Remind me not to stand next to this researcher on judgement day, I do not
care to be  collaterally singed

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080304120710.ad7gm7i6&show_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 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.
 
 
 

David Molina