{"id":10230,"date":"2011-11-07T15:49:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T14:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/bible-torah-hallucinogenic-enlightenment-benny-shanon-ayahuasca-marijuana-antique-moses-at-sinai.html"},"modified":"2019-02-02T22:06:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T21:06:52","slug":"bible-torah-hallucinogenic-enlightenment-benny-shanon-ayahuasca-marijuana-antique-moses-at-sinai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/bible-torah-hallucinogenic-enlightenment-benny-shanon-ayahuasca-marijuana-antique-moses-at-sinai.html","title":{"rendered":"Moses At Sinai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19064 size-full\" title=\"La mort de Mo\u00efse, par Alexandre Cabanel -- Domaine public -- --  https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Cabanel-La_mort_de_Mo\u00efse.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/moise-cabanel.jpg\" alt=\"moise-cabanel\" width=\"688\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The taste of human beings for psychotropic drugs has a confusing seniority. Is it surprising? Beyond the recreational aspect, altered states of consciousness are not they a <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/initiation-amazonia-hallucinogenic-quest-vision-dream-drug-ayahuasca.html\">way of enlightenment<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;At his descent of Mount Sinai, when he presented the Ten Commandments to the Jewish people, <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/hebraic-mythology-covenant-ark-electric-condenser-childress-seat-of-mercy-moses-and-ark.html\">Moses<\/a> was under the influence of powerful hallucinogens,&#8221;<\/em> says Benny Shanon, professor of psychology at the University of Jerusalem. In a provocative article in Time and Mind, a philosophical journal, he states that psychotropics were part of the religious rites of Israelites mentioned in the Book of Exodus. His arguments are unconvincing, especially when he refers to the biblical text where his analysis remains low.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Regarding Moses at Mount Sinai, it was either a <a class=\"link\" title=\"why not? there had been others\" href=\"\/en\/scandinavian-mythology-wolf-fenrir-tree-yggdrasil-world-axle-deviated-a-cosmic-chaos.html\">supernatural cosmic even<\/a>t in which I do not believe, or a legend, in which I do not believe either, or finally &#8211; and this is very probable &#8211; an event bringing together Moses and the people of Israel under the effect of narcotics,&#8221; <\/em>said the professor to the Israeli public radio. <em>&#8220;The Bible says on this subject that the people see sounds, and that is a very classic phenomenon, for example in the tradition of Latin America where we see some music,&#8221;<\/em> he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21715 size-full\" title=\"L'archange Gabriel apparaissant \u00e0 saint Zacharie - 1663  - By\/par : Reynaud Levieux [Public domain or CC BY-SA 4.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons - https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Reynaud_Levieux-archange_gabriel.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reynaud_Levieux-archange_gabriel.jpg\" alt=\"Reynaud_Levieux-archange_gabriel\" width=\"688\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Tree of Knowledge in the <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/sumer-mythology-giants-gravity-masters-paradise-hard-working-fall-from-a-garden-of-eden.html\">Garden of Eden<\/a> was a drug-induced state. He specifies there are in the deserts of Sinai and Negev herbs and hallucinogenic plants still used by the Bedouins. According to him, traditional shamanic societies often use drugs in their religious rites.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;But that use is subject to very strict rules. (&#8230;) Thus fire can be a bad thing if used for war, and a very good thing if used for cooking.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Appalled, I suppose, his religious audience wonders what motivates such blasphemies and shocking assertions. Some expect to see probably drop the Gehenna fire to punish the unwary who disregards the sacred <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/hebraic-mythology-covenant-ark-electric-condenser-childress-seat-of-mercy-moses-and-ark.html\">Ark of the Covenant powers<\/a>.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 17px;line-height: 28px\">Others imagine the good teacher affirming that the whole sacrosanct Jewish religion would be but a pure delirium addicts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 17px;line-height: 28px\">Shannon instead shows his true colors:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I myself was invited in 1991 to a religious ceremony in the northern Amazonia, in Brazil, during which I consumed a potion made from a plant, <a class=\"link\" href=\"\/en\/initiation-amazonia-hallucinogenic-quest-vision-dream-drug-ayahuasca.html\">ayahuasca<\/a>, and I had visions with spiritual and religious connotations&#8221;, <\/em>also indicated Professor Shanon. According to him, the psychedelic effects of potions prepared with ayahuasca are comparable to those produced by drinks concocted with the bark of acacia. This tree is frequently mentioned in the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>Its wood is similar to that in which has been cut the Ark of the Covenant. <a href=\"#\">(source)<\/a><span class=\"note\">Le Parisien, info posted by Adriana Evangelizt<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21359 size-full\" title=\"Mont Sina\u00ef, Egypte \/ Mount Sinai, Egypt -- By Tamerlan at Polish Wikipedia (Transferred from\u00a0pl.wikipedia\u00a0to Commons.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons -- https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mount_Sinai_Egypt.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mount_Sinai_Egypt-688po.jpg\" alt=\"Mount_Sinai_Egypt-688po\" width=\"688\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What an edifying story! If it was a goy who had told it, we imagine the cries of the <a href=\"#\">CRIF<\/a><span class=\"note\">Council of the Israelite Religion in France<\/span>. But this brave professor Shanon, Jewish and Israeli moreover, is above suspicion. Really? But still, a university professor who is drug-addict, it is disreputable&#8230; Still! His students have not waited his example to get high. <em>In vino veritas<\/em>, Romans said. <em>In ayahuasca very<\/em> <a href=\"#\"><em>tasse<\/em><\/a><span class=\"note\">french joke, <em>tasse<\/em> means cup<\/span>, say teachers today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">So, Prof Shanon is perhaps not wrong:<br \/>maybe Moses was hovering like a god.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><blockquote class=\"perfect-quotes\"><p>All great truths begin as blasphemies.<\/p><footer class=\"blockquote-footer\">George Bernard Shaw<\/footer><\/blockquote>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sinai, Moses was under the influence of powerful hallucinogens, Prof Shanon says<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2237],"tags":[674,1589,1595,181,1068,1586,1597,841,1596,1599,1594],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10230"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26483,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230\/revisions\/26483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eden-saga.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}