Alexander "Sasha" Theodore Shulgin. This is a name destined to join the ranks of historic figures like Socrates, Plato, Newton, Einstein, Feynman, and Maxwell. His contributions to this novel, often underexplored, and routinely scrutinized field of research are unparalleled, eclipsing anything achieved in the last 200 years in defining a new field and paving the way for generations to come into the world of psychedelic and mind exploration.