Trance Institute

Courses offered or planned are divided into various departments. Under each department a few pertinent courses are offered.

The development of a four-year institute resulting in professional trance analysts, trance researchers and teachers of trance is a goal of the Trance Institute and the Trance Research Foundation.

To become a student of the Trance Institute, you must:

1. Register as a General Member of the Trance Research Foundation. Pay $50 annual membership.

2. Register as a user for Trance Courses (use the same name as you used as a General Member.

3. You will be manually contacted by email with a login to another trance site in order to contribute to and participate in discussions with other General Members and Officers of the Trance Research Foundation. This method prevents spammers and commercial penetration.

Trance Institute

Courses offered or planned are divided into various departments. Under each department a few pertinent courses are offered.

The development of a four-year institute resulting in professional trance analysts, trance researchers and teachers of trance is a goal of the Trance Institute and the Trance Research Foundation.

Trance Model

101 Introduction to Trance

What is trance theory? How do I recognize a trance? What does trance mean? This is an introduction to trance theory and its application in meditation, hypnosis and the professions. Trance will be explained, what it is, how it is created and what some of its effects are.

102 Introduction to Trance Theory

Introduction to the simplicity and profundities of trance theory. How to create a trance. What a trance is. How to create a meditation trance. How to create a hypnotic trance. How to create an addiction. How to create a charismatic (centric) trance. Complex trances. What is the trance-less state. How to recognize trance abuse and how to defend yourself against it. How to analyze trances. Introduction to trance design. How to break a trance. Schizophrenia: just another trance? Is Enlightenment a trance? What’s the difference between a Shaman and a Psychotic?

103 The Use and Abuse of Trance

The workshop defines trance in a practical way and shows by means of practical demonstrations how to meditate, hypnotise and how to break some kinds of addictions. The following topics will be covered:

• The recognition and effects of cults in the business place.

• Beneficial effects of trance.

• Common and uncommon trances.

• The difference between healthy and pathological trance.

• How to recognize a trance.

• How to create a trance.

• How to terminate a trance.

• How to use trance for creativity and efficiency in the workplace.

• Ways to prevent trance abuse, etc.

Meditation

211 Beginning Meditation

Short discussion about what meditation is and why and how do it. The effects and side effects of meditation. Things to avoid. Lots of practice. Questions answered.

241 Intermediate medication

Techniques for deepening meditation. Meditation problems. Why and how to experiment.
Prerequisite: For meditators with at least three years meditation experience.

251 Advanced meditation

Techniques used for advanced inner exploration using complex forms of meditation trance. Prerequisite: For meditators with more than ten years experience.

Hypnosis

311 Beginning Hypnosis

What hypnosis is and why do it. Its effects and side effects. Lots of practice. Questions answered.

331 Intermediate Hypnosis

Intermediate hypnosis, discussion of effects and side effects. For persons interested in developing a deep trance in themselves, and others. Lots of practice. Questions answered.
Prerequisite: Beginning Hypnosis

341 Hypnotic Trance Design Techniques

Techniques for creating hypnotic trance. Designing trances for specific results. Forms of trance. For persons interested in developing a deep trance in themselves, and others. Lots of practice. Questions answered.
Prerequisite: Intermediate Hypnosis

351 Applied Hypnosis

Applied hypnosis, discussion of effects and side effects. For advertisers, politicians, trial lawyers and others
Prerequisite: Hypnosis Design

Addiction

431 Terminating Addictive Trance

Addictions as trance. Recognizing the structure of addiction. General forms of addictive trance. Prerequisite: Beginning hypnosis.

441 Drugs, Performance, and Behavior Addictions

Breaking complex trances including substance and performance addictions when considered to be forms of trance. Prerequisite: Terminating Addictive Trance.

451 Addictive Trance and Religious Devotional

Devotion as a form of trance. The difference between addiction and devotion.
Prerequisite: Terminating Addictive Trance.

