The Psychedelic History of Mormonism Magic and Drugs

The factual history of the Mormon religion is stranger than fiction and the churchs leadership has gone to great lengths at times to obscure or censor much of that history from the public eye. Most notably the early career of Joseph Smith as a teenage ceremonial magician and money digger in conjunction with his lifelong reputation of intemperance has managed to escape mainstream awareness. Likewise the fact that the original congregation of the Mormon faith was administered psychedelic sacraments at the hands of Joseph Smith has been largely ignored. The fact that it has been lying under our collective noses for nearly two centuries will be brought to light in The Psychedelic History of Mormonism Magic and Drugs.Evidence for the employment of psychedelic substances by the early Mormons is tangible and at times unambiguous. The Psychedelic History of Mormonism Magic and Drugs takes a broad-spectrum analysis of the entirety of Mormon history through a unique multidisciplinary approach of occultism ethnobotany and human pharmacology. Adequately equipped with the appropriate esoteric toolkit it then becomes apparent that Joseph Smith both recognized and implemented psychedelic plants into his religious and magical practices.