If you’ve ever sat down to meditate or do a ritual, closed your eyes, tried to sink into that deep altered state you keep reading about, and then just… sat there thinking about what to have for dinner ...

These can range from zoning out when someone is yelling at you, to running on adrenaline when you have an accident. Trance states are a form of dissociating, which can be beneficial. But you don't ...

This morning I gave a short lecture on trance states. I only wanted to make a point about the use of the metaphor of going deep into something. Going deep into something presupposes operating with the ...

Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil analyzed the cerebral blood flow (CBF) of Brazilian mediums during the practice of psychography, described as a ...

With just about three weeks until Rotterdam’s inaugural A State of Trance festival, Armin van Buuren has shared all details of the daytime programme, completing the full weekend itinerary. Van Buuren ...

Is there a difference between being in “trance” and being in a “hypnotic state”? I find these two terms quite confusing because of what I have experienced involving these two states of consciousness.