Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher

[William T Goodall]

On 5 Mar 2008, at 03:51, David Hobby wrote:

> William T Goodall wrote:
>> On 5 Mar 2008, at 01:28, David Hobby wrote:
>>
>>> William T Goodall wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on psychedelic drugs when he heard  
>>>> God
>>> William--
>>>
>>> That doesn't make the experience more or less real, though.
>>>
>>
>> A drug induced hallucination is a real experience that doesn't
>> correspond to objectively real events.
>
> William--
>
> I imagine you'd argue that ANY experience where one heard
> God was not real.  : )

I would indeed. Because that would be the case.

>
>
> Others might argue that "the doors of perception were
> cleansed", letting one see another level of reality that
> was always there.

Hallucinations are just the brain running wonky, not 'another level of  
reality'.

Epistemology Maru.

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