pass the kutchie
pon the lef' hand tribe
From THE HERALD SUN:
The biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor. Writing in the British journal "Time and Mind", Benny Shanon of Jerusalem's Hebrew University said two plants in the Sinai desert contain the same psychoactive molecules as those found in plants from which the powerful Amazonian hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca is prepared.
The thunder, lightning and blaring of a trumpet which the Book of Exodus says emanated from Mount Sinai could just have been the imaginings of a people in an "altered state of awareness", Shanon hypothesised.
Mr Shanon wrote that he was very familiar with the affects of the ayahuasca plant, having "partaken of the ... brew about 160 times in various locales and contexts".
Some biblical scholars were unimpressed.
8 comments:
If you ever watched my family try to get through a Seder, you'd be convinced.
Right, I'm off to sojourn in the desert. Later.
Not just TEC that's falling into Revisionist error, I see.
It is so very Carlos Castaneda!
Of course, due to excessive self-revelation, we must consider Mr. Shannon's conclusions based on the use of the brew 160 times or so.
Another opportunity to post Howard Nemerov's "Moses" poem:
ON CERTAIN WITS
who amused themselves over the simplicity of Barnett Newman's paintings shown at Bennington College in May of 1958
When Moses in Horeb struck the rock,
And water came forth out of the rock,
Some of the people were annoyed with Moses
And said he should have used a fancier stick.
And when Elijah on Mount Carmel brought the rain,
Where the prophets of Baal could not bring rain,
Some of the people said that the rituals of the prophets of Baal
Were aesthetically significant, while Elijah's were very plain.
You know, someone supports Mr. Shanon, apparently, and gives him enough money to live on, ingest hallucinogenic plants, and write supposedly learned articles. If we could find THAT person ...
I remember a cheesy video from very early MTV by the Musical Youth with a version of that song! And they changed the lyrics to obscure the drug references.
But that theory is just hilarious!
It should be noted that ayahuasca is a theogenic drug and perhaps this is not so wild a theory as we might think.
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