Source: www.timewheel.net | Original Post Date: July 9, 2015 –
It’s not only possible, but plausible that Moses’ legendary encounter with the ever burning bush, his conversation with Yahweh, and the bestowing of the Torah could have happened to him while he was under the influence of DMT, according to professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Benny Shanon.
“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.”
