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The Shamanic Drum Travel: Mongol traditions to the third millennium therapies.


Web link: www.cairn.info/revue-mul...

Pages: 169 - 176

Abstract

Shamanism in the West is part of this new attitude where the mind is no longer separated from the body; it has long influenced the development of therapies such as family constellations or art therapy. And today he interferes with the so-called third-generation therapies such as meditation, full consciousness, hypnosis and sophrology. The passive patient has long been considered and only active shaman, jumping, shaming and turning with his heavy costume, but thanks to recent studies on the brain and the modified state of consciousness, it can be said that during the ritual to which the client is subjected, the same induction mechanisms, suggestions, relaxation that will act on his unconscious, reduce the harmful effects of stress, etc. The range of therapeutic tools has expanded as opportunities diversify, mentalities change and spiritual demand increases. The range of therapeutic tools has expanded as opportunities diversify, mentalities change and spiritual demand increases. Also increases the number of Westerners who want to live in harmony with nature, no longer trust the pharmaceutical industry, nor the food-based industry and want to emphasize their well-being before their careers. Today’s man, free from the obstacles of too strict Judeo-Christian education, can experience what, a few decades earlier, was considered marginal, completely described or infant, and can finally run into the woods, kiss trees, scream like a wolf, play Indian… A new era began, slowly, but surely and lastly. Tomorrow, all shamans? Maybe not, but at least shamanism is well present in the West and offers new possibilities.