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The other day a friend of mine asked me to send him a link to a timeline I had posted on Mormon convert David Alexander's religious peregrinations during his purported " 47 years in evangelical Christianity " before becoming a Mormon on 20 March 2023. My friend responded back with one line: "Thanks! This guy is a regular Martin Harris." This was not the first time I had heard the comparison made between Harris and Alexander in the month or so since Alexander popped up on my radar. One person put the question like this: "Is Alexander a fraud or is he a Martin Harris?" As to the former, the idea that Alexander might be a fraud, was not without warrant. For one thing he did not sound like an evangelical. He did not obviously share their emphases or beliefs. If one asks an evangelical, "What is the most important thing for me to know?" His answer would be the same as was given by the Moravian August Gottlieb Spangenberg to the very zealous but...

Psychedelics Manuscripts Art Workup under construction

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Library of Congress Ambrose Hexameron: https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_13459/?sp=3&st=gallery Mushrooms in pictures: File:Casanatense 459, f.116r.jpg - Wikimedia Commons De materia medica, MS M.652 fol. 316v - Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts - The Morgan Library & Museum Medieval picture of mushrooms from the Morgan Library   Manfredus de Monte Imperiali , Liber de herbis et plantis . -- De avibus et piscibus . -- Nicolaus, Medicus , Doctrina de usualibus medicinis earumque confectione, sive, ut vocant, antidotarius . -- Simon Januensis , Synonyma per Mundinum abbreviata ; cum appendice Manfredi de Monte Imperiali . | Gallica   BnF  Latin 6823 ( 1301-1350) Salzburg Missal . Incipit Herbarium Apulei Platonici ad Marcum Agrippam Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Page d'accueil | Gallica   Search site for items Vanderbuilt's Art in the Christian Tradition index an...