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[MommaSquid]

Was Moses High on Mount Sinai?

Study suggests Israelites may have eaten hallucinogenics, but scholars scoff

JERUSALEM - When Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, he may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor.

Writing in the British philosophy journal Time and Mind, Benny Shanon of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University said two plants in the Sinai desert contain the same psychoactive molecules as those found in plants from which the powerful Amazonian hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca is prepared.

The thunder, lightning and blaring of a trumpet which the Book of Exodus says emanated from Mount Sinai could just have been the imaginings of a people in an “altered state of awareness,” Shanon hypothesized.

“In advanced forms of ayahuasca inebriation, the seeing of light is accompanied by profound religious and spiritual feelings,” Shanon wrote.

“On such occasions, one often feels that in seeing the light, one is encountering the ground of all Being ... many identify this power as God.”

Full Article:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23468364/?GT1=43001

Is this guy trying to make rational sense out of a spiritual experience?  I hope he has a really big body guard...some people are not going to like him very much.

 

[tacoma_kyle]

Hah! Thats great. Moses was well...

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high .

[pjkeeley]

God spoke to Moses in the form of a "burning bush" right?

[Kona]

I think I could get this stuff to grow in Hawaii.  

[SteveS]

Hehe, sounds like "the ground of all Being" is just as vague and indefinable as "god".  In this sense, I prefer "god" for its economy.  How else can one express so much vagueness with so few letters?