The heeby geebies are the precursor to a trance.
It is natural to feel fear as we enter a trance because we are going to be vulnerable without our cognitive faculties.
And I believe it is your natural fear that leads you to rationalise that trance is unhealthy.
In fact trance is a normal part of life and most trances are entered into unconsciously. You enter the hypnogogic trance as you fall asleep every night and as you wake every morning. You enter the sexual trance when you make love. You enter a light trance when you watch TV. You even enter a light trance when you ride in an elevator.
The trances you enter as a matter of course every day are too numerous to mention. But every time you go to the movies you enter the movie trance. When you give birth, you enter the birth trance. Runners enter the running trance. Why, even Colema enters the walking trance.
When you go to Mass, you enter the religious trance. And when you attend a dinner party, you enter a group trance. Music induces the music trance. And when you drink, you enter the alcoholic trance. And of course there are the cigarette trance, the marijana trance, the heroin trance and the meth trance.
Sharmans have been using naturally occurring narcotics to enter sharmanic trances for millennia.
And of course there are the psychotic trances such as the schizophrenic trance.
And last but not least, are the addictive trances which consist of double trances, one trance that is induced inside another trance - these are very difficult trances to terminate.
And almost all these trances are culturally sanctioned trances - they are taken for granted - and they very rarely give the warning sign of fear - so you don't even notice them - they are normal.
However we are now moving into the Noosphere, the global village, the neo-tribal village, which is all about trance.
And we are unprepared.
So we need to learn to understand trances - we need to learn how to design trances safely.
The great artists of the Noosphere will be trance designers.
And you may learn about trance and trance design on
The Trance Institute