[crusty old prospector]

Dude, pass some more of the crazy toadstools.

[caver]

IBTZ!

[NordP]

Weeeellll....he had a pretty steady hand to carve out all those 20...ah, 10 Commandments in stone, considering (according to this story) he was “stoned” himself.

[mountainlyons]

I wonder what this guy is on?

[poobear]

It’s nice to see other religions have their nut cases and fringe!

[agere_contra]

What was he on when he parted the Red Sea?

[Always Right]

LOL, so all that smoke was not from a burning bush, but just Moses smoking weed. Too funny the levels that ‘researchers’ stoop to.

[tx_eggman]

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

No surprise there ...

[Enosh]

"The Bible says people see sounds"

Chapter/verse, please.

[theDentist]

That’s right: The Easter is just around the corner... Passover a bit further on. But it’s never too early to denigrate religious observances.

[bmwcyle]

Yes and Moses only thought he saw the water part and the tripping people really walked across on top of the water. /sarcasm

[RetiredArmy]

Sure. He was there. He saw it in person. He knows FOR SURE EXACTLY what was going on. Right. Just like all these so called experts on everything back in history. They ALL KNOW now what happened back then. They are THE EXPERTS, in their own mines that is. /sarcasm still on very heavy

[dljordan]

“Dude, pass some more of the crazy toadstools.”

He’s lucky Pharaoh’s SWAT team didn’t break into his tent and shoot his dog.

[Paradox]

Uh oh, expect wild mobs of Jewish and Christian youths to riot in the streets, demanding the death of this researcher!

Oh, thats right, never mind.

[DBrow]

This is great! I just read that the Last Supper included amanita muscaria mushrooms, now this!

There is no evidence that acacia was used as a drug anywhere around the Mediterranean Sea. Some acacias contain dimethyltriptamine, but merely drinking a concoction of DMT is not psychoactive, they’d need to add in an MAOI like syrian rue.

There were psychoactives in use then, and they show up in literature and records, but to assume that Moses was high on an ayahuasca analog when he recieved the commandments is pretty outside.

[Isara]

Benny Shanon, “Who are you going to believe? Me or your own Mind?”

[Red Badger]

God’s gonna get you for that, Benny!.........

[pillut48]

"...suggested Shanon, who said he himself has dabbled with such substances."

Well, d'oh, that explains this bogus viewpoint!! Want some Scooby snacks with those 'substances', Shanon? ;-)

[LucyJo]

"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.

Well, looks like Shanon has it all figured out...except the part about how the "narcotics" caused the commandments of God to be written on the stone tablets.

[TSchmereL]

[wideawake]

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.

In the Hebrew Scriptures acacia is not mentioned as an ingredient in concoctions.

It is referred to as a building material and as one of several other plants in an idealized landscape.

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures are any rituals involving psychoactive substances discussed or described.