Benny Shanon is an emeriti professor of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds the Mandel Chair in cognitive psychology and education. Born in Tel Aviv, Shanon studied philosophy and linguistics at Tel Aviv University and received his doctorate in experimental psychology from Stanford University. He is best known for the Biblical entheogen hypothesis, the idea that the use of hallucinogenic drugs influenced religion. Shanon's controversial theory that the patriarch Moses was under the influence of hallucinogens when he received the law, is referred to as the Biblical entheogen hypothesis. His paper, Biblical Entheogens: a Speculative Hypothesis details parallels between the effects induced by the psychedelic brew ayahuasca, and the Bible's account of the life of Moses. Shanon is the author of the 2002 book Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience published by Oxford University Press. In this work, Shanon provides a rough cartography of the visions and non-visual effects ayahuasca can induce. He writes that he had consumed ayahuasca himself several hundred times and gathered a corpus of empirical data from published literature, structured and unstructured interviews he conducted and his personal experience. In total the corpus comprises some 2,500 ayahuasca experiences. -Wiki The Antipodes of the Mind: Charting the Phenomenology of the Ayahuasca Experience by Benny Shanon: https://amzn.to/35d6Nfr Representational and the Presentational: An Essay on Cognition and the Study of Mind by Benny Shanon: https://amzn.to/2QfuK1t Enaction: Toward a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science by Benny Shanon (Contributer): https://amzn.to/2SLaZjJ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEAZz3eXYlA

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Lecture 1 - The Nature of Man and the Human Condition: Language, Property, and Production: 00:00 Lecture 2 - The Spread of Humans Around the World: The Extension and Intensification of the Division of Labor: 01:16:32 Lecture 3 - Money and Monetary Integration: The Growth of Cities and the Globalization of Trade: 02:20:01 Lecture 4 - Time Preference, Capital, Technology, and Economic Growth: 03:32:01 Lecture 5 - The Wealth of Nations: Ideology, Religion, Biology, and Environment: 04:43:50 Lecture 6-10: https://youtu.be/5kFkBAkc7cs

LSD My Problem Child: Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science: https://amzn.to/2NhyJcX Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing, and Hallucinogenic Powers: https://amzn.to/2wKQ6IS The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications: https://amzn.to/2MLGZmn The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries: https://amzn.to/2MKGBnY ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAV3UBlEh9U