978 pg. The first book (the love story) tells the tale of a psychopharmacologist and his wife/ research partner and recounts decades devoted to the creation and investigation of psychedelic drugs as tools for the study of the human mind

Altered state experiences are explored in the context of intimacy. The second book (the chemical story) describes in detail a wealth of phenethylamines. (PIKHAL=Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved). is part autobiography, part metaphysical guidebook, part cookbook. How to use and create many, many psychoactive substances.