Trance denotes a variety of processes, ecstasy, techniques, modalities and states of mind, awareness and consciousness. Trance states may occur involuntarily and unbidden.
The term "trance" may be associated with meditation, magic, flow, and prayer. It may also be related to the earlier generic term, altered states of consciousness, which is no longer used in "Consciousness Studies" discourse.
Trance is from Latin "transīre": to cross, pass over ...
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Trance denotes a variety of processes, ecstasy, techniques, modalities and states of mind, awareness and consciousness. Trance states may occur involuntarily and unbidden.
The term "trance" may be associated with meditation, magic, flow, and prayer. It may also be related to the earlier generic term, altered states of consciousness, which is no longer used in "Consciousness Studies" discourse.
Trance is from Latin "transīre": to cross, pass over and the multiple meaning of the polyvalent homonym "entrance" as a verb and noun provide insight into the nature of trance as a threshold, conduit, portal and/or channel.
Trance, n. [F. "transe" fright, in OF. also, trance or swoon, fr. "transir" to chill, benumb, to be chilled, to shiver, OF. also, to die, L. "transire" to pass over, go over, pass away, cease; trans across, over + ire to go; cf. L. "transitus" a passing over. See Issue, and cf. Transit.
An intransitive usage of the verb "trance" now obsolete is "to pass", "to travel".
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