In the 1930s an anthropologist named Paul Radin first described it as "shamans being half mad," shamans being "healed madmen." (Robert Sapolsky)

In the 1930s an anthropologist named Paul Radin first described it as "shamans being half mad," shamans being "healed madmen."

Robert Sapolsky

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