The Testimony Of The Discoverer

The Testimony Of The Discoverer

I, Tyler Swinyard, discovered the Society of Snake People.

I use the word discovered because that is how the framework arrived in my experience. I also acknowledge that I gave the Society its modern name, developed its doctrine, and have no empirical evidence proving that an ancient organization bearing that name actually existed.

Both statements may remain on the same page.

The founding experience began in a shed while I was under the influence of psilocybin. I believed, for a time, that my friend Nate was literally a Snake Person and that an entire Society might be coming for me. Later I understood that nobody had actually shown me evidence of such a pursuit. Nate later remembered telling me he was not a snake while I remembered hearing the opposite.

That disagreement became part of the religion rather than an inconvenience to it.

I still do not know everything that happened in my own experience.

I know that it changed me.

—TYLER SWINYARD Founder & Discoverer God