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Standard of Truth

S1E8 Joseph Smith: A Fungi?

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

5709 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this groovy podcast we answer a question from a listener about the claim that Joseph Smith and other early members of the Church used psychedelic mushrooms and hallucinogenic toad venom in order to have the visions and revelations that they had. Spoiler alert: we don’t agree. If you have any questions or possible topics of discussion for upcoming podcasts please email us at: [email protected]

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast, hosted by historian Dr. Garrett Dirkmont,

0:08.0

where we explore the early days of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

0:12.6

and gain rare historical insights into how a young farm boy was able to establish a new church

0:19.6

and grow it by way of visions, manifestations,

0:23.6

and miracles.

0:25.6

Hello, welcome to another episode of Standard of Truth Podcast. I'm your host Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm here with my friend Richard Leduke.

0:39.8

Yes.

0:40.3

Hello, Garrett.

0:41.3

So in this particular podcast, we are going to do what we kind of hope that the podcast

0:46.6

would turn into.

0:48.4

We've received several questions.

0:50.9

By the way, if you have questions, please send them to questions at standard of truth

0:55.6

podcast.com.

0:57.8

And we will try to answer those in, uh, in future podcasts.

1:02.5

But in this particular podcast, we're going to try to answer a question that Garrett received,

1:10.3

um, that was kind of unique.

1:12.3

Yeah, it's certainly unique.

1:14.1

And we, you know, we want you to send questions in,

1:16.7

although we made the email that you send the questions to incredible.

1:20.1

Who are?

1:20.7

And complicated that.

1:22.3

Yeah.

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