Was Moses high on Mount Sinai? - Science- msnbc.comA stoner party out in the middle of the desert? I don't even think Burning Man in its prime could top this.
“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 hypothesized.
"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.”
March 04, 2008
Rocky Mountain High
This makes as much, if not more, sense than any explanation the bible gives:
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