Would you be surprised if you found out that the God speaking to Moses and giving him the Ten Commandments, as well as the burning bush fiasco were the result of Moses’ use of psychedelic drugs? Neither would I, and now an Israeli researcher says that’s exactly what he believes was the case.

Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem says that the use of psychedelic drugs resulted in some of the supernatural type things in the Bible.

According to Shanon: “As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don’t believe, or a legend, which I don’t believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of Israel under the effect of narcotics.”

I have a hunch that this notion won’t go over well with the religious crowd. No matter how true it may be, anything less than divine intervention on Mt. Sinai kind of ruins their whole argument. If you can show that there is a high likelihood that Moses never heard God’s voice, it kind of changes the story a bit.

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