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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: Elsie

Pathetic. Now as a grown up you camp out in an internet chatroom, word searching for Mormon threads and then try to make as many of them as possible feel small. All in the name of “Evangelism” of course. But most of us have figured out its bitterness that drives you.


241 posted on 03/06/2008 10:37:12 AM PST by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: Invincibly Ignorant
But most of us have figured out its bitterness that drives you.

And yet; you continue to play.

242 posted on 03/06/2008 11:35:59 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
And yet; you continue to play.

Nobody else seems willing to expose you.

243 posted on 03/06/2008 12:39:52 PM PST by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: Invincibly Ignorant

Ditto!:)


244 posted on 03/06/2008 2:06:03 PM PST by restornu ( Now the place was called by them Rameumptom, which, being interpreted, is the holy stand. ~ Alma)
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To: Invincibly Ignorant

Look in your dictionary:

Willing and Able have different meanings.


245 posted on 03/07/2008 6:01:30 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
Willing and Able have different meanings.

The "able" ship has sailed a few times. On the good ship bitterness. lol.

246 posted on 03/07/2008 1:52:40 PM PST by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: Invincibly Ignorant
On the good ship bitterness.

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247 posted on 03/08/2008 5:01:34 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

Well, THAT shut him up!


248 posted on 03/08/2008 3:33:56 PM PST by greyfoxx39 (We need 2 pills, one to prevent cancer , one to prevent old age...HURRY! I am past 60!)
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To: greyfoxx39

Nah - probably just shoveling snow!


249 posted on 03/09/2008 5:15:12 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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Note: this topic is from 3/04/2008 C.E. ;^) Thanks crusty old prospector.

250 posted on 05/06/2019 11:16:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: crusty old prospector

Man this Jew is truly lost

Like so many

In love with their own intellect

No clue who’s voice is talking to them


251 posted on 05/06/2019 11:26:49 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monumnets decision ...thank you)
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To: theDentist

Exactly

For a Jew to claim Moses is a liar is anathema

Pitiful

Moses is arguably the most important mortal in the Bible


252 posted on 05/06/2019 11:31:18 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monumnets decision ...thank you)
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To: wardaddy

Man, I had forgotten all about that. It was the first thread I had ever posted and I took a lot of grief. There were even calls for my zot.


253 posted on 05/07/2019 6:22:13 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector

What about the other 2.5 to three million people who saw the Revelation at Sinai? Would they all “hallucinate” the same thing?


254 posted on 05/07/2019 7:17:09 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Modernism began two thousand years ago.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Yeah, the only person who appears to be hallucinating is Benny Shanon, weirdo Ivy League psychologist. This article was from 11 years ago. I wonder what other drivel he has put out.


255 posted on 05/07/2019 9:23:38 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector

Somebody brought it back to life last nite

I didn’t even look at the date honestly


256 posted on 05/07/2019 10:30:17 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monumnets decision ...thank you)
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