Trance Formation: The Spiritual and Religious Dimensions of Global Rave Culture
Millions of people on every continent of planet Earth, regularly coming together in ecstatic trance-dance celebrations held and energized by pulsing electronic beats, are having the deepest spiritual experience of their lives. In this thoroughly fascinating study, religious scholar Robin Sylvan makes a convincing case for regarding the global rave culture as an authentic expression of a unifying spiritual vision that integrates across all languages, religions and nationalities. Reading this book, as well as going to a rave, will leave you inspired and hopeful for our sadly fractured world.–Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., co-author ofThe Psychedelic Experienceand author ofThe Unfolding Self