Jesus as Shamanic Healer

The piece contends Jesus displays classic shamanic traits—exorcising demons, healing, divining, and possibly entering altered states—placing Christianity within a broader shamanic lineage. This reframes the figure of Jesus less as a categorical exception and more as part of a cross‑cultural pattern in early religion. — It challenges theological and cultural boundaries by linking a central Western religious figure to universal trance‑healing traditions, affecting debates on religion’s origins and the role of altered states in spirituality.