In this episode of Postmormon Postmortem, we follow the strange historical overlap between the Rodney Lundberg case and Dr. C. Jess Groesbeck, the LDS psychiatrist who helped secure Lundberg’s release, and later became entangled with Canadian cult leader Roch Thériault of the Ant Hill Kids.
Religion, authority, psychiatric expertise, prophetic certainty, and – once again – the thin line between revelation and delusion collide in the late 1980s Mormon cultural world.
Main source: Savage Messiah by Paul Kaihla and Ross Laver.