Rye great Insight (rhyme)Rye wrote:This is slightly OT, but I do not agree with the above description of trance, which is a mental state. Inducing a trance via physical exhaustion may be the goal in all this whirling or rigourous activity-- a "trance" seems to be the ability to empty one's mind of all thoughts, including the last remnant thought that says "have I stopped thinking?". There are other ways to induce such mental states -- various religions have this notion of repeating a specific phrase, japam, or "hail mary" as a means of getting the mind to drop down to "absolute zero".
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Dance is meant to help tuning the right mental, emotional frequencies as 400% tool or aid. Agree mind can be emptied by using mind only like some one said take out the thorn with thorn.