Moses was high as a kite

[Fash]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1

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.

Hahaha... I just think this is hilarious, and sad. It doesn't seem like much actual research was done here, but it's still good for a laugh!

[Siji]

So.. Christians are junkies?

Check.

[Sylvus]

one time when i was on mescaline, i could see sounds. it was pretty rad.

[Truant]

one time when i was on mescaline, i could see sounds. it was pretty rad.

I had a girl tell me she had that exact experience on LSD. I know they are both hallucinogens, but are they very similar?

[Aardor]

one time when i was on mescaline, i could see sounds. it was pretty rad.

I had a girl tell me she had that exact experience on LSD. I know they are both hallucinogens, but are they very similar?

They both cause synethesia (crossing of senses).

[Winnow]

There was going to be eleven commandments, but then I got high.
I knocked up Mary too, because we were high.
I believed what that kook Jesus said, and I know why,
because I was high, because I was high, because I was high.


ba da da da da daaaa

[Nick]

Yep, seeing sounds and smelling noises and other such ridiculousness, that was a rather bizarre day for me a few years back :O

That is a funny article though, "no no everything you thought was true about an all powerful supergod parting the heavens and giving this sacred man his divine laws was actually just some spaced out junkie mashed off his face for a joke".