The Purpose of Trance
Minister Simone Key
My exploration of the trance state began in the 1980’s. Up until then, I was quite cynical about trance and I can now admit that, at that time, it really scared me. I had attended many public trance demonstrations where mediums’ faces were distorted, voices were hauntingly inhuman and their demeanour was certainly not of our world and, as I later discovered, not of the spirit world’s either! One day, I was giving a practice private reading to a friend and I suddenly felt different, almost distant and not of the present. The spirit world had used this opportunity to change the energy so I became more passive and they could lead me into an altered state of consciousness. I remember feeling that I was ‘stepping back’ within myself and my friend could see this happening, as she was also mediumistic. The spirit world spoke through me very quickly for just a few minutes and that was the start of my trance mediumship.
“To achieve the trance state, we must withdraw our awareness from the ‘here and now’, moving our minds into that state of stillness and silence”
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