Trance position

Salvinorin comes on with an irresistibly powerful, spiraling force which is much stronger than that felt on any other psychedelic. During the onset I quickly fall into a trance, while my body feels permeated by "needle-like" anesthetic sensations. Both of these sensations are quite similar to what I feel during the onset of smoked N.N. DMT. Within seconds of this first phase, the salvinorin separates my awareness from my body, similarly to what occurs with 5-MeO- DMT or Ketamine. Salvinorin is quite distinct from Ketamine, however, in that like DMT, salvinorin exudes a strongly life-positive energy, where Ketamine does not necessarily have this predilection. 

The content of the experience has an emotional richness that is profoundly deep, yet so positive that one must laugh aloud. Inevitably, the subjective richness, and the apparent self-coherence of the content of the tryptamine trance, leads those who experience it to wonder after its implications for modem humans. The idea of the simultaneous coexistence of an alien dimension all around us is as strange an idea in the context of modem society as it must have been to the first shamans, whose experiments with psychoactive plants would have soon brought them to the same tryptamine doorway. What is the nature of the invisible landscape beyond that doorway The answer to the question is linked to the question of the nature of mind. If the world beyond the doorway can be given consensual validation of the sort extended to the electron and the black hole—in other words, if the world beyond the doorway is found to be a necessary part of scientifically mature thinking about the world—then our own circumscribed historical stmggle will be subject to whole new worlds of possibility. 

In spite of the positive uses of hypnosis in medicine and psychotherapy and as an aid to learning, and in spite of decades of work by responsible professionals to educate the public to have a more positive view of hypnosis, in common usage hypnosis is still usually referred to as a trance. Hypnosis has negative connotations a hypnotized person is thought to lack animation, to be pardy asleep, to be in Ae power of the superior mind and will of the hypnotist, to be controlled and manipulated. 

A major function of the teacher is to prevent a work group from turning into a culture with a different trance state. It is possible that a teacher may not be awake enough to fully prevent this, however, or may not fully recognize its dangers, especially if, as discussed elsewhere, the teacher s own flaws are being magnified in a positive feedback loop. 

Here the orbitals are not in position to overlap effectively in the it manner. The favored configuration is expected to have the axes of the - it orbitals parallel as a result all the atoms directly attached by jsp -cr bonds to the ethylenic linkage should all lie in the same plane. This is, of course, in agreement with experiment. Since considerable energy would have to be put in to break the -ITdouble bond and to permit rotation about the remaining sp -a bond, restricted rotation and stable r io — tranc are expected. 

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