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Ann Shulgin
Shulgin in 2011
Shulgin in 2011
Born
Laura Ann Gotlieb

(1931-03-22)March 22, 1931
Wellington, New Zealand
DiedJuly 9, 2022(2022-07-09) (aged 91)
Lafayette, California
Pen nameAnn Perry
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAmerican
Spouse
​
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(m. 1981; died 2014)​
Children
  • Wendy Perry Tucker
  • Alice Garofalo
  • Brian Perry
  • Christopher McRee
[1]
Website
shulginresearch.net, transformpress.com

Laura Ann Shulgin (née Gotlieb; March 22, 1931 – July 9, 2022)[2] was an American author and the wife of chemist Alexander Shulgin, with whom she wrote the books PiHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved) and TiHKAL (Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved).[3]

Life and career

Laura Ann Gotlieb[4] was born in Wellington, New Zealand, to parents Bernard Gotlieb and Gwen Ormiston, but grew up in the village Opicina outside the Italian city Trieste. Her father was U.S. Consul in Trieste for six years before World War II.[5][6][4] Later in her childhood, she lived in the U.S., Cuba, and Canada. She studied art and became an artist, married an artist and had a child, and they later divorced. She had two more marriages ending in divorce and had three more children. Ann went back to work as a medical transcriber, and met Alexander ("Sasha") Shulgin in 1978; they were married on 4 July 1981 in their back yard.[4]

She worked as a lay therapist with psychedelic substances such as MDMA and 2C-B in therapeutic settings while these drugs were still legal.[7] In her writings she stressed the potential of these drugs from a Jungian psychoanalytic perspective, as well as their use in combination with hypnotherapy. She often appeared as a speaker at conventions and continued to advocate the use of psychedelics in therapeutic contexts.[citation needed]

Together with her husband she authored the books PiHKAL and TiHKAL.[7] They developed a systematic way of ranking the effects of the various drugs, known as the Shulgin Rating Scale, with a vocabulary to describe the visual, auditory and physical sensations. She also contributed to the books Thanatos to Eros: 35 Years of Psychedelic Exploration, Entheogens and the Future of Religion, Ecstasy: The Complete Guide, The Secret Chief Revealed, Higher Wisdom: Eminent Elders Explore the Continuing Impact of Psychedelics, and Manifesting Minds: A Review of Psychedelics in Science, Medicine, Sex, and Spirituality.[citation needed]

Shulgin's favorite psychedelic drug was 2C-B-FLY, which she found particularly enjoyable in terms of enhanced eroticism.[8][9][10][11][12]

According to her daughter, Shulgin had been in ill health because of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Shulgin died July 9, 2022, at her and her late husband's San Francisco Bay Area residence.[13]

Publications

  • with Alexander Shulgin. PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story. Berkeley: Transform Press, 1991. ISBN 0-9630096-0-5
  • with Alexander Shulgin. TiHKAL: The Continuation. Berkeley: Transform Press, 1997. ISBN 0-9630096-9-9
  • with Alexander Shulgin. "A New Vocabulary". In Robert Forte (ed.), Entheogens and the Future of Religion, Berkeley: Council on Spiritual Practices, 1997. ISBN 1-889725-01-3
  • "Tribute to Jacob". In The Secret Chief: Conversations With a Pioneer of the Underground Psychedelic Therapy Movement by Myron J. Stolaroff, Charlotte, NC: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, 1997. ISBN 0-9660019-1-5
  • Foreword, M. Crowley, Secret Drugs of Buddhism. Amrita Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0907791744

References

  1. ^ "Ann Shulgin, 91, Who Explored Psychedelics With Her Husband, Dies". The New York Times. July 19, 2022. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
  2. ^ Ruhe in Frieden, Ann Shulgin (in German)
  3. ^ "Drugs added to banned lists". BBC Online. August 12, 1998. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
  4. ^ a b c "Ann Shulgin". Shulginresearch.org. Retrieved May 11, 2016. Detailed biography of Ann Shulgin
  5. ^ Shulgin, Ann. "Erowid Character Vaults: Ann Shulgin Extended Biography". Erowid.org. Retrieved April 10, 2013.
  6. ^ "shulginresearch.org at Directnic". Archived from the original on June 29, 2014.
  7. ^ a b Rodriguez, Olga R. (July 13, 2022). "Ann Shulgin, pioneer of using ecstasy and other psychedelic drugs in therapy, dies". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 14, 2022.
  8. ^ "Godfather of Ecstasy: Alexander Shulgin's Last Trip". High Times. September 10, 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2025.
  9. ^ Kent, James (June 17, 2022). "Remembering Psychedelic Chemist Alexander Shulgin". Psychedelic Spotlight. Retrieved March 26, 2025. Ann and Sasha often experimented with psychedelics together, and shared their findings with their confidential research group. "Different people have different body types, so Sasha thought it was important to see how a drug reacts in all kinds of people." When I ask Ann what Sasha's favorite of his own chemicals is she knows immediately. "It would have to be 2C-B. He was always very proud of that one. He called it the Great Teacher. Although I preferred 2C-B-Fly a bit more." But there are so many to choose from. DiPT, 5-MeO-AMT, 5-MeO-DALT, Methylone, 2C-T-7, and this list goes on. Ann can't say for sure how many trips they shared together, she just smiles and says, "We stopped counting at around two-thousand." This is a mind-boggling number considering the total may actually be closer to four-thousand.
  10. ^ Cooke, Justin (July 1, 2021). "2C-B-FLY: Is It The Best Psychedelic For Arousal & Sexual Intimacy?". Tripsitter. Retrieved March 26, 2025. The overall sentiment for is that it's one of the most enjoyable of the research psychedelics. Ann Shulgin — wife of Alexander Shulgin and co-author of the books TiHKAL and PiHKAL — once stated that 2C-B-FLY was one of her favorite psychedelics.
  11. ^ Sarah Hufford (2007). "An Interview with Ann Shulgin on Psychedelics and Self-Discovery" (PDF). MAPS Newsletter. 17 (2). Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies: 23–24. In one recent case, I said often, too often, that something called 2CB Fly was absolutely great for me. To me, it's the loveliest thing, especially for eroticism. But I found out that it's not interesting to anybody else. I realized that having said that, I was putting things in motion. The Internet was full of 2CB Fly, and people were asking about it and I thought "uh-oh." It turned out that it's a disappointment to most other people. So if I say what my favorite psychedelics are, it's almost meaningless for other people, because they have to find their allies very carefully.
  12. ^ Connie Littlefield (director, writer), Siobhan Flanagan, Alexander Shulgin (subject), Ann Shulgin (subject), Paul F. Daley (subject), Myron Stolaroff (subject), Jean Stolaroff (subject), Wendy Perry Tucker (subject), Tania Manning (subject), Greg Manning (subject), Keeper Trout (subject), Earth and Fire Erowid, others (2021). Better Living Through Chemistry (Motion picture). Better Living Through Film, Incorporated. Event occurs at ~49:50. Archived from the original on September 21, 2021.
  13. ^ Rodriguez, Olga R. (July 12, 2022). "Ann Shulgin, pioneer of psychedelics in therapy, dies at 91". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved July 12, 2022.
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