Entrancement

Questions of dreaming, death, and shared consciousness are central to our collective imagination as these matters persist as popular topics for debate and as part of our desire for self-understanding. This groundbreaking study of entrancement manifest in dreams, music, the sacred, and shared feeling brings together a staggering number of fields to explore multiple forms of consciousness. Ruth Finnegan engages with her peers working in anthropology, ethnomusicology, sociology, psychology, parapsychology, cognitive science, and more, to build a strikingly diverse base of evidence and analysis to consider a subject that is all too often overlooked. Entrancement provides a comprehensive and original look at altered states of consciousness and their impacts on our minds, bodies, cultures, and selves.