Chamanisme

The phenomena of trance always existed and however, the official thought don't consider them as serious. However we question: what happens during a trance ? What part of the human is involved ? And what part of irrationality, or super humanity, does a trance enable to show ? To answer that question, we gathered around Michel Cazenave: Isabelle Celestin-Lhopiteau (psychiatrist), Djohar SI Ahmed (psychiatrist, Secretary-General of the Institut Métapsychique International, IMI) and Edouard Collot (Hypnotherapist).

In the current complexity of our "modern world" everyone agrees to show the importance of the meaning quest: to know why we are down here. In order to come back to these existential or ontological fundamentals following the understanding pattern of each one we need clear answers and tested by time: since every time and everywhere, men asked these questions. Why does every generation have to invent the "cheesewire" (implicit critic of New Age) ?

Who never sat over against a tree, in a forest, the palms open to trunk, the eyes closed, without feeling an unutterable confusion, the feeling of a special communion... ?  Excessive sentimentality ? Auto suggestion ? Neuroses ?  "Nowadays, the way we question the dominant ideology, shamanism has come back into vogue"says Michel Cazenave.

In the frame within the festival des Arts visionnaires Chimeria (2009) à Sedan, Jan Kounen, Romuald Leterrier and Laurence Caruana talked about their sessions of ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic plant used in traditional medicine shipibo, in Amazonia.   They talked about their motivations and experiences, their modified state of conscience, insisting on he risk of these practices.

Meeting with Marie-Laure Schick, young Swiss ethnologist, about the "spiritual phone", a unique practice through which a shaman communicates by the phone with the spirits. An experience which gather modern western world and shamanic tradition.