The global picture of altered consciousness
 

Lewis, recapping, on 57:
 
states of "altered consciousness and dissociation" are universal
 
"these may be explained in different cultures either mystically or non-mystically (and sometimes in both ways in different contexts). Spirit posession and soul-loss (sometimes more accurately described by Linton's term 'soul-projection') are the two principal mystical explanations"
 
"Possession is believed to be both involuntary (or uncontrolled) and voluntary (or controlled)"

> from I. M. Lewis' Ecstatic Religion (2002)

> tagged with #ecstasy, #trance, #consciousness

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