Did Joseph Smith use Psychedelic Substances
to Facilitate Visionary Experiences? More to the point, did hallucinogens facilitate Joseph Smith's visions & those of early Mormon converts? The referenced link (below) says, "Yes!" Thoughts?
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It doesn't say any such thing. . It says: 1) Experiences similar (from his point of view at least) to those experienced by the early Latter-day Saints can be produced with hallucinogenic plants. 2) IF Joseph Smith used such plants that could explain the results obtained. 3) Three such plants existed in the area where Joseph Smith lived and traveled. . The bulk of the document discusses such plants and known uses in religion. . Nowhere does it make the claim that Joseph Smith and the early saints actually used them. . It has been said that two people can keep a secret ... if one of them is dead. If the use of hallucinogens were the explanation for those events then it is a "secret" well kept by quite a large number of people. . I find that notion so improbable as to be ludicrous.
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