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Dialogue A Journal of Mormon Thought

ISSN 0012-2157

5 papers in the library · 7 citations · publishing 1967-2025

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Avian Intermediaries

Dialogue A Journal of Mormon Thought 2025 Suzanne E. Greco

Content warning: This essay discusses sexual violence.Birds, across cultures and time, hold a rich tapestry of symbolic meanings, entwining life and death, omens and auguries, angels and spiritual guides. They are often seen as carriers of the departed souls, and at times, they are believed to embody those spirits. Adam McLean, a Scottish writer on alchemical texts, notes, “The essential thing...

Panini and Psilocybin

Dialogue A Journal of Mormon Thought 2024 Bridget Verhaaren

“Pretty girls don't buy cocaine,” Greta1 says and laughs as she walks out the front door.My hands and face sting as I stand frozen in the entryway and hear her start the car. I'd asked my twenty-two-year-old daughter where she got the money to feed the addictions she was battling.Over the past three years, she'd chosen a few subpar boyfriends who introduced her to substances, which helped set...

The Higher Powers: Fred M. Smith and the Peyote Ceremonies

Dialogue A Journal of Mormon Thought December 1, 1995 Shelby M. Barnes

Frederick Madison Smith was third president and prophet of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.Son of Joseph III and grandson of Joseph the Martyr, Fred M., as he was generally known, came to lead the Reorganization in 1915.Smith was a highly educated man interested in the relationship between science and religion.His interest led him to experiment with the religious...

The Psychology of Religious Genius: Joseph Smith and the Origins of New Religious Movements

Dialogue A Journal of Mormon Thought December 1, 1993 Lawrence Foster 7 citations

The nature of genius -especially religious genius -is an elusive and controversial topic.Great and recognized creativity in fields such as art, science, or politics has been the subject of extensive investigation without leading to clear and generally agreed upon criteria for assessing and accounting for such achievement.Religious genius, especially the prophetic leadership of founders of new...

LSD FOR LDS?

Dialogue A Journal of Mormon Thought April 1, 1967 E. Marshall Chatwin, LeGrand Woolley

Psychedelics or hallucinogenic drugs have been used in natural forms for at least 3,000 years.Due to the recent discovery of LSD by Dr. Albert Hofmann, and to some extent to the sensational press reports concerning the effects of the drug, ministers, divinity students, movie stars, housewives, high school and college students, as well as psychologists, medical doctors, and 1