Motif
bodily and artistic means of inducing trance
bodily_and_artistic_means_of_inducing_trance
A motif of the Mystical Quest and Interior Journey family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
sufi
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The Mystics of Islam II. NEOPLATONISM / IV. BUDDHISM / CHAPTER I / THE PATH; lines 1191-1282 confidence: medium
Aids to recollection include Shibli beating himself with sticks in a cellar, Indian inhaling and exhaling breath known to ninth-century Sufis and later used, and Dervish music, singing, and dancing to induce the trance called passing-away or fanā.
The passage lists self-beating, breath control, music, singing, and dancing as aids that can induce the trance of passing-away.
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