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Reissue: How Trance States Shape the World

The Emerald

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The Hunter's Trance

The hunter's trance is a total mental and physical concentration, whereby extraneous signals are quenched or diverted. It enables the psyche of the hunter to perceive his quarry and its world with a supernormal alertness. Those who experience long, extreme exposures nature know this trance state very well. Eugene harrigel described it while training in archery. nabakof even felt it while chasing butterflies. And behind ecstasy is something else which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that i love - hunting, climbing, running,. nded exposure to nature, long periods of intense focus.

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