The observant reader

https://www.drzee.org/post/2018/04/14/what-is-a-shulginist

Will notice that I define myself as a 'neo-shulginist', what does that mean? And maybe before we touch on 'neo' we will explain what a 'Shulginist' is. Well, a Shulginist is a person who adopts the principles developed by Prof. Alexander Shulgin, a chemist, pharmacologist and neuroscientist, who dedicated much of his life to the research and development of psychedelics and the substance most identified with MDMA. The research method developed by Shulgin was based on a self-experiment that starts with a low dose that climbs like a logarithmic table and makes it possible to identify substances that may react in a problematic manner.

As evidence, Shulgin performed hundreds of experiments on himself and got to live a long and healthy life. Shulgin published his experiences, research and recipes in two books that he wrote together with his wife and partner Ann - PiHKAL (179 substances) and TiHKAL (55 substances). which are considered the Bible of Shulginism. Personally, I have experimented, or sourced and experimented with about 150 of the 234 molecules he described in his books - which makes me a respected Shulginist. So why do I call myself a Neo Shulginist? The extension to neo-Shulginism takes place on different fronts of endeavor that Shulgin did not touch. Unlike most Shulginists, I expand the boundaries that Shulgin drew and also examine families of molecules that he dismissed or refrained from investigating, first among them the cathinone family and the arylcyclohexamine family.