A Turning Point in Ecstatic Trance

Today is a turning point in my research on ecstatic trance with the release of my book “Applying the Constructivist Approach to Cognitive Therapy: Resolving the Unconscious Past.” It places ecstatic trance in a prominent position among other ways of accessing the unconscious mind to resolve unconscious issues by offering two chapters that address its use for resolving such issues, one on Felicitas Goodman’s research and the power of the ecstatic postures, and the second on ecstatic soul retrieval. This book is published by the academic publisher Routledge as a potential text book to be used in teaching an expanded approach to cognitive therapy. Beside the traditional modalities in therapy of dream work, guided imagery, clinical hypnosis and analytical hypnotherapy for accessing the unconscious, ecstatic trance and ecstatic soul retrieval are presented as another powerful modality for delving into the unconscious past.
I feel that this is an important turning point in having ecstatic trance become more broadly accepted as we move into a new world, the New Age. Ecstatic trance has been used over the centuries by the hunting-gathering people of the world as an effective way of healing and looking beyond our so-called rational world of the five senses to the world of the spirits. Now, with our new understanding of world of the spirits, the world beyond that which has been considered rational, a real world of growing acceptance, it is time to accept this ancient avenue of healing into our current practices of healing.