Greetings all yee worshippers of music. I am curious to hear about people's experience attaining trance state while performing music, dancing, listening, etc.
My own personal expereinces have been through drumming and singing. Usually while drumming for at leaste 30 minutes to an hour, my identity is gone. I have had numerous visualizations, or sensations of my body being taken over by an older entity. This entity is usually a male, African tribesman. I feel as though I am transported back to a past life. There are moments where I get thrown back into my body and look down at my hands, wondering how I am creating the rhythms. They were not taught to me, they just happen.
PLease share!
My own personal expereinces have been through drumming and singing. Usually while drumming for at leaste 30 minutes to an hour, my identity is gone. I have had numerous visualizations, or sensations of my body being taken over by an older entity. This entity is usually a male, African tribesman. I feel as though I am transported back to a past life. There are moments where I get thrown back into my body and look down at my hands, wondering how I am creating the rhythms. They were not taught to me, they just happen.
PLease share!
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Re: TRANCE
Sun, April 16, 2006 - 3:06 PMMy personal experience with trance is CLARITY.
It's the moment when I'm totally present with myself, the musicians I'm performing with, and the audience who is listening. I'm completly clear in this present moment, my mind is totally focused, my hands, heart and mind are linked.
Often, peoplehave said to me after a performance "wow, it's like you were someplace else, like you were gone!" Then I have to burst their bubble by saying "I don't go anywhere, it's all about being present and focused."
It's easy to get intoxicated with the first ripple of trancing, and many people confuse this state with being aware. When a child spins and gets dizzy, they enjoy the state of altering their consciousness.
But all it is, is just being dizzy.
Sufi's say the intoxication state is a pitfall for many, because they want to stay in that dreamy state of child-like dizziness, and they confuse it with being enlightened. They also say that this is barely the 1st step. What most people think of as trance, is the realm that needs to be transcended.
My most powerful moments of trancing were of total clarity and balance.
You also get what you look for, the experience is different for everybody.
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Sun, April 16, 2006 - 11:01 PMNot only playing, but listening and now dancing. There are some music tracks that I just loose myself into, and they range from ancient drumming to Guns n' Roses. I just feel like I'm somehow wrapped up in the sound, or I'm floating in the space of the sound.
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Re: TRANCE
Mon, April 24, 2006 - 12:03 AMI absolutely agree with what you said, and I will add that this feeling of clarity and focusness can be compared with the feeling of acceleration and speed. It's as if time looses it's meaning and you and the universe around you become one. It's a moment (but it feels like eternity) of self realization. Some people tell me that this is basically you seeing and moving your perseption of reality to a higher energy plane, I don't know for sure. All I know is that it's probably what being god feels like and that I have managed to only get small glimpses of it, but it sure is not trance like. No dizzyness, no going anywhere, just pure connection to everything in the universe. I call it, "The moment of universal self-realization"
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Fri, July 7, 2006 - 6:59 AMI've entered trance through drumming and dancing. i love when it happens in drumming. everyone falls into a groove and a huge space opens up and everybody grins like an idiot and a primal joy explodes. I get the same thing in drum set drumming when I'm tight in the pocket and I hit a synchopated fill. Man! Nothing better! -
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Fri, July 14, 2006 - 6:31 PMi have attended ceremonies in brazil using ayahuasca and music together in a church setting. the music becomes three dimensional, the words and sounds of the portuguese have a special quality, very quickly people have religious experiences and realizations. without the music, it is still a special thing, but the hymns that are considered received from the astral have certain vibrations believed to heal and teach people who hear them and especially people who sing them. this was in the santo daime church. some people shake or scream or have other strong reactions in the body and when they do the singers repeat the song that seemed to instigate it, to intensify the healing power of the song. some hymns are in a collection called the st michael collection and they are sung during ceremonies where the spirits are called down to heal the people in the room and also other suffering spirits are called to be transmuted through the bodies of the participants if they seek the light. the music instigates all of this. the end result is a purification of the participants. -
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Re: TRANCE
Wed, July 26, 2006 - 12:19 PMIt is like a "holy communion" of sorts
Like when you are writing a story, sometimes it takes on a life of its own and you are the conduit that it passes through, your gift is the connection to that "psychic realm" of dreams, emotions and experience -
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Mon, November 20, 2006 - 10:41 AMWhen I play my singing crystal bowls, I immediately enter the 'trance' state. I believe that the music note F# connects us to spirit, and we enter into the spirit relam, more than any other note. I travel and perform for many different groups and they all join me effortlessly. As I play daily, most of time I am in trance state, feet in both worlds, simultaneously. Spirit finds this is a grea time to speak through me and guide me. The music takes on its own life and I become the song.........
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