According to Israeli researcher Benny Shanon, Moses and the Israelites were likely high on psychoactive(麻薬等が精神に作用する)substances when the Ten Commandments were brought down from Sinai. Shanon compares the narcotic(麻薬性の)effects of plants grown in the Sinai Desert to the powerful Amazonian hallucinogenic(幻覚を引き起こす)brew ayahuasca(アイアワースカ), a drug that frequently inspires profound spiritual feelings among users.
Shannon hypothesizes that the thunder, lightning, and trumpet blaring(鳴り響く)which the Book of Exodus says emanated(生ずる、出る)from Mount Sinai were little more than the imaginings of a group of people under the effects of a strong narcotic.