"Shulgin describes going to a psychedelic conference and meeting an academic who worked in ethnobotany. He was studying a certain psychedelic plant, and was especially interested in why everyone who took that plant had hallucinations of jaguars in particular. He theorized that the plant was from the Mexican jungle, and that in some deep way our collective unconscious knew this, and so came up with appropriate hallucinations.
Another psychedelicist who happened to hear the conversation interjected βI synthesized that chemical a little while ago, and all I got was wiggly lines.β Shulgin left …