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A significant body of academic work around manna, the mysterious star food said to have sustained the Israelites for 40 years in the wilderness, points toward it being hallucinogenic in nature, with some research placing its possible source at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai. William Henry notes that almost all serious scholarship on this substance insists on its hallucinogenic properties, and that Jewish legend attaches real significance to it: when the Messiah eventually appears, one of the preconditions for identifying him is that he will reveal the complete Ark of the Covenant, including this mysterious star food.
Comment TUSK for a link to the latest episode with William Henry
A significant body of academic work around manna, the mysterious star food said to have sustained the Israelites for 40 years in the wilderness, points toward it being hallucinogenic in nature, with some research placing its possible source at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai. William Henry notes that almost all serious scholarship on this substance insists on its hallucinogenic properties, and that Jewish legend attaches real significance to it: when the Messiah eventually appears, one of the preconditions for identifying him is that he will reveal the complete Ark of the Covenant, including this mysterious star food.










