Moses Was Tripping?
'scuse Moses while he kisses the sky' For those of us who went through the 70s and came out in one piece -- we can see some of the validity in this. Native Americans have used hallucinogens to enhance the meditative or spiritual experience for 100s of years. Anyone like me, who read Carlos Castaneda knows this experience through Castaneda's writings. It can be as transformative as you see it to be. But to suggest the 10 Commandments was the result of a hallucinogenic trip devalues God and devalues Moses' experience and work. High? Maybe. The product of a 'trip'? No way. Study suggests Israelites may have eaten hallucinogenics, but scholars scoff When Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, he may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor. Writing in the British philosophy journal Time and Mind, Benny Shanon of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University said two plants in the Sinai desert conta...