– and then pray to it…. it’s freaking me out man!!

High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard God deliver the Ten Commandments, an Israeli researcher claimed in a study published this week.

Such mind-altering substances formed an integral part of the religious rites of Israelites in biblical times, Benny Shanon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem wrote in the Time and Mind journal of philosophy.

I can hear the outrage now, as a matter of fact I already did….. one of our favorite Upper-Right-Quadrant-WingNuts (Glenn Beck) nearly had an aneurysm over it this morning.

As for me, I figure it has merit, and so would most reasonable people….. I mean really, if I told you over coffee that I had a conversation with a burning bush that lead to a spiritual relevation you’d wonder what I was on wouldn’t ya? Drugs, including hallucinogenics, have played roles in many religions, in fact bunker researchers combing the InterWeb have found that

Some historians and etymologists have claimed that cannabis was used as a religious sacrament by ancient Jews and early Christians.

— and we all know we’re told that the best hashish comes from the Middle East.

Let others search for the Holy Grail if they want, the bunker is going after that most holiy of relics - “The Bong of Moses”.

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