At the evocation of a trance, some imagine drum rolls and a frenzied dance.
This is what Corine Sombrun, author of
La diagonale de la joie
(ed. Albin Michel) experienced by chance during a report on shamanism in Mongolia.
But you don't have to go that far to experience trance:
"This modified state of consciousness can be reached by most people whose central nervous system is functioning normally",
assures Dr. Silvia Morar, neurosurgeon in charge of the Center for Reference for syringomyelia (disease of the spinal cord causing chronic pain and paralysis, at the CHU Kremlin-Bicêtre, Paris) and co-author of
Practicing Deep Hypnosis
(ed. Dunod).
Trance for all, really?
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Going into a trance has nothing to do with what it feels like to daydream (what neuroscientists call the brain's default mode functioning, which feeds the imagination, builds the ego, anticipates the future …
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