Etymology

consensus trance

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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The story

Coined by American psychologist Charles T. Tart.

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