Coffee wouldn't give you those kinds of fantasies!
2007-03-29 21:23:56 · 8 answers · asked by U-98 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
have you ever spent a long time in the desert?
2007-03-29 21:29:39 · answer #1 · answered by Invisible_Flags 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some of them did not need drugs. Picture this. You are in your 90s you live in a dark damp cave out in the middle of nowhere, on a small barren island where you have been exiled. You've had no food and water for almost a week. That's how you write the Apocalypse. A lot of them used to fast out in the desert. You try that and see what happens if you have a vivid imagination and a goal.
2007-03-30 04:52:46 · answer #2 · answered by The Stainless Steel Rat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wine and other alchohols, people had long been a part of the woods and earth and were familiar with almost all plants. they didn't refine opium and cocaine but mild highs were achieved by chewing and eating them. Not sure of the locales though, few poppies made it from asia to jerusalem. Greeks in the area had psychodelics, i believe they drank a tea which is poisonous and psychedelic, too much will kill you though.
wheat or rye that sits out and starts to rot can get a type of hallucinogen which is believed to be responsible for other historical events involving witches or some such.
Some were very sophisticated in thier use of herbs indeed more intune than we are with 'natural drugs'
2007-03-30 04:36:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know the actual chemicals. When Zoroaster was writing his religion, which may be referred to as Zoroastrianism or Zarathrustrianism, he mentioned that it wasn't alright to drink the urine of the priests that took the drug of their choice. . . ewww.
But in the Bible there seems to be a connection between drugs and sorcery. The man of God didn't think taht it was okay to do. So if you are trying to allude to the idea that they were just high when they wrote the Old Testament, then I think that you aren't reading it right.
2007-03-30 04:42:37 · answer #4 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should study up on apocalyptic literature. None of the "fantasies" in Scripture were hallucinations - they were references to the prevalent religious thought of the day, and used solar imagery drawn from Semitic Mystery religions.
Take Rev. 12, for example. Get a star chart with images of the constellations, turn it back to September, 96 AD, and then read that chapter again, comparing it to the Mysteries of Demeter celebrated at Eleusis.
2007-03-30 04:29:15 · answer #5 · answered by NONAME 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Holy Ghost. I get high on Him everyday and I am addicted to Him. Praise God!
2007-03-30 04:33:25 · answer #6 · answered by Apostle Jeff 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd go with the previous post...
the desert really messes people up!
2007-03-30 04:39:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
the dude who wrote the book of revaltion
think it was john
had some good acid
2007-03-30 04:27:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