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The Role of Ritual
- Ritualized trance strengthens community bonds, establishes values, and facilitates healing.
- Modern society's pathologizing of trance has significant consequences.
Consequences of Trance Repression
- Lack of context for trance leads to unanchored spirituality and delusional movements.
- Dismissing mystical experiences ignores a fundamental aspect of human longing.
Trance in India
- In India, trance is deeply integrated into spiritual life, seen as feeling the goddess.
- Josh Schrei witnessed a man in trance being escorted towards a goddess effigy.


