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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-04-08 07:18 PM
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Moses come riding up on a quasar
maybe this explains how he pulled it off....

Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080304120710.ad7gm7i6&show_article=1

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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-04-08 07:58 PM
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1. Here's a more indepth article
http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnL04178076.html

JERUSALEM, March 4 (Reuters Life!) -

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.

"In advanced forms of ayahuasca inebriation, the seeing of light is accompanied by profound religious and spiritual feelings," Shanon wrote.

"On such occasions, one often feels that in seeing the light, one is encountering the ground of all Being ... many identify this power as God."
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darkstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-04-08 08:02 PM
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2. Hey...
Nice to see you. thanks for the more in-depth story.

And check out that memory/song dedication thread I posted. One was for you. I think I got it right from over a year ago...

:hi:
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-04-08 08:04 PM
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3. I'll look for it.
Thanks.

:hi:

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