Healing correspondences. Experience as a pathway between spirituality and healthcare

This paper examines the relationship between trance and mental health in the mediumistic practice of the Brazilian Christian Spiritualism of the Vale do Amanhecer, in which mediumship may be part of a therapeutic process. It discusses particular cases of mediums who are also healthcare professionals, exploring how they establish correspondences between spiritual and medical knowledge, and whether these correspondences may suggest new avenues to rethink the communicability between different fields of therapeutic knowledge. In doing so, it examines the category of ‘experience’ as a pathway to consilience, while re-framing spirit mediumship and possession within the therapeutic dimension.