Initiation is a slow and long process that requires the integration of experiences at various levels (physical, psychic, emotional, spiritual) and for which a Western cannot impasse its own culture. Rather than leaking to another world, it is a question of reintegrating its own roots and reconciling itself and its “ancestors”, which, in a Western world, means reappropriating its Jewish-Christian cultural foundation. The detour by an ancestral culture can be judicious for a Western, provided that he prepares to return home. The prior or simultaneous acquisition of training in the relationship of assistance or to a profession that includes a therapeutic dimension seems to me to be essential. The Shamanic experience must prepare before, then conduct itself within a symbolic container device and finally be followed by later stages of integration of the life. It therefore requires a specific space.