A few weeks ago, I sat down with researcher Alex Criddle, a Mormon historian who believes that psychedelics played a direct role in the founding of the LDS Church. Our conversation moves from Joseph Smith’s early life in the “burned-over district” of New York, where ecstatic visions and folk magic were everywhere, to the possibility that the sacraments …
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