Ethno Therapy, Music and Trance: An EEG Investigation into a Sound-Trance Induction

Fachner, Jörg; Rittner, Sabine

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-18047-7_11

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“…Participants reported trance reduced their anxiety and stress, instilled feelings of comfort, a sense of well‐being that lasted for hours, awakened creativity, and the feeling of oneness with “the universe” (Goodman, 1988b). Independent studies by Guttmann (1992) ( N = 10 participants), Fachner and Rittner (2007) ( N = 2 participants), and Hunger and Rittner (2015) ( N = 19 participants) confirmed these basic results.…”

Section: Ritual Body Postures and Their Influence On Trancementioning

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Trance, posture, and tobacco in the Casas Grandes shamanic tradition: Altered states of consciousness and the interaction effects of behavioral variables

VanPool,

Lee,

Robear

et al. 2023

Anthropol of Consciousness

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Here, we describe how Casas Grandes Medio period (AD 1200 to 1450) shamanic practices of the North American Southwest used tobacco shamanism, a ritual stance called the Tennessee Diviner (TD) posture, and cultural expectations to generate trance experiences of soul flight and divination. We introduce a conceptual model that holds that specific trance experiences are the emergent result of human minds interacting with additional factors including entheogens, cultural expectations, physiological states, postures/movement, and sound/stimulation. Experimental and ethnographic evidence indicates initiating trance with either tobacco intoxication or the TD posture accompanied with a rapidly beating drum or rattle corresponds with perceptions of soul flight, transformation, and divination/information acquisition. Both have similar results but pairing them together as they were during the Medio period likely helped ensure the culturally desired trance experiences. This practice of mutually reinforcing factors was likely part of tobacco‐based shamanism found in other New World cultures as well. We suggest our general model can be applied to other contexts to examine how various aspects of trance induction interact to produce the cultural patterns (and resulting cosmological and spiritual frameworks) anthropologists have documented in other cultures.

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Section: Ritual Body Postures and Their Influence On Trancementioning

confidence: 63%

Trance, posture, and tobacco in the Casas Grandes shamanic tradition: Altered states of consciousness and the interaction effects of behavioral variables

VanPool,

Lee,

Robear

et al. 2023

Anthropol of Consciousness

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“…I complement a robust series of studies of human brain and biological reward systems involved in both substance addiction (Tucker, Vuchinich, Black, & Rippens, 2006; Tucker, Vuchinich, & Rippens, 2002) and music (Menon & Levitin, 2005; Zatorre & Salimpoor, 2013), as well as their interrelationships, by mapping social elements of music that impact addiction prevention and recovery. I highlight a variety of ways of understanding connecting socially around music—beyond music as biological reward (see Fachner, 2006, 2017)—that can aide stable remission and generate better long-term prognoses.…”

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The social potential of music for addiction recovery

Harrison

2019

Music & Science

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This article examines music and music scholarship vis-à-vis research findings in addictions sciences. It explains how music is socially useful for preventing and treating addiction. Making music with others, and all of the social and cultural activities that go into doing so—musicking—can foster psychosocial integration and social cohesion, via specific cultural and musical mechanisms, and in ways that can salve addictions. Alexander’s social dislocation theory of addiction serves as the theoretical framework for the study. I draw empirical support for the discussion from my long-term ethnographic fieldwork on Indigenous addiction rehabilitation settings in Vancouver, Canada. My analysis of those settings finds that connecting socially via musicking in ways that can prevent and treat addiction happens through different ways of being, ideas and focuses of attention—such as constructs of ethnicity, around spirituality/religion, and social and political values—that are shared among musicking people and perceived via their eight senses (the auditory, visual, tactile, gustatory, olfactory, vestibular, proprioceptive, and interoceptive). This article responds to a lack of music and cultural research on the correlation between social disconnection and addiction as well as a lack of study on the social potential of musical cultures to prevent and treat addictions. The article lays groundwork for future research on the roles that musicking can play in addiction recovery.

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“…Physioacoustic relaxation-induction and creative work on recall of addictive states and motivation helped to overcome gambling 34 . Exposure to slow pulsations and monochrome sound induces a relaxation response shifting attention focus and altering consciousness 35,36 . In a study with depressed clients comparing treatment with Indian 'relaxation' music or hypnotics the authors discussed that "the effects of music could be equivalent to 10 mg of Chlordiazepoxide or 7 mg of Diazepam" 37 .…”

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Retraining of drug reward, music cues and state-dependent recall in music therapy

Fachner

2017

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Brain research revealed that pleasant music appreciation is processed in same brain reward areas as euphoriant drugs. This indicates a similarity in processing intensity of emotions in the brain. These insights shed a new light on how music and emotion are linked in the brain. However, patients, with a history of drug-induced euphoria, may experience a state-dependent recall induced from certain individually perceived cues, which have been experienced together with drugs, as memory traces are stored as conditioned secondary rewards in drug memory. Music’s state-dependent cognition processes seem to be recalled (and thereby also the drug action) when listening to music without being under the influence. These learning processes have to be focused and transformed in therapy by offering new ways of learning to recognize, retrain and integrate state-specific emotional responses to preferred music to rebalance emotion and experiencing reward.

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Ethno Therapy, Music and Trance: An EEG Investigation into a Sound-Trance Induction

Cited by 8 publications

References 23 publications

Trance, posture, and tobacco in the Casas Grandes shamanic tradition: Altered states of consciousness and the interaction effects of behavioral variables

Trance, posture, and tobacco in the Casas Grandes shamanic tradition: Altered states of consciousness and the interaction effects of behavioral variables

The social potential of music for addiction recovery

Retraining of drug reward, music cues and state-dependent recall in music therapy

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