In Community

The other day while using the Priestess of Malta posture and listening to and feeling the drumming I found myself in a hunter-gathering village. The drum was calling the people of the village community together. In experiencing the village community I felt the closeness and mutual understanding of the community members and realized that the closeness of the community was an important feature in their ability to communicate at a distance, of the ability to know what other village members were doing when at a distance from each other such as when a group of the men were out hunting.

Ecstatic trance experiences offer many and regular examples of mental telepathy. The villages’ drumming and dancing ceremonies as an avenue to ecstatic trance keeps this ability to communicate at a distance alive. Though we now do not live in such village communities but at a greater distances from each other, the coming together regularly with practice and the beat of a drum can again bring us together in communion with each other. In my continued search to find those ways to experience and live the ways of the hunter-gatherers brings me to the hope that we can again regain the power to communicate with each other even when at a distance from each other. Meeting together in ecstatic trance and sharing our trance experiences brings us this sense of closeness and communion.