But often they required great personal or financial sacrifice. Sometimes, too, the designers of trance didn't know why a particular practice or ritual was effective. They just knew that it worked. One of the problems in letting yourself be programmed by someone who doesn't really know what they are doing or who has a misguided or nefarious agenda is that you can be programmed wrongly. You can be programmed to self-destruct, for example.
Many people like to get high with trance.
They are tired of drugs and alcohol and the dangers those bring. But trance is interesting only if you can control it yourself. Anyway, just getting high with trance is useful mostly as an escape. Used with careful precision trance can also be used as a powerful tool for exploring different and exotic states of consciousness including what Jung termed the shadow self. In every area where there is repeated cognitive looping there will be a trance, according to my model, with consequent disabling of cognitive function.