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Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher
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Posted on 03/04/2008 6:46:14 AM PST by crusty old prospector

High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week. Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy.

"As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don't believe, or a legend, which I don't believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of Israel under the effect of narcotics," Shanon told Israeli public radio on Tuesday.

Moses was probably also on drugs when he saw the "burning bush," suggested Shanon, who said he himself has dabbled with such substances.

"The Bible says people see sounds, and that is a classic phenomenon," he said citing the example of religious ceremonies in the Amazon in which drugs are used that induce people to "see music."

He mentioned his own experience when he used ayahuasca, a powerful psychotropic plant, during a religious ceremony in Brazil's Amazon forest in 1991. "I experienced visions that had spiritual-religious connotations," Shanon said.

He said the psychedelic effects of ayahuasca were comparable to those produced by concoctions based on bark of the acacia tree, that is frequently mentioned in the Bible.


TOPICS: Judaism
KEYWORDS: ayahuasca; crackheadprofessor; judaism; moses; projection; religion
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To: crusty old prospector
"As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don't believe, or a legend, which I don't believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of Israel under the effect of narcotics," Shanon told Israeli public radio on Tuesday.

Unbeliever ALERT!

161 posted on 03/04/2008 8:51:55 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mad Dawgg
Well one has to wonder just exactly what sort of Plant that Burning Bush was????

See #155

162 posted on 03/04/2008 8:53:34 AM PST by WVNan
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To: windcliff

When might a “researcher” come up with something original?


163 posted on 03/04/2008 8:54:04 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Enosh

We gotta bring him on borad every thread now!


164 posted on 03/04/2008 8:58:10 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: LukeL
The bible says Moses smashed the ten commandments when he came down the mountain and saw what the people were doing.

The "cognitive psychologist" in the article probably thinks that Moses was just stoned [rimshot]

165 posted on 03/04/2008 8:58:12 AM PST by COBOL2Java ("McCain is a war hero. He's also a useful idiot for the Democrats." - Mark Levin)
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To: Ancesthntr
The Bible also says that nothing must be added or subtracted from the 5 Books of Moses;

It DOES?

166 posted on 03/04/2008 9:02:25 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: colorcountry
Thirty three wives and counting.....

33 MoL for ETERNITY!!!!

Serves him right!

167 posted on 03/04/2008 9:03:35 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Ditto
Somehow I have the feeling he has done more than "dabble."

I deny the dabbling!

168 posted on 03/04/2008 9:05:13 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: crusty old prospector

sigh ....


169 posted on 03/04/2008 9:06:34 AM PST by Scythian
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To: caver

A Hoosier caver must have started around Bloomington!

Bring Bobby Back!


170 posted on 03/04/2008 9:07:55 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: greyfoxx39

I deny that’s Babel!


171 posted on 03/04/2008 9:09:11 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Dixie Yooper
This guy should take a shot at writing about Mohamed if he wants attention.

BAH!

Writings not where it's at: but CARTOONS!

172 posted on 03/04/2008 9:10:01 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

“A Hoosier caver must have started around Bloomington!”

Yep, started in Buckners like so many others!


173 posted on 03/04/2008 9:10:33 AM PST by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

What’s with the Asterisk for the letter ‘a’?


174 posted on 03/04/2008 9:12:06 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: listenhillary
Just wondering if there are guidelines for what we’re not supposed to do. Plants to avoid, animals that are off limits.

Just one: it was in the MIDDLE of the Garden.

But it appears that Evolution has made some more since then...

175 posted on 03/04/2008 9:13:21 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Vaduz
Moses God wants us to cut off our what?.

It COULD be worse!

-- New International

Galatians 5:12
As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

176 posted on 03/04/2008 9:15:12 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: WVNan
Native to Middle Eastern lands.

First noticed by Moses...

177 posted on 03/04/2008 9:17:16 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

BOARD!


178 posted on 03/04/2008 9:21:19 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: caver

Probably doing that Moses thing, too!

;^)

I tried to get into Buckner’s a few years ago. It appears that there is a LOT more dirt in the tunnel now; for I wouldn’t fit!


179 posted on 03/04/2008 9:22:49 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Oh yeah: the entry into Trapdoor has shrunk AS WELL!


180 posted on 03/04/2008 9:23:57 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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