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I'm planning to offer them a cup of aojiru - that'll help keep them at bay
So, I read through most of the transcript with Dennis McKenna featuring Matthew Stahl. It seems unlikely that this 'LSI' is pharmacologically active. He needs to isolate a pure compound and perform professional molecular evaluation in order to prove its existence. Then, determine its activity with carefully controlled studies. All of which could take, well, who knows how long! Experimentation is one thing, but to call his experiments the "Ancient LSA of Vedic SOMA Eleusis and so on and so forth.." I mean, c'mon, we need to verify these things. It just seems a bit cultish, as if he's leading everyone forward into thinking, "oh, well just read my book and you'll understand." No, that's not how science works.
Always a pleasure reading what Dennis has to say. At this point, assuming he has some capability to do so, Matthew has no choice but to proceed and continue speaking publicly, and eventually work with credentialed academics and chemists. Time for science to bust the door wide open! All he's got to lose are his Aojjiru jars.
Always a pleasure reading what Dennis has to say. At this point, assuming he has some capability to do so, Matthew has no choice but to proceed and continue speaking publicly, and eventually work with credentialed academics and chemists. Time for science to bust the door wide open! All he's got to lose are his Aojjiru jars.
Well, here it is:
While the hypothesis makes for a compelling assemblage of ethnobotanical and historical information, the first ten minutes of the podcast have been, for me, less than enthralling to listen to. Maybe it picks up later. 69ron namedrop is at 40:33, followed by some bull…stuff.
That, indeed, is and has been exactly the problem.
Dennis McKenna does call him out ever so gently later on: timestamp
and goes on to express some of the criticisms that chemists have been making.
I've had to listen in ten minute stints to keep the experience bearable. The level of self-promotion doesn't quite reach that of some more famous multi-billionaires, but there's a certain parallel in claiming to have invented stuff which already exists, in particular applying established chemical procedures to the production of THH from harmaline, and its subseqent isolation using ammonia: timestamp
and goes on to express some of the criticisms that chemists have been making.
I've had to listen in ten minute stints to keep the experience bearable. The level of self-promotion doesn't quite reach that of some more famous multi-billionaires, but there's a certain parallel in claiming to have invented stuff which already exists, in particular applying established chemical procedures to the production of THH from harmaline, and its subseqent isolation using ammonia: timestamp
I wish I'd thought of doing this before actually attempting to listen to the podcast, although Dennis McKenna is astoundingly gracious in his handling of an absolute crackpot.
It doesn’t seem like the theory soma=ergot has much support behind it. I mean I don’t believe it personally.
Also decanting cactus tea is not some new discovery. I thought everyone did that.
Well, I've sort of tried combining the idea in the OP of this thread, and the barley grass idea. I soaked 179 heavenly blues for 12 hours or so in about 50 mL water, then strained tiat off into an amber glass bottle which was kept closed and refrigerated while the seeds sprouted for a day.
The seeds were then soaked for another ~12 hours in 100 mL water and strained once more. Both the original soak and the second one showed some fluorescence with the "UV" spy pen. Both soaks along with some additional rinsing was combined in a glass with 10 g of powdered barley grass, 160 mg ascorbic acid and a teaspoon of kelp powder (just to make sure it would be somewhat revolting ), stirred thoroughly and left in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
After this resting time, the contents of the glass was stirred once more and then consumed fairly promptly, rinsing the residue with further fresh water and drinping that as well to ensure that as much of the likely minimal dose as possible was got down the hatch.
After about half an hour, a bowl of muesli was eaten due to incipient hunger. About an hour after consumption of the 'mixed beverage' there was a mild stimulation with enhanced acuity of vision.
After a further hour there may have been a slight psychedelic edge to the mindspace, although that equally may have been on account of the lateness of the hour. Conclusion: ±/+ on the Shulgin scale. The enhanced visual acuity was unmistakable, probably worth trying with 300 M.G. seeds, or fewer if one were to crush them up for a more thorough extraction.
It seems possible to save the soaking water for consumption and then just plant the seeds - with this method there are currently 156 potential plants potted up and waiting for the weather to warm up a bit, sat in the corner of the conservatory. Ideally, each one of those will produce maybe a hundred or more further seeds (6 seeds per pod, 16 - 17 pods per plant seems wholly realistic). If even 100 plants survive, that could produce 10000 seeds. Then it will be possible to ascertain whether Stahl's claims regarding the barley grass method requiring HBWR rather than MG actually hold any water (he doesn't mention whether he'd tried any different batches or varieties of MG afaics, and the alkaloid profile of these plants will vary according to geographic region, etc).
The seeds were then soaked for another ~12 hours in 100 mL water and strained once more. Both the original soak and the second one showed some fluorescence with the "UV" spy pen. Both soaks along with some additional rinsing was combined in a glass with 10 g of powdered barley grass, 160 mg ascorbic acid and a teaspoon of kelp powder (just to make sure it would be somewhat revolting
), stirred thoroughly and left in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.After this resting time, the contents of the glass was stirred once more and then consumed fairly promptly, rinsing the residue with further fresh water and drinping that as well to ensure that as much of the likely minimal dose as possible was got down the hatch.
After about half an hour, a bowl of muesli was eaten due to incipient hunger. About an hour after consumption of the 'mixed beverage' there was a mild stimulation with enhanced acuity of vision.
After a further hour there may have been a slight psychedelic edge to the mindspace, although that equally may have been on account of the lateness of the hour. Conclusion: ±/+ on the Shulgin scale. The enhanced visual acuity was unmistakable, probably worth trying with 300 M.G. seeds, or fewer if one were to crush them up for a more thorough extraction.
It seems possible to save the soaking water for consumption and then just plant the seeds - with this method there are currently 156 potential plants potted up and waiting for the weather to warm up a bit, sat in the corner of the conservatory. Ideally, each one of those will produce maybe a hundred or more further seeds (6 seeds per pod, 16 - 17 pods per plant seems wholly realistic). If even 100 plants survive, that could produce 10000 seeds. Then it will be possible to ascertain whether Stahl's claims regarding the barley grass method requiring HBWR rather than MG actually hold any water (he doesn't mention whether he'd tried any different batches or varieties of MG afaics, and the alkaloid profile of these plants will vary according to geographic region, etc).
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