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Acid Test

LSD vs. LDS

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Acid Test

By: Christopher Kimball Bigelow
Narrated by: Keaton Corsini
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Growing up Mormon during America’s early-1980s satanic panic, Bigelow escapes the religion’s bland conformity by playing Dungeons & Dragons. After graduating from high school in 1984, he dives into sex, drugs, and the counterculture via Salt Lake City’s punk and new-wave scenes, as echoed from London, New York, and especially Los Angeles.

As Bigelow explores the underground, he rejects myths of supernatural good vs. evil, living instead by the D&D concept of chaotic neutrality. During LSD trips, however, he starts sensing an unseen dimension. Then Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic novel The Stand gets him reconsidering good vs. evil. After an alarming otherworldly attack, can Bigelow find spiritual protection in Mormonism’s processed, regimented, corporate culture?

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I really enjoyed the firsthand account of what the SLC punk scene is like... you see Hollywood renditions - like the 90s movie SLC Punk - and wonderful how close that really was, and I’d say the movie is spot on, only this provides a much deeper insight. It was well-crafted, emotional, uncomfortable, and deeply intriguing. I recommend this to anyone even if I’m not Mormon.

A very insightful account

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As more historical information comes out about early Mormonism every LDS member will if they are thinking and reading have similar Acid tripe of tests of their faith. Do we give it up because of the stupidity of early leaders? Or do we recognize that even the most faithful of our leaders have a dark side as well as a light side. All need the savior especially those who desire to be righteous.

Acid conversion

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this book feels like an utterly confused series of journal entries of a young man coerced into religious conformity. His period of acid "frying" seemed to come during a period of great immaturity in his life and the insights of taking acid were hardly noteworthy. The writer admits grandiose fantasizing from time to time but the book becomes a bit exhausting towards the end as he embraces some of these illusions and justifies his prejudices towards his previous peer group. The book ends in an eerily similar way to Orwell's 1984. Ultimately the writer embraces big brother.

severely anticlimactic

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