Thesis, PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references.

M.A. (Clinical Psychology) / The nature of hypnosis and trance is investigated in the context of Western psychology, and traditional African healing practises. The historical development, definitions of nature of hypnosis and trance, and theoretical background of both these phenomena are described. Similarities and differences between Western hypnosis and African trance are described. Western hypnosis and African trance are found to be embedded in the context which provides their meaning. The similarities and differences between the African healing trance induction process and the Western context of hypnotherapy are discussed in terms of the ecosystemic theories. The content and characteristics of hypnosis in these two spheres are not seen as important as is the context and process of these phenomena. It is found that the expected characteristics of hypnosis in Western psychotherapy, and traditional African trance states, and the similarities and differences between them, are not absolute realities, but rather culturally shaped experiences which people come to expect.

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<p>In this paper my aim is to understand the trance movement from within as a collective phenomenon. I went to Turkey with my boyfriend David on a trance gathering, a festival called A Total Solar Eclipse Festival. There I did participant observations and interviews.</p><p>Can Collins theory about interaction ritual be useful to raise the understanding? And is it fruitful to apply the term collective identity?</p><p>The collective identity is build up by the festival as interaction ritual. It generates solidarity, emotional energy and a sense of belonging.</p><p>In this paper I discuss different categories and symbols that the collective identity contains of. Like for example the music or the movement’s experience of the nature. The categories are symbols in that sense that they are norms and values which the participants bring along with them, they gets stronger and reproduces through the festival.</p><p>The categories that I have found I place under one main category called “liberation of spirituality” where feelings of timeless, present orientation and a break from ordinary life. But also feelings as freedom, beautiful nature, colours, music, and drugs that raise the spirit and scatter boarders.</p><p>The movement also contains conflicts, some of them they express explicitly and others they don’t mention more than implicit.</p>

In this paper my aim is to understand the trance movement from within as a collective phenomenon. I went to Turkey with my boyfriend David on a trance gathering, a festival called A Total Solar Eclipse Festival. There I did participant observations and interviews. Can Collins theory about interaction ritual be useful to raise the understanding? And is it fruitful to apply the term collective identity? The collective identity is build up by the festival as interaction ritual. It generates solidarity, emotional energy and a sense of belonging. In this paper I discuss different categories and symbols that the collective identity contains of. Like for example the music or the movement’s experience of the nature. The categories are symbols in that sense that they are norms and values which the participants bring along with them, they gets stronger and reproduces through the festival. The categories that I have found I place under one main category called “liberation of spirituality” where feelings of timeless, present orientation and a break from ordinary life. But also feelings as freedom, beautiful nature, colours, music, and drugs that raise the spirit and scatter boarders. The movement also contains conflicts, some of them they express explicitly and others they don’t mention more than implicit.

One of the techniques used to induce trance state in shamanic ceremonies is monotonous drumming. According to previous EEG research, certain patterns of drumming cause an increase in power of alpha and theta frequencies of the listener. Present study aimed to determine, if suggestion to experience trance state could increase the relative alpha and theta amplitude and the intensity of experienced state. A group of twenty-four subjects participated in the study. Suggestion to experience trance state decreased alpha frequency power during the drumming condition. No other significant effects of suggestion or drumming were found.

Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies. / Typescript. Title of accompanying DVD: Conversations with Maya Deren. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-158). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR11796

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Tesis para optar al título de Magíster en Artes Mención Dirección Teatral / Esta tesis tiene como propósito investigar sobre los estados en los que el espectador se ve involucrado cuando presencia una puesta en escena, como el goce, el trance y el Tarab y las maneras en las que se puede habitar el espacio escénico pensando en el espectador como ente poético capaz de transitar hacia un goce colectivo. En el trabajo práctico, se escribió y dirigió la obra Doulab: La Rueda, que trata sobre la migración de una familia sirio-libanesa, y que utiliza dispositivos lúdicos y rituales culturales para proponer el encuentro. Se describen las posibles implicancias de aceptar el cuerpo del espectador en escena, proponiendo la integración de él a través de actos performativos culturales y aceptando el tiempo del cuerpo del otro como parte del tiempo estético de la obra, que está pensada desde el concepto de sistema en tiempo real / Trance-Actos performativos- Sistema en tiempo real´.

Submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Philosophy of Arts in Psychology. / This thesis involved a psychological study of the shamanic trance states of South African shamans. Literature on shamanism has marginalized or neglected Africa. The aim of this study was to establish the main elements unique to South African shamanic trance states, as well as to establish common factors with other traditions of shamanism. The developmental aspect of the South African trance states was investigated in order to highlight and explore possible pathological or transcendental aspects of such trance states.(Abbreviation abstract) / Andrew Chakane 2020