Highlife Magazine, 1997.
Moses and His Great Mushroom, eh, Mission!
Fraser's Highlife article identifying Biblical "Manna" as psilocybin mushrooms stimulated so many amazing leads from readers that he's come to an incredible realisation:
The best in-depth introduction to Shamanism and Drugs is on your mother's bottom shelf! The Bible! Give it a puff some time! Believe me, once they realise how much escaped their priestly censorship, they'll ban it - it's packed with information on the 'God-Within' approach to religion - shamanism and drugs."
In this issue he deals with Moses and the Exodus from Egypt.
The shaman-prophet Moses led half a million Israelites from slavery in Egypt into History after encountering a "red, burning plant" and speaking to God - the Amanita Muscaria mushroom but that's yet another story.
Following a series of natural disasters, Moses finally staked his whole shamanic reputation by publicly naming the day when his "god" would kill the Pharaoh's first born son, and drive all the Egyptians crazy with grief. "You will never see my face again" he sneered at the Pharaoh, by whose daughter he had been raised. "Then Moses left Pharaoh's presence hot with anger." Exodus 11.8.
The Stage was set for an 'event' so huge in History that we all know the story today (or think we do). It even takes up the whole second, third and fourth books of the Bible!
Passover Plot - Acid In The Water Supply?
The two ergot fungi which contaminate grain, Claviceps Paspilli and Claviceps Purpurea, posed a recurrent threat to a village's bread supply as late as the Middle Ages.
The last large ergot poisoning was in France in 1816. Effective in microgram doses, the powerful LSD-type hallucinogen Paspilli produces fits and visions, while Purpurea can gradually and fatally stop the circulation.
Moses, whose knowledge straddled Egyptian "science" and Hebrew herbal lore, could have spotted infected grain heads like we'd recognise the 59 bus.
The leading Hebrew shaman, with the Hebrew 'slave' bakers' help, could have organised for both claviceps to be inserted into the leavening of the city's bread supply.
"Keep Your Noses Clean and Meet Here Again Next Week"
"God" tells Moses he must "speak to the whole community" a week before the "appointed day," and Moses goes on and on to them about avoiding "leavened bread."
"For seven days you must eat your bread unleavened." Even their animals should avoid it! "Wherever you live." (All Hebrews in Egypt must join the conspiracy) "On the very first day you shall rid your house of leaven... "
Future generations must even use the stuff to celebrate the Passover, he tells them! (And they do to this day!) Finally, they must destroy all traces of their meals. "If anything is left over until morning it shall be destroyed by fire." (If the plot backfires, expect cops crashing in looking for evidence!?)
His instructions to paint blood on their doors was presumably the underground flyer campaign to spread the conspiracy. And once more: "Anyone who eats anything fermented shall be outlawed from the community of Israel." (Won't be coming on the trip, and might be an informer!)
"You Love Me...Give Me Your Gold and Silver!"
"Before night was over Pharaoh rose, he and all his courtiers and all the Egyptians, and a great cry of anguish went up, because not a house in Egypt was without its dead."
Since the Pharaoh's first born was Moses' uncle, he definitely died. As for the other Egyptians, they beg the Israelites to leave, now. Whereupon "the people picked up their bread before it was leavened, wrapped their kneading troughs in their cloaks, and slung them over their shoulders"
Are they hiding the evidence?
Picture the great city of Rameses, swarming with 'poisoned' Egyptians in the middle of the night, from the bereaved, maddened Pharaoh down, wailing, retching, dying, convulsing, half naked and totally tripped out of their brains! And the Hebrew nation hightailing it out of town, evidence concealed beneath their cloaks, and carrying a supply of uncontaminated bread.
Then this utterly amazing line: "The Israelites did as Moses had told them, asking the Egyptians for jewelry of silver and gold. As the Lord had made the Egyptians well-disposed towards them, they let them have what they asked."
To describe their devastated former masters as "well disposed" can only mean they were so tripped out they were open to the slightest suggestion. The final line says it all:
"In this way they plundered the Egyptians."
