Questions of dreaming, death, and shared consciousness are central to our collective imagination as these matters persist as popular topics for debate and as part of our desire for self-understanding. This groundbreaking study of entrancement manifest in dreams, music, the sacred, and shared feeling brings together a staggering number of fields to explore multiple forms of consciousness. Ruth Finnegan engages with her peers working in anthropology, ethnomusicology, sociology, psychology, parapsychology, cognitive science, and more, to build a strikingly diverse base of evidence and analysis to consider a subject that is all too often overlooked. Entrancement provides a comprehensive and original look at altered states of consciousness and their impacts on our minds, bodies, cultures, and selves.