Corine SOMBRUN
Writer and Co-founder of the TranceScience Research Institute
Recognized by Mongolian shamans as one of their own and trained over several years in trance rituals and techniques, Corine Sombrun pioneered the first scientific research on Mongolian shamanic trance. Since 2007, she has initiated several studies demonstrating that this trance state is a potential inherent to every human brain and that, thanks to the method she developed, it can be self-induced through sheer will. In this context, she co-founded the TranceScience Research Institute in 2019 with Prof. Francis Taulelle, later joined by Prof. François Féron. This international network of researchers is dedicated to studying the physiological mechanisms and health applications related to this non-ordinary state of consciousness, now referred to as Self-Induced Cognitive Trance (SICT). She also co-initiated, with Antoine Bioy, the university diploma program "Study of Trances" at Université Paris 8.
In addition to her research, Corine Sombrun is the author of several books, including The Diagonal of Joy (Albin Michel, Pocket), Save the Planet (Albin Michel, Shaffner Press), which won the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Award for Environment/Ecology, and My Initiation with the Shamans (Pocket), which was adapted into the film A Bigger World by Fabienne Berthaud, starring Cécile de France.
