T DC:
Actually this type of science is quite different than simply figuring out the number of planets in our solar system. We can't just use a telescope to look 2000 years back in time into the inner workings of the mind of a historical figure whose basic existence is still debated. So, bad analogy.
Again, there is a scientific consensus on the number of planets based on very literal, incontrovertible evidence. In no way, shape, or form is there a scientific census on the Jesus's supposed mental status, or that of the multitude of indigenous shamans throughout human history. This subject is in fact a complete grey area, less "a truth" and more "an idea".
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You have misinterpreted me. I did not equate shamanism/schizo to 8 planets based on the degree of truth certainty, but to the lack of ethical agenda. I.E I'm not twisting facts to promote an agenda. When I tell you that scientists believe there is a link between shamanism and schizotypalism I am not twisting facts to get an ethical agenda. I'm simply reporting the facts. Does the idea have 100% consensus? No, but it is the leading theory out there.
You can google scholar shamanism and schizo and you will come up with hundreds of results. Here are just a few...
1. Shamanism and the psychosis continuum
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/shamanism-and-the-psychosis-continuum/D17A409E7AD88627A10E6D83F5753958
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Shamans and Acute Schizophrenia
https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1525/aa.1967.69.1.02a00030
3. How shamanism and group selection may reveal the origins of schizophrenia
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S030698770191504X
4. Shamans among us: schizophrenia, shamanism and the evolutionary origins of religion
But above all, I highly suggest you watch Dr. Robert Sapolsky of Stanford's lecture on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WwAQqWUkpIYour might think religion is a scam, sure, but in order to bring it down you are demonizing mental illness, which very much represents your own personal value judgement. Why should it matter particularly what mental illness Jesus may or may not have had if his teachings were legitimate?
It's not a value judgment, so much as a truth judgment. If someone is on the schizophrenic spectrum their delusions are not real. If they were real, they wouldn't be delusions, and hence, not schizo.
Jesus cannot be both a schizotypal/phrenic with a brain abnormality that causes him to have hallucinations, delusions of grandeur, hyper-religiosity, magical-thinking, and at the same time be the legitimate Messiah and God incarnate.
Either angels and demons were really talking to Jesus or they were just his hallucinations
Either Jesus protestations of the impending apocalypse were true or they were not.
Either Jesus idea that he would return to earth, coming out of the sky on a white horse, flanked by people with wings on their backs and toss the mass majority of mankind into a lake of fire to burn for eternity was a true prediction, or it was delusional.
Either demons are real beings for which Jesus performed exorcisms, or he was deluded into believing he had this power, and instead healed people by psychosomatic ways.
Either Jesus really will gather an army and defeat a seven-headed, ten horned beast in combat , as by tradition he told John he would do, or he won't.
Here is a team from Harvard Medical School take on Jesus:
https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/doi/pdf/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.11090214"The New Testament (NT) recalls Jesus as having experienced and shown behavior closely resembling the DSM-IV-TR–defined phenomena of Auditory Hallucinations, Visual Hallucinationss, delusions, referential thinking (see Figure 3), paranoid-type (Paranoid Schizophrenia subtype) thought content, and hyperreligiosity..... Jesus’ experiences can be potentially conceptualized within the framework of Paranoid Schizophrenia or psychosis Not Otherwise Specified. Other reasonable possibilities might include bipolar and schizoaffective disorders."