Goncalo V.

Inspired by Alexander Shulgin, my focus is to make science accessible to everyone through various articles, storytelling, and meaningful experiences.

Importance of Biotechnology in psychedelic research with Huan Shuma

Biotechnology has been a recurrent theme in the research of psychedelics. However, we don’t hear much about its importance. To find out the impacts of Biotechnology not only in psychedelics but in the world, we spoke or Arthur Dempsey (chavin_herbalists), covering themes such as propagation of species, genetic banks of species, improvement of genetics, how he became the first seed producer of Argyreia in Brazil, the creation of his Rare plant and Trichocereus Seed Bank, how can we save the Amazon Rainforest and ancient teachings by the Brazilian indigenous communities.

A Biotecnologia tem sido um tema recorrente na pesquisa dos psicodélicos. No entanto, não ouvimos muito sobre a sua importância. Para descobrir os impactos da Biotecnologia não apenas nos psicodélicos, mas no mundo, conversamos com Arthur Dempsey (chavin_herbalists), abordando temas como a propagação de espécies, bancos genéticos de espécies, melhoria genética, como ele se tornou o primeiro produtor de sementes de Argyreia no Brasil, a criação do seu Banco de Sementes de Plantas Raras e Trichocereus, como podemos salvar a Floresta Amazônica e os ensinamentos ancestrais das comunidades indígenas brasileiras.

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Psychedelic Illustrations: Interview with Donna Torres

In this interview, we speak to the iconic Donna Torres. Donna is the artist responsible for the illustrations of Shulgin’s latest book The Nature of Drugs, Dennis Mckenna’s Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs, and Jonathan Ott’s The Age of Entheogens & The Angel’s Dictionary, and Pharmacophilia or the Natural Paradises.

We spoke about her experience as an artist, meeting the Shulgins and Jonathan Ott, how we can benefit from psychedelics, and tips for people who wish to start their psychedelic illustration careers.

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Why is DiPT unique and how can it change your perception of sound?

Have you ever wondered how music influences our mood and our brain? Who invented music? Would modulating our perception of sound change the way we hear our favorite musicians? And most importantly, how can someone change their perception of sound?

Millions of people listen to music daily, utilizing terminology from the classical media, we are in a “music epidemic”. Despite not being fairly noticed, music does modulate our feelings and has an impact on our neural networks, reasoning why you will listen to sad songs when you are feeling melancholic, and happy songs when you are in a state of bliss. All those feelings are caused by a change in our brain chemistry.

Now let us hypothesize that one would be able to change how we perceive sound, would that change how we feel about a certain song? Absolutely! Raising the question how would someone do that? To answer that, we dive into Alexander Shulgin’s magnum opus TiHKAL, to a compound under the name DiPT, a compound known for its auditory hallucinations and distortion of sound.

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LSD lemurs and millipedes with Daniela Bolanos Garcia

The case of Professor John Buettner-Janusch is the biggest scandal around the University of NY, from synthesizing one kilo of Quaaludes and LSD to supposedly give to lemurs (where he gained his nickname Professor Quaalude) to attempting to poison the federal judge responsible for his case. Janusch claimed he had given LSD and Quaaludes to his primates to study their emotional behavior while under the influence of these compounds. However, in the wild, we have also heard that lemurs get high using hallucinogenic millipedes. To get down to these claims, we had a conversation the Tropical Biology student Daniela Bolanos Garcia to understand why they do it, whether they are consciously getting high, and what makes them high!

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Interviewing Michael Campbell about his Unique Mushroom art

Depictions of nature are possibly the most primal form of art in human history. From cave paintings to surrealistic paintings from modernism, our art has evolved over the years. Influenced by the psychedelic renaissance and the popularization of mycology by lecturers such as Terence Mckenna and Paul Stamets. Such themes brought new eyes to the scene, people with an artistic vein and interested in more than breeding their own fungi, people that saw the beauty in such specimens and began adapting fungi with their special touch birthing wonderful artworks.

Michael Campbell is one of these cases, after being a professor and a student in the field of art, he fell in love with the beauty of nature and started adapting his artworks to thematics such as religion, nature, and fungi.

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Harm reduction 101: The harm reduction guide

This harm-reduction series will be sharing tips on how to have safe trips. Covering subjects such as psychedelic therapy, and psychedelic retreats, the importance of testing your compounds, set and setting, and the importance of having a plan and using a trip sitter.

In this chapter, we will be focusing on the importance of testing your substances and when to use each reagent, what is set and setting and their importance, the importance of tripsitters (buddy-system), and how to create a safety plan when using psychedelics.

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Harm reduction 101: Psychedelic therapy and psychedelic retreats

This harm-reduction series will be sharing tips on how to have safe trips. Covering subjects such as psychedelic therapy, and psychedelic retreats, the importance of testing your compounds, set and setting, and the importance of having a plan and using a trip sitter.

In this chapter, we will be covering the misconception of psychedelics alone being able to heal mental illnesses, and the processes behind psychedelic therapy, including what is integration, types of integration, and how to be safe in international retreats.

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ATOMIC PROBLEMS

Extremium and Niton aren’t part of our scientific vocabulary today, however, they once were.
In this article, we delve into the creation of new elements, who is the identity responsible for their nomenclature, and Victor Ninov the man who tried to fool the world by faking an element.

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Stories of a modern opioid eater

From Daquince’s use of opium to the modern era, many stories of opioid users have been lost. For that reason, we cover the stories of two opioid- users Benzzzy and Calvin, from what led them to their addiction, their difficulties during this period, their advice for people who might be going through addiction, and their current status.

In addition, we discuss the pharmacology student Anthony Furrule (@science_and_anonymous) about opioid prescription, opioid alternatives, the use of Ibogaine or its analogs for the treatment of addiction, and Narcan-resistant Fentanyl.

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