This panel will focus on the pros and cons of writing and publishing a tell-all, “confessional” memoir in the Mormon milieu—this culture of “truth-telling.” What are the ramifications of making private thoughts and actions into a public record? How does this follow D&C 42:88: “And if thy brother or sister offend thee, thou shalt take …
Speaker: Bruce Jorgensen
Poets and the Prophets
While it may be true, as he said of himself, that no one knew Joseph Smith’s history, poets from the early days of the Restoration have attempted to capture the Prophet through the power of poetic language. This session consists of readings of poets from W. W. Phelps and Eliza R. Snow to modern Mormons …
THE MYTHICAL BOOK OF MORMON, PART II
I will continue developing the thesis that the Book of Mormon is not literal, but symbolic, archetypal history brought forth by the visionary Joseph Smith, in shamanic fashion, as a grand symbolic, spiritual ethic to rebalance the culture into which it came. Calling on the work of Carl Jung and John Weir Perry, I will …