SHAMANISM IN JUDAISM: Gershon Winkler has published a book called Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism, which is profiled briefly in the Jerusalem Post. My recent book Descenders to the Chariot: The People Behind the Hekhalot Literature compares early Jewish mysticism to shamanism. I hadn't heard of Winkler's book before, but I'll have to have a look at it.