In Shanon's opinion, the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden of Eden offered something far more tempting than an apple. could also be cubensis , there too are just as divine and ground shattering , infact they are very similar as it is. Shanon is a professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, where he used to head the psychology department. This makes perfect sense to those who have taking Dmt and I bet it makes a lot of sense to you. Noone explained anything more to me, and I was taken by complete surprise when, after about half an hour, I started to hallucinate vividly. We have to fear not for the fate of the biblical Moses, but for the fate of science," Rabbi Yuval Sherlow told Israel Radio. In 2002 he wrote Antipodes of the Mind, in which he details the effects of ayahuasca, as well as recounting his several hundred trips with the hallucinogenic brew. Turiya. They were a kind of heavy torpor of the mind, combined with a total loss of body coordination and balance, such that I injured myself badly whilst on it. There were a lot of intricate dynamic patterns comprising of animals, plants, snakes and birds. It is extracted from plants that grow in the Holy Land and in the Sinai peninsula and is still used today by Amazonians in Brazil for their religious rituals. Shanon maintains that there are five episodes in Moses’ life which strike him as indicative of a psychedelic experience. 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. So, when Moses first encountered God, he was high. There is no evidence that the people native to the Sinai peninsula or Southern Israel used hallucinogenic brews, even if the plants were available to make it. He is guilty of it because he seems to select all the ‘evidence’ (if it can be called that) to support his hypothesis, but ignores all the evidence which contradicts it. That said, it is entirely plausible that many of the episodes in the Bible are due to altered states of consciousness (with some authors claiming that the origin of all religions is visionary in nature), but just because this idea is attractive and persuasive, that does not mean it is true. Research Dmt experiences and you will find a lot of people have similar experiences to yours as I have as well. I got while tripping; once the visuals and sound effects were done, so was I. But one things for sure, the sacred altar on which this incense was burned was made out of acacia. They were a traditional community, living in tents, who had a deep connection with nature, had hundreds of ingenious uses for the plants of the desert, and seemed to have a spiritual approach to life. This is the idea that Moses, the founder and patriarch of the Jewish religion, was under the influence of a hallucinogenic drug during several key events that would define Judaism. Ive never known anyone refer to it as “hotboxing,” but that was done every Yom Kippur, thats straight out of the Exodus. So … Moses’ acid trips were far more productive (and impactful to an entire race) than at least mine. I think hes talking about some passages in the Talmud. The second episode was when the rods belonging to Moses’ brother Aaron, and to the Pharaoh’s sorcerers, were transformed into serpents. The reason we no longer have an oral tradition about how to make the formula is because it died out with the Avtinas family. At the Burning Bush, covered in flames but mysteriously not consumed, there was no miracle, just a drug-induced "radical alteration in the state of consciousness of the beholder - that is, Moses". The fourth episode is found in the book of Exodus when Moses asks to see God, but God covers Moses with his hand so that he can only see his back, not his face – as God says, “for there shall no man see Me and live.” The fifth episode is the shining appearance of Moses’ face when he brings back the Ten Commandments on his second return from Mount Sinai. And that means they were inhaling the burned acacia too, so if one of the secret ingredients was syrian rue, which it is almost guaranteed to be, as it considered a holy incense all across the middle east, that would be enough to make the magic happen. We went into the desert and he found a sakrana plant and we made a fire and brewed some up. I suspect the Vatican and other strict religious entities suppress and frown upon its use, but it seems quite obvious that it was used during those early times as it is today. According to Professor Benny Shanon at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, it's likely that Moses' encounter, as written in the Bible, with the burning bush and his conversation with Yahweh happened while he was under the influence of DMT. There is a body of neurological literatrue that suggest Mose had temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) which would account for have this hallucination. The Burning Bush Hallucination Moses was tripping when he saw the burning bush and received the Ten Commandments, according to Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. And when Moses climbed Sinai and received the Ten Commandments and the Bible, he was tripping. That in itself was unusual… it seemed like all the men had come to be present around that fire, which I had never known them to do before. Now a leading Israeli academic has a new theory about exactly what kind of trip it was. I have never tried Ayahuasca, so cannot compare it to that brew. Shanon came up with his theory when reading the Bible. At one point there was a river of glowing symbols pouring from the sky, rather like the computer code from the Matrix, and if I concentrated I could pick out words and messages from among the mostly arcane characters and glyphs. Your experience with drinking the tea the first time is a true Dmt experience. Hardly a smoking gun, but nonetheless, I have a gut feeling that if the drink were to be studied, it would turn out to be the Peganum Harmala / Acacia concoction you mention. These are all pieces of evidence which point to the use of hallucinogenic substances; however, in Judaism, there is none of this evidence. Read exodus. One story that stands out to me is one of Moses and the burning bush. People have talked about the burning bush story in the bible and how it could have been a dmt experience, it doesn’t seem plausible that Moses rolled up a big doink made using this random shrub and smoked it, is it possible that the smoke coming from the “bush” contained dmt and in turn gave him a dmt “god meeting” experience. Hi, welcome to my blog. Acadia Confusa has a lot of dmt inside its bark and by taking syrian rue seeds crushed they act as a RIMA, same as a MAOI inhibitor. Hi John, thanks for your comment. I met another bedouin in another place, later, and described my time tripping on a mystery tea, and asked him if he knew what it might have been. You would think that if their combination was discovered to produce visionary experiences that someone would have spread the word, or written about it. Altschuler asserts that if Ezekiel had this condition it could explain Ezekiel’s strange “visions” described in the Old Testament. But yes, there was a sacred/secret spice offering referred to as the ketoret. It seems that I can only be sure of this much: That at least one indigenous community in the Sinai engages ritually in the consumption of a powerful psychotropic drink. Admittedly, the smoking gun is not available to us. Here I cover a range of subjects, including philosophy, ethics, psychology, mental health, psychedelics, and travel. I can definitely see this correlation to Acadia Confusa and the burning bush. Israeli internet chatrooms, though, are buzzing with condemnations of "heresy", endorsements, and charges that Shanon, not Moses, must have taken drugs. . The second episode was when the rods belonging to Moses’ brother Aaron, and to the Pharaoh’s sorcerers, were transformed into serpents. Somewhere in Yoma I think. Shanon concludes that the subjective experiences of Moses – encountering “the Divine”, altered perception of time, synesthesia (‘seeing’ sounds or ‘hearing’ colours), visions of fire, serpents, light perceive as God, and entities whose faces aren’t visible – are all experiences common with the use of ayahuasca.