This Hebrew Professor Claims The Bible’s Moses Was On DMT

[slimvictor]

According to Professor Benny Shanon at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, it’s likely that Moses’ encounter, as written in the Bible, with the burning bush and his conversation with Yahweh happened while he was under the influence of DMT.

“It seems logical that something was altered in people’s consciousness. There are other stories in the Bible that mention the use of plants: for example, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden,” said Shanon. “The use of such substances, most of which fall in our contemporary Western culture under the label “drug,” has in many traditions been considered sacred.”

Professor Shanon argues that Israelites may have used acacia and peganum during religious ceremonies that involved DMT. Acacia is mentioned frequently in the bible, as it was used to construct the Ark of the Covenant.

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http://higherperspectives.com/moses-dmt/?c=cleo&ts_pid=2

 

[StudebakerHawk]

This is indeed a fascinating topic ....

For those interested , I recommend a book called " Gnostic Visions " by Luke Meyer [ spelling of Meyer ??? ] .

Peganum and Acacia do in fact occur widely in that area , and it is likely they were used to create entheogenic potions . Most likely these cults were brutally suppressed , stamped out , and long forgotten - only the knowledge is now again being rediscovered ....

 

[PriestTheyCalledHim]

Benny Shanon is also completely burnt out on Ayahuasca and other drugs, and completely obsessed with Ayahuasca the way Westerners who take it too much get.

http://www.singingtotheplants.com/2009/01/moses-and-ayahuasca/

Archeologist Thaddeus Nelson, in his blog on archeology and pseudoscience, Archaeoporn, has a lengthy critique of Shanon’s hypothesis, which is worth a careful read. He concludes that:

there is no chemical analysis or archaeobotanical evidence to suggest Shanon’s entheogens theory. Shanon also fails to explain why we should not expect that these supernatural events which fit so well within the Near Eastern traditions we know of, must be the effects of entheogens, and not just mythic beliefs…. I certainly do not mean to say that there is no possibility that the Israelites used entheogens, but that there is at present no archaeological evidence and textual evidence is questionable at best.

What I find most problematic, however, is that Shanon argues his claim as one of exclusion. Shanon writes:

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.

What this means is that Shanon is ideologically committed to the idea that the encounter on Sinai actually happened.