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Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story | 
| Authors: Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin
Publisher: Transform Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 121748
Media: Paperback
Pages: 978
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.8 x 1.5
ISBN: 0963009605
Dewey Decimal Number: 362
EAN: 9780963009609
ASIN: 0963009605
Publication Date: September 1991
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 This is one of the best books written. August 18, 2008
C. Rushing (Englewood, NJ United States)
This book has the story and the science, the fantasy and the dry reality. I love there is a love story here as well. This is inspiration for couples to dive deeper into each other.
Pihkal, truely a love story with one's work. October 26, 2005
James R. Raven (U.S.A.)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I thought this book very infomative and educational.
It gives great insight to DR.Shulgin & his wifes life work.
A must read for any aspiring chemist.
This book cuts away all the propaganda surrounding many of these recreational compounds and chemicals. The facts and nothing else.
Educate yourself, knowledge is always your friend.
Highly analytical, relevant and a record of reality...... September 29, 2005
Sy (On the Beach, Australia)
23 out of 25 found this review helpful
I purchased PIHKAL from Amazon and read it in it's entirety.
The most poignant aspect of this book reveals that as we are organic machines, our consciousness is just another chemically induced perception and therefore only one valid reality predisposed by evolution for survival.
Shulgin's Genius is honed with such objectivity, innocence, dedication and clarity that he is able to both successfuly and interestingly document the human-mind altering effects produced by the synthesised compounds entirely dedicated to the second-half of this book.
Furthermore, I have read all of the Amazon reviews regarding PIHKAL and feel that some just do not get the extreme depth of this work. Reading this incredibly open account of Human reality means that there will always be dull bits and parts that make one cringe because that's how real life is for one and all.
The potential reader needs to approach this work with an open mindset and absorb the content without pretence, preconception or professional envy affecting clarity because this book is about the other side of the coin.
Finally, to dedicate ones life to recording Human perception so openly in hardcopy is a tremendous quantum leap ahead of the absurd revisionist realities that people in our "Soap World" prefer to pretend that they live via TV and use to deal with personal issues through the application of anger, violence and greed which are wrongly accepted as legitimate relief mechanisms.
In summary, PIHKAL is an extremely important piece in the Jigsaw of the "age of reason" and awareness. Don't be threatened, it definitely deserves at least "5 Stars". Read it, do it and get to the next level...... the evolution of mind.
Invaluable Resource September 13, 2005
Searching (U.S.A.)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
For the person looking for both hard information regarding the world of psychoactive substances (and The Drug War), and an enjoyable honest and heartfelt love story, this is for you. A real masterpiece!
Very good book August 24, 2005
M. Schillio-Szachta (Detroit City)
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Very interesting. Very well explained, and the chemistry is flawless. 6 Stars to be truthful.. A must have for any chemist.
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