This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. {{:ergot250px.jpg?nolink |}}**Welcome to the Entheogenic Research Guild Of Toronto!** This site is dedicated to the research of **entheogens** ("God within us") -- psychoactive plants and substances which induce an altered state of mind, conducive to both deep inward contemplation, as well as that of cosmic unity. **Ergot** is a parasitic fungus that infects cereal grains (note the dark fruit bodies on the wheat grains in the picture to the left). //Ergotamine// is one of the alkaloids extracted from ergot, and has been used medicinally for hundreds of years. //Lysergic acid// (//ergoline//) was originally derived from ergotamine, and in 1938, Albert Hofmann first synthesized //lysergic acid diethylamide// (**LSD**-25).