book review brave new world huxley
book review brave new world huxley
Moses on drugs: a new theory brave or very bad science?
It became difficult to predict when Easter arrives even without looking at a calendar. Each year we learn about some amazing new discovery and the authors of the sensational discovery get their moment glory and sometimes something extra money.
Last year, Discovery Channel announced the "archaeological discovery century ". The discovery proved to be an advertisement for the documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus. Directors James Cameron and Jacobovici Simca out of the process of peer review and took their test (two empty boxes and boxes of bones) directly to the media. Ultimately, almost All serious scientists dismissed the discovery of the great propaganda but little or no substance behind it. There was no evidence that the boxes contained remains of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
In 2006, he was the foot of Jesus on the assumption that the ice has actually been published in a scientific journal. The idea of someone walking on an iceberg in a lake that never freezes, it is obviously very rare.
For a change of hype this year is on the Old Testament. Benny Shannon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem published a document 24 pages in time and spirit: The Journal of Archeology, consciousness and culture in which he suggested that the experience Moses on Mount Sinai was caused by drugs. The document, Biblical Entheogens: A speculative hypothesis is an updated version and more detailed its 2002 document Entheogens: Reflections on 'Psychoactive Sacramentials, which was mainly on shamanism and the use psychoactive plants in various non-Christian religions, such as using plants induced hallucination of some Native American tribes, but also included a discussion about Moses and his experience at Sinai. This document focuses more in Judaism and the exodus.
Nothing in the text on the biblical gift of the Law on Mount Sinai, including suggestions of any kind of hallucination. Shannon acknowledges. However, reports two factories, and Mimosa hostilis Peganum harmala, now growing in the Sinai Peninsula may potentially cause hallucinations. Shannon tries to see a parallel between some of the details (as fire) in the text of Exodus, for example with the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the use of LSD, but seems to jump to unwarranted conclusions.
Professor Shannon is honest enough to reveal that his "discovery" is based on their budgets. He reveals that he does not believe to Mount Sinai (ie, When Moses received the Law) may be historically accurate or may be a myth that his only alternative is that the result was a hallucination caused by a plant that grows in the Sinai Peninsula.
While some religions use drugs that produce hallucinations, Shannon case seems to have nothing to do with real science and everything with his own past.
Shannon acknowledged that in 1991, tried ayahuasca, a plant Tropical causing severe hallucinations, during a religious ceremony in Brazil. This seems the only real reason to suppose that Moses may have something similar experience.
It is worth noting that (1894-1963, writer Aldous Huxley), which Shannon says in his new role and remembered by Brave New World (1932), admitted to experimenting with mescaline and LSD. But this does not necessarily mean that Huxley has produced all the works literature under the influence of drugs. The case of the use of Moses the drug is even lower.
There is an expression known as March Madness name. In this case, seems to have more View Professor Shannon, his past and his strange assumption that, with Moses. Brave his new theory proves be extremely bad science.
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I am a translator and novelist currently living in Finland. I have an MA in translation studies and a BA in Bible and theology. I like to keep up-to-date with science and origins issues and write about them in my blogs.
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