In the latest attempt to discredit the Bible, Professor Benny Shanon of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has published a theory stating that Moses wrote the Torah while drugs. (quotes from haaretz.com )

“And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the horn, and the mountain smoking.” Thus the book of Exodus describes the impressive moment of the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai.

The “perceiving of the voices” has been interpreted endlessly since these words were first written. When Professor Benny Shanon, professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, reads the verse, he recalls a powerful hallucinatory experience he had when he visited the Amazon and drank a potion made from a plant called ayahuasca. “One of the things that happens when you drink the potion is a visual experience created via sounds,” he says. Not too dissimilar to the experience that one might have were they to consume mushrooms (like these – https://cbdandshrooms.com/product/penis-envy/) which have been the source of innumerable profound visions. This is not to say that everyone should rush out to try it but some people do find their effects helpful in a therapeutic capacity.

The burning bush is also under fire for being a “hallucinogenic vision, something that many people may have experienced whilst consuming 1 gram of shrooms“:

“Moses ‘looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed,'” Shanon quotes from Exodus 3:2. Time passes differently when under the influence of the plant, he notes. “That’s why Moses thought the bush was not consumed. It should have been burned in the time he thought had passed. And in that time, he heard God speaking to him.

“But not everyone who uses a plant like this brings the Torah,” Shanon concedes. “For that, you have to be Moses.”

My conclusion is that Professor Shanon has been eating too many mushrooms himself.

Shanon, former head of the Hebrew University psychology department, said his first experience with ayahuasca was in 1991 when he was invited to a religious ceremony in the northern Amazon in 1991 in Brazil – similar experiences can be found at this Peruvian ayahuasca retreat should you be seeking transformative healing yourself in a safe and supportive environment. “I experienced visions that had spiritual-religious connotations,” he says. Since that time, he has used it hundreds of times, and has published a book about the plant.