Neoshamanism
Extract of Eugeni Porras Carrillo´essay.
Ethnologist. Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia-Unidad Chihuahua/Centro INAH Nayarit. México.
According to the Ethnologist and my dear friend Eugeni Porras Carrillo, an expert on ethnic tribes in Mexico, beyond a decontextualized and radical application of shamanism, there are many aspects, methods and instruments of it that are being rescued and refunctionalized.
They are presented within medicine, psychology, ecology and other disciplines. Here the little-studied subject of the anthropologist turned therapist-shaman reappears, such as the cases of Joan Hallifax and her healing methods walking through the solitude of the desert in California or the works of Holger Kalweit based on the acceptance of pain and transformation of suffering (Almendro 1997). All of them try to place themselves in a transpersonal and multidisciplinary perspective that justifies the appropriation of techniques and remedies from any cultural tradition that can be accessed, thereby enriching the interaction but sometimes establishing questionable similarities by forgetting the contexts in which every conception and every practice is inscribed.
Shamanism and Neoshamanism in Europe is a clear mirror of these new tendencies.
(The extract is only in Spanish. Written by my dear friend Eugeni Porras)
