Hebrew U's Timothy Leary Says Moses was a Druggie!

The Real Moses, a la Hebrew University?

Just when you think that Israeli academia could not possibly get any wackier than it already is, along comes Professor Benny Shanon, who teaches cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University, and declares that Moses was a drug addict.

Shanon is a chaired full professor at the Hebrew University who holds the Mandel Chair in Cognitive Psychology and Education. He is author of the 2002 book Antipodes of the "Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience," published by Oxford University Press.

Shanon reached this astounding serendipity on the basis of the "seeing the Sounds" phrase amidst the descriptions in Exodus of the sounds and smoke around Mt. Sinai at the giving of the Ten Commandments (or reserved recommendations, for those of you who are Reconstructionists). It all reminds him the experiences he had taking hallucinegenic drugs while trekking through the Amazon. No, not the book selling web site. Wondering what was being smoked on the Sinai mountain to make all the smoke?

That is not even the ONLY place in the Bible where Shanon finds evidence of Israelites taking psychodelic drugs. Jethro was a druggie also, scrounging about for those hallucinegenic mushrooms in the wilderness. It is almost as if Tikkun magazine had once been included in the text in between Exodus and Leviticus. Shanon is a bit of a Jewish Timothy Leary, and attributes "religion-like awakening" to all the nice drugs he started taking back in 1991. See this.

We have not yet recovered from the President and Rector of the Hebrew University defending the moonbat thesis that claimed that Jewish soldiers do not rape Arab women because the Jews are such racists. Now the Hebrew University needs to explain away THIS!