consensus trance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An automated state of consciousness; actually, the normal consciousness, based on the premise that people believe what they are told to be true as opposed to what they have themselves realized to be true.

Word forms

consensus trance consensus trances

Etymology

Coined by American psychologist Charles T. Tart.

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