The "New Age" movement, which proposes an individual awakening to spirituality and invites personal development, has spread considerably in our society. Yoga, coaching, reiki, shamanism... These disciplines meet with a wide echo: according to a survey conducted by the National Union of Yoga Teachers in 2021, 10 million French people had practiced this activity in the previous three years. For fifteen years, Elisabeth Feytit, a director now aged 49, has unreservedly adhered to this movement, which she defines as "an all-you-can-eat buffet of spiritual practices and beliefs whose promise is to achieve enlightenment". In search of the "meaning of the universe", the young woman then goes further and further in the experiences, at the risk of getting lost. Until the day she watches the video of a repentant follower of a group in full sectarian drift. It acts as an electroshock. She begins to reflect on her ways of thinking, and then to deconstruct them.
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