Joe Rogan

Are you aware of the scholars in Israel that are proposing that Moses seeing the burning bush was the acacia tree?

Yeah.

There's an acacia tree.

The acacia tree, which is very common in the Middle East, is rich in dimethyltryptamine.

And they believe that what they're trying to relay in this story was that Moses encountered God through the burning of this bush.

So the burning of this bush, releasing the psychedelic compound dimethyltryptamine, allowed Moses...

to bring back the Ten Commandments?

And then there's also the Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, the John Marco Allegro book, where he was one of the ordained ministers that was, his task was to decode the Dead Sea Scrolls.

And he wrote this book that details what he believes is the use of psychedelic drugs in ancient Christianity.

Hard for me to argue with.

I mean, I just think our modern perception of it, which is very tainted by what happened during the Nixon administration where they were trying to squash the hippie movement, the anti-war movement, and the civil rights movement.

And that's why they demonized these drugs, these compounds.

And that's why they put them in this category of having no medicinal use, which is clearly not accurate.

Yeah.

It doesn't mean that they should just be given to everyone and everyone should do them with no restrictions and no regulations.

It just means we should understand that they have a long history of human use and have spectacular results on all sorts of things that our society is suffering from greatly.

And to just pretend that that's not the case based on what happened in the 1970s is just insane.

It doesn't make any sense.

What I think is fascinating about the age that we're living in is that change comes very slowly, but it comes much faster when you have the kind of access to information that people have today.

And I don't think this conversation was possible 20 years ago.