During the onset of trance, some imagine drum rolling and wild dancing. This is what Corinne Sombrun is the author of Diagonal of joy (ed. Albin Michel) during a report on shamanism in Mongolia. But you don’t have to go that far to feel trance. “This altered state of consciousness can be achieved by most people with a normal central nervous system.” assures Dr. Sylvia Morar, neurosurgeon in charge of the Syringomyelia (spinal cord disease causing chronic pain and paralysis) reference center at CHU Kremlin-Bichetre, Paris, and co-author; Practice deep hypnosis (ed. Dunod). Trans for everyone, really?
Going into a trance has nothing to do with the feeling of dreaming (what neuroscientists call the brain’s default mode that feeds the imagination, builds the ego, predicts the future…
Source: Le Figaro
