Beyond the visible

ISBN-13: 9786205546666 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str.

François Kaech

Opis

Understood as an instrument of well-being, self-knowledge and transformation, neo-shamanic activities offer a "work of connection" where the place of the body, emotion and affectivity is preponderant. Integrated and adapted to the individualistic values, social and economic structures of our society, neo-shamanic practices propose a paradoxical discourse of inverted apology of modernity and urban lifestyles: a sacralized representation of nature emerges, associated with a healing power, in opposition to the techno-scientific exploitation of the current world perceived as inhibiting the potential of the human being. The individual is then considered in his unity and his divine nature. It is thus a question of awakening all the resources of the person, of "finding one's true nature, one's essence" outside of any socio-cultural conditioning. Neo-shamanic practices propose to the individual to become an actor of his health again, to find an autonomy with regard to the biomedical system, by the promotion of a health model mainly centered on the stimulation of the capacities of self-healing.

O autorze

Master's degree in social sciences from the University of Lausanne (UNIL). Former assistant in health anthropology at the University of Lausanne (UNIL). Currently, research fellow at the Community Psychiatry Service (PCO) - CHUV.