[raaxe]

"(with 100 mg) I had weighed correctly. I had simply picked up the wrong vial. And my death was to be a consequence of a totally stupid mistake. I wanted to walk outside, but there was a swimming pool there and I didn't dare fall into it. A person may believe that he has prepared himself for his own death, but when the moment comes, he is completely alone, and totally unprepared. Why now? Why me? Two hours later, I knew that I would live after all, and the experience became really marvelous. But the moment of facing death is a unique experience. In my case, I will some day meet it again, and I fear that I will be no more comfortable with it then than I was just now. This was from the comments of a psychologist who will, without doubt, use psychedelics again in the future, as a probe into the unknown."

http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal020....

[bemused]

Please note that these extended comments in Pihkal are not based on personal experience by Shulgin, but from letters he received from other persons. His approach to testing new substances has been a very careful (scientific) one - you will barely find any reports like this in Pihkal/Tihkal among his own comments

[samwilliams]

While some of the commentary is not from himself or Anne, some of it was.

I believe the quoted experience was not Alex Shulgin's though.

[raaxe]

Ah, I had no idea - thanks for the correction.

Either way, it's a lovely passage.