Drugs, the Israelites and the Emergence of Patriarchy
Archaeologists have discovered cannabis and frankincense in an ancient Israelite Temple. What can we learn about the ancient science of dug combination, and how were these resins used in the ancient world?
Give us this day our daily dose
In the Lord’s Prayer, Christians ask God to “give us this day our daily bread” - rather a lot of ‘day’. The word translated as “daily” is extremely obscure: epiousion, meaning beyond the ordinary.
Here begins a curious story…
Psychedelic Synergies in the Bible: How Ancient SHAMAN Priests Combined Plants
In Exodus there’s a psychoactive preparation of herbs and resins that was used to encounter the divine on earth. The science resembles that used in preparing ayahuasca, and it is yet to be surpassed in complexity.
DMT and the Soul of Prophecy – book review
Written with the intellectual rigour one would expect from Strassman, his model is extremely compelling. His assertion, however, that “there is little… evidence in the text” of “psychoactive plants or drugs” may throw out the baby with the bong-water.
We three kings of Orient are… drug runners. And not kings.
Frankincense is classed as a tranquilizer – as is Valium which also works on the GABA system. Valium has a certain appeal around Christmas time, as innocent Christians are exposed to their families, but frankincense appeals in a different way, for tranquilizers do more than merely make one tranquil.