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ezekiel's vision and hallucinogens
Reference to this subject and ezekiel first seen in detail in excellent October 2005 publication:
Supernatural By Graham Hancock
further web references:
eating sweet scrolls followed by visions in Ezekiel & Revelation, "it has been suggested that these scrolls represented hallucinogenic drugs, which were commonly used in mystery schools and secret societies."
Abstract :The Biblical Merkava Vision and Ayahuasca Visions - A Comparative Commentary
In this commentary Benny Shanon compares the content items mentioned in the Merkava
vision in the book of Ezekiel with items seen in visions induced by the Amazonian psychotropic brew ayahuasca. Empirical research the author has conducted reveals that there are significant cross-personal similarities between the visions different persons, with different personal and socio-cultural backgrounds, have with ayahuasca. Furthermore, some items tend to be especially prevalent in these visions. Interestingly, the items in Ezekiel’s vision are that appear in the set of the items most frequently seen with ayahuasca. Included in these items are light and fire, chimeras and multi-faced creatures, disembodied eyes, vehicles and wheels; the materials described by Ezekiel are also similar to those encountered with ayahuasca visions. Some tentative reflections on these findings are presented.
The Vision of the Scroll ['click link' to access alternative translations]
2 He said to me: O mortal,a stand up on your feet, and I will speak with you.
And when he spoke to me, a spirit entered into me and set me on my feet; and I heard him speaking to me.
3 He said to me, Mortal, I am sending you to the people of Israel...
8 mortal, hear what I say to you; do not be rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.
9 I looked, and a hand was stretched out to me, and a written scroll was in it.
10 He spread it before me; it had writing on the front and on the back, and written on it were words of lamentation and mourning and woe.
3 He said to me, O mortal, eat what is offered to you; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.
2 So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.
3 He said to me, Mortal, eat this scroll that I give you and fill your stomach with it. Then I ate it; and in my mouth it was as sweet as honey.
He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you. Then I ate it; and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth
4 He said to me: Mortal, go to the house of Israel and speak my very words to them...
12 Then the spirit lifted me up, and as the glory of the LORD roa from its place, I heard behind me the sound of loud rumbling;
13 it was the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them, that sounded like a loud rumbling.
14 The spirit lifted me up and bore me away; I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the LORD being strong upon me.
15 I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who lived by the river Chebar.b And I sat there among them, stunned, for seven days.
16 At the end of seven days, the word of the LORD came to me:
17 Mortal, I have made you a sentinel for the house of Israel; whenever you hear a word from my mouth, you shall give them warning from me.
Own Comment on text:
Benny Shanon and Graham Hancock convincingly argue that these scrolls represented hallucinogenic drugs used in mystery schools. But from the alien intervention perspective it seems that Ezekiel was actually physically given the substance by a life form [craft commander?].
He was given the substance by a hand, which Blumrich surmises is an artificial attachment to one of the craft units.
Ezekiel then sees the Vision again.
A major question is: did Ezekiel see the first vision independently of hallucinogens? If so, the craft has some Blumrichish quality independent of the prophet's mind.
The possibilities depend on the original chronological sequence of events as reconstructed by biblical scholars.
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