RS> Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher

 RS> Mar 4 08:07 AM US/Eastern

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

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

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

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

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

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

 RS> Copyright AFP 2008

Makes sense.

After all, most HONEST religions admit the use of herbal concoctions and
preparations to "go there" to see God(s).

In my opinion, people that state that they have spoken with God without
such are either insane or liars (or both). But if they took something first
then they "had an experience"...I can buy that they saw
SOMETHING! I doubt that it was with God, though...BUT I've had experiences
on mind expanding drugs that WERE extreme enough to be life altering.

I'm simply not about to offer that same were "God visits".
They call them thar drugs "mind expanding" for a reason.

And the being up on a mountain for many days...
sounds like a ritualistic fast to me, then seeing a burning bush?
Shit, sounds like a Native American Indian experience!


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