This panel will explore Mormon women’s mediated and non-mediated experiences with their dead ancestors, as well as personal and cultural biases for and against communicating with the dead. Beynon and Gregory will discuss how their faith journeys have been shaped by both their work as mediums and their experience as Mormons. They will also discuss …
Speaker: Deloris Beynon
Ethereal Intersection: Mormonism and Spiritualism
Ethereal Intersection: Mormonism and Spiritualism Organized in 1870 by William S. Godbe, the Godbeite church was an early Mormon offshoot that aimed toward embracing all belief systems. Both the Godbeites and mainstream Mormons affirmed the eternal nature of the individual and taught the validity of spiritual experience. Although the Godbeites eventually dissolved as a practicing …