Gottliebs moved frequently: to Sicily, then to Trieste, Italy, for several years; Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; Santiago, Cuba; and Windsor, Ontario. After Gottlieb retired, he settled in San Francisco, where Ann took art classes and worked as a medical transcriptionist.
He took his first psychedelic journey in the early 1960s at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. “We stopped and looked at the earth, the sky and each other around us, then I saw something forming in the air, a little above the level of my head,” she recalled in “Pihkal.” “It was a moving spiral opening, into the cold air, and I knew it was the door to the other side of existence.”
Her first three marriages ended in divorce. Dr. Shulgin died in 2014. They have another daughter, Alice Garofalo, in their family, along with their daughter Ms. Tucker; two sons, Christopher McCree and Brian Perry; eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
After the success of “Pihkaal”, the couple wrote a second volume, “Tihkaal: The Continuation” (1997). T stands for tryptamine, which includes psilocybin and other hallucinogens.
While Dr. Shulgin was primarily interested in drugs for their consciousness-raising abilities, Ms. Shulgin prized them for allowing people to look inward.
Although she had no formal training, she considered herself a general practitioner in the Jungian tradition, and introduced ecstasy and other drugs into her practice to help her clients cope with repressed feelings, memories, and self-impressions. included.
“MDMA is an insight drug,” she said in an interview. “That is its prime function. Insight without self-hatred. It allows you to truly love yourself and appreciate who you are.”
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