Trance

of these similar people, the shaman does not use drugs to enter a trance. She can enter a trance on her own free will. During the trance, the shaman’s soul leaves the body and travels to the spiritual realm. It is there that the shaman comes into contact with both helpful and evil spirits. Sometimes the shaman enters into a life or death struggle with these spirits as they attempt to harm the people that the shaman is in the trance for (New World Encylopedia).…

Fyodor Dostoyevsky was not only the author of the literary staple, Crime and Punishment, he had also been a Siberian exile who served four years in a hard labor prison camp. With a background that would easily stress a man's psyche, it can be assumed that Crime and Punishment tells a story that goes much deeper than the murders shown on television. In the novel it is easy to assume that Raskolnikov killed Alyona Ivanovna and her sister because of his debt, but when delving into the…

Medicine: Healing the Mind/Body/Spirit, “The unconscious contains all of our emotions, creativity, intuition, and a whole host of resources that control our bodily functions such as breathing, heart rate and metabolism. When we learn to relax into a trance state, we then have access to this other 90% of our mental capacity.” There are many ways that hypnosis can be beneficial such as treating anxiety, managing pain, and maintaining healthy habits.…

I have spent my whole life in the Dobe and am a proud Ju/’hoansi. Now, in my old age, where I’m afraid death will claim me soon, I enjoy reflecting on my life as it has come to be. I lived in a Ju camp the majority of my life, mostly with the same people, although there were always people to come and go. I have experienced happiness through the majority of my life, but have also endured great loss. To tell my story, I believe I must start from the beginning, As a child, my days were…

Trances and Dreams Complicating Desire & Blackness in Jean Toomer’s “Esther” Jean Toomer’s “Esther” is a bildungsroman text that follows the light skinned protagonist, Esther, through four distinct ages in three chapters. “Esther” is full of magical realism coupled with female desire which is often expressed through dreams, visions, and color. From the beginning, the reader can contrast Esther with Karintha, Louisa and other female characters in Cane. Esther is not desired by white or black…

Hypnotherapy and Opium Addiction Treatment Sylvie Bridgman PNUR 4585 November 12th, 2015 Mebs Karim Hypnotherapy and Opium Addiction Treatment The focus of this paper is to understand and potentially implement findings from a study which centered on the use of hypnotherapy in treating opium addiction into my own nursing practice. I will begin by providing a summary of the article and it 's findings and then move onto how I could integrate these findings into my own practice, and whether I…

from Barbados, practiced a fortune-telling trick with young girls from the Salem Village. These girls fell into trances. They accused others of signing a compact with the devil to torment them in order to save their own skin. Many historians believe their, “Convulsions, hallucinations, and their falling into trances were from a fungal growth called ergot” (Thompson and Poole. These trances put many innocent men and mostly women to their deaths. The trials did not end until…

This style of sacred dance is similar to the dances for spiritual connection. The difference is most cultures encourage the performer to enter a trance-like state to elevate themselves to connect with gods. Typically these performers inflicts pain on themselves in order to achieve this different state of consciousness. Another way performers achieve a trance-state is by whirling in a circle. In the Sufi Muslim whirling dervish dance, the whirlers attempt to create achieve divine knowledge and a…

Blessing outpouring of the Holy Spirit. It first occurred at the Toronto Airport Vineyard church on January 20th, 1994. Its roots lie in the Pentecostal and charismatic movements of the 20th century. Wajd is a term for a particular outcome, ecstatic trance, of the Sufi ritual sama. The ritual varies by Sufi order, but have many similarities. Although both rituals strive for religious ecstasy, their means of achieving it are different. The meetings at the TACF commence with a period of singing…

which can build up progressively like trance or progressive house music (Wilson sayre, 2016). This back beat is usually a four-beat bass drum, made through the use of the drum machine. From there, similar or completely different sounds can be layered to make the back beat more elaborate. In addition, other sounds can be further layered to create…