TRANCE -in mind and in soul

Trance denotes a variety of processes, ecstasy, techniques, modalities and states of mind, awareness and consciousness. Trance states may occur involuntarily and unbidden.

Trance conditions include all the different states of mind, emotions, moods and daydreams that human beings experience. All activities which engage a human involve the filtering of information coming into sense modalities and hence, brain functioning and consciousness. Therefore, trance may be understood as a matter of functionality and efficiency ~ to economize consciousness resource usage.
Trance states may also be accessed or induced by various modalities and is a way of accessing the unconscious mind for the purposes of relaxation, healing, intuition and inspiration. There is an extensive documented history of trance as evidenced by the case-studies of anthropologists and ethnologists and associated and derivative disciplines. Hence trance, may be perceived as endemic to the human condition and a Human Universal. Principles of trance are being explored and documented as are methods of trance induction. Benefits of trance states are being explored by medical and scientific inquiry. Many traditions and rituals employ trance. Trance also has a function in religion and mystical experience.



William James (Neophytou, 1996):
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Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it by the flimsiest screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.... No account of the universe in its totality can be final, which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.
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Gurdjieff (Neophytou, 1996):
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Consciousness [normal waking] is a state of light Hypnosis and few people are ever truly awake.
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Aldous Huxley (Neophytou, 1996):
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Normal consciousness is a narrow segment of our potential consciousness. He regarded the brain and sense organs as a kind of reducing valve thru [sic] which experience was funneled to protect us from being overwhelmed.
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Stuart Wilde (The Art of Meditation, 1996)
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The beta state (14-21 cycles a second) aligns us to the conformity of tick-tock, the drone-like mindset of the status quo. In order to awaken to a brand new existence including multiple-dimensions described by theoretical physicists, trance states kindly show us the escape hatch.”