Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher

Breitbart, drudgereport ^

[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.

[Elsie]

"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!

[WVNan]

Well one has to wonder just exactly what sort of Plant that Burning Bush was????

See #155

[onedoug]

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

[Elsie]

We gotta bring him on borad every thread now!

[COBOL2Java]

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]

[Elsie]

The Bible also says that nothing must be added or subtracted from the 5 Books of Moses;

It DOES?

[Elsie]

Thirty three wives and counting.....

33 MoL for ETERNITY!!!!

Serves him right!

[Elsie]

Somehow I have the feeling he has done more than "dabble."

I deny the dabbling!

[Scythian]

sigh ....

[Elsie]

A Hoosier caver must have started around Bloomington!

Bring Bobby Back!

[Elsie]

I deny that’s Babel!

[Elsie]

This guy should take a shot at writing about Mohamed if he wants attention.

BAH!

Writings not where it's at: but CARTOONS!

[caver]

“A Hoosier caver must have started around Bloomington!”

Yep, started in Buckners like so many others!

[Elsie]

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

[Elsie]

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...

[Elsie]

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!

[Elsie]

Native to Middle Eastern lands.

First noticed by Moses...

[Elsie]

BOARD!

[Elsie]

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!

[Elsie]

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