Ep 186 – The Entheogenic Origins of Mormonism: A Working Hypothesis pt.1
Naked Mormonism Podcast
Bryce Blankenagel
4.7 • 680 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2019
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, we begin reading through the academic paper recently published in a special edition of the Journal of Psychedelics Studies authored by Robert Beckstead, Bryce Blankenagel, Cody Noconi, and Michael Winkelman. This segment of the paper covers the background of the Smith family, magic and 19th-century American occultism, herbalism, medicine, Indigenous medicine, Free Masonry, and the entheogenic influence in all these fields. It also discusses psychedelics in the Word of Wisdom, the Book of Mormon, and early Mormon sacramental rituals. The increased need for secrecy was realized by Joseph Smith and the entheogenic practices became closed off to non-initiates. Please send any feedback to [email protected]. We’d love to hear anything you have to say about the paper.
Find the paper here:
https://www.academia.edu/40786304/The_entheogenic_origins_of_Mormonism_A_working_hypothesis
https://akademiai.com/doi/pdf/10.1556/2054.2019.020
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| 0:00.0 | I am Ryan McKnight. I'm Kara Santa Maria. I am Christopher Smith. Hi, I'm Andrew Torres. |
| 0:05.9 | This is Naked Mormonism. The Serial Mormon History podcast. We've had a lot of people asking for this, and the time has finally arrived. |
| 0:26.6 | Today we're going to begin a series on psychedelics in early Mormonism. |
| 0:32.6 | A little background, if you're new to the show, or you haven't heard episodes on this subject in the past. |
| 0:38.3 | Back in June of 2016, we discussed the dedication of the Curtland Temple, and I spoke a bit |
| 0:44.8 | about the possibility that something was in the anointing oil, which caused the mass visions |
| 0:50.1 | and the ecstatic experiences that were recounted by contemporary attendees. |
| 0:55.8 | That's back on episode titled McCurtland Temple Hulucication. |
| 1:01.1 | As soon as the episode aired, I received an email from a guy named Cody Nacone, which says, |
| 1:06.6 | Hello, I'm a permaculture designer specializing in micro-remediation and plant medicines. |
| 1:12.0 | I believe I can help you hone your argument that Joseph Smith was using |
| 1:15.8 | psychotropic plant medicines and potentially drugging his parishioners with them. |
| 1:21.2 | I can provide new evidence for several anthogenic candidates, as well as confirmation |
| 1:25.6 | that the Smith family had the ability and know |
| 1:27.7 | how to do this. It is shockingly easy and efficient to extract medicinal compounds using |
| 1:33.5 | wine or spirits. I can't imagine how busy you are with everything, so for the sake of keeping |
| 1:37.9 | this brief, I won't go into more detail. This is a huge topic that I think deserves a lot more |
| 1:43.7 | attention. |
| 1:44.7 | If you're interested in discussing this further, I left my contact information below, end quote. |
| 1:50.2 | We got together. |
| 1:51.9 | Luckily, Cody doesn't live far from me, and that began our collaborative efforts of studying psychedelics in early Mormonism. |
| 1:59.7 | From that time forward, we began writing a paper |
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