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When about fifty people who have paid a substantial bill return from Cairo without having visited either the new archaeological museum or the old one, what could they have done?

In fact, they spent several hours in the Pyramid of Cheops on the day of the vernal equinox, when the alignment of the stars of Orion’s belt form a perfect reflection of the three pyramids and make it possible to see the star most shining from the sky: Sirius.

So that in a few moments, a magical link is created between the forces of the earth and the sky allowing you to better connect to the telluric and cosmic powers! Joke? No way.

This stay is categorized among the stays “ initiation of an agency with a storefront.

If travel is always a moment of pause, tourists who go on a journey of initiation above all have the desire to give meaning to their lives and to connect to the divine “.

Whether they go to India to meditate in an ashram or to Machu Picchu to carry out Inca-style energy cleansing, they assume their marginality and their need to fill the void in their lives by reconnecting with territories and a sacred historical heritage.

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But where are they going more exactly? When you ask Eric Grange, director and founder of the Oasis Voyages agency, about the most popular destinations for his customers, he answers without hesitation: asia. At least when it is accessible.

According to him : ” Countries like Tibet, India, Bali, Burma or Mongolia resonate in our imaginations of Westerners as so many territories carrying a long spiritual and sacred tradition. “.

In the travel catalog offered by his agency, trips to Asian lands are therefore (in normal times) the most numerous, almost 60% of the catalog. But Latin America with its pre-Columbian traditions also figures prominently. With what qualities?

First asset required: the territories conducive to meditation and prayer must be located in regions where the local populations still live in close connection with the divine. According to the official definition: a sacred natural site is an area of ​​land or sea that has special spiritual significance for local peoples or communities “.

In Bali, for example, the Balinese still practice in certain corners of the island, age-old ceremonies and rituals seeking to link their soul to telluric and cosmic forces. Their reverence for the sacred permeates their daily life and the roofless Hindu temples, open to celestial energies where each visitor can go to meditate, are legion.

Tibet, a spiritual land before eternity, holds its share of Buddhist wisdom. Sacred places or very remote hermitages, innumerable in the country, therefore welcome travelers, invite them to join in the prayers and meditations of local monks, to participate in ceremonies and make pilgrimages…

Agencies that work closely with local guides and residents can, from this context, set up small groups for all these regions, which are offered immersion and spiritual activities.

It should also be noted that trips are often organized on key dates. For example, it is proposed to tourists to go to India at the time of the Diwali festival celebrated by Hindu communities around the world.

But spirituality is not the only driving force behind these journeys like no other. The frenetic quest for well-being in full diversification, and the quest for healing, are the other drivers of these increasingly popular stays, sometimes concealing unpleasant surprises.

Thus, charlatans like Joao de Deus in Brazilafter being recognized as a real “ miracle man and after receiving thousands of tourists, got 19 years in prison!

Accompanied by a guide, his visitors had nevertheless followed him for years, in a region rich in crystals, located 100 km from Brasilia where they benefited energetic and spiritual surgical interventions by bathing in magical waterfalls nestled near a volcano, on top of mountains, close to the stars! The ideal natural context to give the illusion of healing and know-how!

Another extreme example, but not yet pinned down by justice: the small groups which go to the Philippines to seek the help of “healers of the faith” who, with their bare hands, operate, extract tumors, relieve wounds deemed incurable in the West. These private groups are formed around an initiated resource person, so welcome on site, who leads the others. But these trips are obviously very rare. For now !

Faced with the exoticism of these offerings, which are too numerous to be cataloged, let us note the other sites that were once sacred, now commonplace but which, recognized for their energetic and therapeutic virtues, attract many visitors. This is how the sources of radioactive hot water, in the open sea of ​​a small Greek island, have become a very popular meeting place for victims of joint ailments and quite simply for prevention enthusiasts.

There, for a large part of the year, a clientele of locals but also many foreigners find themselves in an open-air cave and take the opportunity at the same time to get a massage or take yoga classes given by “masters” of whom we do not don’t know very well where they were formed but who, thanks to the magic of the environment, deceive them.

As for France, does it have sites to exploit? Sure. In Brittany (and in all the regions of Europe where there are some) the alignments of menhirs and the mystery that surrounds them attract the curious. The unique atmosphere of the Brocéliande Forest and that of Mont Saint-Michel also have potential, which has already been partially exploited. Several websites also list them, combining under the term sacred, natural and religious heritage in its diversity: fountains, cloisters, churches and above all abbeys…

In the Vosges, in Burgundy, Alsace, in Provence, these sites have their customers often still discreet although numerous. Even cities like Lyon have a sacred potential little known by the inhabitants themselves. The capital of Gaul is indeed considered one of the world capitals of esotericism where most of the secret societies were born “because there would be a secret hidden under the city” while famous healers would have practiced there.

As for Auvergne, it has a religious heritage but also and above all volcanoes and healers who are not a legend but a reality. It could therefore exploit the combined energy power of its strengths and offer an atmosphere and therapeutic virtues, going well beyond hydrotherapy alone, which is its specialty today.

Forests, spaces that are all the more sacred as sylvotherapy begins to develop, could also become quality energy destinations. In 2020, the Ile-de-Fance forest festival also emphasized their sacred character.

But, we still have to move forward on this subject, on eggshells. It is indeed necessary to be careful, organized, competent and not to offer anything to a marginal tourist certainly but very informed and connoisseur, who seeks the unusual and the legend but above all efficiency, serenity and exceptional natural settings. .

And here again lies the crux of the problem.

The world (and France) are full of diversity, capacities, exceptional natural gifts that the original populations knew how to discover and exploit at their fair value without destroying them. It is therefore a question of respecting this past and the beliefs of the past, which all have a meaning, and of taking infinite precautions before turning them into tourist areas…

A sacred imperative!

Journalist, consultant, lecturer, Josette Sicsic has been observing changes in the world for more than 25 years in order to analyze their consequences on the tourism sector.

After having developed the Touriscopie newspaper for more than 20 years, she is still on the bridge of current events where she decodes the present to predict the future. On the website www.tourmag.com, Futuroscopie section, it publishes prospective and analytical articles several times a week.

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