Trance
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"At no time known to us, whether before or since the Christian era, has the series of trance-manifestations,--of supposed communications with a supernal world,--entirely ceased. Sometimes, as in the days of St. Theresa, such trance or ecstasy has been, one may say, the central or culminant fact in the Christian world. Of these experiences I must not here treat. The evidence for them is largely of a subjective type, and they may belong more fitly to some future discussion as to the amount of confidence due to the interpretation given by entranced persons to their own phenomena. But in the midst of this long series, and in full analogy to many minor cases, occurs the exceptional trance-history of Emmanuel Swedenborg."--Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death (1903) by F. W. H. Myers |
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Trance denotes a variety of processes, ecstasy, techniques, modalities and states of mind, awareness and consciousness. Trance states may occur involuntarily and unbidden.
The term trance may be associated with hypnosis, meditation, magic, flow, and prayer. It may also be related to the earlier generic term, altered states of consciousness, which is no longer used in "consciousness studies" discourse.
See also
- Autohypnosis
- Candomblé
- Contemplative education
- Ecstasy (emotion)
- Ecstasy (philosophy)
- Edgar Cayce
- Entheogen
- Etat second
- Hallucinations in the sane
- Henri Bergson
- Hesychasm
- Highway hypnosis
- Huston Smith
- Hypnagogia
- Immanence
- Jesus Prayer
- Mysticism
- Nirvana
- Ramakrishna
- Religious experience
- Rigpa
- Satchitananda
- Transcendence (philosophy)
- Transcendence (religion)
- Transpersonal psychology
- Unio Mystica
- Wajad