Episode 16: Kirtland Mormonism

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Episode 16: Kirtland Mormonism
Mormons and Drugs

Joe has successfully flipped from Occultist to Prophet, then relocated his fledgling church to the visionary and religiously eccentric town of Kirtland Ohio. Within approximately a year of the religions birth, reports of psychedelic sacraments and hallucinogenic conferences begin to surface.

References:

  • Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, by Richard L. Bushman

  • Palmyra Reflector. Volume 2. February1, 1831, by Abner Cole

  • A Book of Commandments, by Joseph Smith Junior

  • Early Mormonism and the Magical World View, by D. Michael Quinn

  • Hearts Made Glad: The charges of Intemperance against Joseph Smith the Mormon prophet, by Lamar Peterson

  • Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt, by Parley Pratt

  • My Life's Review, 1947, by Benjamin Johnson