Heeb

Hebrew University professor Benny Shanon believes that Moses was seriously fucked up on Mount Sinai. According to his theory, the biblical beard likely ingested a chemical from a couple desert plants that today can be found in the South American psychedelic ayahuasca leaf—thus explaining why the oldtimer claimed to have parted the Red Sea and hallucinated all kinds of fable-like imagery out there in the desert.

Sounds nuts, but it’s not like it’s the first time we’ve discovered one of our canonical figures tripping out.