Jung and shamanism

In the past 50 years, since the 1970s, shamanism has elicited considerable interest. It is no longer the type of shamanism practiced in the Paleolithic, but a neo-shamanism, suitable to modern mentalities. Jung was immersed in shamanistic experience from childhood, due to ancestral lineage, natural gifts, and biographical elements. However, he engaged in an enormous effort to move from his spontaneous experiences to a deeper reflection on the phenomenon, to explain the meaning and scope of his altered states of consciousness. In every psychotherapy, there are transitions from a level of consciousness to a level of resonance, an “ecstatic” state, as the shamans would say. The author of the article has cautiously implemented methods that are similar to shamanism in certain therapies.