Quote Originally Posted by bogoljub777
i think the forbidden tree of the knoledge of good and evil....was weed. it had to be.

what else makes "one wise"? no other tree that i know of, definitley not the apple tree.

the forbidden tree had to be some psycoactive plant. it had to be. and since its described as a tree, it could not have been shrooms or peyote or anything. it had to be weed.
It could have been an ayahuasca vine. Amazonian shamans used Ayahuasca for some incredible introspective journeys at a strength comparable to peyote. It also could have been beladonna berries, and I'm sure there's some hallucinogenic "trees" that we haven't heard of; maybe even some that only existed in the story.

But, overal, I think it's just a story about a magical tree of wisdom.