News - Shulgin suffers stroke. (Update)

God in his laboratory.

Alexander Shulgin, 85, whose extensive research in psychopharmacology can be claimed to have positively benefited the lives of millions, is in hospital after suffering a stroke.

Man at pearly gates : "Who's that over there, looks like Alexander Shulgin?"
St Christopher : "Nah, that's God. He just likes to play at being Shulgin now and again."

Thoughts go out to a great man.

Sasha and Ann

Hello Everyone ~ This morning on the way to the hospital for a scheduled test, Sasha had a stroke. He has been struggling for six months with an ulcer on his left foot that won’t heal, hoping to avoid amputation. Sasha & Ann have been in serious financial trouble for some years, and the coming medical bills will be a burden they can’t bear alone. Please, express your gratitude for all the work that Sasha has done, for everything he has given to the world, and give something back. Think of all the ways that your life, and the lives of others, have been healed, transformed, and bettered by this wonderful man. He needs your help now. No amount is too small or too large. Please give until it feels good...not until it hurts.

For non-tax-deductible contributions, Paypal $ to [annandsashashulgin@comcast.net] or snailmail: Sasha Shulgin, c/o Transform Press, PO Box 13675, Berkeley CA 94712.

For tax-deductible online donations to support the completion of Shulgin publishing projects that are underway: http://www.erowid.org/donations/project_shulgin.php

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And from MOP on www.bluelight.ru

It's a damn shame. This bloke has done more for mental health than anyone else in history.
One day his 'tools' will be used to help so many people and will be fully excepted by mainstream medicine.
Like so many people before him his life time work will be hailed as some of the most important discoveries of all time.
What do that lovely couple have to day.
Unaffordable medical bills and so many untruths told about them. 
The world should hang it's head in shame to how one of its brightest stars has been treated.


And more from bluelight.

The stroke was relatively minor, and he has suffered some speech disturbances, but should still able to communicate effectively with some therapy. The bigger problem is the foot, which has gotten pretty necrotic. They were having problems getting the angiogram but he got put under yesterday (to prevent movement, he kept moving the first few attempts) and was supposed to come home today. Lets hope it went well.

News - New releases

Aung San Suu Kyi awaits delivery of Ideal Home Magazine...possibly.

It's been a good week for hostages. First Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, prisoner of conscience, pro-democracy campaigner and, in case you wondered why her freedom matters to the British establishment, Oxford graduate, was freed after spending 15 of the last 21 years under house arrest along with her two housekeepers, prompting calls for the abolition of the Burmese military junta as well as posing questions about the number of staff one requires when dinner parties become a thing of the past. Then Aung's release was swiftly followed by the freedom of the Chandlers, Rachel and Paul, held captive by increasingly pissed off Somali pirates who took 13 months to realise that the retired quantity surveyor and economist from Tunbridge Wells were small fish in a sea of South Korean supertankers and Russian military hardware. The pirates were last heard bemoaning the fact that the (insert own guess here)/£500,000 paid ransom barely covered the costs of feeding their captives. Judging by the picture below the pirates were either a) telling porkies (surely not) b) feeding the couple on scraps flown in from L'Oranger restaurant in St James http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/8138599/Couple-arrested-over-smoke-and-run-restaurant-fraud.html or, failing those two options, the price of qat has rocketed since I last bought some.

Rachel and Paul Chandler - Eating the flowers of paradise?

In the spirit of freedom, Planet Geli wishes all parties well. And let's not forget, celebrity hostages aside, that there are another 2,200 incarcerated political prisoners in Burma who are not Oxford graduates and 400-500 shipping staff from merchant Navies across the globe currently being held in tents along Somalia's coastline. When all these people are free we can truly celebrate freedom of movement and book our cruises through the Indian Ocean. Until then the road to Mandalay should remain closed.

Save me from drowning in the sea
Beat me up on the beach

What a lovely holiday
There's nothing funny left to say
This sombre song would drain the sun
But it won't shine until it's sung

No water running in the stream
The saddest place we've ever seen

Everything I touched was golden
Everything I loved got broken
On the road to Mandalay
Every mistake I've ever made
Has been rehashed and then replayed
As I got lost along the way

There's nothing left for you to give
The truth is all that you're left with
Twenty paces then at dawn
We will die and be reborn

I like to sleep beneath the trees
Have the universe at one with me
Look down the barrel of a gun
And feel the Moon replace the Sun

Everything we've ever stolen
Has been lost returned or broken
No more dragons left to slay
Every mistake I've ever made
Has been rehashed and then replayed
As I got lost along the way

Save me from drowning in the sea
Beat me up on the beach
What a lovely holiday
There's nothing funny left to say



Robbie Williams (!!??) - not Kipling.