Bible miracles may have been ayahuasca visions

Were miracles that were described in the Bible actually ayahuasca visions?

Newspapers across the world today are publishing headlines such as “Moses was high on drugs when he received the Ten Commandments” because of an article published by a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Professor Benny Shannon’s theory was published in Time and Mind, an international journal of philosophy. In it he states that many colorful events written in the Old Testament were based on visions induced by hallucinogenic concoctions.

“In the southern regions of the Holy Land and in the Sinai Peninsula,” he wrote, “there grow two plants containing the molecules that together constitute the key ingredients of one of the most powerful psychedelic substances in existence.” He was referring to ayahuasca.

Several events in the life of Moses, Professor Shannon believes, were hallucinogenic visions, including the burning bush and the receipt of the Ten Commandments from God.

Of course, this idea is not really new. It’s an idea that Graham Phillips published in “The Moses Legacy” several years ago.

A report of the article, published by Reuters Africa, is available at: africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnL04178076.html