''TIHKAL: The Continuation'' is a 1997 book written by

Alexander Shulgin Alexander Theodore "Sasha" Shulgin (June 17, 1925 – June 2, 2014) was an American medicinal chemist, biochemist, organic chemist, pharmacologist, psychopharmacologist, and author. He is credited with introducing 3,4-methylenedioxymetha ...

and

Ann Shulgin Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female given name Anna. This in turn is a representation of the Hebrew Hannah, which means 'favour' or 'grace'. Related names include Annie. Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the ...

about a family of

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s known as

tryptamines Substituted tryptamines, or serotonin analogues, are organic compounds which may be thought of as being derived from tryptamine itself. The molecular structures of all tryptamines contain an indole ring, joined to an amino (NH2) group via an et ...

. A sequel to '' PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story'', ''TIHKAL'' is an

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that stands for "Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved".

Content

''TIHKAL'', much like its predecessor ''PIHKAL'', is divided into two parts. The first part, for which all rights are reserved, begins with a fictionalized autobiography, picking up where the similar section of ''PIHKAL'' left off; it then continues with a collection of essays on topics ranging from

psychotherapy Psychotherapy (also psychological therapy, talk therapy, or talking therapy) is the use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior, increase happiness, and overcome pro ...

and the

Jungian Analytical psychology ( de , Analytische Psychologie, sometimes translated as analytic psychology and referred to as Jungian analysis) is a term coined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, to describe research into his new "empirical science" ...

mind to the prevalence of

DMT ''N'',''N''-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT or ''N'',''N''-DMT, SPL026) is a substituted tryptamine that occurs in many plants and animals, including human beings, and which is both a derivative and a structural analog of tryptamine. It is used as a ...

in nature,

ayahuasca AyahuascaPronounced as in the UK and in the US. Also occasionally known in English as ''ayaguasca'' ( Spanish-derived), ''aioasca'' (Brazilian Portuguese-derived), or as ''yagé'', pronounced or . Etymologically, all forms but ''yagé'' desce ...

and the

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. The second part of ''TIHKAL'', which may be conditionally distributed for non-commercial reproduction (see

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below), is a detailed synthesis manual for 55 psychedelic compounds (many discovered by Alexander Shulgin himself), including their chemical structures, dosage recommendations, and qualitative comments. Shulgin has made the second part freely available o
Erowid.org
while the first part is available only in the printed text. Like ''PIHKAL'', the Shulgins were motivated to release the synthesis information as a way to protect the public's access to information about psychedelic compounds, a goal Alexander Shulgin has noted many times. Following a raid of his laboratory in 1994 by the United States DEA, Richard Meyer, spokesman for DEA's San Francisco Field Division, stated that "It is our opinion that those books eferring_to_the_previous_work,_''PIHKAL''.html" ;"title="PIHKAL.html" ;"title="eferring to the previous work, ''PIHKAL">eferring to the previous work, ''PIHKAL''">PIHKAL.html" ;"title="eferring to the previous work, ''PIHKAL">eferring to the previous work, ''PIHKAL''are pretty much cookbooks on how to make illegal drugs. Agents tell me that in clandestine labs that they have raided, they have found copies of those books."

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External links

Erowid Online Books: ''TIHKAL: The Continuation'' by Alexander & Ann Shulgin

"Shulgin in Spanish" Project – Information on the first complete translation of PIHKAL and TIHKAL into Spanish

''TIHKAL'' • Info: A visual index and map of ''TIHKAL'', including the formatted text of Book II.
Includes over 300 corrections to the original HTML version.
Transform Press – Publisher of TiHKAL
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tihkal * Psychedelic drug research Psychedelic literature 1997 non-fiction books Science books

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