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Shamanic journey as a therapeutic tool in New Shamanic practices.


Pages: 17 - 32

Abstract

We have seen how the New Shamanic Seminars allow participants to set up devices with variable dimension consistency, self-therapy or self-therapy. What I call self-therapy or self-therapy is not based on the means of each participant to treat their own physical or emotional disorders, but rather in a way of “finding themselves” as the participants formulate, to “find their true self-self” that has lost due to the misfortunes of the life and personal history of everyone. In this context, participants “meet” in particular through the Shamanic journey that allows experimentation of other worlds by entering within themselves. These are travels, as we have seen, guided by the instructions of the neo-shamans, able to drive consultants through their imagination within themselves and find allied entities in this interiority. The imagination convened throughout this chapter is not irrational (Maglioco, 2004) but is governed by internal logics carefully built through the figure of the New Shaman, the external environment and the indications given to be able to attend its own internal environment. The symbolic efficiency of the practice of Shamanic travel lies in two major elements: the first is the construction of narrative narratives that allow practitioners to meet within and at the same time to meet those who do the same journey. The second is linked to the process of self-refraction, combined with a self-consciousness that is manifested through interactions with strangers. This is a reverberation or a necessary link between individual interiority and collective exteriority. This reverberation allows the patient to return to his or her more intimate self and to rejuvenate him to tell and rebuild him, as they are subjective but sharable narrative frameworks.