Ep 176 – Smith-entheogen Theory at JWHA 2019
Naked Mormonism Podcast
Bryce Blankenagel
4.7 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2019
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, we air a presentation given for the John Whitmer Historical Association conference on psychedelics in early Mormonism. If my inbox is any indicator, many of you have been waiting on the newest research related to the Smith-entheogen theory; the wait is over. This presentation focuses specifically on the likely presence of the nightshade family of plants in Mormonism within the 19th-century medicinal and occult context. If this presentation isn’t enough, consider listening to the Patreon-exclusive edition which is nearly 3 hours’ worth of extended research used to create the presentation, along with a few stories from the conference itself and some audience reactions. That’s my way of saying ‘thank you!’ to our financial supporters who made this research and attending the JWHA conference possible! Next week we’ll jump back into our historical timeline.
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| 0:00.0 | I am Ryan McKnight. |
| 0:01.6 | I'm Kara Santa Maria. |
| 0:03.1 | I am Christopher Smith. |
| 0:04.6 | Hi, I'm Andrew Torres. |
| 0:06.1 | This is Naked Mormonism. |
| 0:09.0 | The Serial Mormon History Podcast. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello there, listeners. |
| 0:16.2 | What you're about to listen to is a presentation on the Smith and Theogen Theory that I recently gave |
| 0:21.5 | at the John Whitmer Historical Association Conference in Fairport, New York. My co-presenter, |
| 0:27.6 | Brian Cassonbrock, presented on the hermetic influences in the Burndover District and the Book |
| 0:33.0 | of Mormon, which constitutes the first roughly about 18 minutes of the presentation. After that, I take the |
| 0:39.2 | stand and present the most recent developments in my research on psychedelics and early Mormonism. |
| 0:44.7 | I was unable to attain permissions to video the presentation as it requires releases from |
| 0:49.6 | all in attendance should they be seen on the video. However, John Whitmer Historical Association was kind |
| 0:55.6 | enough to give me permission to air the audio of the presentation here on the podcast. If you're |
| 1:01.3 | hearing this on the regular feed, you'll get the entire presentation as well as a few final |
| 1:05.8 | remarks about how the presentation was received. However, because I was able to make the trip and conduct all of |
| 1:12.4 | the underlying research thanks to my fantastic supporters on patreon.com slash naked Mormonism, |
| 1:18.0 | I want to do a little something extra for those supporters. If you're hearing this on the Patreon |
| 1:22.8 | feed, it's about twice the length, and here's why. I put a lot of research and work into this |
| 1:29.4 | presentation, and the strict time limit necessarily required a lot of culling away important |
| 1:34.8 | information. I want all that information on the Patreon broadcast in order to further |
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