Thou shalt take drugs, Moses... High of the beholder? Moses and the burning bush.

The Daily Mail (London, England) | March 5, 2008 | Copyright

Byline: FIONA MACRAE

WHEN Moses received the Ten Commandments from God, he was summoned rightto the top of Mount Sinai.

But the man who led the Children of Israel to safety may have been even higherat the time, if an Israeli academic is to be believed.

Psychology professor Benny Shanon says it was likely Moses was hallucinatingunder the influence of a mind-altering drug at the time of his biblicalachievements.

To back up his theory, Professor Shanon says the acacia tree, frequentlymentioned in the Bible, contains one of the most ...

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