pissed and raided him.

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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: psi] * 1
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psi said:
After he published PIHKAL though they got pissed and raided him.



Yep


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Something there is mysteriously formed,
Existing before Heaven and Earth,
Silent, still, standing alone, unchanging,
All-pervading, unfailing,
I do not know its name; I call it tao.
If forced to give it a name, I call it
Great (ta). Being great, it flows out;
Flowing out means far-reaching;
Being far-reaching, it is said to return.

It's just a shot away..

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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: psi]
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psi said:
After he published PIHKAL though they got pissed and raided him.


He got too open about these special chemicals. What a shame :nonono:

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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: LogicaL Chaos] * 1
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I felt bad for the dude too when people went “mainstream” with the mdma, you know the mainstream where people get fuckin retarded and things like salvia get banned.  Not sure if it’s true but through body language I felt like that in particular was a kick in the nutts for him.

I think he saw other plans for that shit..


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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: Amanita86]
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Yup.

Because these drugs are so popular, they eventually go mainstream. XTC and rap music is a good example.

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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: LogicaL Chaos]
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I still can't believe I haven't rolled. I like to do drugs by myself because i hate situations where people who don't have experience end up controlling the situation by freaking out or just being weird, and I've had that happen way too many times and MDMA has always been a "do it with other people or don't do it at all" type thing so I never sought it out enough to do it

Back when I was 18 i polled a blue Buddha with some friends but it didn't do anything. Then when I was 25 i got great MDMA in powder form but just never did it for some reason so I just gave it away.

I'm just way too loyal too my psychedelics. I love them so much :heart:


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Something there is mysteriously formed,
Existing before Heaven and Earth,
Silent, still, standing alone, unchanging,
All-pervading, unfailing,
I do not know its name; I call it tao.
If forced to give it a name, I call it
Great (ta). Being great, it flows out;
Flowing out means far-reaching;
Being far-reaching, it is said to return.

It's just a shot away..

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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
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It's difficult to KNOW what the grand design has in store for these.

Usually historically, visions were necessary for survival.  Without a vision we just sit there and wait to die.  SO if we get close enough to death, we have a vision, to go on and move forward.

However not all visions are good and THAT TOO serves a purpose.  We NEED good visions and our dreams are decaying.

Most people don't have any visions there entire life so they read endlessly about other peoples historical acts and visions.

TV has largely robbed people of freedom of thought.  SO easily programed.  So easily advised.  Drugs don't magically make that better, it takes a LOT of experience.

It's not like these drugs were meant for us.  We just know how to use them.  They can get you what you want, which is usually a mystery without a vision.


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"in sterquiliniis invenitur in stercore invenitur"

In filth it will be found in dung it will be found

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Re: Alexander Shulgin [Re: Bill_Oreilly]
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It’s kinda lame and the come down sucks.  If you like tryptamines or acid you’ll probably fell like something is missing.  It’s cool to chip throughout the day a few times but other than that it’s not that great..

People seem to do that shit up though so maybe I’m missing something..


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