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Elaboration 57
Trance is the subject of the social scientist who studies ideation
not as such alone, but the different conditional circumstances for
ideation, i.e. states with a different reality awareness, a
different attentive dimension, a state clearly distinctive from
everyday normal conversational activities. This latter is called the
'waking' state although hypnodynamici are fully aware that in fact
no such state ever exists. Trance then, is simply a more clearly
perceived state in consciousness, the so-called waking state only a
group of intrusive trances, differing qua person, his experience,
and other circumstances. Trance states, as WE observe them in
others, simply mean that 'he is not wholly there', his mind is
folded up upon itself. Trance states may occur from several 'pairs'
of extremes in circumstances. No sound/very much noise (beat,
machines, waterfall), no physical exertion/maximum physical
exertion, maximum/minimum concentration, blood-sugar, repetition (or
monotony), fear, etc., etc. What is called awake is always, only an
in between somewhere.
Ven
2007-09-11