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“MOSES MAY HAVE BEEN ‘HIGH’ ON MT. SINAI when he brought the Ten Commandments down.” Honestly, I don’t know what to make of this information.

In the dailies today a new study has made claim that some events in the Bible could just have been imaginings of people in an “altered state of awareness.” According to the study by Benny Shannon, an Israeli psychology professor, there were two plants in the Sinai desert that contained the same psychoactive molecules as those found in ayahausca, an Amazonian hallucinogenic brew. One of these plants is frequently mentioned in the Bible, the concoctions based on bark of the acacia tree have same psychedelic effects of ayahausca. The other plant, harmal, had long been regarded by the Jews in the region as having magical and curative powers. The thunder, lightning and blaring of a trumpet which the Book of Exodus says emanated from Mt. Sinai, an event that joined Moses and the biblical Israelites could have been had under the effect of narcotics,” Shannon said on Israeli public radio. “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.” “I experienced visions that had spiritual-religious connotations,” Shannon said having taken the brew about 160 times himself. He suggested that Moses was probably also on drugs when he saw the “burning bush.” Wow pare! Wow ang labo! (Wow bro! Wow that’s amazing!)

But some biblical scholars were unimpressed. Orthodox rabbi Yuval Sherlow told Israel Radio: “The Bible is trying to convey a very profound event. We have no fear not for the fate of the Biblical Moses, but for the fate of science.” I second to that emotion, rabbi.