Ayahuasca : l’importance du cadre et de l’intention lors de prise de psychédéliques
Psychotropes October 25, 2016 Jean-Charles Bernard 5 citations
The Amazonian beverage ayahuasca induces profound altered states of consciousness and is traditionally ingested in rituals with specific purposes: learning, healing, divination. The meaning of the experience is consubstantial with the ritual in shamanic culture, where access to the "other-world" belongs to the realm of possibility. Globalization of this beverage has given rise to new uses, first in ayahuasca religions in Brazil and neo-psychotherapeutic centers in South America, then in the "West" where new intentions are at work: artistic aid, medical research, personal development—but also decontextualized "wild uses" without purpose, where the framework is absent and the experience cannot acquire meaning. This cross-cultural illustration of the importance of the setting when taking a psychedelic substance points to the necessity of a minimum safety framework and questions current legislative responses.