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Reissue: How Trance States Shape the World

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The Trance Vocabulary

In sufism alone, there are offshoot sects like you find all over asia. One sufi sect enacts the movements of wild animals, dancing and dancing until they are taken by the lion. The word avesha, entrance into is used repeatedly in the hymns of the vedaspart ly those related to soma, the divine intoxicant. Transe mediums invoke the lion rider and speak of their own bodies as the lions being ridden. Trance is spoken of in the indian texts as roaming, straying, riding, as being ridten, as taking away, as being seazed. And there are distinctions, again, between willed trance

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