This paper represents a reanalysis of data from earlier studies sup
porting the hypothesis that cultural patterning of altered states of con
sciousness (trance) conforms to a monothetic general evolutionary scale
of sociocultural behavior. Global correlations using holocultural method
ology show trance type to be positively correlated with four selected evolutionary variables, two related to societal complexity and two related to subsistence economy.
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