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Bibliography

Books and Sources Cited

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Abstract

Books, manuscripts and web resources named in the church's documents, with what is known about each and what still needs verification.

Reading this document. Bibliographic details below are recorded as they appear on the church's previous website. Entries marked 'to be verified' have not been checked against a library catalogue or publisher record.

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A plain-language summary prepared during the move to the new website. Where it differs from the original wording above, the original wording governs.

Works the church treats as scripture

The Psychedelic Gospel

  • As identified by the church: The Psychedelic Gospel, by Dr. Jerry B. Brown.
  • Cited in: Historical Foundations.
  • Status: Full bibliographic details (any co-authors, publisher, year, edition) to be verified.

The Most High (manuscript)

  • As identified by the church: The Most High: Plant Secrets of the Gods’ and Explorations Revealing the End of the World As You Know It, by Jack Herrera.
  • Cited in: Historical Foundations.
  • Status: Described as a manuscript. Publication status and availability to be verified.

Other works named

Works on evolution

  • As identified by the church: work by “Dr. Behe” and by a microbiologist named Robert Burr, and a quotation attributed to Charles Darwin.
  • Cited in: Faith and Scientific Perspectives.
  • Status: Specific works, identities and the quotation’s source to be verified. The quotation is not reproduced until verified.

Web resources linked from the previous website

ResourceLinked fromStatus
Access Excellence — EthnobotanyEstablishing QuestionsThe original address no longer responds (checked 2026-11-01); link points to an Internet Archive copy captured 2021-12-01.
Colorado Secretary of State — business searchOfficial Lawful NoticeOpens a general search form, not a specific record about the church.

Revision history

  • — Reference index compiled for the new website from the church’s previously published pages.

Faith interpretation

Historical Foundations

The church's account of its sacramental theology and religious foundations: its interpretation of early Christian ceremony and devotional art, the works it treats as scripture, its reading of Doctrine and Covenants 59 and 98, and the blessings and relationships it describes. Includes a separate organizational timeline and bibliography.

Faith interpretation

Faith and Scientific Perspectives

How the church connects four fields — physics, quantum physics, medical science and psychology — to its beliefs about heaven, God as observer, the resurrected body, and self-love. Each section separates what the church believes from what is established scientific consensus.

Questions and answers

Establishing Questions

Short answers to the five questions the church uses to explain why it exists: what it means by ethnobotanicals, what a free church is, why it chose not to incorporate, what to know about donations and tax, and why it was formed in 2018.