| The shamanic trance, of all a shaman does, is most | | | | detachment occurs. There may be visual illusions and |
| often discussed and is frequently viewed as the | | | | you will be aware you are in a trance. |
| ultimate experience in shamanism. The shamanic | | | | The third level brings full recognition that you are in a |
| trance is not something that can be achieved with one | | | | trance. Here you may actually choose a part of your |
| lesson from some site on the internet or can it be | | | | body to not feel pain. There is a greater sensitivity to |
| thoroughly learned from a seminar or internet course. | | | | temperature changes as well as to atmospheric |
| Practice makes perfect is the credo. | | | | pressure. There will be loss of voluntary motion and |
| Generally speaking there are four basic levels of a | | | | reaction of external stimuli. |
| shamanic trance. Stages might be more appropriate. It | | | | The fourth and final stage or level of the shamanic |
| is not the intent or is it the suggestion that a shaman | | | | trance your eyes may be opened and cause no ill |
| goes through each of these levels each time he or | | | | effect in the trance. Control over several body |
| she goes into a trance. Well practiced shaman may | | | | functions such as heart beat, blood pressure, and body |
| very well go directly to the fourth level or stage in the | | | | temperature become possible. Memories will be |
| trance. | | | | recalled and age regression may come into play. |
| The first level is common among beginners. One has a | | | | There will be a feeling of lightness, of floating or flying. |
| sense of being physically relaxed; even drowsy. There | | | | Visual and auditory hallucinations are possible while at |
| is a tendency to just stare off into space, unseeing. | | | | this level of the trance. The shaman who is in this |
| The pulse rate slows. The second level produces a | | | | stage travels into dreamtime and there receives his or |
| feeling that the whole body is heavy; a sense of | | | | her instruction. |