vodoun

The experimental filmmaker Maya Deren made a short film in Haiti about some Vodoun ceremonies (and was an initiate herself).

I wonder to what degree southern US charismatic christianity owes its peculiarities (glossolalia, etc.) to proximity to whatever practices predated vodoun?

To the HN crowd, it will seem like New Age woo-woo, but one has to really experience trance states in a Vodoun ceremony (Umbanda specifically) to grok the scientific materialism point of view is overlooking some components of consciousness.

If you want to get down with different meters and rhythm you need to check out: Dimi Mint Abba (album: Moorish Music from Mauritania), Afrocuba de Matanzas (find them playing a batarumba), Orchestre Poly-Rythmo (album: the vodoun effect).

However this doesn't come from outside the person it springs from what Jung called the "collective unconscious." In the context of a religion like Vodoun the people being "possessed" have a long period of physical and mental preparation such that when they do experience this its in a controlled and ritualized setting.

However this doesn't come from outside the person it springs from what Jung called the "collective unconscious." In the context of a religion like Vodoun the people being "possessed" have a long period of physical and mental preparation such that when they do experience this its in a controlled and ritualized setting.