Interactive Mindfulness

What is Trance?

Trance isn’t some rare, far-off state. It’s here. It’s everywhere. It’s what happens when the mind forgets its performance and falls into presence.

You’ve been in trance a thousand times already today.
When the book swallowed you.
When the music carried you.
When the kiss erased time.
When pain or pleasure drew you so deep into your body the world outside dissolved.

That’s trance.

There are shallow ones—like flow, like good conversation, like losing yourself in a movie. They bend time, shift awareness, loosen the grip of past and future.

And then there are the deep ones. The ones that take you out of ordinary reality altogether. Healing, hallucinatory, erotic, dangerous. They can rewire you. They can break you. They can save you.

Emotion is the gatekeeper. Desire. Grief. Rage. Ecstasy. Fear. Love. Each can narrow your world until there is nothing left but the truth inside it.

Most people think these states happen to them. That they’re at the mercy of circumstance, chemicals, other people. That’s why they’re easy to manipulate. Sometimes that’s play. Sometimes that’s peril.

But trance is a power. A human superpower. With it, you can bend your experience of reality—shape it, sculpt it, rewrite it. No drugs required.

This is why I practice. Why I train discipline, mindfulness, awareness. To choose my states. To choose my power. To choose my pleasure.

Tantra, for me, is trance in partnership. Interactive mindfulness. A deliberate exchange of attention, sensation, energy, and power. It’s not about gender, symbols, or roles unless you want it to be. It’s about what happens when two beings decide to share a state—on purpose.

That’s where the magic begins.
That’s where reality bends.
That’s where you stop performing and start becoming.