Anomalous Psychedelic Experiences: At the Neurochemical Juncture of the Humanistic and Parapsychological - Fun story on that time Sasha Shulgin stumbled upon a compound that imparted telekinetic powers.
It was at a conference we organised in Bath, UK, in 2004. There is an audio recording of it kicking about (on CD) where he discusses this but gives the wrong name but the right chemical structure for the compound.
"Another experiment that is in the area of the consciousness was, oh, maybe 20, 25 years ago. I had made some sulphur compounds, one of them in the area that I called Ariadne's, and this went on one experiment modest, modestly heavy doses. Matter of fact, I found myself in a state of bliss. Here's a state of consciousness which is its own little world. And bliss. As I defined it, there was complete control of the outside world. Complete control of everything around me. The ability to do anything I wish to do & get away with it. I remember at one point I was up near the garage and there was a sack of concrete there, & I wondered if the bottom of the sack of concrete had gotten wet when some water had run. So I turned the concrete sack upside down to look at the bottom of it. No water. Put it back down again. There's a big tangled bunch of garden hose over here. And I took that garden hose and I untangled it completely, and then I entangled it up again so no one would see anything different. I never went near it. I did it from a distance. I was able to do anything. Anything at all. And what I did then was to see a cat up on the side of the hill. One of our feral cats. I looked at the cat. The cat looked at me and ran away. No. No. No comment from me at all."
Later, when Sahsa was asked which comound it was that made hve telekinesis, he said it ene of the Ariadnes (possibly 2, 3, or 4) and (and this may mean ti was a different compound) it had a sulpher and a alpha methyl group!! He went on "the situation was I could make anything happen. I could make pinecones fall off of a tree. A complete power, a weird state of consciousness. Then it occurred to me. What if this were to last? How do you get rid of this? And I had no idea how to stop the bliss." "Then I had the horrible feeling. How do you get out of the state of bliss? And I didn't know how to stop it & I thought horribly to myself. What if I were in a bliss state for the rest of my life? And scary. And eventually the drug wore off. It wore off & I became normal again."
"But this was another example of consciousness as a chemical experiment that could lead to consciousness study." He ultimately said that it was "An Amphetamine with a sulphur over here and an alpha-methyl group" Perhaps this is 2C-T-8 ... he's a bit vague, and his flase teeth kept falling out ... but what a wonderful man. Bless that wizard!