Was Moses high on psychedelics?

[zengrifter]

Was Moses high on psychedelic drugs?

March 5, 2008 - 7:48AM

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, which is frequently mentioned in the Bible.

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*Contains DMT, the same substance in rainforest ayahuasca. zg

See also - Jesus 'healed using cannabis'

[moo321]

Any proof, of any kind for this theory?

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by moo321

Any proof, of any kind for this theory?

Don't question for proof, ye of little faith. zg

[aslan]

It's funny how each generation defines/interprets the past in terms of itself.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by moo321

Any proof, of any kind for this theory?

There's more proof than that Moses spoke with 'God' and parted the sea.

Can you prove that Moses was NOT the pharoah Akhenaten? (big one)

And lastly, why is Moses always depicted with HORNS in antiquity? zg

[zengrifter]

WAS JESUS A STONER?

Chris Bennett | HIGH TIMES

Last June, Chris Bennett addressed the issue of cannabis in the Bible. This month, he concludes his investigation with a more detailed examination of the cannabis-enriched anointing oil used by Jesus and his followers.

"Christ" is the Greek translation of the Hebrew "Messiah." In modern English, this term would be translated as the "anointed one." The title "Christ" was only placed upon he who had "God’s unction upon him."

This holy anointing oil, as described in the original Hebrew version of the recipe in Exodus (30:22-23), contained over six pounds of kaneh-bosem, a substance identified by respected etymologists, linguists, anthropologists, botanists and other researchers as cannabis, extracted into about six quarts of olive oil, along with a variety of other fragrant herbs. The ancient anointed ones were literally drenched in this potent mixture.

Carl P. Ruck, the scholar who coined the term "entheogen," is a professor of classical mythology at Boston University, and has researched the history of psychoactive substances in religion for over three decades, working with such luminaries as the father of LSD, Albert Hoffman; entheobotanist Richard Evans Schultes, and mycologist R. Gordon Wasson. On the subject of Old Testament cannabis use he explains:

"There can be little doubt about a role for cannabis in Judaic religion…. There is no way that so important a plant as a fiber source for textiles and nutritive oils and one so easy to grow would have gone unnoticed… the mere harvesting of it would have induced an entheogenic reaction."

Ruck comments further on the continuation of this practice into the early Christian period: "Obviously the easy availability and long-established tradition of cannabis in early Judaism… would inevitably have included it in the [Christian] mixtures."

MORE- http://www.hightimes.com/ht/news/con...p?bid=31&aid=2

[aslan]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

There's more proof than that Moses spoke with 'God' and parted the sea.

Can you prove that Moses was NOT the pharoah Akhenaten? (big one)

And lastly, why is Moses always depicted with HORNS in antiquity? zg

Horns were an ancient symbol of power. Somewhere along the line, probably long after Christ, people began associating horns with the devil.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by aslan

Horns were an ancient symbol of power. Somewhere along the line, probably long after Christ, people began associating horns with the devil.

Well then there must be other ancient rulers depicted with horns, but I haven't seen any. Moses, lots of horned statues.

But Moses as Pharoah Akhenaten is the big shocker. zg

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MOSES AND AKHENATEN

One And The Same Person

First Monotheist

Akhenaten is the most mysterious and interesting of all the ancient Egyptian pharaohs. He created a revolution in religion, philosophy, and art that resulted in the introduction of the first monotheistic form of worship known in history. Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, was the first to suggest a connection between Moses and Akhenaten. In his last book, Moses and Monotheism, published in 1939, Freud argued that the biblical Moses was an official in the court of Akhenaten, and an adherent of the Aten religion. After the death of Akhenaten, Freud's theory goes, Moses selected the Israelite tribe living east of the Nile Delta to be his chosen people, took them out of Egypt at the time of the Exodus, and passed on to them the tenets of Akhenaten's religion. When modern archaeologists came across the strangely-drawn figure of Akhenaten in the ruins of Tell el-Amarna in the middle of the 19th century, they were not sure what to make of him. Some thought he was a woman disguised as a king. By the early years of the 20th century when the city of Amarna had been excavated and more became known about him and his family, Akhenaten became a focus of interest for Egyptologists, who saw him as a visionary humanitarian as well as the first monotheist.

In my attempt to pursue Freud's theory through the examination of recent archaeological findings, I came to the conclusion that Moses was Akhenaten himself.

MORE- http://www.dwij.org/forum/amarna/10_moses_akhenaten.htm

[zengrifter]

Moses and his HORNS -

[aslan]

By Eloise Hart

Here is a nice piece that discusses Moses's horns as depicted by Michelangelo from the theory of a mistranslation of the Bible (horns = rays of light) to the Mystery schools of ancient Egypt (Moses's birthplace), where horns signified first, a touch with divinity, and later, a conquerer of worlds.

http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/...ast/mi-elo.htm