High on Mount Sinai?

James Joyce · 03-09-2008, 02:52 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080304/...E7RzgYtHASH9EA

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor.

Writing in the British 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."

Shanon wrote that he was very familiar with the affects of the ayahuasca plant, having "partaken of the ... brew about 160 times in various locales and contexts."

He said one of the psychoactive plants, harmal, found in the Sinai and elsewhere in the Middle East, has long been regarded by Jews in the region as having magical and curative powers.

Some biblical scholars were unimpressed. Orthodox rabbi Yuval Sherlow told Israel Radio: "The Bible is trying to convey a very profound event. We have to fear not for the fate of the biblical Moses, but for the fate of science."

DarknessOfDeath · 03-09-2008, 03:01 PM

thats been posted before

Eggyman · 03-09-2008, 03:03 PM

James Joyce · 03-09-2008, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Agent Vaughn

thats been posted before

Has it?

The mods can delete it then.

chaseter · 03-09-2008, 03:06 PM

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Eggyman · 03-09-2008, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by chaseter

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What does it say?

DarknessOfDeath · 03-09-2008, 03:09 PM

its just a bunch of dots

R0rschach · 03-09-2008, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by James Joyce

Has it?

The mods can delete it then.

Like they did the to the main thread and the one made there after by The Joker?

James Joyce · 03-09-2008, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by R0rschach

Like they did the to the main thread and the one made there after by The Joker?

I dunno. Yeah, I guess.

chaseter · 03-09-2008, 06:10 PM

Yes, to prepare for Moses to come back down, they brewed up some crazy coffee.

03-09-2008, 03:01 PM	#2
DarknessOfDeath Lost in the darkness... Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: In Jean Grey's(The White Phoenix of the Crown)arms Posts: 25,900	Re: High on Mount Sinai? thats been posted before __________________ "Mutation...it is the key to our evolution. It is how we've evolved into a single cell organism and into the dominate species of the planet. This process is slow, taking thousands and thousands of years but every few millennia, evolution leaps forward.” – Jean Grey, X-Men II: United; played by Famke Janssen. Please read my fan fic of X-Men III Here. :)

03-09-2008, 03:03 PM	#3
Eggyman The Oval Avenger Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: The good ol' days Posts: 15,622	Re: High on Mount Sinai? __________________ HUMAN BEAN JUICE.

03-09-2008, 03:06 PM	#5
chaseter Bland User Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denver Posts: 41,456	Re: High on Mount Sinai? .................................................. ....... __________________ Kid, you're holding up the line of 2 people. You can leave a penny, you can't take a penny. You can leave a penny anytime. You have to spend $10 to take a penny. Store policy. Since when has this been store policy? Uh, since my boss made up the policy. You gonna pay? You're holding up my line of one other person. You can't afford your milk, step aside. What, daddy didn't give you enough milk money? Little baby gonna cry about it? Just step aside. And that is how Uncle Ben dies.

03-09-2008, 03:09 PM	#7
DarknessOfDeath Lost in the darkness... Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: In Jean Grey's(The White Phoenix of the Crown)arms Posts: 25,900	Re: High on Mount Sinai? its just a bunch of dots __________________ "Mutation...it is the key to our evolution. It is how we've evolved into a single cell organism and into the dominate species of the planet. This process is slow, taking thousands and thousands of years but every few millennia, evolution leaps forward.” – Jean Grey, X-Men II: United; played by Famke Janssen. Please read my fan fic of X-Men III Here. :)

03-09-2008, 06:10 PM	#10
chaseter Bland User Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Denver Posts: 41,456	Re: High on Mount Sinai? Yes, to prepare for Moses to come back down, they brewed up some crazy coffee. __________________ Kid, you're holding up the line of 2 people. You can leave a penny, you can't take a penny. You can leave a penny anytime. You have to spend $10 to take a penny. Store policy. Since when has this been store policy? Uh, since my boss made up the policy. You gonna pay? You're holding up my line of one other person. You can't afford your milk, step aside. What, daddy didn't give you enough milk money? Little baby gonna cry about it? Just step aside. And that is how Uncle Ben dies.

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