Wednesday, August 01, 2007

Peter Stafford de-animates-- Master Psychedelic Investigator


Peter with his Playing (working!) Walls! and T-Shirt. Peter liked to process and compress his working files and database for his next Project to the size of the binder he has in his hands! Very Portable. Also to wallpaper his room with the history of Media Images associated with Psychedelics, as Peter was always collecting new material for the next edition of Psychedelics Encyclopedia. Peter used this photo as his business card! About mid 1980's?


Psychedelics
Peter Stafford 2003 paperback from Ronin Publishers

LSD - The Problem-Solving Psychedelic
©1967 by Peter Stafford and Bonnie Golightly
Published by Award Books, New York



Check out bruce's comments below
http://www.bruceeisner.com/new_culture/2007/07/peter-stafford-.html

Books by Peter G. Stafford

* Psychedelics encyclopedia

* Psychedelics by Peter Stafford p. 2003 from Ronin Press newer diff. pback book


LSD: The Problem-Solving Psychedelic written with Bonnie Golightly (1967, Award Books),


* Heavenly Highs: Ayahuasca, Kava-Kava, DMT, and Other Plants …
* Magic Mushrooms
Psychedelic baby reaches puberty;: An assemblage, by Peter G Stafford (Unknown Binding - 1971)
LSD in Action ?

Yage in the valley of fire by Peter G Stafford (Unknown Binding - 1967)

Peter's very extensive website Psychedelics 101

see newer material at Ronin press


Acid Baby

from Erowid
http://www.erowid.org/library/books/psychedelic_baby.shtml


sample writing

A Review of Pihkal

by Peter Stafford


Note: Pihkal is available from the Island Group Marketplace for $18.95 (P. X) and at 978 pages also may be the biggest book bargain of the century.
I wish to whisper into your ear a thought that has been recurrent in my mind since I first read this book. That is that this massive volume, whose first printing is already sold out, might well be the most important document of this century!

The first half of PIHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved), by Alexander and Ann Shulgin (Transform Press), is a thinly-veiled biography of one of our greatest "white shamans," a chemist in this instance, and of his seduction by his second wife, Ann. The second half describes synthesis routes, dosage recommendations, and comments about the duration and qualities of 179 semi-synthetic molecules which have been both "known" and "loved" by seasoned psychenauts.

Peter first took peyote in the early 'Sixties and was an editor of Crawdaddy, the first rockmagazine.

http://www.island.org/ive/3/pihkal3.html




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