Acid Test: LSD vs. LDS by Christopher Kiall Bigelow

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?

Author: Christopher Kimball Bigelow

Publisher: Zarahemla Books

Publication Date: January 14, 2020

Number of Pages: 297 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 0999347233

ISBN-13: 9780999347232