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J. Preud homme, P. Tarridec, and A. BeUoc, Bull Soc. Chim. Trance ., 585 (1968). 

Phencyclidine (l-[l-phenylcyclohexyl] piperidine, PCP) was originally developed as an intravenous anesthetic in the 1950s. Used for this indication, it causes a trance-like state without loss of consciousness and was hence classified as a dissociative anesthetic. However, it was soon withdrawn from human use because it produced unpleasant hallucinations, agitation, and delirium. The product was later used in veterinary medicine. Ketamine, a chemically closely related substance, was developed to replace PCP and is stiU in use as a dissociative anesthetic in children. Ketamine is less potent than PCP, and its effects are of shorter duration. However, it may also cause hallucinations (see the section on ketamine in Chapter 7, Club Drugs ). Much of the ketamine sold on the street (special K, cat Valium) has been diverted from veterinarians offices. 

When his gaze returned to mine I held it, then reached up and pulled the pins from my hair. It fell heavily about me with a breath of chamomile and feverfew he caught at the locks with both hands and buried his face in them so that they overflowed between his fingers. Then he let it fall and put up a hand to stroke the strands away from my face, and kissed me, not greedily now, but as if in a trance. 

O Brien tells her tale with the help of the man who rescued her from this dilemma, Mark Phillips in the book, Trance-Formation of America. She claims that her future was sealed from the moment of birth in December of 1957, "My pedophile father,... 

Obviously, the book Trance-Formation gives full details of the rescue and how by selling his possessions and constantly moving, he managed to stay ahead of those who he suspected wished him and Cathy dead. While both have attempted legal action in Tennessee to redress these injuries and to get her daughter Kelly, out of a mental institution in Tennessee, they have been stonewalled in fact the justification of national security has been used as a brick wall to separate mother and daughter. 

Trance-Formation of Americaby Cathy O Brien and Mark Phillips, Reality Marketing Inc. Available through Adventures Unlimited Press, PO Box 74, Kempton, 111. 60946 15... 

With the arrival of Homo sapiens about 35,000 years ago, the first healers or shamans ingested or smoked mushrooms and plants in order to get into a trance and would mentally fly to another level of reality, in which they could communicate with animal spirits tell the hunters where preys were likely to be found. 

Second International Symposium on PVC, Lyon-Villeurbanne, trance, 273 (1976). ... 

Wong BR, Rho J, Arron J, Robinson E, Orlinick J, Chao M, Kalachikov S, Cayani E, Bartlett FS, III, Frankel WN, Lee SY, Choi Y (1997) TRANCE is a novel ligand of the tumor necrosis factor receptor family that activates c-Jun N-terminal kinase in T cells. J Biol Chem 272 25190-25194... 

Other accidents could have introduced early cultures to the hallucinatory effects. While harvesting the plant for seeds (for oil) or fiber, accidental fires could have produced a resinous smoke, which was then inhaled. The smoke would have also appealed to the magicoreligious practices of native shamans (30). The smoke itself is inherently evocative of visions and mystery—a natural medium for shamanism It contained a property that could induce a form of trance it was readily consumed by the cleansing power of fire its smoke rose to the abode of the gods and it allowed dreams to be materialized. 

The second objective is to bring the vital energy (prana) into the Shushumna channel. This usually only happens in sleep or as death approaches, which is why trance work plays a part in some esoteric practices and why the ancient manuals acquired such names as the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Only by esoteric practice can the vital energy be made to enter the Shushumna outside of sleep or death. When this happens, Kundalini is activated and rises. As it ascends, dualistic states of mind are annulled and realization is achieved. 

The world of dreams and the wake-world met on that threshold, and he knew now the secret of passing over. For in the great moments of life we cross the threshold in a kind of trance that has been described by those who have known it as a lesser death— when St. Theresa swooned in the Divine Union, when Keats first looked into Chapman s Homer. . . they knew that lesser death and its illuminations. Whoso has never experienced this flux of the soul in some transcendent experience lacks the key to Life.8... 

Henbane is a biennial herb growing wild in Europe, western Asia, and northern Africa, and cultivated in several other countries (Robbers et al. 1996). The ancient Egyptians mention its use in the Ebers Papyrus, written circa 1500 B.C.E. (Shultes and Hofman 1992). It was also mentioned in writings by the ancient Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides for its medicinal uses. It has been suggested that the Oracle of Delphi inhaled smoke from henbane seeds to induce a prophetic trance. The plant is poisonous to livestock animals, as indicated by its common name henbane, and by its botanical name hyoscyamus, meaning "hog bean."... 

Kim, N., Odgren, P.R., Kim, D K., Marks, S.C. Jr, and Choi, Y. (2000) Diverse Roles of the Tumor Necrosis Factor Family Member TRANCE in Skeletal Physiology Revealed by TRANCE Deficiency and Partial Rescne by a Lymphocyte-Expressed TRANCE Transgene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 97, 10905-10910. 

In those early mushroom experiences at La Chorrera there was an aura of the animate and the strange, the idea that the mushroom was somehow more than a plant hallucinogen or even a shamanic ally of the classic sort. It had begun to dawn on me that the mushroom was in fact a kind of intelligent entity—not of earth—alien and able during the trance to communicate its personality as a presence in the inward-turned perceptions of its beholder. 

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