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Mormons are leaving the church in record numbers. Some are turning to an apostate band of mushroom-loving spiritual explorers for solace.

World Refugee Day. A 2Spirit Pow Wow Report from Living the Circle of Life. Revival, the Summer Solstice Celebration with The Divine Assembly.

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The rise of psychedelics in Utah for therapy, spirituality, and how it all relates to the state’s predominant religion.

Rep. Brady Brammer acknowledges he's not the type to run legislation on psychedelics.

In 2020, former Utah State legislator Steve Urquhart founded a religion. Their sacrament? Magic mushrooms. Urquhart calls his church The Divine Assembly. Its members believe that taking psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in certain mushrooms, brings them closer to God. Urquhart served 15 years in Utah’s state legislature — as a conservative Republican and a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We’ll talk with him about his journey away from public offi...

Credit Ivana Martinez / KUER A Zoom gathering of The Divine Assembly in December 2020. “Load up the handcart and join Utahns and Mormons who are trekking into psychedelic spaces,” read an advertisement for the conference on Facebook. Many of the attendees, I learned, were former members of the LDS church who were interested in trying psychedelics or already doing so. Who were these people, I wondered, and why, after leaving a demanding, orthodox faith, had they turned to psychedelics? Was...