Religions and spirituality: six books to discover

Hassidism, Shamanism, Christianity, EthnoSpychiatry, Inner Ecology, Inspiring Women: Discover the eclectic selection of books recommended by “Le Monde religions”.

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This is the story of the intimate quest for an artist, a French musician and visual artist, who will cross the world to meet Enkhtuya, a shaman of northern Mongolia who will deliver him his lessons to initiate it. “We are born Shaman, we do not get it,” will explain the latter. At a ceremony in the Grand Ovoo of Lake Khövsgöl (the sacred place of the ancestors), this title will be awarded to Brigitte Pietrzak. It already knows at this moment that Enkhtuya will open the way, the one that leads to experiencing the invisible, where the adventure begins with this great emptiness to find to listen to the worlds and attendance who lives in it. I plunge his eyes closed by trusting my initiator. “

The lattice invites us to do with her this trip in Mongolian shamanism, through short chapters who explore values, symbols or sacred animals. Every gesture, ritual or ceremony make sense. With a keyword: the repair. “Chamarize then returns to the additional energy needed to the impeded traffic to restore harmony, to abandon yourself to the flow.” A beautiful lesson of release and detachment of the visible where Brigitte Pietrzak advances by being guided step by step by his intuition, without resistance, because “the cham prayer follows the furrow of life. She invites the one or the one who lost it to find him”. AG

“Search the spark”, by the Rabbi Etienne Kerber (Southern Acts, 2021, Coll. “The Breath of the Spirit”, 144 pages, 13 Euros)

It’s through his life course In an autobiographical style, that Rabbi Etienne Kerber wants to make hessidism known. Far from being the majority, this mystical current of Judaism advocates an approach anchored in popular joy, rather than in austerity and elitism often dear to religious authorities.

Shared between the wish to become Rabbi or musician, Etienne Kerber tells the spiritual quest that animates it since adolescence. If he founded with his brother and friends the Shades group, who occupied the front of the French rock scene in the early 2000s, he became a teacher, director of a religious school and Rabbi within the Liberal Judaism. Two stories that intertwine in this narrative punctuated with concerts, reflections on sacred texts and meditations. Two stories that, basically, are not so far from each other since music, dance and tales are at the heart of hassidic practice.

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