Joined by guest Brandon Crockett, we quickly go off the rails from our narrative episodes and take time to discuss everything Mormon and occult.

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Joined by guest co-host Obi (definitely no relation to space wizards), we explore the crescendo of Joe's career as entheomagus. During the Temple dedication in Kirtland Ohio, Joseph delivers a truly psychedelic experience to his congregation of some 500 people.

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Today we explore some righteous good parties had by Joe and company. We also highlight more of Joe’s miraculous ability to spout his Christian fan-fiction on demand

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We’re back! After a prolonged hiatus, we return to finish off the historical narrative concerning Joseph Smith and his psychedelic brand of Christian occultism. Wild drinking binges, entheogenic feasts, and secret teenage brides ensue.

References: For all of the references you’d ever need regarding the information being discussed, please consider picking up a copy of The Psychedelic History of Mormonism, Magic, and Drugs. Available anywhere books are sold.

After fifteen episodes, we have finally reached the birth of the Mormon religion. After getting trolled pretty hard by some local New York activists, Joe the Prophet leads his congregation in their first psychedelic sacrament ceremonies. Rival prophets, devil stones, group hallucinations, and exorcisms immediately ensue.

Episode Art: Datura, belladonna, poison hemlock and opium poppy’s in a jug - lets pray!

After fifteen episodes, we have finally reached the birth of the Mormon religion. After getting trolled pretty hard by some local New York activists, Joe the Prophet leads his congregation in their first psychedelic sacrament ceremonies. Rival prophets, devil stones, group hallucinations, and exorcisms immediately ensue.

Episode Art: Levitation, exorcism or just a “bad” trip. Call it what you may, Joseph Jr. can lead you through . . . possibly.

Now that the Book of Mormon is about to be printed in our narrative, we finally delve into the exact contents of Joe’s Gold Bible. Things immediately get weird. Wooden submarines filled with bees, Native American race wars, alien gods, and more.

Episode Image: Joseph Smith Jr.’s death mask among psychedelic peyote in flower and a seer stone third eye.

For this week, Cody covers the printing process of the Book of Mormon and takes a closer look at some of the alleged ‘witness’ testimonies used to legitimize Joe’s new religion. Acting as a divinely ordained meat telephone, Joe delivers a number of revelations from god with his head in a hat in order to berate his financial backer Harris for complaining about the expensive costs of printing a new Gold Bible.

Episode Image: Visionary possibly produced from the datura plant, one of many in the sacramental wine allowing witnesses to see with their spiritual eyes upon the golden bibles blessings.

Within just days of retrieving the Gold Bible from treasure guardian turned angel, Jo orchestrates a meeting with local businessman Martin Harris. Equal parts wealthy with credulity, Harris proves to be outsmarted by just about everyone, possibly even himself.

Episode Image: Playful image created to represent the goggles that Joseph Smith Jr. claimed to have received from an angel, which was eventually taken from him by that very same angel as punishment.

Within just days of retrieving the Gold Bible from treasure guardian turned angel, Jo orchestrates a meeting with local businessman Martin Harris. Equal parts wealthy with credulity, Harris proves to be outsmarted by just about everyone, possibly even himself.

Episode Image: Playful image created to represent the goggles that Joseph Smith Jr. claimed to have received from an angel, which was eventually taken from him by that very same angel as punishment.

Within just days of retrieving the Gold Bible from treasure guardian turned angel, Jo orchestrates a meeting with local businessman Martin Harris. Equal parts wealthy with credulity, Harris proves to be outsmarted by just about everyone, possibly even himself.

Episode Image: Playful image created to represent the goggles that Joseph Smith Jr. claimed to have received from an angel, which was eventually taken from him by that very same angel as punishment.

For this week, Cody takes a moment to tangentially rant about the history of white supremacist doctrine and philosophy that make up the backbone of Mormonism. The LDS church is currently attempting to capitalize on the murder of George Floyd at the hand of Minneapolis police by spinning some good PR out of the current protests, which is just gross. Warning: this is an uncomfortable episode. Not many jokes. No drugs or magic. Just a lot of really sad racism and white supremacist theology.

Episode Image: Artwork via Moth Doula

Going back into the historical narrative, having just recently escaped a serious prison sentence for swindling neighbors out of time and resources, Jo sets his ambitions towards taking Emma Hale as a wife and finally obtaining his plates of gold. Jo then engages in a series of small wizard skirmishes with his former money digging associates in order to keep his Gold Bible out of their hands.

Episode Image: “Protection Circle” symbols taken from the occult parchments of the Smith family.

Finishing off his tangential rant from last week, Cody discusses the Harvard Psilocybin Project, the Good Friday Experiment, and why responsible psychedelic advocacy is so important. Additionally, he gives a detailed breakdown of the variables used to assure a psychedelic administration is used entheogenically, or in other words for religious purposes.

Episode Image: Psilocybin chemical compound alongside image of psychoactive fungi.

Finally taking a moment to seriously examine drugs on a podcast named Mormons and Drugs, Cody covers the vast pool of research regarding psychedelic substances and their beneficial uses. Of particular note, Cody rants at some length about Fred M. Smith who, as a sitting Prophet or leader of the RLDS church, was also a passionate and avid user of peyote.

Episode Image: Mushroom gills are the magical carrier to a famous psychedelic bike ride.

Jo is finally brought on trial for his occult conman ship. Cody exhaustively covers the trial in detail, and so provides the catalyst for Joseph’s pivot from teenage witch to young Prophet.

Episode Image: Joseph Smith carried his seer stone with him until his death. The image shown is taken for a photo of his favorite stone, which he described in detail at his trial.

Joseph Smith Junior is met mysteriously in the night by a treasure guardian (soon to be angel), and first learns about a set of gold plates which allegedly held the history and wisdom of a lost tribe of white Native Americans. Cody also continues ranting about Jo’s career at the time as a teenage witch.

Episode Image: The toad, historically known for being used in witches brews for their poisons. In Josephs case, they were only known for a good smack around if treasure digging rules were not abided by.

Finally getting to focus in on Joseph Smith Junior, Cody rants about the Smith family’s reputation as occultists, scryers, and money diggers around their Vermont/New York neighborhoods.

Episode Image: The Tetragrammaton symbol taken from the Joseph Smiths family’s magic parchments referred to as “Holiness to the Lord.”

Continuing the discussion of the Smith family from last week, Cody delves into the occult worldview of the 19th century Burned Over District and how that social climate provided the perfect environment for young Joseph Smith to grow up in.

Episode Image: The symbol known as Jubanladace, adopted by the Smiths family from Scot’s Discourse and used on several of their parchments. It was believed to help conjure good angles for successful treasure-seeking.

For our very first episode of Mormons and Drugs, Cody kicks things off by highlighting the Smith family, whose middle son Joseph Junior, eventually founded the Mormon religion.

Episode Image: Mother to the founder of the LDS church, Lucy Mack Smith with tetrogrammaton magical symbol. A common symbol used in Smith family magical practices.