/forum/images/graemlins/dancing222.gif
Moses and His Great Mushroom, eh, Mission!
Fraser's Highlife article identifying Biblical "Manna" as psilocybin mushrooms stimulated so many amazing leads from readers that he's come to an incredible realisation:
The best in-depth introduction to Shamanism and Drugs is on your mother's bottom shelf! The Bible! Give it a puff some time! Believe me, once they realise how much escaped their priestly censorship, they'll ban it - it's packed with information on the 'God-Within' approach to religion - shamanism and drugs."
In this issue he deals with Moses and the Exodus from Egypt.
The shaman-prophet Moses led half a million Israelites from slavery in Egypt into History after encountering a "red, burning plant" and speaking to God - the Amanita Muscaria mushroom but that's yet another story.
Following a series of natural disasters, Moses finally staked his whole shamanic reputation by publicly naming the day when his "god" would kill the Pharaoh's first born son, and drive all the Egyptians crazy with grief. "You will never see my face again" he sneered at the Pharaoh, by whose daughter he had been raised. "Then Moses left Pharaoh's presence hot with anger." Exodus 11.8.
The Stage was set for an 'event' so huge in History that we all know the story today (or think we do). It even takes up the whole second, third and fourth books of the Bible!
Passover Plot - Acid In The Water Supply?
The two ergot fungi which contaminate grain, Claviceps Paspilli and Claviceps Purpurea, posed a recurrent threat to a village's bread supply as late as the Middle Ages.
The last large ergot poisoning was in France in 1816. Effective in microgram doses, the powerful LSD-type hallucinogen Paspilli produces fits and visions, while Purpurea can gradually and fatally stop the circulation.
Moses, whose knowledge straddled Egyptian "science" and Hebrew herbal lore, could have spotted infected grain heads like we'd recognise the 59 bus.
The leading Hebrew shaman, with the Hebrew 'slave' bakers' help, could have organised for both claviceps to be inserted into the leavening of the city's bread supply.
"Keep Your Noses Clean and Meet Here Again Next Week"
"God" tells Moses he must "speak to the whole community" a week before the "appointed day," and Moses goes on and on to them about avoiding "leavened bread."
"For seven days you must eat your bread unleavened." Even their animals should avoid it! "Wherever you live." (All Hebrews in Egypt must join the conspiracy) "On the very first day you shall rid your house of leaven... "
Future generations must even use the stuff to celebrate the Passover, he tells them! (And they do to this day!) Finally, they must destroy all traces of their meals. "If anything is left over until morning it shall be destroyed by fire." (If the plot backfires, expect cops crashing in looking for evidence!?)
His instructions to paint blood on their doors was presumably the underground flyer campaign to spread the conspiracy. And once more: "Anyone who eats anything fermented shall be outlawed from the community of Israel." (Won't be coming on the trip, and might be an informer!)
"You Love Me...Give Me Your Gold and Silver!"
"Before night was over Pharaoh rose, he and all his courtiers and all the Egyptians, and a great cry of anguish went up, because not a house in Egypt was without its dead."
Since the Pharaoh's first born was Moses' uncle, he definitely died. As for the other Egyptians, they beg the Israelites to leave, now. Whereupon "the people picked up their bread before it was leavened, wrapped their kneading troughs in their cloaks, and slung them over their shoulders"
Are they hiding the evidence?
Picture the great city of Rameses, swarming with 'poisoned' Egyptians in the middle of the night, from the bereaved, maddened Pharaoh down, wailing, retching, dying, convulsing, half naked and totally tripped out of their brains! And the Hebrew nation hightailing it out of town, evidence concealed beneath their cloaks, and carrying a supply of uncontaminated bread.
Then this utterly amazing line: "The Israelites did as Moses had told them, asking the Egyptians for jewelry of silver and gold. As the Lord had made the Egyptians well-disposed towards them, they let them have what they asked."
To describe their devastated former masters as "well disposed" can only mean they were so tripped out they were open to the slightest suggestion. The final line says it all:
"In this way they plundered the Egyptians."
/forum/images/graemlins/dancing222.gif
