High priestess of Delphi was high on oracle gases
Traditionally those who make oracle-like pronouncements have often been considered to be communing with spirits; have access to another level of consciousness or be in some kind of trance…
This report found on Digg seems to extend the idea of the trance states of those ‘channeling’ spiritual knowledge and ascribes their reverie to something less than angelic or divine in it’s origin
Alan
“From Herodotus and Homer to the warriors of Ancient Greece the mystic utterances from the Oracle of Delphi were regarded as sacrosanct. But now the hugely influential pronouncements of the oracle are said by Greek and Italian archaeologists to have been the result of oxygen deficiencies in the priestesses’ brains…….
