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Golden Triangle Church #2

In "the doors of perception" Huxley suggested that religious experiances and visions that the saints had during the middle ages was due to ergot poisoning.

 

The idea was that after a long hard winter the peasants were scaping the barrel for the last grains of rye to make bread, and the the grains were infected with a fungus that produced toxic and psychoactive chemicals (alkaloids), including lysergic acid.

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Uploaded on February 1, 2009