2023-05-29 11:12:36
Shamanism, as it is understood in Europe, comes from the steppes of Central Asia, where the term together means “the one who is agitated, who gesticulates “. Russian travelers would have propagated towards the West, from the XVIIth century, this notion of a “sorcerer-healer-augur “, a privileged intermediary between humans and spirits, on the border of tribal medicine and paganism. But ancestral shamanism, long before religions and medicine, has evolved from wild spaces to big cities.
The role of sound
Shamanism has traditionally use of singing and drumming, sounds that are supposed to participate in healing. Their vibrations rock, harmonize and open the patient’s receptivity to the care he receives. For some observers, shamanic songs would have the power to modify the functioning of the body and the spirit, by guiding the audience towards unknown dimensions, until the cellular level !
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The volatile contours of modern shamanism
In ancient societies, illness was understood as a dissociation (or disembodiment) between body and mind. The sick person sees his spirit (or his soul) gradually move away from the body, death being the final breaking point and the departure towards the beyond. The role of the shaman was to restore the integrity of the patient’s body and spirit., thanks to his gifts of incursion into the immaterial worlds. He was also asked to treat other “reversal of fortune ” (a prolonged drought, a period of bad luck…). For in the ancestral understanding, it is indeed like a “good fortune repairman “What is the shaman seen.
Nowadays, the “neoshamanism ” more often concerns personal development, the search for spirituality or the quest for authenticity. However, a part healers-magnetizers confess to using mediumship, that some willingly wear the clothes of shamanism (question of trend?). In this case, it is a matter of freeing the patient from a “energetic influence” in connection with an ascendant, or another deceased, to get rid of an “entity” (or disembodied soul or wandering soul) parasite. And sometimes to be their spokesperson for the delivery of a message. Mediumnity is however a representation which is far from reaching a consensus among magnetizers, not all of whom accept the idea of this dimension which would make it possible to perceive, and even less to communicate with “spirits”.
The shamanic trance: an opening, but on what?
The trance state has long been considered a psychopathological condition. When Corine Sombrun (ethno-musician and author, at the origin of the film Un monde plus grand), returns from Mongolia following a first spontaneous experience of trance, the first doctor in whom she confides hands her the card of a psychiatrist! Later, when she mastered the self-induction of trance, she managed to interest Canadian researchers, who gradually established that it was a cognitive manifestation, all in all close hypnosis and meditation, and not from a pathology such as schizophrenia or multiple personality syndrome. But which opens onto what? Another dimension or pure hallucinations? The incredible journey of Puységur, a contemporary soldier of Dr. Mesmer and initially instructed by him, throws a little more trouble; Puységur plunged his subjects into a state close to sleepwalking, from where they would have been able to see inside their own bodies and those of others, and make predictions. His results, which he recounts numerous and constant, will make him say that he thought he had revealed a hitherto unknown dimension of the nature of man. When others, later, invoke a context effect and bury these premises under the nascent edifice of modern psychology.
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A complementary dimension in the healing process?
Academic medicine is often criticized for only dealing with the patient’s body, without questioning what is suffering in his being or in his life. It is on this terrain of the relationship to oneself and to the world that shamanism can contribute to healing. By inducing a trance, which is in fact an altered state of consciousness, he gives access to the “submerged face of the iceberg “, releasing unsuspected cognitive springs, such as intuitions, visions, memories… In short, a whole etheric world, often enchanted, sometimes frightening, which constitutes the «shamanic journey » and offers the possibility to evolvewhich is often a necessary corollary to truly heal.
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