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On Resonance: Caves, Hooves, Hearts, Harps... and the Birth of Culture

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Echoes and Trance

Echoes are what one hears in such states, right? Resonances, reverberations, and echoes can therefore provoke the trance state. Echoes by firelight, echoes of footsteps, cascading ochre powder, flickering light echoes,. echoes the cave of pan, the cave of the nympholet, trickling water, echoing pipes, echoing drums, trance echoes pan. Even to day, if you go see a movie and the director wants to convey to you that a person is in an altered state of consciousness, what is the primary tool that they employ? Echoing. Trippy rite drug sequences, dream sequences. In the 19 80 comedy spoof airplane, the protagonist stops mid e

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