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You’re in a Trance
First point, and perhaps the most fundamental point tonight. You are in a trance. How do you feel about that? A bit nervous. You are in a trance and even recent research backs that up. In your day to day waking consciousness, your visual scanning pattern (rather than being drawn by actual physical stimuli) follows…
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Trance Work
There are many methods of doing what most people call inducing a trance. In fact, when you induce a trance what you are in truth doing is breaking your default trance. All trance work methods involve holding the attention still, stopping the swinging pendulum of attention from keeping it in the dream of “real life.”…
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Trance Induction
Now the method of trance induction actually does matter, and your favourite trance induction method will shape every other experience you have. If you favour Buddhist meditation techniques, everything will look Buddhist. If you favour dancing to techno music under whirling laser light, everything will look like a “rave.” We see the world as we are, not as it is? Exactly.…
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Reacting to the Battle Trance State
Have you heard of altered state skill acquisition? Two things… We learn more quickly and retain it more reliably when we are in a state of heightened sensory arousal and lowered “thinking”, lowered conscious filtering. This is why people get things like PTSD. They learn the battle field behaviour of running for their lives. Like…
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Control Your Battle Trance
Want to control your battle trance? I’m not sure. It is such a boon to survival, you know. Want to be controlled by it? Nope. If you don’t want to control it, you do indeed want to be controlled by it. You have always gotten exactly what you really wanted. Your fear and your love…