Biblical Entheogens: A Speculative Hypothesis, Benny Shanon's 2008 article in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, argues, by the author's own explicit framing in the title, a speculative hypothesis that entheogenic plants may lie behind biblical visionary experience. Shanon is a cognitive psychologist known for his own ayahuasca research, and the paper's authority rests on that background rather than on biblical scholarship or archaeology specifically. Its limit is stated by the author himself: this is a published, actively debated hypothesis, not an account of what actually happened at Sinai or elsewhere in the biblical narrative. Cite it only as a labeled hypothesis, never as a historical claim.
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Benny Shanon's Biblical Entheogens: A Speculative Hypothesis, published in Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture in 2008, the lower tier reflecting the author's own explicit framing in the title as a speculative hypothesis by a cognitive psychologist known for his own ayahuasca research, rather than biblical scholarship or archaeology. Cite it only as a labeled hypothesis, never as a historical claim about what actually happened at Sinai or elsewhere. NotesThe author's own title labels the hypothesis speculative; cited here as a published, debated hypothesis, never as an account of what happened at Sinai.
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AuthorBenny Shanon
PublisherTime and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture, 1(1), pp. 51-74
Publication Year2008
Source TypeJournal article
Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)
This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Plants, 4 claims: 2 scholarly debate, 2 general references.
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