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JERUSALEM (AFP) - 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 clasic 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.

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Posted Mar 9, 08 by rams1579
I watched a documentary about Noah's Ark. The science of it was broken down (this is why organized religion hates science). This show found that it would be physically impossible to make anything of the size quoted from the bible float. In fact what the theory i find to be most compelling is that there was a flood on the Tigris-Euphretes (where judaism came from) and that after living through this flood over and over, some guy (Noah?) decided to build a boat, and put his farm animals on it...well that became God punishing people for being bad...nice.

Posted Mar 4, 08 by 1WhiteCrow (

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Whether the Bible is inerrant or not has mattered to me overmuch. Either way, I believe myself to be living in a world burgeoning with miracles ... and some of 'em are pharmaceutical. ;-)