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Popular Article: Trance

The Oracle at Delphi, oil painting, John Collier, 1891

Trance is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli (but nevertheless capable of pursuing and realizing an aim) or is selectively responsive in following the directions of the person (if any) who has induced the trance. Trance states may be induced by various means or occur involuntarily and unbidden. The trance state may be associated with hypnosis, meditation, channeling, prayer, and altered states of consciousness. The person may experience healing, or in cases of religious ecstasy they may have visions of spirits and receive revelations.

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+image_desc=The [[Pythia|Oracle at Delphi]], oil painting, [[John Collier (painter)|John Collier]], 1891 |
-text='''[[Intelligent design]]''' (ID) is the view that it is possible to infer from empirical evidence that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as [[natural selection]]". Intelligent design cannot be inferred from complexity alone, since complex patterns often happen by chance. ID focuses on just those sorts of complex patterns that in human experience are produced by a mind that conceives and executes a plan. According to adherents, intelligent design can be detected in the natural laws and structure of the cosmos; it also can be detected in at least some features of [[life|living things]].
+text='''Trance''' is a state of semi-consciousness in which a person is not self-aware and is either altogether unresponsive to external stimuli (but nevertheless capable of pursuing and realizing an aim) or is selectively responsive in following the directions of the person (if any) who has induced the trance. Trance states may be induced by various means or occur involuntarily and unbidden. The trance state may be associated with [[hypnosis]], [[meditation]], [[mediumship|channeling]], [[prayer]], and [[altered states of consciousness]]. The person may experience healing, or in cases of [[religious ecstasy]] they may have visions of [[spirit]]s and receive [[revelation]]s.
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-Greater clarity on the topic may be gained from a discussion of what ID is not considered to be by its leading theorists. Intelligent design generally is not defined the same as [[creationism]], with proponents maintaining that ID relies on scientific evidence rather than on Scripture or [[religion|religious]] doctrines. ID makes no claims about [[Bible|biblical]] chronology, and technically a person does not have to believe in [[God]] to infer intelligent design in nature. As a theory, ID also does not specify the identity or nature of the designer, so it is not the same as [[natural theology]], which reasons from [[nature]] to the existence and attributes of God. ID does not claim that all [[species]] of living things were created in their present forms, and it does not claim to provide a complete account of the history of the universe or of living things.}}