- Benny Shanon
Benny Shanon ( _he. בני שאנון; born
1948 ) is aprofessor ofPsychology at theHebrew University of Jerusalem and holds the Mandel Chair in Cognitive Psychology and Education.Born in
Tel Aviv , Shanon studied philosophy and linguistics atTel Aviv University and received his doctorate inexperimental psychology fromStanford University . He is author of the 2002 book " Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience" published by Oxford University Press.Benny Shanon is known for his controversial theory that the patriarch
Moses was under the influence ofhallucinogens when he received the law. Specifically, he believes that apsychedelic cocktail similar toayahuasca may explain Moses's vision of theburning bush : "In advanced forms of ayahuasca inebriation, the seeing of light is accompanied by profound religious and spiritual feelings." [ [http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=4392361&page=1 abcnews.go.com, Moses Was High on Drugs, Israeli Researcher Says] ]External links
* [http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~bshanon/ Benny Shanon's Hebrew University faculty page]
* [http://www.inrees.com/en/membres.php?page=14 Benny SHANON, distinguished members of INREES]References
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