Magic

521 Inner Magic

Magic occurs when the trance wyrd is sufficiently strong enough to change destiny. This course shows how the techniques of meditation and self-hypnosis influences and modifies personal destiny.

551 Ritual and Trance

Design of rituals used in religious, shamanistic, and magical practices. Why some rituals work and some do not. This is not an anthropology course. This is a ‘trance engineering’ course. Practice and laboratory.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Trance Theory, Advanced Meditation, Applied Hypnosis

561 Natural Religion and Trance magic

How trance is used to enter altered states. Subtile communication techniques and subtile senses are developed. This is a practical course.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Trance Theory, Intermediate Meditation

Music

621 Electronic Trance Music Basics

How to make trance music using MIDI, software synthesizers, hardware needed. This is a basic course to become familiar with the technology.

631 Analysis of Music with Trance Theory

Music: of all musical genres including drum and bass, acid and goa trance, traditional voodoo, shamanistic, native and electronic forms. Using the tools of trance theory, participants learn how to analyze music.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Trance Theory

641 Voodoo, African and Eastern Trance Music

Examination and analysis of various traditional music and their effects.

651 Trance Music Theory and Design

Electronic garage techniques, equipment and production are discussed.

Charisma

741 Gurus, Leaders, Cults and Trance Abuse

The psychology of gurus, cults and the use and effects of trance engineering. The effect of trance techniques on individual cognitive functions and the suspension of personal responsibility. Secrecy and hidden agendas.
Prerequisite: Beginning Meditation, Introduction to Trance Theory

742 Trance in Meida and Politics

Wake UP! We are bombarded with trance on a daily basis. This course is about becoming accutely aware of how trance is used in news, politics, advertising and tv programming to perpetutate misconceptions, perpetrate fraud, and indoctrinate viewers into the dominant culture. We have to get outside the trance to see it, and we have to see it to resist it. There will be weekly assignments that will require watching TV and making notes to discuss in class. We’ll also talk about the stages of waking and how it may affect the individual psychologically, as well as how to deal with waking in a sleep walking culture.

751 Entertainment Charisma

What makes a person famous? How do they do it? How do they blow it?
Prerequisite: Beginning Meditation, Introduction to Trance Theory

752 Poetry/Semiotics/Trance

761 Alchemical Trance Light Shows

An alchemical light show was used by ancient alchemists in the middle ages. C.J.Jung described such a light show in his work on Alchemy. Taking a cue from Jung, Dennis Wier developed the alchemical light show in the 1960’s. For examples, see www.serene.org For two years, every week, he performed these lightshows for private groups. He also did the light show with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention in Los Angeles. Most recently he did a performance at the Dinamo in Zürich, Switzerland. His light show was also photographed by Look magazine and was on CBS News with Walter Cronkite. These light shows produce a trance which can have healing effects when experienced multiple times. Private and public shows can be booked for any event from raves, to clinical settings, from photographic sessions to business workshops. Training, equipment and chemical list and usage, and all techniques of operation are fully covered in this course.

Trance Analysis

801 Trance Analysis Basics

The practical application of trance theory to individual psychology. Is your meditation and prayer technique up to snuff? Individual addictions require individual trance analysis. Hypnotherapists and psychologists learn the specific basis of intervention techniques here.

851 Trance Analysis Professional Cases

Discussion with psychotherapists, hypnotherapists, and others interested in discussing the practical application of trance theory to cases and professional practices.
Prerequisite: Beginning Meditation, Introduction to Trance Theory, professional or therapeutic practice.

Trance Research

925 Teaching trance Skills

You have a skill either as a meditation, hypnosis instructor or as a therapist. When oriented with trance theory you begin to understand what you do in a different light. This course shows you how to teach what you already know in a new way.

956 Graduate Seminar

Trance research problems. Current research. Preparation for thesis.
Prerequisite: Permission of Director

 

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