In another, perhaps unnecessary tangential rant, Cody talks about the Ephrata Cloister of Pennsylvania and how their drug fueled cult of Christian esotericism likely influenced the birth of Mormonism.
References:
The Angel and the Sorcerer, by Peter Lavenda
The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844., by John Brooke
Alchemically Stoned, by PD Newman
The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania, by Julius Sachse
The Book of Mormon (1830 edition), by Joseph Smith Junior
Early Mormonism and the Magical World View, by D. Michael Quinn