Charley Tart on Consensus Trance:
- Interesting challenge to conventional notions of “conscious thought” as, instead, “consensus trance.” From the intro, a clip relevant to the Global Cooling campaign:
The relationship between the use of language and the induction of trance states might be one of the keys to understanding life in the last years of the technology millenium. What if we’re all in a trance, and have been given hypnotic suggestions to ignore the evidence that we are in a trance? As we stumble around, bedazzled, enormous machines eat the earth. How would we treat people who try to tell us that we need to wake up?
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- Interesting dialogue between two thinking (and opposing) individuals on the validity of ancient religion in the modern world.
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