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Thursday, March 6, 2008

Bad Trip Out Of Egypt

An Israeli professor of cognitive philosophy -- which focuses on "the phenomena of consciousness of the mind, to find a solution as to its nature" according to one definition I googled -- says Moses was high on drugs when he saw the burning bush and received the Ten Commandments -- and so were the Israelites.

As ABC News reports it:

According to [Benny] Shanon, a professor at Hebrew University, two naturally existing plants in the Sinai Peninsula have the same psychoactive components as ones found in the Amazon jungle and are well-known for their mind-altering capabilities. The drugs are usually combined in a drink called ayahuasca.

"As far as 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 effects of narcotics," he told Israel Radio in an interview Tuesday.

The description in The Book of Exodus of thunder, lightening and a blaring trumpet, according to Shanon, are the classic imaginings of people under the influence of drugs.

Can you even believe, for a moment, that the Ten Commandments, with their prohibitions against lying, adultery, envy, murder, theft and idolatry were the product of chemical influence? Can you imagine the amount of narcotics that would be needed to zonk out the 12 tribes of Israel? It's silly on the face of it.

And I guess those plagues on Egypt must've been a bad trip, too. Oh and the Angel of Death? Probably bad product.

What's Professor Shanon been smoking?

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