Laura Lee & Paul Robear love to talk their work with Ecstatic Trance Postures. Ask them about:

+ decoding select ancient artwork depicting postures as ‘ritual instructions’ and their use

+ the oldest artifact inspiring a posture dates to the Paleolithic at 40,000 years old

+ what happens in a typical spirit journey trance, going from our everyday ordinary to the non-ordinary or alternate reality and back

+ the power of the ritual’s signals to the body and the ensuring physiological shift supporting the trance state

+ finding traces of a long history of spirit journeys in folklore, myth, ancient art, cave walls and wisdom traditions worldwide

+ why no outside agents, plant medicine, etc are need for this, as its built into our DNA only requiring the activation the ritual provides              

+ the psycho-acoustics of “sonic driving”

+ the intriguing lab tests from the Universities of Munich & Vienna reveal brainwaves and biochemistry of this physiological shift

+ the experience, the biochemistry, and the neurology agree, this is a “waking dream”

+ how this work is portable, going from lab to conference room to a modern art exhibit

+ what Joseph Campbell did for the the world’s mythologies, Dr. Goodman did for the world’s rituals and opening up access to ecstatic trance

+ why there is no belief system. no dogma here 

+ why this work, though ancient, delivers to we time crunched moderns a dial-up-on demand experience, with instant results, taking up little time

+ how direct experiences of this non-ordinary or alternate reality looks like Einstein’s ‘spooky effect at a distance’ in action

+ what has kept us intrigued and inspired all this time

+ the mission of the Cuyamungue Institute, our current and future research, where we’d like to see this work go. Dr. Goodman’s final words